hijutsu--a fan shrine for Nabari no Ou

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== a fan shrine for Nabari no Ou ==

Welcome to my shrine to Nabari no Ou, which I am utterly crazy about right now. It's got everything: cool fighting, ninja arts, emotional turmoil, mysteries and betrayal, and desperate boys (or whatever) in love. =)

Now available here!
Character model sheets from the series artists' guide!

December 27th update:

A great big Christmas gift from Funimation! As I so hoped, they've licensed Nabari!

A quote from the press release, at Anime News Network:

The North American distributor FUNimation Entertainment announced on Thursday [Dec. 25th '08] that it has licensed J.C. Staff and d-rights' anime adaptation of Yuhki Kamatani's Nabari no Ou ninja manga. Director Kunihisa Sugishima (Speed Grapher, Yu-Gi-Oh!) premiered the anime on Japanese television in April, and its 26-episode run ended just this past September. [...] Square Enix released the 10th volume of the original manga in Japan this month, while Yen Press publishes the manga in the United States. This anime is the first series that Funimation has announced this week that was not released in North America before."

I am so delighted! Funi rocks!!

The basic info: 26 episodes, produced by Square Enix:
director, Gundam veteran Kunihisa Sugishima
(also worked on NightWalker);
art director Yoshinori Hirose
Original on-air run: April-September 2008
Based on the manga by Yuhki Kamatani;
10 volumes released as of December 2008
Serialized in Japanese magazine GFantasy, 2004-06
Manga licensed in the USA by Yen Press--beginning May 2009
Opening theme: "Crawl" by VELTPUNCH
Ending theme (episodes 1-15): "Hikari" by ELISA
Ending theme (episodes 16-on):"Aru ga Mama"
("That's just how it is") by Anamu & Maki
GFantasy's Japanese homepage for the series.

Nabari Episode Guide--detailed synopses by me.

(*sigh*--oh, let's be honest about it, they're more like line-by-line transcripts.

Can't help it, when I fall for something like this I want to have reference for Every Single Detail.)

WHAT HAPPENED HERE, BEGINNING 8/17/08: Anime News Network reported: "In a panel discussion at Otakon on Aug. 16th, Lance Heiskell, a representative of major USA distributor Funimation, "revealed that his company had recently been retained by the Japanese anime production house d-rights to 'preemptively' take down fansubs of a slate of anime that have currently aired in Japan, including Nabari no Ou, Hitman Reborn, Bamboo Blade, Monochrome Factor, and Cazador de la Bruja. He emphasized, however, that Funimation does not hold a license to distribute any of these, and in fact, may not necessarily end up licensing all of these series." [But as we now know, they were working on it...]
On August 18th Yuurisan got a Heiskell letter, and on August 20th, Rumi got it as well. Both sub groups promptly dropped Nabari from their schedules, leading to a complete lack of fansubbed episodes after ep. 19.
We had some tense weeks, but fortunately, raw providers stayed with this series until the end (you know who you are, thank you!!) And with the help of equally dedicated bloggers we've been able to create a full set of episode synopses. We scraped through by the skin of our teeth, but we made it.
It certainly made the late summertime more eventful than usual. =)

And now, things are looking up:
The manga is ongoing: several scanslation groups provide it on the web (we love them), and the translated version will be out in the USA next year, as mentioned above.
And with Funimation's acquisition of the series for North American distro, and their new policy of "more on the shelves sooner", we can expect dubbed DVDs in the fairly near future.
(Our nindou prevails! =)

Like shiny things? Have a look at my bead charms dedicated to Miharu and Yoite.
hijutsu was constructed July 20-September 29, 2008.

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