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Toei Animation has finalized broadcast licensing agreements in Latin America for Digimon Data Squad, Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball. In addition, the company has also secured a DVD deal with Brazil’s Playarte for Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya: The Hades Sanctuary, it was announced today by Eduardo Lucio, Toei’s Latin America Sales Manager. Buena Vista in Argentina has acquired forty-eight half hour episodes of Digimon Data Squad. The series will begin airing on the channel in December 2009/January 2010. Medcom in Panama has purchased 114 half hour episodes of Saint Seiya and 153 half hour episodes of Dragon Ball. Both series launched in August 2009. Playarte will release a DVD box set featuring twenty-eight Dragon Ball episodes this December. In June 2009, the company debuted Saint Seiya: The Hades Santuary on DVD, featuring thirteen episodes from the series. Digimon Data Squad follows the adventures of Marcus and Agumon as they challenge the menacing Digimon from the Digital World who intrude into the Human World to cause nothing but trouble. For their efforts, the pair is inducted into DATS (Data Squad) a special investigation unit called in to ensure planetary safety. Being a reformed schoolyard punk, Marcus learns to channel his belligerence toward the evil Digimon, and to work as a team to help protect the human world from ruin. Saint Seiya, also known as Knights of the Zodiac, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada, and later adapted to anime. The story follows five mystical warriors called the "Saints" who have adopted various constellations as their guardian symbols. The power of the Saints originates from the understanding of the "Cosmo". The concept of the "Cosmo" advocates that each atom within a human body resembles a small solar system, and since the human body consists of billions of atoms, the totality forms a "small Cosmo" or a "small Universe". Each person's Cosmo has its own unique signature. The Saints take the knowledge of the Cosmo to the next level: since humans are composed of atoms, humans should be able to use the mysterious forces behind the atoms to achieve super human feats. The story focuses on one of these orphans named Seiya, who is sent to a sanctuary in Greece to become the Pegasus Saint. After seven years, Seiya becomes the Pegasus Saint and returns to Japan to find his older sister but learns that she has disappeared. Seiya makes a deal with Saori Kido to fight in a tournament called the Galaxian Wars, where the orphans who survived and became Bronze Saints must fight to win the most powerful cloth called The Sagittarius Gold Cloth. If Seiya goes to compete there, Saori promises to help search for Seiya's sister. Now boasting 508 episodes, the Dragon Ball phenomena follows Goku’s quest (main character in the series) to become the strongest martial artist in the universe and his search for the seven magic Dragon Balls in a saga that encompasses three parts - Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. Dragon Ball adapts Japanese big success comics of the same title by Akira Toriyama. Since this animated series produced in 1986, this has continued broadcasted in major European countries. In France, the series currently airs on MCM, NT1, AB1 and Mangas. |
