A couple items of interest to those that follow licencing matters can be found in the preceding Anime Festival press reelase.
Parasite Dolls is listed with
Urban Vision,
A Tree of Palme with
Synch-Point/Digital Manga and
Memories with Columbia.
Parasite Dolls, as many readers may recall, was co-produced by
ADV Films, so it is a bit of a surprise to see
Urban Vision's name included with the title instead of
ADV's. But it's not a mistake,
Urban Vision's
Rhona Medina has confirmed that they are in fact licensing the
Bubblegum Crisis spinoff. Unfortunately UV isn't prepared to divulge any release details yet.
However, according to Anime on DVD,
Synch-Point has confirmed that they
are not involved with the licensing of
A Tree of Palme. The release may have erroneously listed
Synch-Point because it
used to be a part of Digital Manga, suggesting that DM may be moving into the Anime Licensing business on its own. Unfortunately ANN was not able to verify this with a DM representative at this time
Last of all,
Memories is listed as coming from Columbia. While we have been able to confirm that Columbia /
Sony does have
Memories, we haven't been able to find out anything about their release plans yet.
Also worth considering, is the possibility that
Crush Gear Nitro (or Crush Gear Turbo) has been licensed. While no North American company is listed with the release, the press release states that it is being presented dubbed in English. Being a
Sunrise title, Bandai would be a good guess, but only a guess.