Bandai: It’s Not Over Yet, Folks
To make this quick: Bandai has another counter up on the splash page, this one counting down to…6pm PST on May 31st, it looks like. Perhaps their panel at A-kon? The source code hints are the same as the ones mentioned here.
And, to stretch this post out a little bit, I’m posting the full text of both the Sword of the Stranger and Gurren Lagann on Sci Fi press releases after the jump. DO take note that the dub of Gurren Lagann will be released digitally in some undisclosed manner by Starz.
‘Night folks!
BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT TO RELEASE “SWORD OF THE STRANGER” May 24, 2008 (Cypress, CA) –Bandai Entertainment Inc. announced this weekend at Fanime that it would be releasing studio BONES (Cowboy Bebop-the Movie, Wolf’s Rain, Eureka Seven, Ghost Slayers Ayashi) theatrical anime feature, Sword of the Stranger directed by Masahiro Ando (Eureka Seven, Full Metal Alchemist).
A Japanese language version with English subtitles will play theatrically at the ImaginAsian Center in Los Angeles and the ImaginAsian Theater in New York starting on July 18th. The acclaimed film centers a young boy and his dog whose fate becomes intertwined with a nameless samurai and a fierce assassin. The film features character designs by Tsunenori Saito (Blood: The Last Vampire).
An English language version is in the works which will be distributed as part of a wider theatrical release followed by a planned DVD in both regular and Blu-ray formats.
SCI FI CHANNEL TO BROADCAST GURREN LAGANN May 26, 2008 (Cypress, CA) – Aniplex and Bandai Entertainment Inc. announced today that they have licensed the television and digital distribution rights to the series GURREN LAGANN to Starz Media, which has set the series for its US premier on SCI FI Channel July 28th at 11 p.m.
Two episodes will air each week on SCI FI during a 14-week run in the “Ani-Monday” block, which features leading programming from Manga Entertainment, a division of Starz Media. The series will run through late October.
SCI FI Channel will air a newly prepared English-language version. The production studio for the English version will be Bang Zoom Entertainment.
The 27-episode science fiction, mecha action series centers on Simon, Kamina, and Yoko, youths who live in an underground village in the future. They become embroiled in a conflict with surface Beastmen who pilot mech known as Gunmen, one of which they take for themselves and name GURREN, and lead the battle against the Beastmen. Recently the series won “best television series” and “best character design’ at the 2008 Tokyo Animation Fair (TAF).
Following the broadcast a DVD version with the English dub will be released in the fourth quarter of 2008. A subtitled only DVD release will begin in July as previously announced. Additionally, Starz Media will release the English dub episodes for digital distribution on a day-after-air basis via numerous electronic sell-through retailers under its Manga brand.
Tags: Bandai-Entertainment, countdowns, Gurren-Lagann, sword of the stranger
May 25th, 2008 at 9:26 am
[...] Bandai Entertainment confirms the deal to show Gurren-Lagann on the Sci-fi channel. Also it appears that they will be showing a dubbed version of the [...]