Bandai Entertainment Inc. Acquires “Rocket Girls”
Mar 26th 2008March 26, 2008 (Cypress, Ca) – Bandai Entertainment Inc. announced this weekend at Anime Boston that it has acquired the anime series Rocket Girls for distribution in North America.
Rocket Girls is 12 episode comedy adventure series about a high school girl named Mortia who goes to Solomon island in search of her lost father and ends up as an astronaut. The series story is by Rika Nakase whose past credits include Bleach and Fruits Basket.
Release date is TBD, but look for the series sometime later this year, with more information coming soon.
Rocket Girls is:
© 2007- 2008 Housuke Nojiri – Muttiri Moon / Fujimishobo / Happinet
www.bandai-ent.com
About Bandai Entertainment Inc.
Bandai Entertainment Inc. is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings (USA) Inc. and the premier
distributor of Japanese animation on DVD and programming for television broadcast in North
America. Titles include The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star,
Escaflowne, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Gundam Seed Destiny, My Hime, and
many more.
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