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Funimation Picks Up Over 30 Former AD Vision Titles

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    Last Updated: July 5th, 2008

    The North American anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment and Japan’s ARM Corporation have announced that ARM has transfered the rights to more than 30 of its titles — all previously held by A.D. Vision — to Funimation. Those rights include the home video, broadcast, digital, and merchandising rights in North America and other regions. The complete list of transferred titles is as follows:

    * 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.”

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