Sentai Filmworks announced on Thursday that it has licensed the 2007 French/Japanese anime coproduction Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline and plans to release the series digitally and on home video.
The anime studio Satelight coproduced the television series with French animation studio Dargaud-Marina and distributor Europacorp.
In the year 2417, a dashing space cadet named Valerian travels to the year 912 where he breaks the rules and rescues a beautiful, and highly intelligent, peasant girl named Laureline.
The 2007 series is based on the 1967 science-fiction graphic novel series Valérian et Laureline by artist Jean-Claude Mezieres (The Fifth Element set design) and writer Pierre Christin.