FUNimation Buys US Rights To “The Boy and the Beast”

<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;funimation&period;com&sol;blog&sol;"><strong>FUNimation Entertainment<&sol;strong><&sol;a> announced the purchase of US rights to distribute the anime film<em> The Boy and the Beast<&sol;em>&period; From the directer&comma; Mamoru Hosoda comes the story of two worlds that must never intertwine&colon; the human world and the bakemono world&period; &lpar;Bakemono are a subclass of yokai in Japanese lore&comma; their name means a thing that changes&rpar;&period; But a lonely boy becomes lost in the world of the bakemono and becomes a disciple of the lonely Kumatetsu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>FUNimation plans on releasing <em>The Boy and the Beast<&sol;em> in select theaters in late 2015 and hopes to release it nationwide in 2016&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;05&sol;04231724&sol;The-boy-and-the-beast-official-trailer&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83243" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;05&sol;04231724&sol;The-boy-and-the-beast-official-trailer&period;jpg" alt&equals;"The-boy-and-the-beast-official-trailer" width&equals;"672" height&equals;"372" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;