Central Park Media Fanclub

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Dedicated to the guys at Central Park Media, who help bring us our favorite anime!! Central Park Media has two divisions that deal with releaseing anime.They are "US Manga Corps" and "Software Sculptors". CPM also licensed and released live aciton movies, manga and manwha along with their anime.

 Central Park Media was founded in 1990 by John O'Donnell, and his wife. The U.S. Manga mascot is MD Geist, a famous anime character from the early 1990's. Their office is across the street from the southwest corner of Central Park in mid-Manhattan (Southwest corner of Broadway and West 57th Street ), thus the name of the company. Their first releases were Dominion Tank Police, Project A-ko, and M.D. Geist. M.D. Geist, despite it's reputation, was the first top selling anime. It was a big hit, even staying on VHS top ten charts for weeks after the release. Re-releases of the title (on VHS and later DVD) also sold very well. They were also the first company to release a hentai in theatres,  "Urotsukidoji:  Legend of the Overfiend ", which was even reviewed by the New York Times. CPM was already well established when the other R1 companies came into the market, even to the point where CPM actually did the distribution for ADV, Urban Vision, AnimEigo, Bandai and Pioneer for awhile.

They brought us: A Wind Named Amnesia ,Descendants of Darkness ,Dominion Tank Police , Now and Then Here and There, Grave of the Fireflies, and Revolutionary Girl Utena, and the Second Yu Yu Hakusho Film,(to name a few) 

Link to full list:
Anime:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Central_Park_Media_releases" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Central_Park_Media_releases</a>
Hentai:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anime_18" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Anime_18</a>
Manga:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CPM_Press" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CPM_Press</a>

Central Park Media News (my blog) 
<a href="http://centralparkmedianews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://centralparkmedianews.blogspot.com/</a>

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CPM Dub's Prede - Feb 15, 2009	7 replies	by Prede »» Jan 14, 2010 11:54 PM
2006 John O'Donnell Interview Prede - May 9, 2009	0 replies	by Prede »» May 9, 2009 1:15 AM
John O'Donnell's Recommendations Prede - Apr 1, 2009	0 replies	by Prede »» Apr 1, 2009 7:50 PM

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kirAth-shiAue | May 25, 2015 1:17 AM

There is a new version of Heroic Legend of Arslan(aka Arslan Senki) currently airing. Is anyone watching it? I remember I was upset wih the ending from the old ova.

ShootGunner | Apr 8, 2014 10:57 PM

I posted this to the US Manga Corps group and figured I should share it here too.

http://i.imgur.com/1EzxsWB.jpg

custom patch I had made

kirAth-shiAue | Nov 14, 2011 3:40 PM

Sorry but I did not like Shadow Star Narutaru at all, but I loved Kaze no Na wa Amnesia. Slayers and utena are awesome too.

Prede | Nov 13, 2011 9:07 PM

yes they sure did do that.

Captain_GARlock | Nov 12, 2011 9:47 PM

I seem to recall CPM releasing a pretty badass ammo can set of Votoms.

My memory may be so vivid because I own one of them, lol

Prede | Jan 22, 2011 5:38 PM

listen to this! Best podcast yet! John O'Donnell gets crazy here

http://www.toonzone.net/podcast/tznews-podcastep6.mp3

Prede | Feb 18, 2010 5:40 PM

Well I've been sitting on this long enough. Hopefull this won't get anyone in trouble.

Record of Lodoss War License Rescued by Media Blasters?
http://centralparkmedianews.blogspot.com/2010/02/rumor-media-blasters-license-rescues.html

Prede | Jan 4, 2010 2:06 PM

Yeah but the really less hardcore fans were scared off by something that sounds "too japanese" don't ask, because there is no logic in it. None at all. But that's how some people feel. Also it's much harder to get a title called "Yami No Matsuei" into FYE then it is to get "Descendants Of Darkness", just the way retailers work.

And yeah sure there are tons of people who watch fansubs and buy DVD's. And they hate "name changes". But there's apparently not enough of them, because the less hardcore fans outnumber them by a lot. Trust me if they didn't the companies would never cater toward them. They would never dream of changing the names. ADV used to license titles after title that the "hardcore" fans wnated, people who already saw the fansubs, and loved the show. Titles the forums would rage about. But look at what happened to them. When it came to buying the DVDs either these people just never bothered, or not enough of them did. Then titles like Karas (which Manga Ent released), which no one talked about would be on the top selling lists. Listening to the hardcore fans did not do these companies any huge favors. Because when it came to buying they were too cought up in whatever new fansub show they were watching to support something. You get what I'm saying right?

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Created: Aug 18, 2008

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