{"id":4343,"date":"2001-12-10T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2001-12-10T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/12\/10\/rod-and-kaidoumaru-licensed\/"},"modified":"2001-12-10T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2001-12-10T15:50:00","slug":"rod-and-kaidoumaru-licensed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/rod-and-kaidoumaru-licensed\/","title":{"rendered":"R.O.D. and Kaidoumaru Licensed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animetourist.com\/page1295.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Tourist<\/a>, &#8220;reliable sources&#8221; claim that Manga Entertainment has acquired the translation rights to the 3-part OVA series Read or Die (R.O.D.) and Production I.G.&#8217;s full-digital OVA Kaidoumaru. Two episodes of R.O.D. are currently available in Japan with the third episode due out next month.  The stunning big budget action\/espionage thriller has already developed a strong fan base in America through fansub distribution. Kai-Do-Maru is the follow up to Blood: The Last Vampire, and the second full digital anime created by Production I.G.  Kai-Do-Maru is a samurai action story loosely based on a famous Japanese legend.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animetourist.com\/page1295.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Tourist<\/a> has detailed summaries of both films and extensive links to related sites.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/66.96.236.80\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article courtesy of <a href=\"mailto:sgreen@skuldo.com\">Scott Green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Anime Tourist, &#8220;reliable sources&#8221; claim that Manga Entertainment has acquired the translation rights to the 3-part OVA series Read or Die (R.O.D.) and Production I.G.&#8217;s full-digital OVA Kaidoumaru. Two episodes of R.O.D. are currently available in Japan with the third episode due out next month. The stunning big budget action\/espionage thriller has already [&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-4343","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\/4343","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=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}