For little reason in particular I thought to myself that perhaps some people may find interesting or curious my select and limited memories of AN Entertainment’s experiences with anime licensing in the early 2000s. In a certain sense, it’s true that we “tried” to license the 1998 Berserk television series. At the time, we were […]
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