FUNimation Acquires FAFNER Anime Series and Movie
Source: FUNimation Entertainment press release
Official Site: fafner.jp (Japan)
Special Thanks to Jackie Smith and Michelle Lee
FUNimation Entertainment has acquired the home entertainment, digital, and merchandise rights to the FAFNER (蒼穹のファフナー, Sookyuu no Fafunaa) anime series and movie.
The twenty-six episode series focuses on a group of children who pilot the titular Fafners in a war against the Festum— giant aliens who destroyed much of the world. The movie FAFNER: DEAD AGGRESSOR: HEAVEN AND EARTH (蒼穹のファフナーDead Aggressor HEAVEN AND EARTH, Sookyuu no Fafunaa: Dead Aggressor: Heaven and Earth, 2010) takes place two years after the end of the original series.
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