{"id":4477,"date":"2002-01-28T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2002-01-28T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/01\/28\/tokyopop-news\/"},"modified":"2002-01-28T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2002-01-28T14:38:00","slug":"tokyopop-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tokyopop-news\/","title":{"rendered":"TOKYOPOP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORRECTION: In reference to the following article, Anime on DVD has confirmed that the Animation Magazine article used its quotes without fully explaining their context.  It&#8217;s now been clarified that the music in the Initial D animation would be changed only for a hypothetical American TV broadcast. The confirmed American Initial D home video release will include the original Japanese music.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new article published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animationmagazine.net\/television\/1_24_4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Animation Magazine<\/a>, TOKYOPOP has plans to record entirely new American pop music for the domestic release of the Initial D animation. The Japanese version of Initial D makes extensive use of dozens of immensely popular, mostly Japanese language &#8220;Euro-beat&#8221; dance-pop songs performed by best-selling Japanese and European groups including Move, Max Coveri, Edo Boys, and Dave Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>Samurai Girl: Real Bout High School will premier on American home video on May 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animeondvd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime on DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORRECTION: In reference to the following article, Anime on DVD has confirmed that the Animation Magazine article used its quotes without fully explaining their context. It&#8217;s now been clarified that the music in the Initial D animation would be changed only for a hypothetical American TV broadcast. The confirmed American Initial D home video release [&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-4477","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\/4477","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=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}