Media Blasters Acquires Blade of the Immortal
|Media Blasters CEO John Sirabella has confirmed acquisition of distribution rights to the 2008 Blade of the Immortal (Mugen no Jyunin) television series. Media Blasters does plan to produce an English dub for the 13 episode series.
Koichi Mashimo (Noir, Phantom) directed the adaptation of Hiroaki Samura’s samurai action manga for studio Bee Train (.Hack, Murder Princess). The Blade of the Immortal story revolves around wandering warrior Manji, a man cursed to live until he executes 1,000 evil men to atone for his own past wrongdoings.
Source: Mania Forum
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Hopefully, this’ll encourage DH to finally release cheaper editions of the TPBs.
This is great news. I loved the manga (too bad I kind of lost track of the volumes in the beginning and the rest of it after the 3rd and 5th volume. 🙁 But, still this will atone for those mistakes. |o/