| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Entertainment (Anime) |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
| Key people | John Sirabella Sam Liebowitz |
| Products | Translated anime, manga, and Asian cinema Horror and exploitation movies |
| Divisions | Anime Works (all-audience anime) Kitty Media (hentai anime) Tokyo Shock (live action Asian movies and television) Shriek Show (horror and exploitation movies) |
| Website | www.media-blasters.com |
Media Blasters is an entertainment corporation founded by John Sirabella and Sam Liebowitz, based in New York City. They are in the business of licensing, translating, and releasing to the North American market manga compilations and anime and live-action movies and television series to home-video release. Their animated releases include Berserk, Knight Hunters, Rurouni Kenshin, and Voltron.
The company has been releasing translated anime since May 1997. In 2004, Media Blasters began publishing manga. The company first published shōnen manga titles for older readers, and later so they increased their yaoi manga line.[1]
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Anime Works is the label used for the bulk of Media Blaster's anime titles.
Kitty Media specializes in hentai anime and pornographic films.[2] Kitty Media also specializes films and anime series contains scenes of rape and graphic sexuality. Their first release, and the first release by Media Blasters as a whole, was Rei-Lan: Orchid Emblem. Recently, the division began releasing some H-anime titles previously licensed by NuTech Digital, which lost the licenses due to royalties litigation. Most of the Kitty Media titles can only be purchased at sex shops.
The Tokyo Shock label covers live action movies and television series from Japan and other Asian markets, including Versus (film), Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky and tokusatsu works.
The Shriek Show label handles obscure horror and exploitation films such as Ultimo mondo cannibale, Cannibal Holocaust, Grizzly, Day of the Animals, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell, The Anthropophagus Beast, La notte del terrore and Zombi 2.