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. Their slogan is "World peace through shared popular culture."

  • 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 90s. Their motto: World peace through shared popular culture.
  • Anime HotShots is a recently-added division, specializing in re-releasing hentai anime previously released by Anime 18, usually in single-episode DVDs.
  • Manga 18 is their hentai manga publication division.

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Anime HotShots re-releases indicated by *

Many of the DVDs released feature music by Evil Adam on the trailers and special features sections of the DVDs 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.

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.

On March 19, 2007, Japanese Yaoi Publisher Libre posted a notice on its website saying that Be Beautiful Manga was illegally translating and selling their properties. Be Beautiful Manga is a division of Central Park Media that publishes yaoi manga. The titles in question were originally licensed to CPM by Japanese publisher Biblos which was bought out by Libre in 2006 after a bankruptcy. [1]

The notice reads in part "Recently, it has come to our attention that some translations of our publications have been published and some are to be published by Central Park Media (Label: Be Beautiful) in the United States." It also calls on people to not buy manga from Be Beautiful. This notice was published in English as well as Japanese. The above is a direct quote.

(Source: http://www.libre-pub.co.jp/info17.html)

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