 On April 17, 2007, VIZ Media announced that they acquired the rights to the anime series, with the title "Mega Man Star Force".The press release mentioned that 13 episodes were to be released at lengths of 20 minutes each (each containing approximately 2 Japanese episodes worth of content).During the E3 2007 video-game convention, IGN revealed in their hands-on impressions of the "Star Force" video game that the English anime would premiere on Toonami Jetstream on July 23, 2007.