It is licensed in the United States by AnimEigo.

The OVA was licensed for release in North America by AnimEigo, who released all five episodes in individual VHS volumes in both English-language and subtitled Japanese-language editions beginning on April 16, 1995.

During 1992, the series was licensed for a North American release by AnimEigo.

AnimEigo also licensed two Lupin III films: Lupin III: The Fuma Conspiracy and Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon.

A Fashionable Judo Girl-TV series ( AnimEigo only licensed episodes 1-40 )-Going out of print on August 31, 2012

The anime was originally presented in a 4-episode OVA ( Original Video Animation ) licenced by AnimEigo in 1988, and was later adapted into a 26-episode television series licensed by Tokyopop and released in 1997.

When the United States anime import company AnimEigo obtained the original video animation ( OVA ) rights, they titled the series Oh My Goddess !.

AnimEigo originally released the OVA series on two VHS tapes, each containing a sheet of liner notes related to the series.

The television series, OVAs, and five of the films have been released in North America with English subtitles by AnimEigo, who provided extensive notes on the series to allow people to understand the many cultural references and jokes in the series that would normally be impenetrable for non-Japanese.

AnimEigo later released the series on DVD.

Robert Woodhead, head of AnimEigo, has said publicly that he would like to release the film ( AnimEigo released the first pressings of the Macross series in the US ), but believes it will most likely never get a proper DVD release in the United States due to the legal disputes surrounding the film.

AnimEigo has released four sequels: Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death, actually the third film in the Baby Cart series, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades ; Shogun Assassin 3: Slashing Blades of Carnage, which is the fourth film in the Baby Cart series, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril ; Shogun Assassin 4: Five Fistfuls Of Gold, which is the dubbed version of the fifth film, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons ; and Shogun Assassin 5: Cold Road to Hell, the dubbed version of Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell, the sixth and final film in the series.

AnimEigo released a boxset of the first four films in the United States in 2009 under the title " Tora-san ".

Later, he authored Interferon and Virex, two of the earliest anti-virus applications for the Macintosh, and co-founded AnimEigo, one of the first US anime releasing companies.

* Official AnimEigo You're Under Arrest!

Safir GT40 Spares licensed the use of the GT40 trademark to Ford for the initial 2002 show car, but when Ford decided to make the production vehicle, negotiations between the two failed, and as a result the new Ford GT does not wear the badge GT40.

After an initial uproar against the team by people who considered its usage in bad taste, the Todd M. Beamer Foundation officially licensed the trademark to the team.

The Company's initial manufacturing venture was to be a licensed and improved version of an aircraft manufactured in France by the Societe Zodiac, a biplane designed by Gabriel Voisin.

He was the initial writer of the Batman Family title and paired Batgirl and Robin together as a team in the first issue ( Sept .- Oct. 1975 ) Maggin wrote a licensed Welcome Back, Kotter comic book series which was based on the popular ABC sitcom.

The initial volume's Commonwealth rights were licensed to Penguin Books in 1986, with the exception of South Africa.

While Gurney did not achieve his goal of getting the design licensed for manufacture and sale by a major motorcycle manufacturer, the initial production run of 36 Alligator motorcycles quickly sold out, and are now prized collectors items.

After its initial run in syndication beginning in 1979, the series later re-appeared on TV Land in 1999 as part of a package of series licensed from Universal.

This company licensed the use of the " GT40 " trademark to Ford for the initial 2002 show car.

The East India Company, which had entered India around 1600 for trading activities, had begun licensed trading at Surat, which was its initial bastion.

The Canadian Securities Course ( CSC ) offered by the Canadian Securities Institute ( CSI ) is the initial course required for becoming licensed to work within the Canadian securities industry ( outside Quebec ) as a securities dealer or securities agent.

Its initial machine vision offering was based on software and hardware licensed from Stanford Research Institute.

* KLIO-FM, initial designation of KLZT, a radio station licensed to Bastrop, Texas

After publishing licensed comics with Nintendo and the World Wrestling Federation, Voyager repositioned itself to focus on its initial plan: to create original superhero comic books under the Valiant Comics imprint.

Typically, the chapter-indexed commentaries are exclusive to the Criterion releases and their initial DVD reissues ; they became collector ’ s items when the original-owner studios re-issued titles previously licensed to Criterion ( with newly-produced commentary tracks or not ).

Cooper maintained that he had only licensed the character to RKO for the initial film and sequel but had otherwise owned his own creation.

Henry van de Velde was the initial architect, resigning when it was clear that the contractors, the Perret brothers, had a far deeper understanding of the project than he did — although the Perrets were not licensed architects and had another designer, Roger Bouvard, sign their plans.

The proposals triggered much initial opposition, even from some parts of the licensed trade.

QDesign licensed the initial version of the codec and hired the developer to create what would become the official audio compression in Apple Computer's QuickTime v3.

Nomad's primary status as a time-sharing product – rather than a licensed software product – had a major impact on its initial design, enhancement, sales, training, and support.

The OVA is licensed in the U. S. by Manga Entertainment, who opted to use a different New York-based voice cast for its English release.

The various OVA tie-ins, the animated TV series, and the motion picture were licensed in North America by ADV Films, Funimation, and Geneon ( previously Pioneer Entertainment ).

The Gravitation TV and OVA series have been licensed for North American release by Right Stuf International.

Originally licensed by Central Park Media, the OVA is currently licensed by Media Blasters.

The Saber Marionette R OVA is currently licensed by Media Blasters.

The Saber Marionette J TV series, the Saber Marionette J Again OVA, and the Saber Marionette J to X TV series are currently licensed by Bandai Entertainment.

ADV had also licensed the Seventh Heaven OVA, however in 2008, the OVA became one of over ADV titles transferred to Funimation .< ref >

Both the TV series and OVA were dubbed into English by The Ocean Group using their Blue Water Studios and have been licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment.

Both the anime OVA and manga are licensed for distribution in North America by Viz Media.

The OVA is licensed in English by Viz Media.

Both the anime and OVA were licensed by ADV Films in the United States.

The TV series and OVA been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks, anime distributor Section23 Films will release the complete collection set on November 2, 2010.

Vision's ADV Manga label in the United States ; the first three episodes of the OVA and the first TV series were licensed by the ADV Films label for Region 1 distribution.

On July 2, 2007, Media Blasters announced that they had licensed the OVA series at Anime Expo.

Both the manga and OVA series were licensed in North America by Central Park Media, through their Anime 18 and Manga 18 divisions.

The anime ( which is co-produced by KSS and OLM, TV Tokyo and NAS ) is licensed for distribution in North America by ADV Films, and they have released both the TV series and OVA series onto a total of ten DVD volumes.

The original 13-episode television series and its first subsequent two-episode OVA series were licensed for North American distribution by Bandai's distributive unit across the region, Bandai Entertainment.

The OVA series series had been not licensed in the west until 2002, when it was released in the UK by ADV Films on VHS.

The Original Birdy The Mighty was an OVA release in 1996 by Madhouse studios licensed by Bandai and Emotion.