Waiting for orders from judge on United States Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime license

On Thursday, the judge of the bankruptcy of United States Shelley Chapman ordered TV Tokyo and Nihon Ad Systems (NAS), the owners of Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise, to comply with an automatic stay in the anime licenses. According to the order, the owners may not return the franchise or otherwise exercise control over the rights of the franchise. The rights were held by the American Distributor 4Kids under their contracts of 2001 and 2008 with TV Tokyo and NAS.

TV Tokyo and NAS had announced in March that could end up 4Kids Yu-Gi-Oh! license and sue the dealer. The owners stated that 4Kids fraudulently concealed income that should have been subject to royalties for Japanese owners.

In his order on Thursday, judge Chapman also said that the trial on the licensing of the franchise it carried out in two phases: the first will determine if TV Tokyo and NAS announced the cancellation of the license of 4Kids was valid, and the second will determine if 4Kids owes money to the owners and exactly how much. 4Kids must respond to the demand on June 10, followed by the discovery, objections, and lists of witnesses. The first phase of the trial will begin on August 29.

4Kids went bankrupt in April; the company had previously stated that it may have to the file after Yu-Gi-Oh! demand. Demand judging and preventive or submitted, the demand before the Court of bankruptcy because of the relationship between the two cases. When 4Kids learned ADK, the owner of Nihon Ad Systems, to promote the new Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal series licensing International Expo at the end of this month, 4Kids filed a motion requesting the application of the automatic suspension before mentioned.

Image © Kazuki Takahashi Studio dice/Shueisha, TV Tokyo, NAS
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