FUNimation acquires Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~

[Cless]

Announced at Anime Detour 2011 at their panel.

Thank goodness it's not Bandai, who has opted to give Abyss TV the cheapest, most effortless possible release. At least with FUNimation we should be getting a Blu-ray with a dub.

Assuming they don't get completely stupid about this, Troy Baker reprising Yuri should be virtually guaranteed.

PR:

Tales of Vesperia – we have acquired the 2009 animated feature “Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Stike” from Bandai Visual Co. Ltd. FUNimation now holds the home entertainment, broadcast, theatrical, digital, and merchandising rights for the title in the U.S. and Canada.

The movie is the anime adaptation of the role-playing video game (RPG) for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 published by Namco (now Namco Bandai Games) and is directed by Kanta Kamei. A veteran of the Japanese animation industry, Kamei has worked in several "Tales of" series titles, and directed the movie part of Tales of Legendia (2005) as was on staff on Blood: The Last Vampire (2000, visual effects and key animator), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, visual supervisor), Innocence (2004, visual effects and key animator), IGPX (2005, visual effects) and Asience: Hairy Tales (2007, director of photography).

Tales of Vesperia ~ The First Strike ~ (2009) is his directorial debut in a feature film.

FUNimation will release the feature on DVD and Blu-ray in 2012.

[Joseph]

For a second, I confused FUNimation with 4Kids. :shudder:

Yeah, they're one of the best in this business. They've apparently done a terrific job cleaning up the mess 4Kids made with "One Piece", and the dub of "Dragon Ball Z Kai" is top notch. Hope they get the original talent together and all that.

[Kogahazan]

...Troy Baker reprising Yuri should be virtually guaranteed.

brb, fapping

[Claude C Kenny]

  I be happy now

[BassForever]

Awesome!