Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has agreed to acquire television and home video rights to the anime series Blood Plus from Aniplex Inc. Covering Asia (outside of Japan), Latin America, North America, Australia and New Jealand, the deal will see SPTI exploiting television opprotunities while Sony Pictures Home Entertainment handles the title on disc.
Set to make an appearance at NATPE 2006 in Las Vegas this week, the 50-episode Blood Plus is based on the best-selling anime title Blood the Last Vampire, and focuses on the ongoing conflict between the evil, bat-like shapeshifting Chiropterans and the secret organization of Chiropteran hunters known as Red Shield. An unlikely heroine emerges to lead Red Shield when a mysterious high-school girl discovers that she was once a great warrior.
Blood Plus is directed by Junichi Fujisaku (Ghost in the Shell) and produced by animation studio Production I.G (Blood the Last Vampire, Ghost in the Shell). The series enjoyed a successful Japanese premiere on Mainichi Broadcasting System and Tokyo Broadcasting System last October.
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) are divisions of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). With dedicated offices in France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Miami (Latin America), the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Spain and the U.K., SPTI oversees production in nine regions of the world and is a leader in international television production among major Hollywood studios.
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