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Naruto Animation Global Launch Announced
Date: 2/26/2005
On Friday in Japan TV Tokyo announced the global launch of popular anime 'NARUTO'. The work is scheduled to broadcast in prime time on the major American cable channel Cartoon Network from September. A video game and the toy merchandising blitz are scheduled to be developed on a large scale in the American market coinciding with the debut. Advance reviews for Naruto in the United States are very good. CN was chosen as the platform for broadcast because it reaches such a wide audience of the projected target demographics. Besides the USA the animation's debut in the EU sphere also advances with telecasts plannd for Britain and Italy. The broadcast licensing agreement includes these countries final stages of production are underway there. Naruto has to-date broadcast in eight countries including Taiwan and Hong Kong. Commercialization of the property has been a huge success in Asia. Advance reviews have been high within fan, media, and the business circles within each country according to TV Tokyo. In the past the network cultivated the foreign rollout for properties such as Pokemon and Yugi-oh!
Source: Anime News Services