{"id":7663,"date":"2004-08-16T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/16\/witchblade-anime-and-manga-announced\/"},"modified":"2004-08-16T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T15:40:00","slug":"witchblade-anime-and-manga-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/witchblade-anime-and-manga-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Witchblade Anime and Manga Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Cow Comics has announced that Gonzo Studios has licensed the rights to produce a Witchblade anime series for Japanese release, based on the American comic book. Furthermore, Gonzo has arranged a publishing deal with Kodansha to have a manga adaptation of the anime also published in Japan.  Apparently Top Cow has little involvement in the production; Gonzo Studios has licensed basically the title and concept of Witchblade and will create their own story for Japanese viewers based on the American concept.<\/p>\n<p>Top Cow Comics will be publishing an English translation of the Witchblade manga in America. There is no clear confirmation of guaranteed American distribution for the animation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/5520.html\" target=\"_blank\">ICv2 News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Cow Comics has announced that Gonzo Studios has licensed the rights to produce a Witchblade anime series for Japanese release, based on the American comic book. Furthermore, Gonzo has arranged a publishing deal with Kodansha to have a manga adaptation of the anime also published in Japan. Apparently Top Cow has little involvement in [&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-7663","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\/7663","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=7663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}