Jacob T. Paschal
07-30-2008, 03:55 PM
This is the talkback thread for Newsarama Interviews FUNimation's Gen Fukunaga (http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=25269).
"The company hit the big time in the late 1990s, when it acquired the rights to produce Dragonball Z. Now its roster includes a number of sterling titles ranging from Samurai 7, Afro Samurai, Yu Yu Hakusho and one of my personal favorites of last year, the anime version of Witchblade. The company is now moving into the live action arena, having scored a solid seller in the film Shinobi and hoping for even more this the September release of Genghis Khan. Don’t be surprised if there’s some major announcements happening in the delivery arena also. FUNimation is already exploring download-to-own and other avenues as you read this."
Actually, FUNimation began with Dragonball and Z in the mid-ninties, the title's popularity increased dramatically in 1998 on Toonami.
EDIT:
"NRAMA: Well, I can see films like Shinobi fitting in with fans of films like Rourori Kenshin or Basilisk."
Rurouni Kenshin, or even Rurôni. >.>
"The company hit the big time in the late 1990s, when it acquired the rights to produce Dragonball Z. Now its roster includes a number of sterling titles ranging from Samurai 7, Afro Samurai, Yu Yu Hakusho and one of my personal favorites of last year, the anime version of Witchblade. The company is now moving into the live action arena, having scored a solid seller in the film Shinobi and hoping for even more this the September release of Genghis Khan. Don’t be surprised if there’s some major announcements happening in the delivery arena also. FUNimation is already exploring download-to-own and other avenues as you read this."
Actually, FUNimation began with Dragonball and Z in the mid-ninties, the title's popularity increased dramatically in 1998 on Toonami.
EDIT:
"NRAMA: Well, I can see films like Shinobi fitting in with fans of films like Rourori Kenshin or Basilisk."
Rurouni Kenshin, or even Rurôni. >.>