The North American anime distributor Funimation announced at its Anime Detour convention panel on Saturday that it acquired the 2009 animated feature Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ for North America. Funimation licensed the title's home entertainment, broadcast, theatrical, digital, and merchandising rights, and it will release the feature on DVD and Blu-ray Disc next year.
This is pretty awesome. When Funi said they would be licensing something based on a game pretty much everyone on the Funi blog myself included thought it was gonna be Valkyria Chronicles. However I'm so much happier it was the Vesperia movie. I have heard that the VC anime butchers the original story and in the process makes itself into a meh show. It's nice to see the Vesperia movie getting released. I hope they can keep the original cast for the game and it would make alot of sense of Bandai Namco's side to finally release the PS3 version of Vesperia alongside the movie as Funi is known to do cross promotion.
As the the other 2 things licensed. I could care less about Freezing but am very excited about Fractale. Somewhat surprised at how quickly those shows got full licenses.