{"id":31505,"date":"2013-06-18T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=31505"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:18:20","slug":"funimation-acquires-gits-arise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funimation-acquires-gits-arise\/","title":{"rendered":"Funimation Acquires GitS: Arise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/lee\/blog\/funimation-acquires-rights-to-ghost-in-the-shell-arise\/7728478\" target=\"_blank\">announced its acquisition<\/a> of domestic distribution rights to the upcoming four-part <a href=\"http:\/\/kokaku-a.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost in the Shell: Arise<\/a> OVA series. FUNimation will initially release the series in a [<i>presumably series of<\/i>] limited-edition of 2,500 imported copies of the English subtitled Japanese Blu-ray, with an English translated booklet, before later producing a conventional domestic home video release for the series. FUNimation also plans a limited theatrical release for the first two short films later this year. The first movie will get a limited Japanese theatrical release beginning on the 22nd before hitting Japanese DVD &#038; Blu-ray on July 26.<\/p>\n<p>The first film&#8217;s first eight-minutes is available online with selectable English subtitles until June 28:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ifjU1qEDbR4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has announced its acquisition of domestic distribution rights to the upcoming four-part Ghost in the Shell: Arise OVA series. FUNimation will initially release the series in a [presumably series of] limited-edition of 2,500 imported copies of the English subtitled Japanese Blu-ray, with an English translated booklet, before later producing a conventional domestic home video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505","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=31505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31506,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31505\/revisions\/31506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}