Pony Canyon Launches New Brand 'Ponycan USA'

by Dunois
Sep 25, 2014 7:03 PM | 21 Comments

Japanese entertainment distributor Pony Canyon has launched a new brand called Ponycan USA, aimed at the U.S. anime market. The official website for the company was unveiled today.

Ponycan USA currently features the upcoming TV series Denki-gai no Honya-san and Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru, which will both be streamed via Crunchyroll. In addition, Ponycan USA will begin releasing anime titles on Blu-ray and DVD for the U.S. market in the near future.

Official website: http://ponycan.us/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PonycanUSA
Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/PONYCANUSA

Source: Anime! Anime!

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The more anime, the better!

Sep 29, 2014 10:06 PM by Ando

Hoppy said:
Please don't bring the Japanese prices here, no sense in paying $400 for a 1 cour anime in the US, hardly anyone will buy your BDs if they are at or near $400.

my thought exactly

Sep 27, 2014 7:07 AM by Mr_Gutts

I'm actually very excited about this. I'm eager to see how it turns out. Pony is also a music distributor in Japan so hopefully this means more localized OSTs as well, specifically the Attack on Titan OST. As for pricing, I think we should wait and see. I won't get my hopes up, but I'll wait until their first release before complaining about any prices.

Sep 26, 2014 6:08 PM by IronPriest96

Roloko said:

Tomislavr7 said:
Are they preparing to sell Shingeki no Kyojin?

Funimation already released it all on DVD so no.

Theres a very good chance any future seasons will be released by Pony Canyon though.

Sep 26, 2014 3:22 PM by RyanSaotome

Cool, I hope it will sell great.

Sep 26, 2014 10:52 AM by Makuro

Roloko said:

Tomislavr7 said:
Are they preparing to sell Shingeki no Kyojin?

Funimation already released it all on DVD so no.

Oh, I never knew. Thanks for the info.

Sep 26, 2014 6:15 AM by Tomislavr7

Tomislavr7 said:
Are they preparing to sell Shingeki no Kyojin?

Funimation already released it all on DVD so no.

Sep 26, 2014 5:25 AM by Roloko

Cool

Sep 26, 2014 3:25 AM by sim0n2170

Are they preparing to sell Shingeki no Kyojin?

Sep 26, 2014 2:58 AM by Tomislavr7

Hmmm......That's nice.

Sep 26, 2014 12:56 AM by Tengai

This is great news! Hopefully a lot more series will be subbed officially and sold in the states at an affordable price :)

Dubs are probably inevitable though, not that it's an issue.

Sep 25, 2014 9:52 PM by Akie

Well that's interesting and I see they already have two series from the Fall lineup on their site too. Looking forward to what else they will be releasing in the future.

Sep 25, 2014 9:17 PM by Stark700

Dunois said:
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Sep 25, 2014 8:55 PM by arsonal

Aniplex 2.0 inbound.

Sep 25, 2014 8:16 PM by StormSky92

This is very acceptable.

Sep 25, 2014 8:03 PM by Kiniest

Interesting.

R4vel said:
They here to license Hyouka or what?

Haha, yeah.

Sep 25, 2014 7:40 PM by einonymous

They here to license Hyouka or what?

Sep 25, 2014 7:15 PM by R4vel

Please don't bring the Japanese prices here, no sense in paying $400 for a 1 cour anime in the US, hardly anyone will buy your BDs if they are at or near $400.

Sep 25, 2014 7:13 PM by Hoppy

o.o nice.

Sep 25, 2014 7:12 PM by onesnowyday_

They released Reborn on DVD in Japan I hope it gets a US release too!

The only thing I hope for is that they don't follow Aniplex's pricing model $80 is as much I'll spend on a series unless I really REALLY enjoyed it.

Sep 25, 2014 7:09 PM by Roloko

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