Anime Network Adds more CPM Titles

The Anime Network has added several more titles from Central Park Media, to their online player. These titles are now streaming, legally on the Anime Network. The titles Anime Network has added includes The Haunted Lantern (live Action), Odin: Starlight Mutiny (anime film), and the two documentaries: Otaku Unite and Ultimate Crop Circles . SX AniMedia reports that two other titles from CPM, Baptism of Blood and Zero Woman are to be added in the near future.

Watch the shows legally here: http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Watch-Online


Source: SX AniMedia Blog

The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear, now playing on Anime Network's Online Player

Jannik Hastrup's animated film, "The Boy Who Wanted to be a Bear" is will be coming to The Anime Network's online player soon. The animation was produced by Les Armateurs studio in 2002. Les Armateurs is the production studio behind the Academy Award nominated movie "The Triplets of Belleville" . Central Park Media licensed and released the film in 2005. The English dub production was done in New York City.

Watch the film on The Anime Network's online player.
You can buy the title on DVD off of Rightstuf.

Utena to play on Anime Network on Demand

"Revolutionary Girl Utena", a title licensed by Central Park Media (under their Software Sculptors line) will be airing on The Anime Network on Demand, starting in August. The airing is scheduled to begin on August 8th, 2009. Although the title is from CPM, it was sub-licensed though Enoki Films (a firm that works as a middle-man between Japanese and US companies). It is Enoki Films, not Central Park Media, who licensed it to air on the Anime Network. The English Dub for "Revolutionary Girl Utena" was produced at Taj Studios Inc, in New York City.

"Revolutionary Girl Utena" has previously aired on Comcast's Anime Selects on Demand, and the FUNimation Channel, through Central Park Media. The "Revolutionary Girl Utena" TV series was released on VHS and DVD by CPM. The movie "The Adolescence of Utena" was also released by Central Park Media on VHS and DVD. The manga was released in North America by Viz Media.