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[email protected] ******************************************************************************************* FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: International Sales Section *Time mentioned in this press release is local time. ENGLISH PRODUCTION OF “SPACE DANDY” IN PROGRESS— TV BROADCAST DATES AND STAFF/CAST REVEALED! Tokyo, Japan, December 5, 2013 – Bandai Visual Co., Ltd., a leader in the development and production of Japanese animation, announced that the series Space Dandy will start airing on TV in Japan at 11:00pm on January 5th on Tokyo MX, followed by TV Osaka, TV Aichi and BS Fuji. In the meantime, the series will start on Adult Swim’s Toonami block at 11:30pm on January 4th with English audio in the US. The other countries and regions also plan to simulcast the series. <Asia except for Korea and Japan> Space Dandy is set to be Animax Asia’s latest simulcast anime title. Across Southeast Asia, Space Dandy will premiere on January 5th at 10:00pm (SG, MY, PH, HK, TW) / 9:00pm (JKT, TH) first and exclusively on Animax, in a same-time-as-Japan broadcast. In addition, Space Dandy will debut in India on the same day as the Japan premiere at 10:00pm (IST) on Animax. The series will air with local language subtitling and an option of English dubbed audio on Animax. <Korea> Animax Korea has also licensed Space Dandy for South Korea. The channel will launch a Korean-subtitled version of the series simultaneously with Japan in January on their live channel and web-based VOD platform, SPINA.