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  • Bandai Entertainment gets Kurokami anime

    Bandai Entertainment gets Kurokami anime

    Bandai Entertainment has announced at its Black Sunday event in Los Angeles that it has acquired the Kurokami anime. The television Anime series will debut simultaneously in Japan, South Korea, and the United States within 24 hours of each other January 8, 2009. In the United States, it will premiere on IATV. The producers have been dubbing off pencil test footage instead of final animation due to the speed of the process.

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  • FUNimation strikes again!

    FUNimation strikes again!

    Apparently, more cease and desist letters have gone out to fansubbers for Spice + Wolf, Mushi Uta, and My Wife is a Mermaid!

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  • ADV Films to distribute Princess Resurrection

    ADV Films to distribute Princess Resurrection

    The North American company A.D. Vision will be localizing and distributing the Princess Resurrection horror comedy anime for the licensing company Sentai Filmworks. The Madhouse anime studio adapted Yasunori Mitsunaga’s manga about a boy named Hiro who comes to a decrepit mansion to meet his...

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  • FUNimation answers fans' pleas

    FUNimation answers fans' pleas

    We do understand your concern regarding the future releases of these two series in which you have already invested so much time and emotion. I won't bore you with the long explanation as to how we came to the decision we did as to how to package these series nor rattle off the many factors that led to that decision.

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