Anime Fans Can Watch High-Quality Episodes Online, Legally, for Free

FLOWER MOUND, TX, November 7, 2008 — FUNimation Entertainment has partnered with the online video service Hulu to launch high-quality anime episodes of its titles on Hulu.com.

Debuting this week on the video web site are episodes from Shuffle, Peach Girl and Slayers.  These series join new episodes from Black Blood Brothers, Blue Gender, MoonPhase and Mushi-shi and add to the wide-variety of FUNimation series that can now be found on Hulu.com, including Shikebane Hime, Kiddy Grade, Mr. Stain on Junk Alley, and xxxHOLiC

In the following months, viewers can go to www.hulu.com to access nearly 150 episodes and approximately 75 hours of free on-demand programming from FUNimation Entertainment’s library. Additional content will be added on a monthly basis.

On Hulu.com, consumers can enjoy one of the largest selections of legal, free videos from more than 115 top broadcast networks, cable networks, movie studios and web-centric content providers. Hulu offers more than 950 shows and movie titles with hundreds of videos added to the site each week.

“We support Hulu’s mission of making legitimate, professionally produced content easily available,” said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO of FUNimation Entertainment. “Plus, the wide reach of Hulu not only allows fans to catch an episode they may have missed but offers viewers a way to discover new shows.”

Anime fans will also be able to take advantage of additional tools Hulu offers to enhance the viewing experience, including full-screen view, a pop-out window, a ‘lower lights’ feature and much more. Other features allow users to easily clip, share and embed videos on other web sites, including blogs and social networking sites.

London – 13 October, 2008 – Manga Entertainment UK has licensed the exclusive rights to market, sell and distribute a number of new anime titles from FUNimation® Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the two companies announced today.

Among the FUNimation titles licensed to Manga Entertainment UK are “Claymore,” “Negima Season 2,” “Darker Than Black,” “Ghost Hunt”, “Jyu Oh Sei”, “Ouran High School Host Club,” “Sasami,” “My Santa,” “Save Me Lollipop,” Baldr Force EXE”, and “xxxHOLiC,” with the first releases set for later this month and November.

“Our sales and marketing expertise, coupled with Funimation’s strong lineup of titles, convinced both companies that these could be some of the best selling new franchises of 2009 in the UK,” said Colin Lomax, Managing Director, Anchor Bay Entertainment UK/Manga Entertainment, a Starz Media company.

About FUNimation Entertainment

FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is the leading company for home video sales of Japanese animation in the United States.  FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.

About Manga Entertainment

Manga Entertainment Ltd. is an entertainment company specializing in the production, marketing and distribution of Japanese animation for theatrical, television, Internet, DVD and home video release worldwide.  The Manga film library is marketed and distributed in the U.S. through Anchor Bay Entertainment.  The company is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York and London.  Manga is a division of Starz Media, a programming production and distribution company operating worldwide. It includes the Film Roman and Anchor Bay Entertainment brands. Its units create animated and live-action programming – including theatrical films – and programming created under contract for other media companies. It distributes that programming, through home video retailers, theaters, broadcasters, ad supported and premium television channels, and Internet and wireless video distributors in the US and internationally. Starz Media (www.starzmedia.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Capital Group.

Witchblade, the anime series, is now available on iTunes! Download the first episode for free from now until October 26th.

From the renowned anime studio GONZO, Witchblade is the saga of a woman who must bear the burden of a terrible force of destruction known as the Witchblade. Based on the comic book series from Top Cow Productions, the anime series goes into the future to tell the tale of a new bearer of the Witchblade and the conspiracy that surrounds her burden. Witchblade is the first U.S. comic book property to be made into an anime.

Masane Amaha is a woman on the fringe of society, bouncing rootless from town to town with no memory of the past and no clue as to what the future holds. Upon her return to Tokyo, chance and circumstance conspire to unleash the fury of the Witchblade.

A new bearer of the Witchblade has been chosen.

The link to download the free episode is http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?id=280192694

Nearly 200 Hours of Free, Legal Anime to be Available Through
Online Video Community

FLOWER MOUND, TX – OCTOBER 9, 2008 – FUNimation Entertainment has partnered with JoostTM (www.joost.com) to bring its catalog of full-length, legal anime video content to the online social video service.

Starting in November, FUNimation Entertainment will launch its video channel on Joost with a sampling of shows from its wide-ranging library of anime, including:

Basilisk
Black Blood Brothers (also available in the original Japanese with English subtitles)
Blue Gender
Galaxy Railways
Kiddy Grade
MoonPhase   (also available in the original Japanese with English subtitles)
Mr. Stain
Mushi-Shi
Peach Girl
Rumbling Hearts (also available in the original Japanese with English subtitles)
School Rumble
Slayers
Suzuka
xxxHOLiC

More programming will be added monthly and will be available for free, in-browser viewing to Joost.com users in North America.

In addition to viewing these popular series, fans will also have the opportunity to interact with each other and form communities around FUNimation content. Using the social features of Joost, they can share favorite episodes, form groups around their favorite shows or character, or express their thoughts about a particular show or moment through comments and “shouts.”

“Joost recognizes that there exists a varied entertainment landscape and a thirst for unique content,” said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO at FUNimation Entertainment. “Partnering with them offers us the opportunity to provide the content fans are already looking for, legally, while also reaching new audiences.”
Fukunaga adds, “We understand that entertainment fans across the board want web-based free on-demand programming. In the anime industry, FUNimation is leading that charge with our online syndication strategy based on strong relationships with partners such as Joost.”

Danny Passman, global head of programming for Joost, said, “Joost knows what anime fans want – they want to be able to watch their favorite shows online in their entirety, and       they            want an easy way to talk about their favorite moments, shows or characters with other fans. Adding the full-length, dubbed and subtitled fan-favorite shows from FUNimation to Joost gets us even closer to our goal of being the online destination for premium legal anime.”

About FUNimation Entertainment

FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is the leading company for home video sales of Japanese animation in the United States.  FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.

About Joost

Founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, Joost brings video and social interaction together online. All of the video on Joost is professionally produced and streams on-demand to people around the world for free in a high-quality format. Today, Joost has more than 40,000 program elements, including more than 400 television series and 1,200 movie and short film titles. For more information, visit www.joost.com.

“The season 6 box set will probably be one of the better selling of the ‘Dragon Ball Z’ sets due to the popularity of the battles against Cell.  Definitely loads of action and for those that waited for Gohan and even Trunks unleash their full power, you’re going to love this season!”

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DVD INFORMATION:

DVD TITLE: DRAGON BALL Z (SEASON 6)

DURATION: 700 minutes

DVD INFORMATION: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC

COMPANY: Funimation

Released on September 16, 2008

Having at last achieved his Perfect Form the evil Cell’s powers have soared to terrible new heights overshadowing even the greatest of the Z-Fighters. Eager to demonstrate these newfound abilities and prove his superiority Cell proposes a tournament. He issues an ultimatum to the people of Earth: produce a worthy opponent or die!The day of reckoning upon them Goku and the Z-Fighters line up to participate in Cell’s twisted game the world’s best hope of defeating the monster. But they are not the only ones brave enough to accept the challenge - the reigning World Martial Arts Champion Mr. Satan has also stepped into the ring!Now with the fate of the human race hanging in the balance one of these valiant fighters must come forward to defeat the seemingly invincible Perfect Cell - but who will it be?

The Cell saga continues as Cell who has sinced absorbed the androids 17 & 18 is now complete but not it’s time for the battle that everyone has been waiting for.  Goku vs. Cell which later becomes Gohan vs. Cell.

Without revealing too many spoilers in regards to this season, not only is it full of action, the series had a great build up of how evil Cell was, his goal to achieve his complete stage but also to showcase the additional characters much stronger than before and trying to take Cell down.

Whereas the Friezer battles were long but I felt a bit drawn out for the sake of having many episodes, with the “Cell” storyline, I just felt that everything came together quite well and didn’t take forever to get towards the conclusion.

I really enjoyed the camaraderie of Goku and his friends and most of all to see Vegita and his acknowledgment that he has things about himself that he really needs to work on.

And you also get the introduction of Mr. Satan, world’s greatest champion which will be interesting on how he and his family become important to the series probably in the next upcoming season.  So, definitely stay tuned for that!

But overall, this is another wonderful box set for an awesome animated TV series.  Definitely for those who love action and can’t get enough of it.

As for my problems with the last season box set which disc 4-6 only featured three episodes, season 6 fortunately features a full disc 4 but season 5 and 6 has only three episodes each.  But I kind of understand as they transition to the next season which will take place several years into the future and these DVD box sets are created to have six discs and not five.

And again, for $29.99, for all these episodes, about the same price or less than buying an American television series box set and Funimation has definitely set the standard which I hope many of the anime industry will follow.  You get the bang for your buck for these season box sets!

VIDEO:

The video looks great on DVD and for those of us who have multi-generation fansubs or fading VHS tapes, just having these episodes on DVD and everything looking great. I know some people have a problem with the show receiving some cropping but for me it’s quite miniscule.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Special features include trailers and open and ending themes. If there was one thing lacking, it’s the fact that there are really nothing in terms of special features.

Season 6 was another action-packed season that I could have probably watched in a full sitting.  I found myself really attached to each episode and not wanting to stop because there was so much action and this time around, each character has its importance.  From Kirilin having feelings for Android 18, Android 16 showing his love for nature and wanting to help the team, Goku showing his newfound power but noticing that his son has an even impressive power, Vegita and Trunks together trying to develop their relationship as father and son which never happened in the future Trunks lived in.  And so much more!

This was among my favorite seasons of “Dragon Ball Z” when I first watched it air in Japan but knowing what’s coming soon next season with the Super Saiyaman series and especially the Buu series and more characters and development, I can’t help but be excited with what is coming next from Funimation.

Again, more bang for your buck with these box sets and for “Dragon Ball Z” fans, you don’t want to miss any of them.  Check it out!

+ Characters you care about and a good balance with action!

+  One of the best nemesis storylines in the whole series!

+ Pretty awesome battles!

+ One of the best English dubbed anime series, if not the best out there!

- Lags on special features.

- Funimation cut the episode count down on disc 5 through 6 to only 3 episodes.

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“The battle against Cell box set is now available in retail but in a surprising change from previous box sets, Funimation puts only three episodes on disc 4-6 instead of the typical 6-7 episodes.  A sign for things to come?  Still a great deal for its price but I hope this is not a sign for future releases to come.”

DVD INFORMATION:

DVD TITLE: DRAGON BALL Z (SEASON 5)

DURATION: 615 minutes

DVD INFORMATION: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC

COMPANY: Funimation

Released on May 27, 2008

The Z-Fighters gather their forces in an effort to combat the Android menace that has been set loose upon the planet. But they are about to discover that the Androids are the least of their worries. An even greater threat has risen from the shadows: Dr. Gero’s most lethal creation Cell!Born from the genetic material of the greatest warriors ever to walk the Earth Cell is Dr. Gero’s ultimate weapon a perfect fighting machine capable of duplicating all of the Z-Fighters’ most powerful attacks. Now after years of waiting Cell has begun to unleash his terrifying powers wiping out entire cities as he gathers the energy he needs to fulfill his creator’s grand design.Time is short! The Z-Fighters must find a way to stop this monstrous foe before he completes his quest to absorb the other Androids and achieves his invincible Perfect Form!Contains the complete Imperfect and Perfect Cell Sagas (26 episodes).

One of my favorite episodes in the “DRAGON BALL Z” anime series was the Cell saga.  The toughest enemy that the team has fought yet and the series focuses on everyone trying to prevent Cell from absorbing the androids while the Saiyan’s Goku and son Gohan and Vegita and his son Trunks (future) train to get stronger, so they can prepare to fight Cell.

With each DVD season box set release of “DRAGON BALL Z”, as a hardcore fan of the series, it’s just incredible to get over 30 episodes for almost the same price or less than most American television box sets.

Season 5 surprisingly in duration wise, shorter than the previous volumes.  Where each DVD had around 5 or more episodes, on disc 4-6, there are only three episodes on each disc.

I was surprised and I have to admit that I would be upset if Funimation did this from here on in but I understand that it’s business and with everyone buying these box sets because it’s awesome price for a large number of episodes, you can’t beat it.  But I’m just hoping that this is not a permanent decision.

VIDEO:

The video looks great on DVD and for those of us who have multi-generation fansubs or fading VHS tapes, just having these episodes on DVD and everything looking great. I know some people have a problem with the show receiving some cropping but for me it’s quite miniscule.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Special features include trailers and open and ending themes. If there was one thing lacking, it’s the fact that there are really nothing in terms of special features.

Season 5 ends with a cliffhanger to the upcoming Cell games chapter and at the time of writing this review, Season 6 is now available in retail.

There is a lot of action in this series and no filler episodes.  It’s straight mayhem as Cell continues to absorb people and the heroes can do nothing but just hope they can hang on for a day or more while the Saiyans complete their training and hope to defeat Cell.

The Cell series was quite popular back then when I was watching the series in straight Japanese and the whole android storyline was just exciting to watch (especially the special episode in Future Trunks world which pits him and an older Gohan against the evil androids).

Speaking of the special, the special is not included and I assume that they will hopefully release it with the movie collection re-release.  But for those who have never seen it and don’t intend to buy it, there is an episode that shows footage from that special.

Overall, Season 5 is a very good box set.  I was put off by the sudden drop of episodes when you reach disc 4 and noticed every disc thereafter only has three episodes.  Again, I hope this is not where the future of the box sets are going.  But with season 6 now available, I guess I’ll find out.

Nevertheless, you still get over 20 episodes but after being spoiled with 30 or more episodes per box set, it just sucks to get this drop.  But I understand it’s a business decision that probably will work since people are hooked on this DVD box set for its sheer amount of episodes and great price.

All in all, another cool box set release from Funimation, just a bit sour about the drop in episodes though.

+ Characters you care about and a good balance with action!

+ Pretty awesome battles!

+ One of the best English dubbed anime series, if not the best out there!

- Lags on special features.

- Funimation cut the episode count down on disc 4 through 6 to only 3 episodes.

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“The fact that Funimation continues to sell these anime box sets for a low price is just amazing and this latest box set focusing on the battle against the Androids and the introduction of the future Trunks is just another awesome chapter in the popular anime series”

DVD INFORMATION:

DVD TITLE: DRAGON BALL Z (SEASON 4)

DURATION: 735 minutes

DVD INFORMATION: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC

COMPANY: Funimation

Released on Feb. 19, 2008

Having returned victorious from their battle with Frieza the Z-fighters can at last breathe a collective sigh of relief… But they won’t have long to rest. A new host of villains has appeared ready to wreak havoc on the Earth - and Goku the Z-Fighters’ greatest hero is still missing!In the face of these new dangers a mysterious youth with Super Saiyan powers has come bearing a bleak prediction for the future: in just three years’ time an evil greater than any the Z-Fighters have ever faced will emerge to cast a shadow of destruction and despair over the Earth. If the young Saiyan’s prediction is correct the Z-Fighters will have to train like they have never trained before in order to have any hope against these seemingly unstoppable foes: the Androids!

With each DVD season box set release of “DRAGON BALL Z”, as a hardcore fan of the series, it’s just incredible to get over 30 episodes for almost the same price or less than most American television box sets.

Season 4 is definitely going to excite some fans as one of the more popular characters, Future Trunks is featured on the box cover.

The season starts off with the Garlic Jr. arc that I wasn’t too caring for, while the fate of Goku is still unknown after the battle with Frieza, everyone else gets accustomed to their own lives as Gohan is stuck at home studying for school exams and his mother Chi Chi is very striict with him. Piccolo continues to train and Krillyn dates a beautiful, busty woman named Maron.  

But eventually everyone reunites to take on the latest threat to their world when Garlic Jr. unleashes the black water mist upon the world and everyone turns evil with the exception of Piccolo, Krillyn, Gohan, Maron and Master Roshi.  With the help of Kame and Mr. Popo, the group take on Garlic Jr. and must save the world from the black water myst.

The next chapter features the return of Frieza and his father Cooler.  After Goku’s battle with Frieza, it is learned that Frieza’s father saved his son and made him even more powerful by taking his body parts and creating a cyborg.  Of course, Frieza now back, wants revenge on Goku and friends.  

As everyone prepares to battle against Frieza and Cooler, a mysterious guy from the future makes an appearance. 

The unknown warrior defeats Frieza and Cooler with ease and everyone realizes that he is a Saiyajin.  But the warrior tells everyone that Goku should be arriving that day and everyone is shocked to find out that Goku will be coming back.

Upon Goku’s return, the future warrior reveals to Goku that he is Trunks, the son of Vegita and Bulma and warns him of upcoming danger as his world has been destroyed by the Androids.  He comes to the past to warn Goku to get him and his friends prepared for their battle because he can defeat the androids but he must take medication to help eliminate a virus that he is going to have soon.  According to Trunks, everyone except Gohan is killed but Goku dies due to a virus.  But by giving him an antidote, Goku can survive the virus once he gets sick.

So, for the next few years, Goku, Picollo and everyone must train for this major threat from dr. Jiro and the androids.

AUDIO:

This is where I’m so happy with these Funimation releases.  The fact that you can watch the series in both Japanese or English dubs but can listen to the English dub with the new digital music or the original Japanese music.

Having watched the series in its original Japanese language when it was first released, this time around, I have been watching the series in dub format and its one of the best English voice acting as Goku, Picollo, Gohan, Krillyn, every character…the voice acting is just well done.  There is not one character where I felt the voice acting was off or didn’t fit.   Voice acting is well done!

VIDEO:

The video looks great on DVD and for those of us who have multi-generation fansubs or fading VHS tapes, just having these episodes on DVD and everything looking great.  I know some people have a problem with the show receiving some cropping but for me it’s quite miniscule.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Special features include trailers and open and ending themes.  If there was one thing lacking, it’s the fact that there are really nothing in terms of special features.

As of this review, the latest Season 6 was released and I have started on season 5.  But I was quite pleased with Season 4, the whole android saga was great to watch when it first came out and to see future Trunks, Super Saiyan Vegita and everyone all together, fighting together once again.  It’s just an all out great, mega-brawl and it’s one of the reasons why “Dragon Ball Z” has become my favorite action anime series of all time.

I do have to say that the android saga leaves off with a cliff-hanger and continues in Season 5.  So, you’re definitely going to want to pick up Season 5 as it leads into another major threat that relates to the android-saga.

Again, for the price of over 30 episodes for $30 is a great deal!  I just hope that Funimation sets the trend of other companies considering their anime DVD releases via box set for a similar price.  But nevertheless, if you are a “Dragon Ball Z” fan, you can’t go wrong with this series.  Cool characters that you care about, storylines that capture your attention and a series that is just action-packed.  

Another season of “Dragon Ball Z” worth owning!

+ Characters you care about and a good balance with action!

+  Pretty awesome battles!

+ One of the best English dubbed anime series, if not the best out there!

- Lags on special features.

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FLOWER MOUND, TX, July 4, 2008 –FUNimation Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Navarre Corporation, and the ARM Corporation, announced today their agreement to transfer ARM’s interest in select series to FUNimation. FUNimation Entertainment will distribute and release these DVD titles in North America and other territories around the world.

Under the terms of the deal, FUNimation Entertainment obtains varied rights to these titles including home video, broadcast, digital and merchandise to such international successes as “Devil May Cry” and “Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor TV”. The complete list of acquired titles follows below:
• 009-1
• Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy
• Air Gear
• Air movie
• Air TV
• Blade of the Phantom Master
• Comic Party Revolution
• Coyote Ragtime Show
• Devil May Cry
• Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor TV
• Jing, King of Bandits: Seventh Heaven
• Jinki:Extend
• Kanon
• Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora
• Le Chevalier D’Eon
• Magikano
• Moeyo Ken TV
• Moonlight Mile
• Murder Princess
• Nerima Daikon Brothers
• Pani Poni Dash!
• Project Blue Earth SOS
• Pumpkin Scissors
• Red Garden
• Sgt. Keroro 1st & 2nd
• Tokyo Majin
• UFO Princess Valkyrie
• Utawarerumono
• Venus Versus Virus
• The Wallflower
• Welcome to the NHK
• Xenosaga

“We are very enthusiastic about these titles,” said Gen Fukunaga, president and CEO of FUNimation Entertainment. “Not only are these excellent series, but they also fuel FUNimation’s major initiatives in social networking, the FUNimation Channel and internet VOD. These new titles cement FUNimation as the leading anime provider for television broadcast and legitimate online content. These shows allow us to increasingly provide the best anime to our fans on their own terms.”

FUNimation Entertainment will begin releasing ARM titles later this year.

About FUNimation Entertainment
FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is the leading company for Japanese animation in the United States. FUNimation is known for acquiring top-rated anime series from Japan and for being the market share leader for home video sales of anime in the United States. The company has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution.

About Navarre Corporation
The Navarre Corporation is a publisher and distributor of physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products, including PC software, DVD video, video games and accessories. Additional information is available at http://www.navarre.com.

About ARM Corporation
The ARM Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japanese Contents Investment LPC (JCI) and formed by the Sojitz Corporation and other partners, was established to support the overseas licensing and distribution of Japanese anime.

Sojitz is engaged in the investment of content creation, with a focus on Japanese animation, and its export and sale in overseas markets. The company currently handles over 100 anime titles in more than 30 markets worldwide.

Since February, there has been talk of FUNimation negotiating for rights to release anime titles from Geneon and today’s announcement has been confirmed via press release posted on Anime News Network and AnimeOnDVD.com:

First Titles Scheduled for Release in Late Summer

FLOWER MOUND, July 03, 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”.

About FUNimation Entertainment
FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is the leading company for Japanese animation in the United States. FUNimation is known for acquiring top-rated anime series from Japan and for being the market share leader for home video sales of anime in the United States. The company has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution.

About Navarre Corporation
The Navarre Corporation is a publisher and distributor of physical and digital home entertainment and multimedia products, including PC software, DVD video, video games and accessories. Additional information is available at www.navarre.com.

About Geneon Entertainment
A leading supplier of Japanese animation in North America, and the recipient of the 2006 “Best Anime Company” by the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation, GENEON ENTERTAINMENT (USA) INC., is a subsidiary of Tokyo-based advertising giant Dentsu, Inc. Geneon Entertainment primarily develops animation properties for release in North America on DVD and new media.

About Dentsu Inc.
Dentsu Inc., founded in 1901, is the largest advertising agency brand and the fifth largest marketing and communications organization in the world. Based in Tokyo, the group has more than 6,000 clients and more than 15,000 full-time employees in both Japan and in its offices overseas. Consolidated sales for fiscal term 03/07 were recorded at $17,738 million. Dentsu is publicly quoted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Code 4324)