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So while I've been chugging away here in hot Houston, Anime Vice intern Eric has been putting forth effort on Vice readers' behalf at Sakura Con in not-so-sunny Seattle! Here are his notes from the FUNimation and Dark Horse panels, including Dark Horse's announcement of a new Blade of the Immortal manga (!). Warning: it's a little long!
Make sure you thank Eric in the comments for doing such an awesome job-- he even took down all the release dates!
Dark Horse Comics Panel:
Make sure you thank Eric in the comments for doing such an awesome job-- he even took down all the release dates!
FUNimation Panel:
Surprises:
1)
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (Japanese with English subtitles) new
episodes every Thursday at 10:00 am central on FUNimation.com; the
first one is out now. (Note: I dunno why they said this was a suprise.) Other: The original Japanese episodes premier every Sunday, and
FUNimation has a 4-day turnaround on the subtitles.
2) The Fullmetal Alchemist 4-episode OVA is coming out "soon," will include
lots of extras like animated & live action shorts, DVD bonus
material, etc.
General Information:
They
expect 17% growth in 2009 with more new releases and expanded free
online streaming of shows on their own website as well as Youtube,
Hulu, Joost, Veoh, and Gaia. As part of this plan, Romeo X Juliet is
set to debut soon on FUNimation's site before it comes out on DVD.
They plan on entering some of their full-length anime features into national film festivals.
List of Anime Release Dates:
Kenichi the Mightiest Disciple Season 1 episodes 1-13: June 16th
Shigurui Death Frenzy 12-episode DVD & Bluray: available now
D. Gray-man Season 1 episodes 1-13 available now. Season 1 part 2: June 23rd
Last Exile complete series (26 episodes): May 5th
Big
Windup episodes 1-4 on Hulu now, episodes 5-7 on Hulu May 5th; all of
them are on FUNimation.com now. DVDs: October 13th & November 24th.
Heroic Age complete series part 1 (episodes 1-13): May 12th
Case Closed Season 5 (episodes 106-130): May 12th
Murder Princess (all 6 episodes): May 12th
Shin Chan Season 2 part 2 (13 episodes): May 12th
Romeo
x Juliet complete series part 1 (episodes 1-13): June 23. 2 kinds of
boxes, one a "Romeo" theme, one a "Juliet" theme. Note: Part 1 will be
online before it's out on DVD. Part 2 is coming in September or October.
Kaze no Stigma complete series part 1 (episodes 1-12): June 30th
One Piece Season 2 part 1 (episodes 54-66): June 30th
Samurai Champloo all 26 episodes: June 30th
Tons of Box Sets being released between now and June, some notable ones are Fruits Basket, Tenchi & Dragonball Z.
(whew)
New
Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Fiend manga announced, the
title isn't firm. It's a retelling of the first 3 or 4 collections with
a new character added.
Rumor about the new
Hellsing manga - apparently it's been seen around the Dark Horse
offices, and may be coming out "soon." (Dunno what "soon" means though.)
Passed around previews of some stuff:
Japanese
copies of Little Red Riding Hood & Alice in Wonderland by POP (art)
& Michiyo Hayano (story), part of the POP Wonderland series. No
release date announced yet.
Oh My Goddess! Colors (April 29th)
Samples of Yoshitaka Amano's illustrations for Shinjuku (No solid date, said "Summer 2009")
Talked about some current & upcoming releases:
Blood+ vol. 4 and Blood+ Adagio 1 & 2 (July 29th, May 26th, and unknown, respectively)
Shaman Warrior #7 (June 3rd, 1st edition available online free at darkhorse.com)
Bride of the Water God #3 (May 13th)
Gantz #4 (out now)
Color and monochrome versions of a limited-edition Vampire Hunter D bust (April 15th)
Astro Boy 1 & 2 (out now)
Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service #9 (May 20th)
Berserk #29 (May 27th)
Blade of the Immortal #21 (July 8th)
A Wind Named Amnesia (June 17th)
Thumbelina (July 8th)
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I'm excited for the FMA OVA. I also want to check out Romeo X Juliet so I'm happy that it'll debut soon.