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Last Friday ADV Films announced that Funimation picked up 30 of their titles. Here is the list.
* 009-1
* Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy
* Air Gear
* Air movie
* Air TV
* Blade of the Phantom Master
* Comic Party: Revolution
* Coyote Ragtime Show
* Devil May Cry
* Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor TV
* Jing, King of Bandits: Seventh Heaven
* Jinki:Extend
* Kanon
* Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora (once titled as Shattered Angels by ADV Films)
* Le Chevalier D'Eon
* Magikano
* Moeyo Ken TV
* Moonlight Mile
* Murder Princess
* Nerima Daikon Brothers
* Pani Poni Dash!
* Project Blue Earth SOS
* Pumpkin Scissors
* Red Garden
* Sgt. Keroro 1st & 2nd
* Tokyo Majin
* UFO Princess Valkyrie
* Utawarerumono
* Venus Versus Virus
* The Wallflower
* Welcome to the NHK
* Xenosaga
These are most of the titles that had been removed from ADV Films' catalog in January. A majority of them were relisted in ADV Films' catalog in February, only to be gradually removed for a second time. ADV Films also once planned to release Gurren Lagann, but Bandai Entertainment announced in May that it had acquired the series. 5 Centimeters Per Second is not on Funimation's list of transferred titles, but copies of ADV Films' release remain available at retailers.
The joint Funimation/ARM announcement comes the day after Funimation announced it will also manufacture and distribute select titles that Geneon Entertainment (USA) had planned to release before it ceased in-house DVD distribution. Funimation indicated that the new titles from ARM will be significant to its efforts in "social networking, the FUNimation Channel, and Internet VOD."
Due to a week away and a week of playing with my new laptop, I've failed to pay attention to this particular duty of mine. Hopefully, I can now spam the hell out of everyone. Ha.
BONES Addresses "Leaked Document"
An anonymous file on a free file-sharing website has many people wonderingconfused as to upcoming projects from the anime studio Bones since late last week. The document, an Excel sheet claiming to be a managerial document, complete with animation staff names, their supposed phone numbers, affiliations and availability, as well as comments suggesting that new Fullmetal Alchemist and Darker than BLACK movies are being prepared for.
Masahiko Minami, Bones's president, released a statement Sunday claiming that a "third party" has most likely created and released the document without any aid from actual company documents. The company sees the document as potential libel and plans to take severe action once the perpitrator is found.
As for the "new movie projects" from the document, there is still a possibility. The decision has yet to be made, according to Minami. He expressed interest, yet is unsure about the projects themselves. More of this specific intereview is to be released later.
FUNimation has announced their release dates for select titles in their Geneon acquisition:
Black Lagoon season one and Second Barrage volume 1 and Elemental Gelade volume 1 will hit shelves on August 19.
Karin volumes 1-4 and Kyo Kara Maoh season 2 volumes 1-7 will hit on September 2.
A Shakugan no Shana complete boxed set retailing at $69.98 will debut on September 16.
Black Lagoon Second Barrage volume 2, a Fate/stay night boxed set, Hellsing Ultimate volumes 1-4 in regular and limited editions, and a $49.98 Rozen Maiden boxed set will debut on September 16.
Kamichu and Paradise Kiss complete sets will be released on September 23 at $49.98 each.
When They Cry volumes 1-4 will be re-released on September 30.
The North American distributor Funimation has announced that it has licensed the Heroic Age television anime series from the Japanese media company Kodansha. Tow Ubukata (Fafner, Le Chevalier D'Eon, Mardock Scramble) created this science-fiction story about the struggle of the Iron Tribe — humanity — against the technologically advanced Silver Tribe that has ruled space ever since the ancient Gold Tribe disappeared. A man named Age (Hiroshi Yazaki) and princess named Deianeira (Yui Ishikawa) are the answers to Gold Tribe's prophecies that bind all the races.
Funimation is streaming a trailer of the anime on a new official English website. Fafner producer Takashi Noto and Fafner episode director Toshimasa Suzuki oversaw the animators at Xebec on this 26-episode series last year. Funimation plans to release the series on DVD in 2009.
Michael Turner, one of the creators of the American comic Witchblade which was the source of the Witchblade anime series and Witchblade: Takeru manga, passed away on June 27. He was 37. He was diagnosed with bone cancer eight years ago.
The Witchblade comic has been published by Image Comics' Top Cow Productions since 1995. In 2004, Japan's Gonzo studio announced plans to adapt it into a 24-episode television series, which was then aired in Japan. FUNimation Entertainment licensed the anime for North American distribution. Separately, Top Cow also sold the rights for a Witchblade manga. Veteran screenwriter Yasuko Kobayashi, who co-wrote the scripts for the anime series, created the spin-off story for the manga. Witchblade: Takeru was serialized in Akita Shoten's Champion RED magazine and exported back to the United States in two separate editions: as a set of flipped, full-color 32-page comics from Top Cow, and as more traditional unflipped manga-style volumes from Bandai Entertainment.
The August issue (on sale on June 26) of Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Gundam Ace magazine has launched Mobile Suit Gundam 00: Aoi Kioku (Blue Memories), Tarō Shiguma's new manga series based on the Gundam 00 anime television series. The magazine summarizes how the manga will deal with the lives of the Gundam Meister pilots by saying, "The present and the past…fiction and memories…the true selves of the boys will be revealed." The first installment, "Memory: 1 Setsuna," covers the memories of the main protagonist Setsuna's early childhood.
Enoki Films Seeks Licensors for Slayers Revolution
The animation production company Enoki Films USA is soliciting licensors and distributors for Slayers Revolution, the newest animated television series based on Hajime Kanzaka and Rui Araizumi's Slayers fantasy light novels. Enoki's press release describes the general story outline of the 26 planned episodes. The series will premiere in Japan on July 2, and the company indicates that all the episodes will be completed by Spring of 2009.
The music of the following video may sound fairly eerie to gamers who've played Metal of Honor: European Assault:
...but in a political ad? All affliations aside, seems odd, doesn't it?
This recent development has come into major dispute since the composer of the music is, in fact, a supporter of the Democratic candidate Barak Obama. Christopher Lennertz, the composer, has released statements that state although the McCain Campaign did nothing illegal and that he respects the senator for his service to our country, he is disappointed that he was never consulted over the use of his musical score. There was a mix-up as to who controlled the rights to the music, which resulted in the music landing in the commerical. It should also be noted that although Mr. Lennertz wrote the music, he does not specifically own the ownership of the piece.
I find this interesting, as I am an American citizen of voting age. It seems that the campaign was trying to appeal to multiple audiences at once (which makes sense), though unintentionally created a major blunder. Fact-checkers are human and can make mistakes such as this, though I am sure some people are outraged that an error of this magnitude has accidently slipped by. It's sort of funny, as I am sure Mr. Lennertz would not have raised as much of a fuss if it was Senator Obama's advertisements using his music, but I digress...
Should music like this be used as part of a political advertisement campaign, no matter the party affiliation, or is this wrongful? We aren't talking about things like advertising liquor or cigarettes, but trying to be personable to a wider outreach of voters. With all of the unnecessary mud-slinging that has been going on, shouldn't enough be enough?
