User blog comment:KrspaceT/Gah...../@comment-71.81.164.66-20140922222152/@comment-7239354-20140924230016

They went over this when the series came back in 2013. Due to the structure of their deal with Production I.G. who coproduced the series with Williams Street they were able to license the series from them. They technically did not unwriteoff the series. I probably shouldn't have said Japanese version, It is the same series but Cartoon Network does not own it.