The North American anime distributor FUNimation Entertainment and Japan's ARM Corporation have announced that ARM has transfered the rights to more than 30 of its titles ? all previously held by A.D. Vision ? to Funimation . Those rights include the home video, broadcast, digital, and merchandising rights in North America and other regions. The complete list of transferred titles is as follows:
These are most of the titles that had been removed from ADV Films ' catalog in January. A majority of them were relisted in ADV Films ' catalog in February, only to be gradually removed for a second time. ADV Films also once planned to release Gurren Lagann , but Bandai Entertainment announced in May that it had acquired the series. 5 Centimeters Per Second is not on Funimation 's list of transferred titles, but copies of ADV Films ' release remain available at retailers.
The joint Funimation /ARM announcement comes the day after Funimation announced it will also manufacture and distribute select titles that Geneon Entertainment (USA) had planned to release before it ceased in-house DVD distribution. Funimation indicated that the new titles from ARM will be significant to its efforts in "social networking, the FUNimation Channel , and Internet VOD ."?
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