GKIDS Acquires Hideaki Anno's Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water

GKIDS ACQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS TO
“NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER”
CLASSIC SERIES FROM LEGENDARY DIRECTOR HIDEAKI ANNO

New 4K Restoration to be Released on Home Entertainment Platforms in 2022

NEW YORK (April 20, 2022) – GKIDS, the acclaimed producer and distributor of animation for adult and family audiences, announced today it has acquired the North American distribution rights for NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER, the 1990 animated series directed by acclaimed director Hideaki Anno. The high seas adventure is a masterful preview into ANNO's early directorial vision before creating the renowned series NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. GKIDS will release NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER and on home entertainment platforms this year, based on a new 4K restoration.

Last year, GKIDS released ANNO's critically-acclaimed NEON GENESIS EVANGELION on home entertainment platforms, marking the first time the property was available on Blu-ray in North America.

SYNOPSIS:
It's 1889 and people from around the globe are flocking to Paris to see scientific achievements at the Exposition Universelle despite rumors of dangers lurking in the oceans. While attending the fair, teenaged inventor Jean meets Nadia, a mysterious girl who possesses a highly sought-after crystal called Blue Water. Pursued by nefarious forces, the pair journey by sea and by sky to escape their would-be captors and to discover the secret of the crystal.

NADIA: THE SECRET OF BLUE WATER is a sci-fi adventure on the high seas from Hideaki Anno. The classic series is a preview into ANNO's early directorial vision before creating NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, and returns with an all-new 4K restoration.

Director: Hideaki Anno
Country: Japan
Studio: TOHO, KORAD
Year: 1990
Run time: 16:20:16 (39 episodes)

About GKIDS
GKIDS is the producer and distributor of award-winning feature animation for both adult and family audiences. Since 2010, the company has scored an astounding 12 Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations with The Secret of Kells in 2010, A Cat in Paris and CHiCO & Rita in 2012, Ernest & Celestine in 2014, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Song of the Sea in 2015, Boy and the World and When Marnie Was There in 2016, My Life as a Zucchini in 2017, The Breadwinner in 2018, Mirai in 2019, and Wolfwalkers in 2021. GKIDS also handles North American distribution for the famed Studio Ghibli library of films, one of the world's most coveted animation collections with titles Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and others; as well as the critically acclaimed television series, NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. GKIDS also hosts ANIMATION IS FILM (AIF), an annual LA-based film festival which embraces the highest aspirations of animation as a cinematic art form, and is a vocal advocate for filmmakers who push the boundaries of the medium to its fullest range of artistic expressions. www.GKIDS.com