Here’s some happy news for old-school anime fans: Sentai Filmworks has licensed the 1983 mecha series Aura Battler Dunbine for digital and home video release. The series, which was directed by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino, ran for 49 episodes, and was based on the director’s …Read more »
The rumors are true. Pokemon will be coming to a silver screen near you courtesy film studio Legendary, according to a report by the Hollywood Reporter. The film, announced shortly after the augmented reality game Pokemon Go exploded into a blaze of profit for Nintendo …Read more »
Ah, Excel Saga . I have a love/hate relationship with the series, because while I loved and watched the whole thing, I was never not aware of how grating it could get. Still, good memories in general, and Funimation will be supplying it to fans …Read more »
Another con, another lot of scintillating acquisition announcements from reigning champeen Funimation. Seriously, there are some really good ones in this batch, as detailed below. Let's get what I would consider the "major whammies" out of the way first. As was expected but never quite …Read more »
If Duke Togo heard this news, I imagine his reaction would be much less verbose than anyone else's. Perhaps a stoic nod, or some sort of manly murmur. Either way, I'm sure he'd agree that Section23's licensing of The Answer Studio's 2008 series is both …Read more »
Make all the Fresh Prince jokes you want, I'm just the messenger. During their FuniCon 3.0 panel on Monday, Funimation announced their acquisition of Black Butler , AKA Kuroshitsuji , the first season of the anime based on Yana Toboso's manga of the same name. …Read more »
Risk and reward can go hand in hand when everything's working out just right, or when the stars align perfectly, but 4Kids' endeavors of late haven't had much luck with that. Take their acquisition of Danish card game/cartoon franchise Chaotic , for instance. After a …Read more »
Though the question was never really "if" but "when," FUNimation has confirmed their licensing of Dragon Ball Kai , and is planning on a release for this fiscal year. The first word of this announcement was caught by Daizenshuu EX via a FUNimation report on …Read more »
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