Anime Network Debuts Two in ’07

Anime Network will kick off the new year with the U.S. video-on-demand premieres of the Japanese animated series Coyote Ragtime Show: Fox Trot and Moeyo Ken TV: Shinsengumi on the Prowl. The first episode of Coyote will bow on Jan. 11, while Moeyo is scheduled to debut on Jan. 18.

Coyote Ragtime Show: Fox Trot takes place in a world where insurrection will not be tolerated and the government has resolved to bomb to the planet Graceland right out of the sky. But what they don’t know is that the king hid billions in stolen loot on the doomed planet before he died. Now, the galaxy’s most infamous criminal’a mystery man known only as ‘Mister”has busted out of the slammer to get his hands on the treasure before it’s too late. Joined by King Bruce’s daughter and his misfit band of ‘Coyotes,’ Mister sidesteps government goons, dodges a hot investigator and fends off a dozen Gothic Lolita androids programmed to kill.

Directed by Takuya Nonaka, Coyote Ragtime Show: Fox Trot originally aired in Japan last July. For those who don’t have VOD, the first volume of the show will be available on DVD on Jan. 16.

Moeyo Ken TV: Shinsengumi on the Prowl revolves around Yuuko Kondou, Toshie Hijikata and Kaoru Okita, the daughters of the legendary and honorable Mobile Shinsengumi team. Charged to carry on in the noble tradition of their samurai fathers, they are tasked with defending Kyoto from a hoard of outlawed and unlicensed beasts. Aiding thim in their quest is a crazy monster cat named Nekomaru, a wacky inventor named Gennai and a silly boy named Ryuunosuke. Based on the PlayStation 2 RPG, the show first aired in Japan in the first half of 2006.

Anime Network is a subsidiary of A.D. Vision Inc., parent company to ADV Films and Newtype USA. The channel now reaches more than 40 million households with thousands of hours of animated programming and is also available as a 24/7 linear channel in several U.S. markets. In addition, Anime Network has its own channel (66) on the Sprint Mobile network. For more information, go to www.theanimenetwork.com.