FUNimation Acquires 'Fairy Tail' Anime

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http://www.icv2.com/articles/markets/19916.html

At Sakura Con FUNimation Entertainment announced the acquisition of the 48-episode Fairy Tail anime series from Kodansha Ltd. Produced by A-1 Pictures and Satelight and directed by Shinji Ishihira, the Fairy Tail anime series is based on the popular manga by Hiro Mashima (Rave Master). Del Rey began publishing the Fairy Tail manga series in the U.S. in 2008. Kodansha USA has taken over the series and will publish Volume 13 of the manga in May (the series has reached 24 volumes in Japan).

FUNimation has already begun production of an English language version of Fairy Tail with actor Todd Haberkorn as Natsu. Tyler Walker is the ADR director on the project. FUNimation plans to release the complete Fairy Tail anime series on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. later this year.

At least Fairy Tail will be available on dvd and bluray soon. I just hope funimation releases in full season sets for a decent price. If they try and do season 1 box 1, 2, 3, 4 for $19-$29 a piece like what they've done with one piece... $80-$120 a season.. then no, this will be yet another great series I'll never be able to afford to own.

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they are pretty good pricewise with their BDs....DBZ Kai BDs are going for 16-20 a pop for 13 eps each part

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=( all theanime dvds , cds etc "EVERYTHING" is so freakin expensive years ago in high school i went to otakon ....and I was broke in just 2 hours being there..and i didnt work at the time so my whole time there pretty much suck and still at home trying to watch most of the anime I can off of netflix cause my computer is sooooo extremely slow to do anything. Anime box sets and Fairy tail...awsome

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I'm loving Fairy Tail. I need to get caught up on the series tho. I'm about 4 eps behind.