This weekend, at Otakon 2013, FUNimation Entertainment announced it has secured the rights to
Cowboy Bebop and revealed its plans to release the classic series on Blu-ray in 2014. FUNimation also announced the acquisition of several other titles including
Tales of the Abyss,
Witch Hunter Robin,
Outlaw Star,
My-Hime and
My-ZHime, among others.
Cowboy Bebop Synopsis: Meet Spike and Jet, a drifter and a retired cyborg cop who have started a bounty hunting operation. In the converted ship the Bebop, Spike and Jet search the galaxy for criminals with bounties on their heads. They meet a lot of unusual characters, including the unusually intelligent dog, Ein, and the voluptuous and vexing femme fatale, Faye Valentine.
Cowboy Bebop was Japan's best-selling anime title in 1998, and remains a classic some fifteen years later.
The anime distributor has also acquired the rights to 17 additional titles, although no details were provided as to which would receive Blu-ray releases and which might not. The newly acquired titles include:
- Angel Links
- Banner of the Stars
- Banner of the Stars II
- Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion
- Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
- Code Geass Lelouch Akito the Exiled
- Crest of the Stars
- Escaflowne the Movie
- My-Hime
- My-ZHime
- My-ZHime O~S.ifr~
- My ZHime Zwei
- Outlaw Star
- Passage of the Stars: Birth
- Tales of the Abyss
- The Visions of Escaflowne
- Witch Hunter Robin
FUNimation didn't offer any further details on its upcoming
Cowboy Bebop release(s), but did issue a classic series announcement trailer: