Aria licensed!
01 May 2008 at 12:30 | In Anime, News Tidbits |Tags: aria, aria the origination, aria the animation, aria the natural, aria the ova arietta
Yay!! 151 days away…
Right Stuf has snagged Aria the Animation, Aria the Natural, Aria the OVA Arietta, and Aria the Origination. And there was much rejoicing…
Ruu! \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
I will finally be able to watch some nice R1 Aria DVDs. Best news I’ve heard in quite awhile. The countdown to the first DVD’s release at the end of September begins now!
Right Stuf Licenses Aria TV Anime
posted on 2008-05-01 15:00 EDTThe North American anime distributor Right Stuf and its Nozomi Entertainment production arm has announced at 3:00 p.m. EDT today that they licensed the Aria the Animation television series. The anime adapts Kozue Amano’s acclaimed future slice-of-life manga about Akari, a girl training to be a gondolier on a canal-filled planet once known as Mars. Director Junichi Sato (Princess Tutu, Kaleido Star, Sailor Moon/Sailor Moon R) and the studio Hal Film Maker (Boys Be, Pretear, Slayers Premium, Sketchbook ~full color’S~) animated four different Aria projects. Both the Aria manga and anime storylines ended last month in Japan.
Right Stuf will ship the first box set of 13 episodes from Aria the Animation on September 30, and the set’s DVDs will include Japanese audio and English subtitles. More of the anime, which includes the next two television seasons Aria the Natural and Aria the Origination as well as Aria the OVA ~Arietta~, will follow thereafter. Tokyopop is publishing the 12 volumes of the manga after picking up the license from Mag Garden, who serialized the manga in Monthly Comic Blade magazine. ADV Manga had initially carried part of the manga, but discontinued it.
UPDATE: One thing I am liking about this licensing is that it looks like the entire season is getting released in 1 go instead of 3-4 episodes at a time. I would anticipate a longer wait between Animation and Natural, but I’d gladly take that over a 2-4 month wait between individual DVDs. Right Stuf already has pre-orders up on their site. Retail price is $49.99, but through them is $37.49 right now. I really don’t anticipate waiting that long before having all of Aria sitting pretty in my DVD collection.
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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! words cannot even describe my excitement!!!
Comment by Dancing Queen — 01 May 2008 #
FUCK YEAH ARIA
Comment by drmchsr0 — 01 May 2008 #
[...] lot of people are really happy. So is me. Okay I watched all but one episode. It’s still a wonderful [...]
Pingback by ARIA FUCK YEAH « orz - SWISS CHEESE PORN — 01 May 2008 #
THEY BETTER LICENSE SKETCHBOOK ~FULL COLORS NEXT
Comment by Anonymous — 01 May 2008 #
Best news since Marimite.
Comment by lolikitsune — 01 May 2008 #
What luck, I just got Aria the Natural the other day. I’m a bit slow on all this, but I’m getting into all this Aria fun.
Comment by Os — 01 May 2008 #
I haven’t started Natural yet even though I have it for more than 1 year now in my hard drive. Maybe this is a motivation for me to start it.
Comment by Optical — 02 May 2008 #