I missed the first day of Anime Expo 2008 today because I had to work. But I still heard the most significant industry news announced there: According to the press release linked to above, Geneon USA -- the anime licensing company that effectively croaked last September, placing all of their licenses into limbo -- has entered into a partnership with another licensing company, Funimation. Under the partnership, Funimation will manufacture, market, sell and distribute select Geneon-licensed titles -- most notably Barercave faves HELLSING ULTIMATE,PARADISE KISS, BLACK LAGOON, BLACK LAGOON: SECOND BARRAGE, and KAMICHU.
The last title -- featuring the second season of BLACK LAGOON -- was noteable in that a U.S. cable company, Starz Entertainment, broadcast the dubbed version of the entire season, without editing, even though the DVD rights were in limbo. Imaginasian TV has been doing the same thing with another Geneon series, KYO KARA MAOH! Season two.
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