{"id":146,"date":"2008-09-17T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T20:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=146"},"modified":"2011-04-23T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T03:26:53","slug":"geneon-distribution-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Geneon Distribution Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Geneon announced that they will no longer distribute their anime to North America.\u00a0 That meant that I could no longer get official dubs of two new anime shows I like, <em>Hellsing Ultimate<\/em> and <em>Black Lagoon<\/em>.\u00a0 But I just found out that Geneon has found a new North American distributor for their works (it was actually announced a few months ago &#8211; I guess I haven&#8217;t looked in a while).\u00a0 Funimation, a well-known North American distributor, will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/press-release\/2008-07-03\/funimation-entertainment-and-geneon-entertainment-sign-exclusive-distribution-agreement-for-north-america\" target=\"_blank\">pick up the licenses for Geneon distribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hellsing Ultimate<\/em> follows the vampire Alucard, who is in service to a secret British military order, the Hellsing Organization.\u00a0 The Hellsing Organization&#8217;s mission is to destroy monsters, such as vampires and ghouls.\u00a0 The series (it&#8217;s actually an OVA, or direct-to-DVD series) follows the original manga pretty closely, which is why I&#8217;m a fan of this anime.\u00a0 The original <em>Hellsing<\/em> TV series did not follow the manga after a few episodes, at which point the writing quickly went downhill.<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Lagoon<\/em> has been compared a lot to <em>Cowboy Bebop<\/em>, except the main characters are mercenaries and they are not in space.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s as good as <em>Bebop<\/em>, but it&#8217;s a good show and has some cool scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Geneon announced that they will no longer distribute their anime to North America.\u00a0 That meant that I could no longer get official dubs of two new anime shows I like, Hellsing Ultimate and Black Lagoon.\u00a0 But I just found out that Geneon has found a new North American distributor for their works (it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}