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According to Mania.com, FUNimation announced in a press release at the Anime Detour convention the acquirement of the U.S. and Canadian home entertainment, broadcast, digital, and merchandise rights to Fractale. They will release the anime series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.

FUNimation also announced the U.S. and Canadian home entertainment, broadcast, digital, mobile, and merchandise rights to Freezing. They will release the 12 episode anime series on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.

In addition, FUNimation announced their acquirement from Bandai Visual Co. Ltd. of Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike. They now hold the U.S. and Canadian home entertainment, broadcast, theatrical, digital, and merchandising rights for the 2009 anime movie. FUNimation will release it on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.

Source: Mania.com

YAY!!! Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike

Meh... Fractale and Freezing

I was sure Princess Jellyfish was going to be announced first, seeing as how it was one of the Noitamina anime that I watched and liked (how many does that make it now?). Oh well. I'll just have to wait until con season to hear any news about it... along with a much needed Tatami Galaxy announcement ^_-

FUNimation.. at least they didn't take anything great.

/Was there when it was announced. :3

I don't really see the appeal in Fractale, but I loved the other two titles. Hoorah!

Haters gonna hate. If you want to hate on licensors, at least aim it in the right direction: Manga UK.

And Bandai Entertainment. You can't forget about Bandai Entertainment.

lol freezing. why would anyone bother

Ah Fractale..

*FUNimation .
You shouldn't be watching this !

I guess they got Fractale cheap and aim to sell it to the Ghibli fans that haven't heard about it yet. But what would they want with Freezing?

Huh. Fractale and Freezing weren't very popular. I can kind of understand why they got Fractale. It's the kind of thing that looks good and would attract people who haven't heard of it. Especially Ghibli fans. And some episodes of it weren't bad.
But Freezing? Seriously?

I don't hate funimation so much. I just really hate that "You should be watching." that they say in front of everything. It's so annoying! I always try to fast forward through it or turn the volume all the way down. Ugh, it's annoying.

Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike not bad cause i wanna see it

Woot! Tales of Vesperia :3

It's called a slogan, every company has one. Go cry about it.

Hmmm...gotta watch Fractale, though why Freezing? Its rumored be bad.

Oh boy, Freezing BDs? These are new I'm very glad to hear. Now license Qwaser too.

I'm happy First Strike is coming here.

Maybe it's a push to help bring the PS3 game over as well. Maybe.

If anything, I would say that Qwaser's a pending Media Blasters license waiting to happen. They do have Queen's Blade after all ^_-

FUCK YEAH THE FIRST STRIKE! I'm happy to have another movie to add to my tiny collection. :)


I wouldn't say it's bad, just decent. A lot of people are probably put off because they show some boobs during combat. I'm usually put off by ecchi anime with a lot of girls, but the story is pretty interesting imo.

I can't wait to see their advertising campaign for Freezing after their previous hilariously awful campaign for Sekirei.