Okay, since XGAMers are usually big anime fans, I thought we should put up a little licensed anime/manga topic. Here's how it goes: if you have any information on newly-licensed anime or manga, post them here (including the resource from where you got the info). You may also put comments in here if there's an anime you're anticipating that has showed up here.

Anyway, here are some new licensed anime I read in Animerica magazine!

ADV Films

Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu: The sequel to the hit anime Full Metal Panic! featuring more adventures of Kaname and Sousuke.

Gatchman: Also known in America as Battle of the Planets, this is the first sentai (team) which began The Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, etc.

Peacemaker [Kurogane]: Animated by Studio GONZO, a teenage boy named Tetsunosuke attemps to join a samurai clan to avenge his parents' muders.

FUNimation

Fullmetal Alchemist: SquareEnix and Studio Bones work together to make this anticipated anime.

Geneon (Pioneer)

Burn Up Scramble: More wacky hijinks of Rio and her gang, along with lots of fan service to boot!

Cybuster: Based on the Super Robot Wars video game franchise.

Saiyuki Reloaded: The sequel to the anime Saiyuki continues based on the Chinese folktale "Journey to the West".

Shingetsutsutan Tsukihime: A fantasy tale about a young boy who survies a devistating accident, thus giving him psychic powers that let him see everything's breaking point.

Submarine 707R: An undersea drama made by Blue Submarine No. 6's creator Satoru Ozawa, Zeta Gundam's writer Hiroshi Onogi, and Yamato's desginer Kazutake Miyatake.

Media Blasters

Urda: Third Reich: Operatives Ema and Janet take on the Naizs and their creation: the time altering URDA Project in this full 3D cell shaded anime.

Early Reins: A Western anime that takes place in historical American West, which feature six gun-toting girls.

Wow. I did not know about that one. lol Geez, all I can hope for now is that it'll be come popular, and they'll pick up the original series (uh, Masou Kishin The Lord of Elemental) over here. Thing's impossible to find...

Bakuretsu Tenshi has been licensed (for a while now too lol) by *drumroll* Funimation. WTF. lol No, really that's what I first thought cuz usually you think Funimation = just Dragonball. I had no idea that they also did Blue Gender (talk about weird... and messed up) until just a month ago or so. Anyway, I think it's odd that they picked up Bakuretsu Tenshi as the series hasn't even finished airing in Japan (it's 26 episodes if you're wondering)! It's pretty interesting, though from what I've seen so far it's just about a group of 4 bounty hunting girls and their adventures, and it has the perfect mix of mechs and fanservice, IMHO. I believe they're also changing the title to "Burst Angel" which would be it's English translation. I think.

Edit ~ Also, if you're a GONZO freak be sure to check out the series as they did the animation and stuff. At least they're getting better with their CG work. lol

This post has been edited by NieA: Sep 5 2004, 03:30 AM

Actually, FUNimation's dubbing has gotten better since DBZ. I hear the Fruits Basket and Kiddy Grade dubs are quite good.

Anyway, on to more licensed news!

ADV Films

E's Otherwise- From the director of Someday's Dreamers comes the tale of a boy with ESP who fights for (and with) an Illuminati-like group to save his sister.

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch- Directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto of Wedding Peach fame. Three girls transform into mermaids and sing to save the Earth.

Sakigate!! Chromartie High School- From the animators behind the anime Di Gi Charat. An adaptation of a hilarious manga about life in an all-boys school for delequents.

Area 88- The 2004 remake of the air combat manga about a reluctant Japanese mercenary.

Decective Loki (Ragnarok)- Former Norse god runs a dective agency (the anime is not related to the Ragnarok online game).

Erementar Gerad- Anime based on a Comic Balde "new era battle comedy" fantasy.

Elfen Lied- Two kids take care of a sweet homeless girl...who happens to be a mudering mutant lab escapee...

Gantz- Directed by Ichiroh Itano (Megazone 23, Itano Circus); an anime about a boy who gets killed and comes back to life. However, a strange black orb orders him to fight ultra-violent aliens.

Gilgamesh- An supernatural anime based loosely on Babylonian mythos. By the late Ishinomori Shotaro (Kikaider, Cyborg 009)

[Super Massive God] Gravion Zwei- The sequel to the Gravion series with more "big" chicks in giant robots fighting the Zeravire aliens.

Hello Kitty Animation Theater- Japan's epitome of sugary kawaiiness returns (she may be 30 years old, but she's as sweet as ever!).

Kurau: Phantom Memory- The latest anime from Studio BONES (Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Beebop, Wolf's Rain) about a doctor's daughter who gets possessed by two dimensonal entities after a freak accident.

Legend of Moby Dick- Don't worry, it's not what you think it is. The famed director Osamu Dezaki makes it a loose space opera interpertation.

Maburaho- A nice slice-of-life story about a boy surronded by girls in an elite wizards acdemy. Cue the boy/many girls hijinks.

[Mobile Shinsengumi] Moeyo Ken- Daughters of the Meji Restoration live up to their samurai fathers' honor by protecting Kyoto from the enemies natural and supernatural.

Nanaka 6/17- Another girl-instanly-changes-age anime...but this time, it's a high school girl that turns into a grade schooler after a head injury.

Saiyuki: Requiem- The movie based on the popular anime series based on the popular Chinese folktale Journey to the West. 'Nuff said.

Tactics- Another Comic Blade supernatural title becomes an anime. From the staff of Dective Loki (Ragnarok).

A Tree of Palme- A wooden doll named Palme journeys through the mystical world of Arcana to an underground world with a mysterious "egg" given to him by a woman warrior, and in the process, may become human.

Yumeria- 16-year-old Tomozaku enters another world in his dreams where he imbues a girl with the fighting powers. Did I mention that it's also an adaptation of a PS2 game?

Gah! There's more news, but I'm afraid it would take up at least 3 or 4 pages! Oh well, I'll post more news!

Source: Animerica Magazine

I've watched many anime.

Elfen Lied: A story about an android girl who kills many people and she had a tragic past. This is a wonderful and violent anime.

Kannaduki no Miko :About two girls, Himeko and Chikane are destined to be a solar priestess and lunar priestess. They must destroy the orochi(demons) to bring peace for this world.

SPOILER

But Chikane loves Himeko. So, this is a lesbian anime at all. In the end Himeko and Chikane become couple.

Edit by Oathkeeper: Added spoiler tags.

This post has been edited by Oathkeeper: Jan 22 2005, 08:34 AM

(Geneon Entertainment)

Appleseed
Japan's first fully-animated feature film. About a world where Bioroids (Robots, essentially) make up 50% of the population. War breaks out, I'm guessing, betweeen the Bioroids and the Humans (The trailer didn't show much), and the main character is in love with a Bioroid, who apparently used to be a human. It looked awesome.

Coming to theaters soon.

*gasps for breath* Okay, there are a TON of licensed anime, so here's teh Quick and Dirty list of licensed anime and manga.

Licensed Anime

Fantastic Childeren (Bandai Entertainment)
Madlax (ADV Films)
Samurai 7 (Funimation)
Five Star Stories (ADV Films)
Ghost Stories (ADV Films)
Godannar [Divine Spirit Combiner] (ADV Films)
Kita he [Onto the North] (ADV Films)
Papuwa (ADV Films)
Pokemon: Destiny Days (Buena Vista)
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind (Buena Vista)
Pocco Roso (Buena Vista)
The Cat Returns (Buena Vista)
Howl's Moving Castle (Buena Vista)
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Destiny
Hare + Guu
Kyou Kara Ma-O
Negima
Air Master (Toei Animation)
Interlude (Toei Animation)
Slam Dunk (Toei Animation)

Licensed Manga

Full Metal Alchemist
CLAMP No Kiseki: The Ultimete Collection
Midori's Days
RG Veda
Faehunter

That's it for now!

me me me! I know one major license that wont be pleasing to most people who were far in the series.....

it's Naruto!!! Licensed by ShoPro Entertainment

Well now that they have the rights, they'll have huge profits on side stuff like toys and games, yeah great move for them onto a great serie(IMO) that would most probably please the average american eye.

Two crappy animes have gotten licensed by Geneon (Pioneer): The first being Girls BRAVO, featuring a girl so destructively violent, she makes Narusegawa Naru from Love Hina look like Ghandi himself. The second one being DearS, where alien girls (or couse they're girls) want to be the perfect "slave" to their master (namely a boy) in this "Chobits gone 1,000 times wrong" anime.

But luckly, Yoshizumi Wataru's (Marmalade Boy) Ultra Maniac has been licensed by Geneon too!

As for manga liscensing, Viz is bringing out a bundle of new shojo, including SOS, X2, Happy Hustle High, Doubt!, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden (a prequel to Fushigi Yugi), Ultra Maniac (the manga that spawned the anime), and Tokyo Boys and Girls.

That's all for now.

Wow... that was also known as G-Force when it was on Cartoon Network, and well wow... I can't believe that's still popular lol. Guess I'm not too far behind in the times after all.

Also, how'd Geneon do with Appleseed if anyone has seen it? I hope they didn't screw it up as seems to be the general thing that happens whenever the current artists get their hands on the old animes rather when trying to reproduce the same feel that the original had or when trying to build upon what is already there. Hopefully Geneon will prove me wrong on this occasion.