August 10, 2013 – Flower Mound, TX – FUNimation announced today during their industry panel at Otakon that they have acquired the rights to the remaining episodes of the Fairy Tail anime series currently in existence (up to episode 175.) In addition, FUNimation revealed the release date forWolf Children. The movie will be available on Blu-ray/DVD Combo on November 11th, 2013.
During the Sunrise panel, which occurred prior to the FUNimation panel, it was announced that FUNimation has acquired the rights to the following titles:
- Tales of the Abyss
- Witch Hunter Robin
- Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
- Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
- Code Geass Lelouch Akito the Exiled
- Angel Links
- Banner of the Stars
- Banner of the Stars II
- Passage of the Stars “Birth”
- Crest of the Stars
During their industry panel, FUNimation added that they have also acquired the rights to the following Sunrise titles:
- Outlaw Star
- Escaflowne movie
- The Visions of Escaflowne
- My-Hime
- My-ZHime
- My-ZHime O~S.ifr~
- My ZHime Zwei
To conclude their panel, FUNimation played a video announcing they have acquired the rights to Cowboy Bebop. This will be the first time that the series will be available digitally and on Blu-ray in the U.S., FUNimation expects to release Cowboy Bebop in 2014.
YES! ALL FAIRY TAIL EPISODES! HALLELUJAH! I LOVE YOU FUNIMATION!
That is so Awesome, do you guys think the rest will a be dubbed out by the end of 2014!!!!
can’t wait for outlaw star myself. might buy 5 copies when it hits the shelves
Do not change the voice actors for Cowboy Bebop! This will ruin the series for me. Steve Blum is Spike. You already ruined Lupin III when you bought those rights. I have complete faith you will do it justice.
FUNi is not going to chance the dub.
Yay! MORE FAIRY TAIL
Cant wait,Cowboy Bebop is the reason why I love Anime,and watching the video above drives me mad crazy!
Yay to fairy tail but when do the dubs come out that is my question for FUNi
Very excited about these titles. Some of them I haven’t seen since they were aired on Adult Swim or Anime Unleashed on G4 back in the day.
Would love to see the Banner of the Stars series continued. Do that and you can have my pre-order now. Cowboy Bebop on blu-ray will be a definite buy.
hey anyone know when funi will release code geass or at least a ballpark estimate
I just saw the new fairy tail episode Need More Please!!!!!!!
Here we are at the start of 2015 and there’s still no word on when we’ll actually see the rerelease of Code Geass.
I’m all for being patient, I understand that some of this stuff takes time, etc., but we’re talking about something that was license rescued nearly a year and a half ago. This is starting to seem somewhat unreasonable.
Please update us on the Escalon blu ray. It’s almost two years now, and we are eager to throw money at you!
Whatever happened to some of these titles? I was really excited about Tales of the Abyss, but it’s been 2 years since this news update and we haven’t heard a single thing about it. There’s no news on it, no page not even the subbed versions, so what’s up? Are we getting these titles or not? I understand that funimation is busy, but having to wait 2 whole years, and have absolutely nothing about a show I’ve been looking forward to, is kind of disappointing. Please, at least tell us something!