Manga Entertainment Announcements from BAAF

Manga Entertainment announced at the recent Big Apple Anime Fest that the company is in the process of being bought by a group of private investors. The change in ownership will result in, “a few changes, the majority of them good.”

Manga has plans for DVD re-releases of Wings of Honneamise and Devilman, as well as DVD releases of New Dominion Tank Police and Orguss 02.

Manga owns the distribution rights to only the first 36 episodes of the Fist of the North Star TV series. Manga also owns the translation rights to several manga titles but may subcontract their translation and distribution to an outside company.

The Manga co-produced Street Fighter Zero OAV series 2 will be released in March 2004. The Manga Entertainment/Production IG co-produced OAV series Dead Leaves will be 13 episodes long.

Source: Anime News Network