{"id":27866,"date":"2012-02-24T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=27866"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:40:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:40:50","slug":"sentai-acquires-kurenai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/sentai-acquires-kurenai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentai Acquires Kurenai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2008y10m31d_040231484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2008y10m31d_040231484-450x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kurenai\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2008y10m31d_040231484-450x320.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2008y10m31d_040231484-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2008y10m31d_040231484.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the 2008 suspense drama TV series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samidareso.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kurenai<\/a>. Sentai will distribute the 12-episode TV series digitally and on subtitled DVD later this year. Sentai has not specified that its distribution license includes the 2010 sequel OAD. The dialogue-heavy action drama revolves around a high-school boy who agrees to protect and defend a seven-year old heiress from enemies and her own wealthy, politically powerful family.<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m a bit surprised that it&#8217;s taken so long for this series to get picked up by a domestic licensor. While it&#8217;s more ambitious than its production values could sustain, it&#8217;s at least moderately intelligent and interesting. However, I do have to wonder if Sentai is just digging a deeper and deeper hole to bury itself in by committing to so many new acquisitions.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentai Filmworks has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the 2008 suspense drama TV series Kurenai. Sentai will distribute the 12-episode TV series digitally and on subtitled DVD later this year. Sentai has not specified that its distribution license includes the 2010 sequel OAD. The dialogue-heavy action drama revolves around a high-school boy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27866","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\/27866","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=27866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27870,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27866\/revisions\/27870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}