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Funimation Adds Gad Guard Robot Adventure Anime (Update 2)
posted on by Egan Loo
The North American distributor Ghost Slayers Ayashi). The story is set several hundred years in the future when humans are living a shallow existence on a depleted Earth. A boy named Hajiki Sanada stumbles across a GAD — a magical stone that can reconstruct materials after being exposed to organic life. Hajiki's GAD transforms into a mighty "Techode" robot, and the boy soon encounter others with similar Techodes.
Another distributor, Anime Expo 2008 this past July that it agreed to manufacture, sell, and distribute selected DVD titles from Geneon Entertainment in North America, although Gad Guard was not named at the time. According to FUNimation's website for Gad Guard, the distributor will ship its release in 2009.
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Update: More background information added.
Update 2: GDH, the parent company of Gonzo.
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