FUNimation and Geneon Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement

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FUNimation and Geneon Sign Exclusive Distribution Agreement

Postby macchinainterna » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:06 pm

*Taken from http://www.funimation.com/

FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Navarre Corporation, and Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc., a leading producer of Japanese animation, announced today their partnership to distribute select DVD titles in North America.

Under the terms of the agreement, FUNimation Entertainment obtains the exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of established Geneon titles, including international successes Ergo Proxy, Hellsing Ultimate and Black Lagoon.

Among the first titles to be released includes the special edition of Hellsing Ultimate, directed by Tomokazu Tokoro and produced by Satelight (Aquarion and Baldr Force EXE Resolution).

Follow up releases include Black Lagoon Second Barrage, Karin, Kyo Kara Maoh Season 2, and Lyrical Nanoha.

"Geneon is a strong producer, known for excellent production and quality of its anime series," said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO of FUNimation Entertainment. "We are pleased to partner with them and we are committed to the successful release of these series."

"FUNimation's momentum as the leading anime distributor continues to build," said Yushin Soga, president and CEO of Geneon. "We are sure this partnership will only grow the prominence of our portfolio."

Additional titles include: Black Lagoon, Elemental Gelade, Fate Stay Night, Kamichu, Ninja Vixens, Paradise Kiss, Rozen Maiden, Rozen Maiden Traumend, Shana, Shonen Onmyouji, The Familiar of Zero, The Story of Saiunkoku, When They Cry, and The Law of Ueki.
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Postby CodeZTM » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:33 pm

Yay. :O
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Postby angelx03 » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:34 pm

I have already been frothing this in ANN and AnimeOnDVD forums.......

NANOHA RETURNS!!!!!
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Postby LivingFlame » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:04 pm

Ergo Proxy, Black Lagoon, Shana, When They Cry = Want now.

Hope they start acting on this very soon. :D
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Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:02 pm

:up: Hooray For Hellsing and Black Lagoon!
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Postby Sukunai » Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:58 pm

I was hoping this would happen, but was reluctant to be positive too early on.

Several of those series mentioned have been fun to watch. A friend will be glad to see the remaining portions don't just dry up and blow away.
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Postby Ishbalan » Thu Jul 03, 2008 11:14 pm

SO MUCH HAPPY NOW :D :D :D

I had been keeping Black Lagoon in the box that came with the Higurashi Vol. 1 to fill up the space. I shall be glad to relocate it now.
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Postby Sereenie » Fri Jul 04, 2008 11:34 am

Rozen Maiden FTW!! Definitely better late than never!

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Postby megaman917 » Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:14 pm

Hellsing, When They Cry!

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Postby LeapofFate » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:18 pm

Hell Yeah o_o
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Postby doughboy » Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:17 pm

I'm very pleased to see Black Lagoon, Fate Stay Night, and Hellsing Ultimate are back on the market (without charging $30 a disc at conventions). 8-)

I'm curious how this will work out, if they're just taking the previous releases and slapping "Funimation" on it, or are they gonna repackage, master, and change/re-evaluate the extras. I'm mainly curious cause the Geneon release of Fate Stay Night was pretty lousy in terms of extras... plenty of additional stuff is on the R2 discs and I was really hoping they included the Curtain Raiser preview on a disc... but no, the only version I found is matted widescreen on a Geneon preview DVD I got at Otakon. :(
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Postby Hagaren Viper » Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:03 pm

Forget those other seires, just gimmie When They Cry. O:
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Postby OmniStrata » Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:19 pm

WOO HOO BLACK LAGOON TO BE FINISHED AT LAST!
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