Six funds participated, led by Upfront Ventures, the largest Los Angeles-based venture fund.

Amazon Japan has announced an ambitious list of projects that it will stream to the Japanese market, and to overseas Amazon Prime members.

VIZ Media has announced the signing of a number of consumer products licenses for its hit anime/manga property One-Punch Man .

There are some very interesting titles including a bleak and gritty crime film ( Triple 9 ) and an almost equally interesting crime caper TV mini-series ( The Last Panthers , which has a theme song by David Bowie), plus an inspiring Jesse Owens biopic, and the campy box office failures Gods of Egypt and Pride and Prejudice & Zombies .

This week’s home entertainment offerings include a lost Doctor Who serial featuring the Second Doctor, Ben Stiller’s Zoolander 2 , the latest season of the best police procedural on American TV, a rare 1970s Hanna Barbera animated drama, the DVD debut of the late 1970s newspaper drama Lou Grant , plus a second Tokyo Ghoul series heading a strong slate of anime releases.

It’s another light week for home entertainment releases with the exception of the latest season of Netflix’s most popular original series, Orange Is the New Black , a superb old school period horror film, and a couple of edgy anime series, the sci-fi fantasy Assassination Classroom and the Toonami-airing action-packed dark fantasy Akame ga Kill!.

Udon Entertainment will release the manga adaptation of the video game Persona 3.

There are some real gems in the home video releases this week, including the subversive superhero movie Deadpool, the top-grossing film of 2016 so far, the action-packed sci-fi series Killjoys , and the first season of the latest Transformers animated series.

This summer trailblazing American manga publisher Tokyopop is publishing its first titles since the company closed its doors in 2011.

Kamikaze Games will release the Historic Photo editions of Barbarossa and El Alamein deck-building games to the trade market.