{"id":21406,"date":"2010-05-25T19:33:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2010-05-25T19:43:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:43:14","slug":"4kids-acquires-pnlope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/4kids-acquires-pnlope\/","title":{"rendered":"4Kids Acquires P&eacute;n&eacute;lope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic_anime01_l.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic_anime01_l-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"Ukkari Penelope\" title=\"Ukkari Penelope\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic_anime01_l-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic_anime01_l-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pic_anime01_l.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4Kids has acquired worldwide franchise rights to creator Ann Gutman &#038; Georg Hallensleben&#8217;s P&eacute;n&eacute;lope picture book franchise, which includes distribution rights to Nippon Animation&#8217;s anime adaptation. Nippon Animation and the NHK television network produced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penelope.tv\/dessinanime.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ukkari P&eacute;n&eacute;lope<\/a> anime television series in 2006, then a P&eacute;n&eacute;lope&#8217;s Christmas Party TV special in 2007 and a second Ukkari P&eacute;n&eacute;lope television series in 2009. 4Kids has not yet confirmed any plans for an American release of the anime.<\/p>\n<p>The 2006 series&#8217; first episode is available for free, officially sanctioned online viewing <a href=\"http:\/\/plaza.bunka.go.jp\/festival\/2007\/animation\/000831\/movie.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-05-25\/4kids-gets-global-license-for-penelope-tete-en-lair\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4Kids has acquired worldwide franchise rights to creator Ann Gutman &#038; Georg Hallensleben&#8217;s P&eacute;n&eacute;lope picture book franchise, which includes distribution rights to Nippon Animation&#8217;s anime adaptation. Nippon Animation and the NHK television network produced the Ukkari P&eacute;n&eacute;lope anime television series in 2006, then a P&eacute;n&eacute;lope&#8217;s Christmas Party TV special in 2007 and a second Ukkari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21417,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions\/21417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}