Media Blasters
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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | Entertainment (Anime) |
| Founded | October 13, 1996 (as Media Blasters) May 5, 1997 (as Kitty Media) |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
| Key people | John Sirabella Sam Liebowitz |
| Products | Translated anime, manga, and Asian cinema Horror and exploitation movies Adult anime and manga |
| Divisions | Anime Works (all-audience anime) Kitty Media (adult anime) Tokyo Shock (live action Asian movies and television) Shriek Show (horror and exploitation movies) Harsh Digs (gay anime) Media Blasters (International movies and television) |
| Website | www.media-blasters.com |
Media Blasters is an entertainment corporation founded by John Sirabella and Sam Liebowitz, based in New York City. They are in the business of licensing, translating, and releasing to the North American market manga compilations and anime and live-action movies and television series to home-video release. Their animated releases include Berserk, Knight Hunters, Rurouni Kenshin, Voltron and Kite. It is best known to license the Kite anime series.
The company has been releasing translated anime since May 1997. In 2004, Media Blasters began publishing manga. The company first published shōnen manga titles for older readers, and later so they increased their yaoi manga line.[1]
In early 2012, not long after Bandai Entertainment announced their restructuring plans, Media Blasters' John Sirabella announced the laying off of approximately ten employees, reducing their workforce by about sixty percent. Sirabella has said that this will not affect production rates.[2]
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[edit] Companies
[edit] Anime Works
Anime Works is the label used for the bulk of all-audience anime titles.
[edit] Kitty Media
Kitty Media (or Kitty Home Entertainment) specializes in adult anime and pornographic films.[3] Kitty Media also specializes films and anime series contains scenes of rape and graphic sexuality. Their first release, and the first release by Media Blasters as a whole, was Rei-Lan: Orchid Emblem. Recently, the division began releasing some H-anime titles previously licensed by NuTech Digital, which lost the licenses due to royalties litigation. Most of the Kitty Media titles can only be purchased at sex shops. Media Blasters also publishes both hentai and yaoi manga under the Kitty Media imprint.
[edit] Tokyo Shock
The Tokyo Shock label covers live action movies and television series from Japan and other Asian markets, including Versus (film), Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, the edited version of Lady Ninja Kasumi and tokusatsu works.
[edit] Shriek Show / Fresh Meat
The Shriek Show label handles obscure horror and exploitation films such as Ultimo mondo cannibale, Cannibal Holocaust, Grizzly, Day of the Animals, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, The Anthropophagus Beast, La notte del terrore and Zombi 2.
[edit] Harsh Digs
Harsh Digs specializes in gay pornographic films and gay anime series.
[edit] Media Blasters
Media Blasters specializes films that are released in Australia, Italy and New Zealand.
[edit] References
- ^ Cha, Kai-Ming (March 13, 2007). "Media Blasters Drops Shonen; Adds Yaoi". Publishers Weekly. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/1918-media-blasters-drops-shonen-adds-yaoi-.html. Retrieved July 27, 2010.
- ^ "Media Blasters Lays Off 60% of Staff". Anime News Network. January 10, 2012. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-01-10/media-blasters-lays-off-60-percent-of-its-staff. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ Patten, Fred (July 1998). "The Anime 'Porn' Market". Animation World Magazine 3 (4): 27–29. http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.4/3.4pages/3.4patten.html. Retrieved 3 June 2011. Also available here and here (PDF version of the issue).
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