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Funimation October 2011 Solicitations

There's LOL Heroes, Shiki, Shana 2, Index, Steins;Gate, and...that's it according to my list, but those aren't coming out for a while since they were recently announced (well, LOL Heroes could be soon).

FUNimation Entertainment Announces Summer Simulcasts
U.S. Anime Leader to Launch Legend of Legendary Heroes

Flower Mound, Texas (July 2, 2010) -- FUNimation® Entertainment and Tokyo-based T.O Entertainment have entered into an agreement giving the American anime leader exclusive rights to the U.S. online simulcast of T.O Entertainment’s anti-heroic fantasy anime series “The Legend of Legendary Heroes”.
The collaboration will allow the simulcast and streaming of already aired episodes of the 25-episode dramatic series, known as “Densetsu no Yūsha no Densetsu” in Japan, as it continues its run on TV Tokyo.

Starting this month, date and time to be determined, FUNimation will deliver the newest episode of “The Legend of Legendary Heroes” just one hour after its broadcast in Japan via www.funimation.com. In addition, any episodes which have already aired will be available for streaming. All episodes feature the original Japanese dialogue accompanied by English subtitles.

The anime, based on the Kagami Takaya light novel series, is produced by Fujimi Shobo and directed by Itsuro Kawasaki (“Chrome Shelled Regios,” “Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex,” and “Sengoku Basara”). The series follows the story of Ryner Lute, a lazy student of Roland Imperial Special Military Academy. When the Roland Empire goes to war against the neighboring kingdom of Estabul, Ryner and his classmates finds themselves headed into battle. Years after the war, Ryner and his comrade set out on journey to search for the “Heroic Relics" at his emperor's command. During this journey he finds that a deadly curse is spreading across the continent.

About T.O Entertainment
Since its inception in 2003, T.O Entertainment has maintained a very internationally oriented focus, with branch offices located in South Korea, the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Russia. The company has introduced multiple anime series (“ Baka and Test - Summon the Beasts”, “Polyphonica”, “Legend of the Legendary Heroes” etc) and full-length films (“Bungaku Shoujo: BOOK GIRL - The Literature Girl-”, “Straight Jacket”, “Apartment 1303”, “RoboGeisha”, etc) with the goal of bringing various forms of Japanese entertainment to the rest of the world.

About FUNimation Entertainment
FUNimation® Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation, is the leading company for home video sales of Japanese animation in the United States. FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its 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.

I need my Index and Railgun fix. Funimation needs to finally give some info on their releases.

I need my Index and Railgun fix. Funimation needs to finally give some info on their releases.

19:22:35 <bay> Q: re-release of original series
19:22:55 <bay> A: the tenchi series, hellsing, blacklagoon, all the stuff from AX last year.. had a very long term materials delay, just starting to work on them
19:23:13 <bay> they won't send materials until the geneon/universal merge is finished
19:23:16 <bay> hopefully sooner than later
19:23:25 <bay> as soon as we get materials, we'll tell you a thing

Though I am not really sure what the hold-up on Strike Witches 2 is, since IIRC Spice & Wolf 2 was announced either at the same time or even after that, and that is coming in September. While we still don't have any info on Strike Witches 2.

I know I kind of do this often, but I really enjoyed Strike Witches, and really want to buy it. However I don't want to do so if season 2 is not coming soon.