Invader Zim Coming to DVD in 2004...

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...but not by Paramount. A popular anime label will be releasing them instead. According to a Viacom press release (via Toon Zone, http://www.toonzone.net/ ):

ZIM INVADES HOME VIDEO THROUGH ANIMEWORKS!

New York City (November 06, 2003) ? AnimeWorks is ready to rain down Zim?s doom upon the heads of animation fans everywhere with its release of Jhonen Vasquez?s Invader Zim. Anime fans have been screaming for this DVD release since Zim first aired on Nickelodeon in 2001 and now it?s finally here. Coming Spring 2004 will be the first of three double disc sets and a limited edition boxed set which promises to send fans? blood racing through their veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command them! Invader Zim currently airs on Nicktoons, Nickelodeon?s digital home for animated hits.

?We at Media Blasters are thrilled to add Invader Zim to our powerful line-up, and expect it to be one of our flagship titles in 2004,? said John Sirabella, CEO of Media Blasters. ?Zim has created quite a fan buzz in the anime community and we know that it will be a huge sensation!?

AnimeWorks is a division of Media Blasters. INVADER ZIM will be released in early Spring of 2004.

For further info please visit: http://www.media-blasters.com

More details here:

http://www.animatedbliss.com/news.asp?TID=1232