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Siren Visual Have Apparently “Looked at” Wandering Son – Will This Follow On to an Acquisition?

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Siren Visual Have Apparently "Looked at" Wandering Son - Will This Follow On to an Acquisition? 1

Siren Visual Have Apparently "Looked at" Wandering Son - Will This Follow On to an Acquisition? 2While it is no confirmation of sorts, Siren Visual through answering a question on their Facebook wall have today stated they have looked at Wandering Son, and should have a definite answer soon on if they would be picking up the rights for a DVD release within the Australia and New Zealand market – dependent on a few unstated factors.

For those who are not aware of Siren Visual, they are an Australian distributor of English localized anime releases – some which have previously been released overseas such as the first season of Higurashi and DuRaRaRa!!, and a number which they were the first in the English market to acquire the license to or the only ones to have released it outside of Japan (Usagi Drop, Dennou Coil, Welcome to Irabu’s Office etc). Since being active in the anime market – they have released a number of noitaminA series, ones that have been leaning a bit more to a niche market but otherwise very well received on both this site and it seems many of their fans.

Wandering Son (Hourou Musuko) is one of those noitaminA series which has still not seen an English release despite the moderate demand. Here is a basic blurb of the series taken from MyAnimeList, which should give you an idea of what the show is about:

The story depicts a young boy named Shuuichi Nitori who wants to be a girl, and his friend Yoshino Takatsuki, a girl who wants to be a boy. The series deals with issues such as transsexuality, gender identity, and the beginning of puberty.

Despite having only watched a single episode, I did give it 6th Place in my votes for the AniBloggers Choice Anime Awards 2011 where I stated “While I don’t wish to use the ACAA as a means of convincing companies to acquire anime licenses, but I would be more than happy to give my licensor award to any anime company in either North America or ANZ who is willing to acquire the license to this title.”

Sam
Sam
Founder of The Otaku's Study. I have been exploring this labyrinth of fandom these last fifteen years, and still nowhere close to the exit yet. Probably searching for a long time to come.

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