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ADV Films UK Switches from US-Run Office to UK Partner

ADV Films has notified its retail distributors in the United Kingdom that it is "transitioning its UK operations from a US-run office outsourcing to retail partners, to a partnership with a yet-to-be-named local home entertainment group." Funimation is already running a similar arrangement in which it partners with a British firm (Revelation Films) to distribute its titles in the United Kingdom — thus removing the need for its own office in the country. During ADV Films's ongoing negotiations for a Brititsh partner, the sales and distribution of the following titles are being placed on hiatus in the United Kingdom:

• Pumpkin Scissors
• The Wallflower
• Ah! My Goddess Series 2: Flights of Fancy
• 009-1
• Red Garden
• Innocent Venus
• Kurau: Phantom Memory
• Utawarerumono
• Paniponi Dash
• Guyver: The Bio-boosted Armor
• Le Chevalier D'Eon
• Coyote Ragtime Show
• Jinki:Extend

ADV Films UK is also running a warehouse sale of many of its other titles:

• Area 88
• Angelic Layer
• Aquarian Age
• Azumanga Daioh
• King of Bandit Jing
• Chrono Crusade
• Cromartie High School
• Colorful
• Dai-Guard
• DNAngel
• Divergence Eve
• Excel Saga
• Full Metal Panic! & Fumoffu
• New Fist of the North Star
• Get Backers
• Gilgamesh
• Gravion
• Kino's Journey
• Rune Soldier
• Last Exile
• Madlax
• Mahoromatic
• Mezzo
• MazinKaiser
• Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
• Najica
• Noir
• Peacemaker
• Prétear
• RahXephon
• Samurai Gun
• Shadow Skill
• You're Under Arrest
• Yugo the Negotiator
• Zaion

Notably, the license for Colorful, Dai-Guard, Excel Saga, and You're Under Arrest are said to be expiring at the end of January.

Source: Anime-On-Line via Anime UK News