Anime Limited Licenses Ping Pong The Animation
MCM Manchester Comic Con is just around the corner, but the Glasgow-based distributor Anime Limited has already decided to spill the beans on one new license announcement – Tatsunoko Production’s Ping Pong The Animation is coming to the United Kingdom! Based on Taiyo Matsumoto’s coming-of-age sports manga, the eleven-episode series was originally broadcast on Japan’s Fuji TV between April and June of last year.
Ping Pong The Animation will be released in the United Kingdom in October on both DVD and blu-ray formats and will include FUNimation’s English dub alongside the original Japanese language track. On-disc extras will include episode commentaries, commercials, next episode previews and textless songs. The distributor’s president, Andrew Partridge, had this to say about the acquisition:
Ping Pong is a title I’ve had my eyes on for a quite for a while. It’s unique animation style coupled with the quality of story telling and the actual playing of Table Tennis itself, keeping in mind I’m really not that well versed in the sport at all, makes this show something that everyone should really go out of their way to see. I’m delighted we’ve been able to add this to our ever-expanding catalogue.
You can watch the official trailer used for Madman Entertainment’s Australian release below:
Additionally, Anime Limited also confirmed that their highly anticipated home video release of the superhero comedy-drama Samurai Flamenco will be beginning this November, with the first half of the series being slated for a blu-ray release. Originally premiering in October 2013, the twenty-two episode series follows the male model Masayoshi Hazama as he tries to fulfill his dream of being a costumed superhero and what happens when he crosses paths and encounter some rather unusual phenomena.
The second of Sword Art Online II‘s four planned volumes has also been confirmed to be released on DVD and Collector’s Edition Blu-ray in October, with Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress joining Samurai Flamenco Part 1 in November as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray/DVD combi-pack.
Will you be buying any of these upcoming releases?
