Funimation annoucements at Anime Central

[chaos]

The North America anime distributor <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=6515">Funimation</a> has announced at its Anime Central panel on Saturday that it has licensed the <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8517">Rosario + Vampire</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9727">Rosario + Vampire Capu2</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10182">Chaos;HEAd</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10243">Chrome Shelled Regios</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8049">Rideback</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10764">Heaven's Lost Property</a> (Sora no Otoshimono), and <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4920">GUNxSWORD</a> anime series. All of the new titles will ship in 2011 &mdash; except for GUNxSWORD and Regios, which will ship in late 2010.

Funimation has also announced the English dubbing casts for <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10474">Eden of The East</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9702">Casshern Sins</a>, and <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=9977">Shikabane Hime</a>. The company is offering a "free ride" to Comic-Con International in San Diego this July to the most ardent <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2960">Fullmetal Alchemist</a> fan; fans can enter by posting their video pleas on <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=8245">YouTube</a> and <a href="http://www.fullmetalalchemist.com/comiccon/" target="_blank">http://www.fullmetalalchemist.com/comiccon/</a>.

<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=20428">Takayuki Inagaki</a> (<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4128">Desert Punk</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8195">Indian Summer</a>) and <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=395">Gonzo</a>'s 2008 Rosario + Vampire television series and its Rosario + Vampire Capu2 sequel <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-06-01/monthly-shonen-jump%27s-rosario+vampire-to-be-animated">adapt</a> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=64920">Akihisa Ikeda</a>'s supernatural school comedy manga of the same name. The story follows an ordinary high school boy who fails to get into any private academy except one &mdash; which happens to be populated by supernatural creatures (yōkai) disguised as humans. To survive, Tsukune Aono has to pretend that he is also a yōkai and blend in. <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=4552">Viz Media</a> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-01-24/viz-to-print-cat-eyed-boy-black-lagoon-tanemura-works">publishes</a> the manga in North America.

Director <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=5612">Takaaki Ishiyama</a> (<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4325">Viewtiful Joe</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1355">Karura Mau</a>) and the <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=392">MADHOUSE</a> anime studio <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-26/chaos-head-computer-game-to-get-tv-anime">adapted</a> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1583">Nitroplus</a> and <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=8880">5pb.</a>'s Chaos;HEAd computer visual novel for television in 2008. In this 12-episode psychological suspense series, a shut-in teenager named Takumi becomes embroiled in a series of mysterious deaths around the Tokyo neighborhood of Shibuya, all of which could lead to a larger calamity.

Chrome Shelled Regios began as a series of fantasy academy light novels from <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=73012">Shūsuke Amagi</a>, before <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1287">Itsuro Kawasaki</a> (<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10271">Sengoku Basara</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4591">Tsubasa: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE</a> The Movie) and <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1215">ZEXCS</a> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-03-14/chrome-shelled-regios-light-novels-to-be-animated">brought</a> it to television last year. The 24-episode series takes place in the future when humanity lives in isolated mobile cities called Regios to escape the pollution on the planet. Layfon Alseif enrolls into the Academy city of Zuellni and joins the 17th Military Arts Unit of Nina Antalk.

<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1204">Atsushi Takahashi</a>&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10172">Detroit Metal City</a> anime) and MADHOUSE <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-04-29/ride-back-motorcycle-robot-manga-to-be-animated-for-tv">adapted</a> the 12-episode Rideback television anime series from <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=64477">Tetsuro Kasahara</a>'s manga last year. Rideback tells the story of a student named Rin Ogata and her "iron horse" robot motorcycle in 2020, a tumultuous time of anti-government student protests. With her transforming motorcycle and her agility from years of ballet training, Rin joins the fight against the GGP regime that rules the world.

<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=61188">Suu Minazuki</a> created the Heaven's Lost Property (Sora no Otoshimono) modern fantasy manga before director <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=13900">Hisashi Saito</a> (<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=8455">Bamboo Blade</a>) and <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=3751">AIC A.S.T.A.</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-01-23/sora-no-otoshimono-manga-has-anime-in-development">animated</a> it for television last year. The 14-episode series centers around Tomoki Sakurai (<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1374">Souichiro Hoshi</a>), an ordinary middle school boy and avowed pacifist. A strange girl often appears in his dream to ask for his help &mdash; only he cannot remember her face when he wakes up. Then, his life gets more complicated when an unidentified mysterious animal (UMA) falls out of the skies. The "animal" turns out to be Ikaros (<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=63462">Saori Hayami</a>), an angel. <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=7606">Crunchyroll</a> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-10-01/crunchyroll-gets-sora-no-otoshimono-book-of-bantorra">simulcasted</a> this anime in multiple countries worldwide as it aired in Japan.

<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=6704">Code Geass</a> director <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=3109">Goro Taniguchi</a> and AIC A.S.T.A. created the 26-episode GUNxSWORD television anime series in 2005. The anime follows a lone man, armed with a a shape-shifting sword and a powerful Mechanized Armor, who hunts the mysterious clawed man who had murdered his bride. Van is accompanied by Wendy, a girl who offers to be Van's new bride if he can help her find her brother. <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/company.php?id=1782">Geneon Entertainment</a> had <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-07-02/gun-x-sword-confirmed-for-geneon">licensed</a> GUNxSWORD before it ceased its distribution operations in North America.

The English dubbing cast for Eden of The East (with <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/lexicon.php?id=32">ADR</a> director <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1122">Mike McFarland</a>) is as follows:

Akira Takizawa: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=26347">Jason Liebrecht</a>
Saki Morimi: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=31217">Leah Clark</a>
Juiz: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=57984">Stephanie Young</a>
Kuroha Diana Shiratori: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2491">Christine Auten</a>
Daiju Mononobe: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2502">John Gremillion</a>
Micchon: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=3419">Stephanie Sheh</a>
Haruo Kasuga: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1113">John Burgmeier</a>
Sis: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=39188">Lydia Mackay</a>
Kazuomi Hirasawa: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=65527">J. Michael Tatum</a>
Satoshi Osugi: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2555">Michael Sinterniklaas</a>
Panties: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=81349">Newton Pittman</a>

The English dubbing cast for Casshern Sins (with ADR director <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=12475">Jason Grundy</a>) is as follows:

Braiking Boss: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=54339">Paul Slavens</a>
Casshern: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1119">Eric Vale</a>
Luna: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=58419">Trina Nishimura</a>
Lyuze: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=31220">Brina Palencia</a>
Leda: Shelly Calene-Black
Ohji: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=59214">Jerry Russell</a>
Ringo: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2074">Monica Rial</a>
Dio: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=10063">Jerry Jewell</a>
Dune: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1064">Jason Douglas</a>

The English dubbing cast for Shikabane Hime (with ADR directors <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=43217">R. Bruce Elliot</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=74567">Terri Doty</a> and J. Michael Tatum) is as follows:

Keisei Tagami: J. Michael Tatum
Makina Hoshimura: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=12493">Luci Christian</a>
Ouri Kagami: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=10246">Aaron Dismuke</a>
Rika Aragami: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1109">Cynthia Cranz</a>
Saki Amase: Monica Rial
Takamasa Sōgi: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=35993">Joel McDonald</a>
Itsuki Yamagami: <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=64331">Cherami Leigh</a>
<a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-15/funimation-adds-rosario+vampire-anime-more">From ANN</a>

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

Aww man =( Not really interested in any of those, cept Casshern Sins.

 

[Cloud Strife]

Regios, Rosario and Chaos;Head would be my only interests

Just waiting to see how long before they decide to license Index/Railgun now...

 

[Reaper gI]

Just waiting to see how long before they decide to license Index/Railgun now...

Hmm that could go to basically anyone actually. TV tokyo/ ASCII Media Works both of who have licenses with every US company. And Geneon who had been dead for awhile, though are now licensing again.

 

[ilmaestro]

Chaos;Head, Rideback and maybe Regios and Sora no Otoshimono for me.

What's up with GUNxSWORD? Licence rescue?

 

[Sparrowsabre7]

Chaos;Head, Rideback and maybe Regios and Sora no Otoshimono for me.

What's up with GUNxSWORD? Licence rescue?

I guess =/ Surely if there was a licence worth rescuing though it'd be FMP considering the second raid remains unreleased in the UK.

 

[kippy666]

hmmm... theres nothing I really want up there ¬¬

Apart from Eden of the east, bring out Eden of the over in England!!! You already have one buyer XD

 

[Ryo Chan]

*goes back to sleep till an interesting licence shows up

 

[ConanThe3rd]

still nothing on Hanayome...

 

[megagold5]

Chaos;Head, Rideback and maybe Regios and Sora no Otoshimono for me.

What's up with GUNxSWORD? Licence rescue?

I guess =/ Surely if there was a licence worth rescuing though it'd be FMP considering the second raid remains unreleased in the UK.

They have all of FMP now. They are doing Blu-Ray releases soon which, of course, will be region A locked. >.>

Anyways, Rosario and Heavens Lost Property here, thankyou.

 

[Lupus]

Ride Back? Maybe, not too sure about the Casshern voice cast, I doubt Eric Vale can top Amuro's angst.

 

[daichi383]

Eric Vale as casshern... could have been worse but still!?

 

[Rui]

still nothing on Hanayome...

The first set has already been solicited for July, so assuming it sells ok it seems as though all is well for its future.

Nothing at all for me from this batch!

R

 

[BAKA]

Chaos;HEAd is a great little show, can't wait to see that again. I completely echo CloudedMinds' sentiments about Index/Railgun. ^^

 

[memorium]

still nothing on Hanayome...

me wants, thought R+V is good news

 

[fabio de lunatico]

I'd never heard of Rideback but it sounds like the most interesting of that underwhelming bunch. Except the excellent Gun X Sword, of course, but I already own that.

 

[Rob F1UK]

Indeed, GUNxSWORD is excellent, I'm about two thrids of the way through my MVM boxset at the moment, and loving it!