CENTRAL PARK MEDIA

'Central Park Media' is a distributor of East Asian cinema, television, and comics. They are based out of New York City. Their slogan is "World peace through shared popular culture."

★ Asia Pulp Cinema is their East-Asian film distribution division.

★ US Manga Corps is their anime distribution division. ''USMC'' is one of the older North American anime distributors. The USMC mascot is MD Geist, a popular anime from the 90s. Their motto: World peace through shared popular culture.

★ Software Sculptors is their other anime distribution division.

★ CPM Manga is their manga and manhwa publication division.

★ Anime 18 is their hentai anime distribution division.

★ Anime HotShots is a recently-added division, specializing in re-releasing hentai anime previously released by Anime 18, usually in single-episode DVD's.

★ Manga 18 is their hentai manga publication division.

Contents

Anime licensed under "U.S. Manga Corps"

#-B

C-H

I-N

O-S

T-Z

Anime licensed under "Software Sculptors"

H anime licensed under "Anime 18"

#-B

C-H

I-N

O-S

T-Z

Trivia

Recent financial problems

External links

Anime licensed under "U.S. Manga Corps"

#-B

★ A Wind Named Amnesia

★ Agent Aika (original licensor, since lapsed and re-licensed by Bandai Entertainment)

★ Alien Nine

★ Angel Sanctuary (license expired, now held by Media Blasters)

★ Animation Runner Kuromi

★ Area 88 OVA (expired, licence now held by ADV Films)

★ Arcade Gamer Fubuki

★ ARIEL

★ Armored Trooper Votoms

★ Art of Fighting

★ Ayane's High Kick

★ Battle Arena Toshinden

★ Battle Skipper

★ Beast City

★ Big Wars

★ Birdy the Mighty

★ Black Jack (manga) OVA

★ Blue Sonnet (lapsed)

C-H

★ Cyber City Oedo 808

★ Cybernetics Guardian

★ Darkside Blues

★ Demon City Shinjuku

★ Descendants of Darkness

★ Detonator Orgun

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★ DNA²

★ Domain of Murder

★ Dominion Tank Police

★ Dream Hazard

★ Dynamite Dozen

★ Fencer of Minerva

★ Gall Force

★ Garaga

★ Garzey's Wing

★ Genocyber

★ Geobreeders

★ Grappler Baki

★ Grave of the Fireflies

★ Harlock Saga

★ Here is Greenwood

★ Heroic Legend of Arslan

I-N

★ Iczer Reborn

★ Labyrinth of Flames

★ Legend of Himiko

★ Legend of Lemnear

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★ MD Geist

★ Maetel Legend

★ The Mask of Zeguy

★ My My Mai

★ Nightwalker

★ Now & Then, Here & There

O-S

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★ Outlanders

★ Patlabor, the Mobile Police TV series

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★ Ping Pong Club

★ Project A-ko

★ Record of Lodoss War

★ Rhea Gall Force

★ Shadow Star Narutaru

★ Shamanic Princess

★ Space Warriors

★ Strange Love

T-Z

★ Tales of Seduction

★ They Were Eleven

★ Tokyo Babylon

★ U-Jin Brand

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★ Venus Wars

★ Voltage Fighter Gowkaiser

★ Virgin Fleet

★ Wild Cardz

★ World of Narue

★ Wrath of the Ninja

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Anime licensed under "Software Sculptors"

★ Cat Soup

★ Dancougar - Super Beast Machine God

★ Knights of Ramune

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★ Maze

★ Metal Fighter Miku

★ Revolutionary Girl Utena

★ Slayers TV series (original licensor, now handled by FUNimation Entertainment)

★ Zenki (original licensor, now handled by Media Blasters)

H anime licensed under "Anime 18"

#-B

★ Adventure Kid

★ Angel Blade

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★ Angel Blade Returns

★ Blood Royale

C-H

★ City of Sin

★ Crimsom Climax

★ Demon Beast Invasion

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★ Demon Beast Resurrection

★ Demon Warrior Koji

★ F-Force

★ Fobia
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I-N

★ Kizuna - yaoi

★ La Blue Girl

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★ La Blue Girl Returns

★ Lady Blue

★ Love Lessons
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★ Masquerade (anime)
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★ Midnight Panther

★ Mystery of the Necronomicon

★ Night Shift Nurses

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★ Night Shift Nurses: RN's Revenge

★ Nightmare Campus

O-S

★ Ogenki Clinic Adventures

★ Private Psycho Lesson
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★ Pure Love
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★ Sacrilege
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★ Sibling Secret

★ Sin Soroity

★ Slave Market

★ Square of the Moon

★ Spaceship Agga Ruter

★ Stepmother's Sin

★ Stepsister

T-Z

★ Temptation

★ TriAngle
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★ Twin Angels

★ Urotsukidoji

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★ Venus 5

★ Xpress Train
Anime HotShots re-releases indicated by
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Trivia

Many of the DVD's released feature music by Evil Adam on the trailers and special features sections of the DVDs and also as the main theme for
In many of the early releases by CPM there was a music video of the CPM catalog done to the theme from Genocyber.

Recent financial problems

On May 26, 2006, Central Park Media laid off many of its employees, and rumors erupted that the company was planning to declare bankruptcy, supported by a statement from a representative at the Anime Boston convention. The following Monday the company's managing director issued a statement acknowledging the lay-offs and attributing the cost-cutting to creditor problems following the January bankruptcy of the Musicland group. Currently, the company has continued to set release dates for new titles, and appears to have no plans to file for bankruptcy.
The previous year, in 2005, CPM discontinued their CPM Manga and CPM Manhwa line, also due to monetary problems.
On March 19, 2007, Japanese Yaoi Publisher Libre posted a notice on its website saying that Be Beautiful Manga was illegaly translating and selling their properties. Be Beautiful Manga is a division of Central Park Media that publishes yaoi manga. The titles in question were originally licensed to CPM by Japanese publisher Biblos which was bought out by Libre in 2006 after a bankruptcy. [1]
The notice reads in part "Recently, it has come to our attention that some translations of our publications have been published and some are to be published by Central Park Media (Label: Be Beautiful) in the United States." It also calls on people to buy manga from Be Beautiful. This notice was published in English as well as Japanese. The above is a direct quote.
(Source: http://www.libre-pub.co.jp/info17.html)

External links

★ CPM website

★ US Manga Corps