TRSI / Nozomi Ent. licenses Princess Knight

[WTK]

via PR...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RIGHT STUF, Inc. Acquires
PRINCESS KNIGHT
Nozomi Ent. to release classic anime as limited-edition DVD sets in 2013.

GRIMES, Iowa, Oct. 24, 2012 – Anime producer and distributor Right Stuf, Inc. is pleased to announce its acquisition of the classic Princess Knight animated series.

Also known as “Choppy and the Princess,” the Princess Knight television series will be released via Right Stuf’s Nozomi Entertainment as two limited-edition DVD sets. This will be the first time the series will be available to North American audiences on licensed DVD. The DVD sets will feature its original English-language dub, as well as a Spanish-language audio option.

Due to the availability of materials, these DVD releases will utilize the edited and cut, broadcast video footage from Princess Knight’s television syndication during the 1960s and 1970s. (Japanese audio will not be included on these sets because it cannot be synched to the video.)

Princess Knight follows the heroic adventures of Sapphire, a young princess born with the hearts of both a boy and a girl and who is also being secretly raised as a prince so she can eventually succeed her father as king.

The 52-episode anime adaptation of Princess Knight is based upon the best-selling comic (manga) by legendary creator Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy, Kimba The White Lion) and features animation from Tezuka’s own Mushi Productions. It originally aired on Japanese television from 1967 through 1968, and its English-language adaptation was syndicated throughout the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

In both anime and manga forms, Princess Knight was among the first titles geared specifically toward a young female (shoujo) audience. The original comic was serialized in Kodansha’s Shoujo Club anthology magazine, from 1953 through 1956, and its sequel series, Twin Knight, was serialized in Kodansha’s Nakayoshi anthology in 1958. The two collected volumes of the Princess Knight manga are currently available to North American readers from Vertical Inc., which also plans to publish the sequel series in 2013.

For more information about the series, visit princess-knight.rightstuf.com.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 23, 2012

RIGHT STUF & NOZOMI ENTERTAINMENT
RELAUNCH COMINGSOON.RIGHTSTUF.COM
New acquisition announcement at 1 p.m. EDT on Wed., Oct. 24, 2012

WHO:
Right Stuf, Inc. and Nozomi Entertainment

WHAT:
New Acquisition Announcement

WHEN:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
1 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. CT / 11 a.m. MT / 10 a.m. PT

WHERE:
- Visit comingsoon.rightstuf.com ( http://comingsoon.rightstuf.com) to
- take part in the official countdown and
- chat and speculate about the announcement.

- Follow Right Stuf and Nozomi on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/animetoday) and Facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/rightstuf).

WHY:
It’s Right Stuf’s 25th anniversary year, and previous announcements have included such fan-favorite titles as The Rose of Versailles, Martian Successor Nadesico, Revolutionary Girl Utena and Dirty Pair! Be among the first to find out which new title will be receiving the Nozomi Entertainment treatment.

[Damius]

I wonder what they will get this time.

[FUNiOP]

MUST BE CARDCAPTOR SAKURA. ON BLU-RAY EVEN THOUGH IT'S TRSI.

But seriously, probably won't be anything for me. I'd love to be surprised, though.

[Buckeye]

I am thinking either a rescue or a new license from a long, long time ago much like how Rose of Versailles got picked up. We shall find out tomorrow what Nozomi has.

[WTK]

Princess Knight

http://www.rightstuf.com/rsstatic/no...2012-10-24.pdf

[Buckeye]

And it's time for the announcement. Right Stuf and Nozomi has licensed Princess Knight, another vintage show from the early days of anime just like Rose of Versailles is.

[mitamaking]

It is an old show called Princess Knight, also, no Japanese language version.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...ime.php?id=452

[james_039]

Can't say I'm even remotely interested in a dub-only edited and cut version of this.

I'd rather see an uncut subtitled only Japanese version, as the obvious reason for the non-inclusion of Japanese audio wasn't lack of availability, but that it wouldn't sync to the edited and cut English version.

[WTK]

via ANN forums

Originally Posted by shawnek

The title, when dubbed into Italian, didn't make the same cuts that the English version did when it was made in the late 1960s. The English audio will not overlay directly to the Japanese video due to significant cuts made by broadcasts and standards at the TV studios of the time for violence and other reasons.

Putting a license to get this title back into circulation, and including the original dub, has been a project I've been working on all the way back to the mid 1990s. There have been a very large number of hurdles to jump over.

[Rhodes]

dub only, but worse still it's a cut and censored dub.