NIS America adds Katanagatari, Arakawa under the bridge

NIS America (NISA), the American branch of Nippon Ichi Software game, announced this week that it has bought the rights to the anime TV series Katanagatari and Arakawa under the bridge. Each set comes in a pack of combination of Blu-ray Disc and DVD with English subtitles in the month of July. The packages include the same chipboard boxes and oversized hardcover art books common to other publications NISA.

Katanagatari is an adaptation of anime volume light novel series of the same name NisiOisin. The series revolves around Shichika Yasuri, seventh generation head of the school of martial arts in medieval Japan Kyoto-ryu. He and his older sister Nanami live on an uncharted island, until a military adviser named Togame tells of 12 final swords forged by a gunsmith. Offering Shichika Togame, embarks on a journey to find all 12 of the swords. Although the series aired on television, has not followed a traditional broadcast week; 12 monthly episodes aired between 25 January and 10 December 2010.

In 2009, the television adaptation of the anime Hikaru Nakamura Arakawa under the bridge denpa-kei gag comedy manga was announced at the Tokyo Young Gangan EDF. Anime no Okage Summer 2009, with a second season green lit last June. In the story, a young upper class man named Ko "riku" Ichinomiya meets a beautiful girl of no fixed abode, called Nino from the shores of Arakawa River, where many of the more unusual residents of Tokyo. The subgenus denpa-kei stories revolves around quirky life; the subgenus takes the premise that bizarre behaviors are caused by electromagnetic waves (denpa).

An adaptation of the television and film, live-action manga Arakawa under the bridge was also announced last month.
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