Friday morning’s breakfast from Famina conbini
If you’re expecting detailed industry panel reports or news recaps, go to one of the big sites/blogs because I’d rather not waste space recanting ubiquitous information that could be used for opinion and reflecting on experiences.
Industry Stuff That Interested Me (and Maybe You As Well) #
- Two different people during FUNimation’s panel asked about their contracts with ongoing series in One Piece and Case Closed (Detective Conan). Regarding One Piece, they will have to renegotiate for the 4th and later seasons as well as the other movies (they’ve only released the 8th one); with Case Closed, the 5th season (released on May 12th) was the last one they had under their current deal. My Bride is a Mermaid (Seto no Hanayome) is on pace for early 2010, February or March.
- Aniplex said during their Q and A that FMA Brotherhood would be 63 episodes, something that was news to me until I did some Internet research and found out that was confirmed at their booth at TAF. Since episode 14 premiered on July 5th in Japan, the finale should air sometime in late May/early June 2010. I haven’t been keeping track of how quickly it is covering the manga storyline but the 22nd volume was published in Japan this April so it should at least catch up close to there.
- eigoMANGA is coming out with an 99-cent iPhone app that they hope to show around Comic-Con. It will serve as a reader for installments you could sample and then download through the app. The pricing for those and which series will be on there at the start will be determined later.
- You may have already heard that Nozomi will be releasing Antique Bakery and Junjo Romantica in the US in 2010. I think these are smart pickups since they haven’t really gotten into boy’s love except for Gravitation and there is an audience they can serve with both titles. Nozomi also has a merchandising agreement with Junjo – I don’t know what goods they might bring over but I’m sure some fans might want to buy them.
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