Toei Announces New Broadcast Sales in Latam

Brandora News - January 2010

 
Company Also Licenses DVD rights to Brazil’s Five Star for Digimon Adventures

Toei Animation has finalized licensing agreements with Megavision TV in Chile for Dragon Ball and with Rede TV in Brazil for Digimon Frontier. In addition, the company has licensed the DVD rights for Digimon Adventures to Five Stars in Brazil.

“We are delighted to have signed these contracts with our Latin American customers and we are looking forward to a long and productive relationship with them,” said Eduardo Lucio, Sales Manager for Latin America.

Dragon Ball

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.

Digimon

Takuya Kanbara is a fifth grader and a good football player. He happens to answer a cell phone and receives a strange message by e-mail. Getting a hunch, Takuya rushes out of his house and guided by the e-mail, he gets on a subway without knowing where it is bound for. There are some other children who are called by the instruction from the e-mail on the same train, which runs in the DigiWorld before they notice. The subway train Takuya and the children took is found out to be not an ordinary vehicle but a vehicle type of Digimon.

Then Takuya and friends hear a story about Digi-Spirits the legend says Ancient-10 possessed. As they reach a certain town in the DigiWorld, evil Cerberusmon has been attacking innocent Digimons. Takuya tries to run away shielding the other children who are frightened, when suddenly the cell phone Takuya carries with him transforms into a strange Digivice. It then emits a I, streak of light and a beautiful ball (that is Digi-Spirit) emerges. "Digimon Digi-Spirit Evolution!" Takuya has transformed into a legendary fighter Agunimon the fire. Takuya who has digivolved to Agunimon beats Cerberusmon with his technique Burning Salamander. Thus Takuya and our hero children become the fighters who inherit Digi-Spirits of the legend. What is Digi-Spirits of the legend anyway? And what is the mission waiting for the children? All the answers are kept in secret till the quest ends.

Digimon Adventures

Seven boys and girls suddenly drifted to the Digital World that is the virtual space in the computer network. They have to make adventure to return to the human world.

As the partner of their adventure, seven Digimons (Digital Monsters) accompany with them. Digimon is the virtual creature that was raised from the computer virus with self-study intelligence. They have to struggle to survive in super realistic Digital World and against un-known other Digimons. This program presents the young audience the adventure of Jule Vern's "Two Years Vacation" in the 21st century!