Anime Boston 2018 is taking place this weekend, and this blog post will include the industry announcements made at this event. Please watch this post for updates.
FUNimation Entertainment
- FUNimation announced that it has licensed the Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion recap film trilogy.
Sentai Filmworks
- The company announced it will offer English dubs for Made in Abyss and Armed Girl’s Machiavellism.
- Sentai also announced at its panel that it will release The Legend of the Galactic Heroes on home video in July 2018, and will offer a limited edition premium box set. The set will include every original video anime episode, all three anime films, collectible metal coins, a 200-page art book, and two 3D art cards. The limited edition will be limited to 1,000 copies and retail for US$799.
- The company confirmed that it will be simulcasting the second cour of the second season of the Hozuki’s Coolheadedness anime.
Vertical Comics
- Vertical Comics announced at its panel that the company will release the first five volumes of Jun Mayuzuki’s After the Rain manga on September 25, 2018.
VIZ Media
- VIZ Media announced at its Anime Boston panel that it has licensed the Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha! manga, and that it will release the title in Fall 2018.
- The company has also licensed the Ao Haru Ride manga, and will release the first volume in Fall 2018.
- VIZ has also licensed the Record of Grancrest War manga, and will begin releasing it in Fall 2018.
- The company has licensed the Abara manga, and will release it in a complete deluxe edition in Winter 2019.
- VIZ has licensed the Ran and the Gray World manga, and will begin releasing it in Fall 2018.
- The company has also licensed the Radiant manga, and will begin releasing it in Fall 2018.
- It was also announced that the company will release Dr. Stone in print in Fall 2018, and We Never Learn in print in Winter 2019.
- VIZ Media announced that it will release all 14 volumes of Tokyo Ghoul in a complete box set with a double-sided poster.
- The company also announced that it has licensed the six-part K: Seven Stories theatrical film project.