Anime News

'Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit' To Air on the Cartoon Network
Date: 4/1/2008
In explaining the acquisition of Seirei no Moribito (Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit) in a post on Anime on DVD.com message boards, Media Blasters' CEO John Sirabella noted that a "guaranteed Cartoon Network broadcast was already negotiated" before Media Blasters had acquired the property (see "Media Blasters Nabs Seirei no Moribito"). In the same post Sirabella also revealed that Media Blasters had acquired two more "unreleased" Geneon titles -- and that he was not interested in Geneon properties that were already partially released.

Sirabella said that "Seirei was expensive," but that the subbing and dubbing had already been done and with the Cartoon Network guarantee, the acquisition was a "no-brainer." According to Sirabella with the shows they had on the horizon and "with some changes in the way they ran the operations... Geneon could have made a comeback."
Source: ICv2