{"id":5843,"date":"2003-03-17T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-17T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/17\/pioneer-announces-new-licenses\/"},"modified":"2003-03-17T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-17T15:12:00","slug":"pioneer-announces-new-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/pioneer-announces-new-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneer Announces New Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer has officially acquired the North American translation and distribution rights to the Heatguy J anime TV series and the first Lupin the 3rd movie: Secret of Mamo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heat-guy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heatguy J<\/a> will end its 25 episodes broadcast on Japanese television next week. The sci-fi\/action series will debut in America on July 29th in a 4 episode disc only version for $29.98 and a DVD with series box version for $39.98.<\/p>\n<p>Lupin the 3rd: The Secret of Mamo was released in America in a dubbed only format by Streamline Pictures in the early 1990s.  The film will be rereleased by Pioneer in DVD format on July 29th.<\/p>\n<p>Pioneer has also acquired the North American publishing rights to the soundtracks for Serial Experiments Lain, Hellsing, Patlabor movie 3, Chobits, Haibane Renmei, and Mahoromatic; and self titled CDs by Yuki Kajiura (composer behind Noir and .hack\/\/SIGN) and Yoko Ishida (theme song vocalist for Sugar, Pretear, and Ai Yori Aoshi).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animeondvd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime on DVD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pioneer has officially acquired the North American translation and distribution rights to the Heatguy J anime TV series and the first Lupin the 3rd movie: Secret of Mamo. Heatguy J will end its 25 episodes broadcast on Japanese television next week. The sci-fi\/action series will debut in America on July 29th in a 4 episode [&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-5843","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\/5843","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=5843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}