US anime-market leader FUNimation is currently having a “roll-out riot” and is announcing more and more titles for the upcoming months. Yesterday they announced the US release of Kamui Gaiden and RoboGeisha on their official blog, but without mentioning a specific date or medium.
Today, after some rumbling of disappointed fans who expected more fine animation from Japan, they surprised them by announcing the acquirement of the OVA series FLCL (Fooly Cooly) for a DVD and Blu-ray Disc release in late 2010. The series was produced by Production I.G, Gainax and Starchild in 2000 and was directed by Kazuya Tsurumaki (Gunbuster, Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 & 2.0).
Because of the way the six episodes of FLCL were produced, this will most likely be another upscale, so looking at FUNimation’s recent releases I’ll wait for proper reviews before ordering this…even thou I don’t own the series on DVD yet.

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Art School – Lost Control Music Video

[via Dread Central & RoboGeisha Blog]

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Here’s the second trailer for Noboru Iguchi and Yoshihiro Nishimura’s RoboGeisha. It’s not quite as long and crazy as the first one, but at least it features that crazy voice over again…

[via Quiet Earth]

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The guys from Twitch has been given the first trailer for RoboGeisha, the latest film from Machine Girl director Noboru Iguchi and Yoshihiro Nishimura (TGP, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) from the production company TO Entertainment.
Fortunately (at least for me as a not so big fan of mindless gore) it seems like the gore- and splatter level of the robotic geisha’s adventures has been lowered to make room for some more meshuga ideas (commented by the director himself), which is in my eyes the right way to go with this kind of fun flicks.

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