In honor of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime's 10th anniversary, it's been announced that a brand new crossover OVA is in the works! The title is said to be "Battle Royal! Yugi VS Judai VS Yusei! Deja vu, Acceleration!" The title suggests that the three main protagonists from the three different Yu-Gi-Oh series- Yugi Muto in Duel Monsters, Judai Yuki in GX, & Yusei Fudo in 5D's- will all be dueling against each other. Possibly even a Riding Duel, meaning we'd get to see Yugi & Judai on D-Wheels.
That's all we know so far, more information as it becomes available! Can't wait, go Judai! XD
UPDATE: As kc_alex2 helps point out, while a 10th anniversary special has been confirmed, there's nothing official yet saying it'll be about Yugi VS Judai VS Yusei. So for the time being, consider this a rumor.
Anime Expo was a bit quieter this weekend when compared to years past. There weren't tons of new announcements made by every company, but FUNimation did have the most things going on.
In terms of new licenses, they've FINALLY gotten the DVD rights for the first 13 episodes of DragonBall, something they've been trying to get for the past decade. Now that they have those, Funi will start re-releasing the entire DragonBall series in remastered season sets, similar to what they've done for DBZ & GT. Season 1, the first 31 episodes of the original series, will be released on September 15. They also got the anime adaptation of the Nintendo DS game "Sands of Destruction" (World Destruction: Sekai Bokumetsu no Rokunin). Both Funi's season set & Sega's American release of the game will hit in Spring 2010. Finally, in a very up the the wire last second announcement, they cleared the rights to Production I.G's Sengoku Basara. Funi also stressed that they haven't lost the One Piece DVD license & DVD sets will continue to come out. They also stated that they don't have the Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0 movie yet.
FUNimation confirmed that they plan to launch ShoDojo.com, a brand new online anime community site to take the place of their now defunct animeOnline. Thousands of streaming anime episodes will also be a part of the site, meaning they're probably planning it to compete with Crunchyroll.
FUNimation also announced the dub cast for Slayers Revolution. & they're keeping most of the original cast! Best news I've heard all con. The fabulous Lisa Ortiz will resume her role as the lead character Lina Inverse, & most of the others will also be the same. The only exception is Xellos, who will now be voiced by the (relatively speaking) newcomer & extremely talented Michael Sinterniklaas. He will also direct the dub. Pretty interesting how FUNimation, which is located in Texas, is letting all the recording for this series go to New York. Especially considering Zelgadis' VA no longer lives there & has since moved to join the California voice actors. The main cast:
Yasuhiro Nightow & Satoshi Nishimura, the two guys behind the Trigun manga, brought a special surprise with them at their Anime Expo panel- the world premiere of the Trigun Movie trailer! The film was originally slated to come out in 2009, but that doesn't seem very likely at this point. It's still in the middle of production, & no release date was given at the panel.
