Sunday October 14, 2012 at 12:20 pm by Rojas
Flower Mound, TX –October 14, 2012- FUNimation Entertainment announced today at New York Comic-Con that it has acquired the broadcast, home entertainment, video on demand and theatrical rights to Toriko, the next great anime adventure from TOEI Animation Inc , the legendary force behind Dragon Ball Z and One Piece!
Series synopsis:
Welcome to the Gourmet Age, a time when the world is full of deliciously deadly ingredients that the wealthiest appetites in existence can’t wait to devour. But only a mighty masticating mercenary like Toriko can track down the rarest animals on the planet and put them on a plate! This gluttonous gourmet hunter is one of the four Legendary Kings, superhuman warriors born to battle the likes of Troll Kongs, Gararagators, and Devil Pythons! Accompanied by his loyal Battle Wolf and the promising young chef Komatsu, Toriko will circle the globe in search of the mouth-wateringly lethal ingredients that will one day make up his Full Course Menu of Life! The more ferocious the beast – the bigger the feast, but never forget the code of a true gourmet hunter: You gotta eat what you defeat!
The first dual-language DVD set is scheduled to release January 8, 2013. Subsequent volumes will release on DVD throughout 2013 from Funimation.
Rating is TV-14
New simulcast episodes are available starting on Wednesdays on www.funimation.com as well as other online streaming partners.
Additional information may be found at: www.funimation.com/toriko
FUNimation Entertainment also announced today at New York Comic-Con that it has acquired the broadcast, home entertainment and theatrical rights to Wolf Children Ame and Yuki ( Originally titled Ōkami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki).
Series synopsis:
From the visionary, award-winning creator of Summer Wars and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Mamoru Hosoda, comes a beautiful tale of love and triumph. 19 year old Hana finds herself falling in love with a wolf-man and over the years becomes the mother of two half wolf/ half human children. Ame, born on a rainy day and Yuki, born in the snowy winter must move with their mother to a rural town to hide the secret of their mysterious lineage.
Theatrical and Home Media release scheduled for 2013.
Additional information may be found at: www.funimation.com
About Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
With headquarters in Tokyo and sales offices in Paris, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Toei Animation (Jasdaq: 4816) ranks amongst the world’s most prolific animation production studios. Toei Animation’s operations include animation development and production, and worldwide marketing and program licensing. Since its founding in 1956, Toei Animation has produced more than 10,000 episodes of TV series (more than 200 titles) and more than 200 long feature films as of January, 2010.
About Toei Animation Inc.
Toei Animation Inc. (TAI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Toei Animation Co., Ltd. established in Los Angeles in 2004, looks forward to spreading the world-renowned Japanese animation studio’s extensive library and pursuing co-production projects in North and Latin America and other English-speaking territories worldwide. The main business operations of TAI include film licensing in all media and digital platforms, merchandise licensing and co-productions with local establishments.
About FUNimation® Entertainment :
FUNimation® Entertainment is the leading anime company in North America. FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands. They manage a full spectrum of rights for most of their brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.
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Anime_Hunter It's possible Toriko might but pitched to Toonami if they have the money. I'll be superised to see the series to be run on (uncut) on Viz's Neon Alley sevrice, and they are having problems with Destu getting the seconed half of D. Gray-Man not the sales.
Dragon0 As eager as you want to see Wolf Children as am I, I am more eager to see Toriko.
Domayv I didn't know they used to used NYAV Post in early years, but the Ocean Group originaly dubbed Dragonball Z when Saban ran it sydcannedly (spelled it wrong) back in 1996 (But I will love to see Funimation partly outsource to Ocean for Wolf Children).
Rootsofjustice Toriko's currenting at 70 (on Wikipedia's database) or 75 (on Anime News Networks database). It's oviously that they don't have the rights to any of the crossover epsoides with One Piece or the orginial special or that 3D Movie (yet). But if the series preforms well in sales than they'll prosue more (if they can get a deal with Namco Bandai to start releaseing the Video Games also).
If Funimation wants to magically improve their odds for an Oscar nomination then the following needs to be done:
1. Cast Jamie Marchi in the movie; doesn’t matter if it's a big role or small role, just have her involved.
You can say I'm crazy but in my opinion she is a good luck charm that always improves any dub.
Why no Summer Wars nomination?
*sees a certain VA wasn't part of the cast*
Hmmm... Not so lucky huh?
2. Justin Cook should be the ADR Director. Any dub he directs is always amazing and even though I don't care about Mass Effect, I'll watch the dub because it's a super rare case where he's directing again.
Most would probably say Mike McFarland should be the one to direct the dub for Wolf Children but he had his chance with Summer Wars (and it apparently wasn’t good enough) plus he always seems to cast his favorite VAs (leads for One Piece) at every opportunity whenever he directs other stuff he works on.
Bias much? At least Justin Cook seems like a fairer ADR Director. Almost every original FUNi VA still working today got their start in a dub he directed (Yu Yu Hakusho, Fruits Basket, Dragon Ball)
I will be eagerly awaiting Wolf Children. No so much for Toriko.
Rootsofjustice: Yeah we know about Funi having their own dubbing studio but they used Michael Sinterniklaas before in their dubs
Makes sense, they announce the license right before awards season kicks into high gear. If they can get the film out in Los Angeles by December they'll be in good shape for a shot at ol' Oscar. It all depends on when they received the materials to start work.
Also, there's the factor of "they have their own freaking dubbing studio." Unless they opted to employ Michael Sinterniklaas and NYAV Post, they have everything they need within arm's reach.
RootsofJustice: OK so the reason is because Funi wants itself a gold trophy on top of that film and not for costing reasons.
Domayv: They're not going to outsource it to Ocean, especially if they want a golden statue to go with the license. They need at least one SAG affiliated actor in a lead role in order to qualify for an Oscar and Canada uses their own actor's union. IF they outsource it (and this is a very big IF), it'll be to New York for Michael Sinterniklaas and NYAV Post to handle (basically the CPM and 4Kids actor pool with a couple CA actors thrown in the mix). They have access to at least six SAG affiliated actors (JYB, 'Tricky Vic', Stephanie Sheh, Kyle Hebert and Patrick Seitz) so they don't even need to, it'll all depend on how hard they want to kiss the Academy's ring.
addicted2dubs: I'd imagine the Toriko license would only cover up to about Episode 50, which is about the cleanest break I can think of. That would leave it up to the episode before the One Piece special. I'd also imagine Toei would count it as a special given its connection to a much later arc in One Piece and the second part of the special is a One Piece episode. I'd imagine all three One Piece/Toriko crossover episodes would be included with the inevitable release of One Piece Movie 11/Toriko Movie 1.
Supermutant: FUNimation has confirmed that they do not yet have a license for Sailor Moon in any way, shape or form. They even went out of their way to debunk the rumor on Twitter.
For wolf children ame & yuki maybe you could possibly experiment by outsourcing to Ocean (it wouldn't be too detrimental since it's a movie, not a TV series, and because it's a Mamoru Hosoda film, it could be a potential seller and sales could cover the costs.)
Do the home video rights for Toriko also include the One Piece cross over episodes? (would be kind of lame if Toei treated them as "TV specials" and made them a separate license...)
Nice but there was a rumor going on that you might have picked up a certain other show. Not been confirmed or denied.
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