Naruto: Licensed

Chow_the_cow · Post by **Chow_the_cow** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:31 am

It seems that Naruto has been licensed by ShoPro Entertainment. The article I found reads...

ShoPro Entertainment, Inc. which recently announced it’s upcoming merger with VIZ, LLC to form one of the entertainment industry's most innovative, comprehensive manga and animation licensing and publishing companies, announced today that it has secured from worldwide licensors, TV TOKYO Corporation and Shueisha Inc., the television, home video and merchandising rights to Naruto for North America and Latin America. The appointment of ShoPro Entertainment as Master Licensor was facilitated by TV TOKYO Medianet, the licensing arm of TV TOKYO.

ShoPro Entertainment, the San Francisco based affiliate of ShoPro Japan, plans to introduce a dynamic roll-out strategy that will leverage the strong manga and entertainment brand into a broad licensing and marketing program. Naruto’s television broadcast partner and key licensing partners will be determined shortly.

"We are ecstatic about Naruto! It is a great privilege to be bringing such an outstanding property to the Americas," said John Easum, Senior Vice President of ShoPro Entertainment. "Naruto became an explosive hit in Japan after it was first launched in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 1999 and it continues to be an enormous success. Naruto has also established a very large American fan base through the US manga series published by VIZ. We anticipate a huge success."
Rest of the article here: http://www.narutofan.com/index.php/cont ... 20licensed

I guess this means we finally well be able to buy some Naruto DVDs for lower than thirty bucks a pop.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:32 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=46770

[paizuri: Locking this thread in favor of the larger one.]