Funimation has recently announced that they have acquired the distribution rights to the first 26 (out of 50) episodes of Kenichi. The series originally aired in the fall of 2006 and ran until the following September 2007. The manga is still ongoing and the 29th volume will be released in Japan later this month.
Funimation plans to release the series in two volumes (13 episodes each) with the first being released in January 2009.
Source: ANN
