Sentai Filmworks Licenses K-On!!

According to their official press release, Sentai Filmworks has licensed K-On!!.

The 26-episode series plus OVA will be available on DVD and Blu-ray later this year. Sentai will be working with Bang Zoom! Entertainment for the dub.

Source: Press release

great this is great news so veryy happy!! k-on dvds!!!!

Sentai are doing a lot recently, has it always been like this?

Near the end of 2011 to the present they've been much more active in licensing and including dubs.

And so K-on dub lives on. Thanks Sentai Filmworks.

Well, that figures. The moment I finish watching the sub the dub is announced.
Ah well. If I ever re-watch it, I'll go for the dub.

Man,Sentai is working hard to get up there with Funi.All they need to do is get an anime like FMA Brotherhood.By that I mean,an anime that is popular,sells & is well-received.Is it Gintama or an anime that's has yet to be made?

Hopefully they keep the same dubbers. Vee was actually pretty good as Mio.

Hope the movie is announced someday.

Prayers have been answered.

.... not my prayers, but good for the people who were hoping for this >_>

Somebody had to pick up the license, and I guess they were it. It's especially good that Sentai appears to have a vested interest in preserving the dub, seeing as it's collaborating with Bang Zoom! on production. That said, Cristina Valenzuela or I'm not buying.

YES. XD

Hopefully Johnny Yong Bosch...owait

Awesome. This made my day.

K-ON! returning for more was a given, but the question begs to answered: What will Sentai not license? And if they're grabbing stuff related to Bandai's licenses, then them grabbing a gundam series or the new Eureka Seven anime wouldn't be a stretch (I know Sentai isn't the only anime company, but I have to wonder what Funimation is doing? Surely Level-E and the Basara movie isn't all they're grabbing, right?).

I am so freaking happy right now! I can't wait for this! My day just got 1000% better!

It might be bearable dubbed now I guess I will try it.

Nice. Im happy for K-ON! :)

I promised myself I would never watch that horrible dub again, however the scene with Yui and Ritsu trash talking the English language will be full of delicious irony and will be the only dubbed scene I watch.

Happy days are here again! :D

Awesome :D Love me some K-ON! :3

The are growing more and more.

woohoo! that's K-on!! with TWO exclamation marks!

Happy about this. ^^ Will definitely watch once they dub it.

dont get your hopes up, sentai will probly make it worse

I got the first season, then I found out Bandai wouldn't release the second. :( Now Sentai picked it up. I'm very happy. Thanks Sentai.

I approve of this choice

Better late then never.

presumably because they are the only company not called Funimation left.

Eh.. not excited for this.

Figured this would be soon. It was only a matter of time.

Will only buy if Bandai reduces the price of the Blu ray singles for S1, aka, never.

Hmm... Now you know I'll have to buy this, right?

I hate Yui's English voice... It's doesn't fit her. Honestly, I think her original English voice actor (I'm not the only one on MAL who watched the original English dub, am I? You know, the one that was dubbed by some like, Filipino studio or something... And all the girls sounded like they were moe 30-year-olds... However, I thought Yui's voice was cute in that one. Then again, I watched that what, two years ago?) was better than the new one.

If you asked me, Yui sounds like her voice is being FORCED to sound cute...

I want the old cast back together.

Now can we get back to trying to get Gundam please? Ya know like Turn A?

Oh boy is Sentai ever ambitious; let's hope they don't crash and burn. But this is good news. At the very least, I'm looking forward to paying less than $900 for the entire season.

I don't care much for K-On myself, but the fans will be happy, and I'm sure it'll rake in the dough. Good play, Sentai.

(Almost) funny joke.

Bby, it's all good.

Oh, thank god.

I was thinking I'd never be able to own all of K-On! after Bandai tanked in America. Fuck yeah.

I hope people actually support them, I know I will. Sentai's been doing really good, releasing BD's and dubs for shows that probably wouldn't have gotten them.

Great! I love this show. :D

Best news I've heard today!

This is excellent news. I just really hope they really release all 26 episodes in one Blu-Ray set, something Bandai failed to do with the first season (they did release a full DVD set, but the Blu-Ray is in multiple parts, which is frankly not worth the money imo). God I would love for Sentai to grab the first season as well, but that's just wishful thinking.

They will release it in 2 half sets most likely then release the full set later on then again I could be wrong.