{"id":2940,"date":"2001-01-18T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-18T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/01\/18\/more-anime-licensed-for-american-tv\/"},"modified":"2001-01-18T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2001-01-18T14:54:00","slug":"more-anime-licensed-for-american-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/more-anime-licensed-for-american-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"More Anime Licensed for American TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4Kids Entertainment, the company that originally licensed Pokemon for American television broadcast, has licensed 3 new Japanese series, although none of them all that recent.  4Kids has licensed 2 anime series and 1 live action series. Tama &amp; Friends, a classic anime about Tama the cat and his dog and cat buddies and their wonderful adventures that stress importance of friendship and working together has been a favorite TV series for Japanese educators and pre-schoolers for almost 20 years.  Toei&#8217;s Kinnikuman: The Ultimate Muscle, may be familiar to some readers that recall the pink M.U.S.C.L.E. pro-wrestler super-hero figures marketed in the US in the late 1980s that were actually imported Japanese Kinnikuman figures.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to anime, 4Kids has licensed the relatively recent sentai series Ultraman Tiga.  It&#8217;ll be nice to see actual Japanese Ultraman in America again after all these years.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsservice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4Kids Entertainment, the company that originally licensed Pokemon for American television broadcast, has licensed 3 new Japanese series, although none of them all that recent. 4Kids has licensed 2 anime series and 1 live action series. Tama &amp; Friends, a classic anime about Tama the cat and his dog and cat buddies and their wonderful [&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-2940","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\/2940","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=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}