Central Park Media
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Central Park Media is a distributor of East Asian cinema, television, and comics. They are based out of New York City.
- 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 90's. Their motto: World peace through shared popular culture.
- Software Sculptors is their other anime distribution 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.
- Manga 18 is their hentai manga publication division.
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[edit] Anime licensed under "U.S. Manga Corps"
- A Wind Named Amnesia
- Agent Aika
- Alien Nine
- Angel Sanctuary
- Animation Runner Kuromi
- Area 88 OVA (expired, licence now held by ADV Films)
- Arcade Gamer Fubuki
- 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)
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Cybernetics Guardian
- Darkside Blues
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Descendants of Darkness
- Detonator Orgun
- Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past
- 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
- Iczer Reborn
- Labyrinth of Flames
- Legend of Himiko
- Legend of Lemnear
- Legend of the Dragon Kings
- MD Geist
- Maetel Legend
- The Mask of Zeguy
- My My Mai
- Nightwalker
- Now & Then, Here & There
- Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight
- Outlanders
- Patlabor, the Mobile Police TV series
- Photon: The Idiot Adventures
- Project A-ko
- Record of Lodoss War
- Rhea Gall Force
- Shamanic Princess
- Space Warriors
- Strange Love (Hen)
- Tales of Seduction
- They Were Eleven
- Tokyo Babylon
- U-Jin Brand
- Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
- Venus Wars
- Voltage Fighter Gowkaiser
- Virgin Fleet
- Wild Cardz
- World of Narue
- Wrath of the Ninja
- Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report
[edit] Anime licensed under "Software Sculptors"
- Cat Soup
- Dancougar - Super Beast Machine God
- Knights of Ramune
- Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos
- 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)
[edit] H anime licensed under "Anime 18"
- Adventure Kid
- Angel Blade
- Angel Blade Returns
- Blood Royale
- City of Sin
- Crimsom Climax
- Demon Beast Invasion
- Demon Beast Resurrection
- Demon Warrior Koji
- F-Force
- Fobia
- Kizuna - yaoi
- La Blue Girl
- Lady Blue
- Love Lessons *
- Masquerade (anime)
- Midnight Panther
- Mystery of the Necronomicon
- Night Shift Nurses
- Night Shift Nurses: RN's Revenge
- Nightmare Campus
- Ogenki Clinic Adventures
- Ping-Pong Club
- Private Psycho Lesson *
- Pure Love
- Sacraledge
- Spaceship Agga Ruter
- Stepmother's Sin
- TriAngle
- Venus 5
- Xpress Train
Anime HotShots re-release indicated by *
[edit] Trivia
Many of the DVD's released feature music by Evil Adam on the trailers and special features sections of the DVD's and also as the main theme for Ultimate Crop Circles: Signs from Space?[citation needed]
In many of the early releases by CPM there was a music video of the CPM catalog done to the theme from Genocyber.
[edit] 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.
