Geneon titles picked up by Funimation

Mai Valentine

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July 3, 2008 - 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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I was really bummed when Geneon went out of business and stopped publishing stuff in the US. But now that Funimation is helping them out, maybe they will release the fate/stay night box set!
 
It says "partner" - I wonder how that will work? I always liked Geneon. I don't want it to get messed up.
 
I am so excited by this news. I fell in love with the Story of Saiunkoku when it was first released but I thought I'd never see it completed. This is wonderful news.

Also of interest is the fact that Geneon is completing the production of these videos, including the dubbing (so no cast changes mid series!) and Funimation is really just more of a distributor for them. That's good, I like continuity for these series.
 
Yeah, I think fate/stay night was already done; I've seen several discs of it. It was just that each volume was individually packaged; they didn't have a boxed set that included all the volumes, and that's what I want. Buying a boxed set usually ends up being cheaper than buying each volume individually.
 
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