Haibane Renmei - Complete Box Set - Classic Key Selling Points • Estimated over 20 million impressions from paid advertising, conventions, social marketing, and PR. • From Yoshitoshi ABe who brought you Serial Experiment Lain • Sold over 30,000 Units (lifetime count according to Nielsen VideoScan -2/8/12.) • First re-release since 2005. • Difficult to buy, low market supply. • Support from clips, trailers, and social media. • Well-known title with a strong cult following. Synopsis Renowned artist Yoshitoshi ABe’s animated masterpiece, Haibane Renmei, is an experience that challenges audiences to confront and question the concepts of sin and redemption. Born of powerful influences such as Murakami’s acclaimed novel Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, ABe’s deceptively gentle style of character design and development belies the abyss of heartbreaking desperation [ Watch Trailer ] lurking beneath the surface of the classic series. Studio: FUNimation Street Date: 9/4/12 The Haibane, enigmatic youths with halos and flightless, grey-feathered wings, live in Pre-Order: 7/31/12 a sleepy town surrounded by impenetrable walls – only the crows may come and go. Catalogue #: FN-09010 Reki, an older Haibane, discovers a new cocoon, from which Rakka emerges Material #: 8097189 possessing no memories except that of her dream of falling. Questions of her UPC: 704400090103 existence cloud Rakka’s mind as she struggles to learn the ways of the Haibane and SRP: $ 39.98 to help Reki escape the Circle of Sin. Run Time (min): 325 Genre: Drama, Fantasy # of Discs: 2 Content Comp Titles: Serial Experiment Lain, Cassherin Sins Rating: TV14 Language: English Spice and Wolf - Complete Series (Season 1 & 2 Combo) Key Selling Points • Marketing campaign of paid advertising, social media, conventions, and PR of over 15 million impressions. • For the first time ever, the entire series in one complete set. • Manga and Novels released in the USA from Yen Press • Over 10 hours of content in one box set. • Based on the award winning novel series by Isuna Hasekura. Synopsis Lawrence, a traveling merchant searching for profit, finds a naked girl with the ears and tail of a wolf asleep in his cart. Her name is Holo – a harvest goddess with an untamed beast lurking inside who longs to return to her beloved northern home. Armed with his street smarts and her animal instincts, a simple peddler and a forgotten deity begin a journey through the wild countryside. Along their path, the riches of happiness shall be reaped, even as the bankruptcy which dwells in the human heart is exposed. [ Watch Trailer ] Studio: FUNimation Content Comp Titles: Utawarerumono, Samurai 7 & Wolf’s Rain ; Princess Bride & Street Date: 9/11/12 Willow. Pre-Order: 8/7/12 Catalogue #: FN-01185 Material #: 8097181 UPC: 704400011856 SRP: $64.98 Run Time (min): Genre: Drama, Fantasy # of Discs: Rating: TV14 Language: English Dragon Ball Z Kai – Season 3 Key Selling Points Studio: FUNimation • Extensive marketing campaign to focus on broadcast, online, Social Street Date: 9/11/12 Media to generate over 100 Million impressions Pre-Order: 8/7/12 • Marketing campaign focusing on pop culture, sci-fi, gaming, and Catalogue #: FN-08798 anime consumers as well as core DBZ fans & fan websites Material #: 8096160 • Dragon Ball Z was the #1 selling U.S. Anime property from 2001 - UPC: 704400087981 2008 (Source: Nielsen VideoScan) SRP: $49.98 • Over 25 Million DVDs of DBZ franchise have sold in the U.S. alone. Run Time (min): 600 • $4 Billion in merchandise sales worldwide Genre: Action, Adventure # of Discs: 4 • Dragon Ball Z Kai currently airing on Nicktoons & CW4Kids Toonzai Rating: TVPG Saturday morning block Language: English • Raging Blast 3 video game from Namco Bandai to be released in Fall 2011 to continue Dragon Ball Franchise success with over 15 Million video games sold in North America [ Watch Trailer ] Synopsis For the first time in history, experience the legendary Z as the master Studio: FUNimation intended: bigger, faster, stronger, and packed with the pulverizing Street Date: 9/11/12 power to blow your puny minds! Beef up your collection with this Pre-Order: 8/7/12 manga-centric, fresh take on Akira Toriyama’s original vision, featuring Catalogue #: FN-0879 more action than you can handle, revitalized animation, and an amped- Material #: 8096159 up audio experience that will make your ears beg for mercy! UPC: 704400087998 SRP: $54.98 Content Comp Titles: Naruto, Bleach, Yu Yu Hakusho Run Time (min): 600 Genre: Action, Adventure # of Discs: 4 Rating: TVPG Language: English T.O. – Anime Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Key Selling Points • From the creative force behind Appleseed. • Strong classic sci-fi themes resonate with male target audience • Two Films, One Epic Collection Synopsis The creative force behind Appleseed returns with two haunting vignettes about mankind’s ruthless quest to build a future in the vacuum of space. Elliptical Orbit Fifteen years after its last contact with our world, a space freighter known as the Flying Dutchman requests permission to dock at a remote moon base. This mysterious ship carries liquid protons: a power source essential to the survival of Earth’s population. But before the precious cargo can be delivered, the base is ambushed by galactic terrorists who seek to destroy the new form of energy and issue a death sentence to all of humanity. [ Watch Trailer ] Studio: FUNimation Symbiotic Planet Street Date: 8/14/12 Against a backdrop of intergalactic colonization and bizarre alien life forms, Aon and Pre-Order: 8/7/12 Elena – star-crossed lovers from rival countries competing for valuable natural Catalogue #: FN-09500 resources – struggle to build a life together despite the objections of their superiors. Material #: 8079542 Their budding romance is thwarted by an outbreak of alien fungus and the UPC: 704400095009 interference of a cutthroat militaristic madman. To survive, the young couple must SRP: $ 29.98 maintain their faith in each other and learn to trust the unique creatures which inhabit Run Time (min): 90 this strange and wondrous new world. Genre: Sci-Fi, Action # of Discs: 3 Rating: TV14 Content Comp Titles: 2001: A Space Odyssey Language: English Cold Play – Live Action Move Key Selling Points • Best Feature Winner at Fairhope Film Festival • Official Selection at Dances With Film Festival • Official Selection at Cineso Film Festival • Official Selection at Kansas International Film Festival Synopsis Winston Thorpe (D. David Morin) suspects his wife, Indigo (Vanessa Branch), of having an affair. The obsessive millionaire hires a slimy Scottish private-eye, Angus Stewart (Geno Andrews) to tail his wife and get the proof he needs to take action. But Angus and Indigo form a romantic alliance right after she agrees to steal her husband's most treasured jewel, the world famous “Imperial Egg” worth millions, and give Angus half its worth. In turn Angus agrees to help the oppressed Indigo to “disappear,” but the new lovers get careless and Winston starts finding evidence linking the two together. What [ Watch Trailer ] ensues is an unpredictable game of revenge and deception that will keep you Studio: FUNimation guessing till the very end. A post-modern whodunnit thriller by first time directors Street Date: 9/11/12 Morin and Andrews surprises with high production Pre-Order: 8/14/12 value, suspense and intrigue. Catalogue #: IF-09401 Material #: 8097194 Content Comp Titles: Murder, My Sweet UPC: 704400094019 SRP: $14.98 Run Time (min): Genre: # of Discs: Rating: Language: English Fafner - Complete Series (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Key Selling Points • Targeted paid advertising campaign anticipated to reach over 30 million impressions • From the studio that brought you Martian Successor Nadesico and Space Battleship Yamato 2199 • From the character designer of Gundam Seed • Teen Pilots in Giant Robots Battle Aliens! • A sequel series has been green-lit for production! Synopsis ARE YOU THERE?! Terrorized by a hostile alien race’s mental warfare, humans hear only this question just before their lives—essentially their minds—are assimilated by the violent invaders. Kazuki and his classmates lay everything on the line to pilot their heavily- guarded island’s secret weapons: towering mechs for which only they are genetically [ Watch Trailer ] qualified to control. With most of Earth destroyed, humanity’s survival relies on these Studio: FUNimation youths’ selfless determination to protect the only home they know. But when each Street Date: 9/18/2012 battle pushes the pilots to the brink of assimilation, who will protect them? Pre-Order: 8/14/2012 Catalogue #: FN-01630 Content Comp Titles: Evangelion, Falling Skies, Transformers Material #: 8097184 UPC: 704400016301 SRP: $59.98 Run Time (min): 650 Genre: Action, Sci-Fi # of Discs: 7 Rating: TV14 Language: English King of Thorn - Anime Movie (Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Key Selling Points • Anticipated paid advertising campaign to reach in excess of 25 million impressions targeting pop culture consumers of anime and sci-fi/horror • Additional support with social media and promotional videos online • Based on the critically acclaimed manga series by Yuji Iwahara (Released by Tokyopop): One of the Young Adult Library Services Association 2008’s Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens. • From the Director of Appleseed and Big O • Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at 2010 Asia Pacific Screen Award • Over 50 minutes of extras! Synopsis Kazuyoshi Katayama, the director of Appleseed and the Big O series unleashes a violent survival film in which the distinction between dream and reality dissolves. Panic spreads worldwide as the Medousa Virus—a fatal pandemic that solidifies the [ Watch Trailer ] body to stone—threatens to wipe out the human race. 160 infected individuals are Studio: FUNimation selected to be cryogenically frozen while a cure is developed. Kasumi is one of those Street Date: 9/18/2012 chosen for the experimental program.