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FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES

FLCL

FROM PRODUCTION I.G.

Flower Mound, Texas (January 6, 2010) – FUNimation® Entertainment today announced that it has acquired home entertainment and digital rights to the six OVA sci-fi comedy anime series “FLCL” from Production I.G.

“FLCL” is the hugely popular OVA series from powerhouse partners Production I.G. (“The Ghosts in the Shell,” “Tsubasa”), Gainax (“Evangelion” series), and Starchild (“The Slayers” movies). It is directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki.

ABOUT FLCL

Bored with his mundane middle school life, Naota longed for a change from his daily grind. However his life completely changes after a pink haired stranger on a Vespa runs him over. Weird things happen when he is around the mysterious girl known as Haruko. Now not only must Naota deal with regular teenage troubles, but also with this new enigmatic woman.

FUNimation Entertainment will release all six OVA’S on one DVD set and on Blu-ray disc in late 2010.

Visit the splash page at http://FUNimation.com/FLCL.

Yes that’s right folks, FLCL on Blu-ray.  And it won’t be like $500.  Discuss.

162 Responses to “2010 Roll-out Riot: Day 3 of 5 – FLCL”

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nightastronomer on January 7th, 2010 at 11:32 am says:

@SmcCall64,FUNimation is keeping the original dub according to their twitter page.

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stryker on January 7th, 2010 at 11:48 am says:

FUNIMATION HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THE 4TH ANNOUNCEMENT?

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Tia on January 7th, 2010 at 11:56 am says:

If Funimation doesnt license Toradora I give up. Its like on every single comment page.

Anyway the manga artist for FLCL designed the end sequence for Bakemonogatari so I think I will check this OVA series out.

Hope to see atleast a new license from funny, maybe they bought a popular title hence the low amount of new acquisitions.

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mudduck454 on January 7th, 2010 at 12:00 pm says:

It’s probably because they spent too much money licensing linebarrel,

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mudduck454 on January 7th, 2010 at 12:03 pm says:

now there is a show that deserves to be licensed and on blu-ray, Bakemonogatari, I admit it.. I watched fansub versions of it, and found it to be one of the best shows of the season. if they would have put subtitles on the japanese blu-ray release, I might have bought it…

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SMcCall64 on January 7th, 2010 at 12:11 pm says:

@nightastronomer

Thanks for sharing that info with me. I appreciate it.

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nightastronomer on January 7th, 2010 at 12:45 pm says:

You’re welcome.Just trying to help a fellow anime fan.I can’t wait to buy this series and show it to my cousins.They enjoyed hare + guu but they haven’t experienced a crazy and wacky anime like FLCL.

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Chronoscout on January 7th, 2010 at 2:30 pm says:

I work for a large anime/comic store so i can tell you what our customers are asking for. the main ones:
Toradora (i bet it’s announced day 4)
K-ON (day 5?)
You already know those and hopefully have them.
People also ask me for:
Shakugan no Shana (season 2 and the new OVA)
Nanoha StrikerS,
To aru Majutsu no Index,
To aru Kagaku no Railgun,
Bakemonogatari,
Sailormoon,
Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei

Thank you so much for picking up FLCL we get atleast 1 request (usually 2 or more) every week for that

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stryker on January 7th, 2010 at 3:46 pm says:

PEOPLE COPY AND PASTE…

I wont riot, I will just stop feeding funimation my money and give it to the company that releases the shows I want

PASS IT ON…

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Leo on January 7th, 2010 at 7:16 pm says:

I saw a teaser pic at the NYAF Funi panel back in October so I wasn’t surprised that it’s going to happen. I actually have the original DVD set so I’m itching to get a BD version of this.

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sh16 on January 7th, 2010 at 8:44 pm says:

ha! he totally ignored u. i don’t think anyone will (or should) do that.

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kodocha_lover on January 7th, 2010 at 8:46 pm says:

KODOCHA ALL THE WAY!

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