NEWS: Funimation liscence rescues Escaflowne
Copied from ANN:
North American anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced at its panel at Otakon on Saturday that it will release Shinichiro Watanabe and Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop television anime series digitally and on Blu-ray Disc for the first time in North America. Funimation plans to release the series in 2014. Additionally, the company announced that it has licensed the following titles that Bandai Entertainment had previously licensed:
Outlaw Star
Escaflowne: The Movie
The Vision of Escaflowne
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Sunrise producer Masayuki Ozaki had revealed in May that the company was in talks with Sentai Filmworks and Funimation to distribute former Bandai Entertainment titles.
For those of us in the US, this is pretty good news. I think this will most likely mean a Blu-ray release of the TV series. The question is is whether they will release the Japanese BD version- which will have the deleted scenes from the first few episodes; or if they will get cut out again because they are not included in the Bandai dub/release.
Here's to hoping there will be a nice special edition.
North American anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced at its panel at Otakon on Saturday that it will release Shinichiro Watanabe and Sunrise's Cowboy Bebop television anime series digitally and on Blu-ray Disc for the first time in North America. Funimation plans to release the series in 2014. Additionally, the company announced that it has licensed the following titles that Bandai Entertainment had previously licensed:
Outlaw Star
Escaflowne: The Movie
The Vision of Escaflowne
My-HiME
My-Otome
My-Otome 0~S.ifr~
My-Otome Zwei
Sunrise producer Masayuki Ozaki had revealed in May that the company was in talks with Sentai Filmworks and Funimation to distribute former Bandai Entertainment titles.
For those of us in the US, this is pretty good news. I think this will most likely mean a Blu-ray release of the TV series. The question is is whether they will release the Japanese BD version- which will have the deleted scenes from the first few episodes; or if they will get cut out again because they are not included in the Bandai dub/release.
Here's to hoping there will be a nice special edition.