Aniplex of America licenses Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic

[WTK]

via Aniplex of America Industry Panel @ NYCC (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/26091142)

http://www.magi-usa.com/ | http://www.crunchyroll.com/magi | http://www.hulu.com/magi

[FUNiOP]

This was as expected as Blue Exorcist was before they announced that. I expect the home video releases to be exactly the same as well. Although, now that they're already dubbing Blue Exorcist and presumably re-releasing it (hopefully on Blu-ray), maybe they'll jump straight to that. Then again, they are announcing this just as it's beginning, so maybe they will go for the original Blue Exorcist configuration for the first release. If so, I'd like to say I learned my lesson and will wait for the later version, but without any confirmation or idea for a time-frame (we still don't have that for Blue Exorcist, nor do we know it will be on Blu-ray, or even re-released, technically, although it's a safe assumption at this point). So yeah. Fun with Aniplex. Should be pretty... Kinda? Oh Aniplex, how do you do this to me?

[Buckeye]

Aniplex sure didn't waste any time with this. They have very high hopes for this show considering that they are streaming it on Hulu, as well as have free users watch this show on CR the same time subscribers do. I hope that they do treat it well.

[WTK]

News from MCM London Expo earlier today. So Viz Media is handling home video rights for Aniplex of America?

https://twitter.com/ukanime/status/262537000144470016

Viz Media are handling the North Anerican home video release.

https://twitter.com/ukanime/status/262535907486334976

Kaze are interested in licensing Magi, particularly in light of Viz Media's US announcement.

EDIT (correction): https://twitter.com/liceas/status/262625259168071680

wait what? I was referring to Viz Europe...

[Damius]

I wonder why Viz will handle it...

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by Damius

I wonder why Viz will handle it...

Viz's manga division has been planning to release titles from the parent magazine (Weekly Shounen Sunday) and perhaps plan to license the manga as well. They may also decide to dub it ASAP and put it on Neon Alley too (so they sub-licensed it from AoA). They've mentioned wanting to release all NA titles on DVD/BD, so this would be an extension if they wanted it on NA.

[Damius]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Viz's manga division has been planning to release titles from the parent magazine (Weekly Shounen Sunday) and perhaps plan to license the manga as well. They may also decide to dub it ASAP and put it on Neon Alley too (so they sub-licensed it from AoA). They've mentioned wanting to release all NA titles on DVD/BD, so this would be an extension if they wanted it on NA.

I see, well good for me I don't buy R1 anymore... And good as well that it's not Viz that has the simulcast for it.

[Damius]

Well, in the end, it looks like it was a mistake:

Originally Posted by ChibiGoku

Looking at the Twitter post, it was a mistake. Apparently they meant Viz Europe.

[Buckeye]

Originally Posted by Damius

Well, in the end, it looks like it was a mistake:

I knew that something was off with that. I didn't think Viz would be who they would turn to for distribution.

[WTK]

The series is now up @ http://www.vizanime.com/magi (powered by Hulu). It's looking more and more like a Neon Alley candidate later on.