Funimation Partners with VIZ Media to Expand Its Catalog

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;funimation-adds-demon-slayer-new-merch-and-more&sol;">Funimation<&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;viz-media-announces-new-licenses-at-anime-expo-lite&sol;">VIZ Media<&sol;a> recently announced a distribution partnership intended to bring some of VIZ Media’s popular and iconic anime titles to Funimation&period; Both companies have been central to the growth in popularity of anime and manga in the U&period;S&period; for more than two decades&period; The partnership further deepens Funimation’s catalog and delivers iconic anime titles such as Naruto&comma; and Hunter x Hunter to Megalobox and many more to the platform&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>VIZ Media’s Naruto &lpar;original series&sol;220 episodes&rpar;&comma; Hunter x Hunter &lpar;75 episodes&rpar;&comma; Sailor Moon R&colon; The Movie&comma; Berserk&colon; The Golden Age Arc II &&num;8211&semi; The Battle for Doldrey&comma; and Berserk&colon; The Golden Age Arc III &&num;8211&semi; The Advent are currently available on Funimation’s streaming service&period; On September 22&comma; Terra Formars&comma; Terra Formars Revenge&comma; Coppelion&comma; Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet&comma; and Megalobox will be available on Funimation with even more anime coming to the service in the coming months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re incredibly excited to partner with VIZ Media in bringing even more great anime to Funimation&comma;” said Colin Decker&comma; CEO of Funimation Global Group&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Bringing this catalog to our subscribers is a win for anime fans everywhere&excl;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;funimation&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Funimation<&sol;a> has detailed a number of new titles along with their descriptions coming to the platform on September 22 below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;m&period;media-amazon&period;com&sol;images&sol;M&sol;MV5BODc0NzdiMWItYTY0Zi00MTlkLWJkZTYtMTFhYTZiM2Y2MjEyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTAyODkwOQ&commat;&commat;&period;&lowbar;V1&lowbar;&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Fuunimation- Terra Formars Revenge" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;images-na&period;ssl-images-amazon&period;com&sol;images&sol;I&sol;910l-&plus;z7pPL&period;&lowbar;RI&lowbar;&period;jpg" alt&equals;"ViZ Media- Terraformars" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;tibs2&period;threeifbyspace&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2015&sol;04&sol;Coppelion&lowbar;backdrop&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Funimation- Coppelion" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;occ-0-1722-1723&period;1&period;nflxso&period;net&sol;dnm&sol;api&sol;v6&sol;X194eJsgWBDE2aQbaNdmCXGUP-Y&sol;AAAABW9ALceMlMy3u30QssP-zgXSUXoyTHXB9zG7-tkvYvDtCZV6ZF4mediMXnWfbmPU4iHfBuMSLm9LQKleu3EUZ4wvXTxF&period;jpg&quest;r&equals;f47" alt&equals;"Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"aligncenter" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;images-na&period;ssl-images-amazon&period;com&sol;images&sol;I&sol;91XbVDNaGPL&period;&lowbar;RI&lowbar;&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Funimation- MEGALOBOX" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center">Upcoming Anime Titles<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Terra Formars<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the far future&comma; humanity seeks to resolve Earth’s growing overpopulation problem by terraforming Mars as their second home&period; Five hundred years later&comma; the United Nations Aeronautics and Space Administration sends out an expedition team to explore this new world&period; But an unintended side effect of the terraforming process has unleashed a horror no one could ever have imagined&colon; the planet has become infested with Terra Formars&comma; man-sized cockroaches that prey on humans&period; Now humanity must bring together all its scientific resources and power to counter this monstrous threat&comma; or face total extinction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Terra Formars Revenge<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The battle for humanity’s survival continues in Terraformars Revenge&excl; In the mission to find a cure for the deadly A&period;E&period; virus plaguing Earth&comma; the Terraformars are not the only enemy&period; A squad has turned on the Annex 1 crew&comma; seeking to capture Akari Hizamaru and Michelle K&period; Davis by any means necessary&period; As the body count rises&comma; the scattered squads struggle to survive and contact Earth for reinforcements&period; But can they hold the line in a battle for Mars and humanity on two fronts&quest; In this complete second arc&comma; alliances are shattered&comma; friends turn into enemies&comma; and the mystery of the hyperevolved cockroaches grows ever deeper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Coppelion<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the not-so-distant future&comma; a catastrophic event has turned the old capital of Japan into a wasteland&comma; forever changing the lives of its people&period; Decades later&comma; three schoolgirls set foot into the now forsaken city&period; They are the Coppelion&comma; genetically engineered humans created by the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to operate under the lethal conditions of the contaminated city&period; Trained since birth&comma; the girls must use all of their skills and resources to carry out their one and only mission&colon; to rescue those left behind&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the distant future&comma; Ledo&comma; a young soldier from space&comma; wakes up and finds himself marooned on an ocean planet&period;  Growing up in space&comma; and knowing nothing but battle&comma; he is a stranger in a strange land&comma; full of odd customs and a foreign language&comma; but he’s not alone&period; Starting a new journey on this verdurous planet&comma; Ledo must find a way to survive and reconcile the fact that he may never be able to return home&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Megalobox<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bored&comma; resigned&comma; and unfulfilled&comma; a young man with neither name nor past survives by fighting in underground matches of a sport called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Megalobox&comma;” a form of boxing that utilizes powered exoskeletons&period; Calling himself JNK&period;DOG&comma; he feels trapped in a world of crime&comma; poverty&comma; and ecological collapse&period; All that changes when he has a chance encounter with Yuri&comma; the reigning king of Megalobox&period; Now&comma; obsessed with proving himself&comma; JNK&period; DOG becomes a man driven to do whatever it takes to fight his way to the top of the rankings and take on the champion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8230&semi;and more to be unveiled&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; Press release<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Are you a Funimation subscriber&quest; What do you think of the partnership&quest; Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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