FUNimation licenses Level E

[WTK]

via FUNimation.com

FUNimation Entertainment Acquires Level E Series

Flower Mound, TX – February 18, 2012 - FUNimation Entertainment announced today at Katsucon that it has acquired the broadcast, home entertainment, and streaming rights to the complete anime series, Level E. The series was created by Yoshihiro Togashi, best known for writing and illustrating the Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter series. Studio Pierrot and David Production co-produced the project directed by Toshiyuki Kato.

Full episodes will begin streaming on www.funimation.com in March of 2012.

Series synopsis:
Currently, there are several hundred species of aliens on Earth, and humans are completely oblivious to their existence! One day an amnesic alien prince crash lands on the planet, and all hell breaks loose! Now the universe’s greatest mind, with the worst personality, has become Earth’s biggest royal pain.

Additional information may be found at: http://www.funimation.com/level-e

[bored@lazy]

Pfft, terrible show. It's only redeeming feature is that its opening song is awesome. This is a show where it actually starts out relatively strongly but ends up being a pile of turd.

[Tratious]

cool for the people that wanted it, this does nothing for me.

[Damius]

Well, it was OK, but not good enough to buy.

[Buckeye]

I checked this show out, watching a couple of episodes. This show is alright, but it is not something that wowed me enough to want to buy. Pass.

[russ869]

I love Togashi, but still not sure about this one. I might just buy it and hope for the best, or I could try to watch more on crunchyroll first.

[FUNiOP]

Interesting choice for them. I'm fine with it; I didn't love the series, but I enjoyed it enough that I'll be fine with picking up a FUNimation release of it when the time comes.

[bored@lazy]

In hindsight my original post was probably a bit harsh. But I just remember being extrememly disappointed with the way the series went after the first 3 episode arc.

[SeijiSensei]

The opening and closing story arcs are by far the best. I quickly lost interest in the "Super Sentai" segment in the middle, but the last half-dozen or so episodes were worth the wait.

I thought Level E was one of the better 2011 shows, but it doesn't reach "Level P" at which I might purchase the series.

I never could accept the conceit that the baseball player and his lovely neighbor were fourteen though; they looked and acted more like people in their twenties or older.

[WTK]

So they are ready to premiere the English dub @ AWA. I guess a solicitation could be forthcoming (maybe as early as for the December slates).

http://www.awa-con.com/index.php?page=video_rooms

Level E

Tsutsui Yukitaka is a freshman who moved out of his parents' home to live on his own, hoping to pursue a baseball team position at the new high school he's attending. When he arrived at his new apartment however, he discovered that someone else was already inside—a young man who claims to be an alien and is suffering from amnesia. (sci-fi, fantasy, comedy) (ENGLISH DUB PREMEIRE. SPECIAL PRESENTATION.) (FUNIMATION.) (NOTE: Lead actor Vic Mignona will be on hand to introduce his work to the audience.)