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NEWS: ADV, FUNimation, Geneon form joint venture

Hey lets forget Tenchi or Kiddy Grade and Full Metal Alchemist why don't we?

There's a good reason Blue Gender didn't do as well as the Dragonball franchise, and thats because Blue Gender doesn't have the same, massive family/boy oriented appeal/market that Dragonball has/had. Besides, Yuyu Hakusho hasn't been doing super-amazingly well (not to say it's doing badly, it's just.. there, kinda), and Case Closed is a mixed basket.

the_soultaker wrote:

I wouldv'e liked for Media Blasters if not Bandai to have been included within this joint venture.

Media Blasters would have brought nothing to the group and as I said before, Bandai doesn't need a joint venture.

Emerje

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Hey lets forget Tenchi or Kiddy Grade and Full Metal Alchemist why don't we? There's a good reason Blue Gender didn't do as well as the Dragonball franchise, and thats because Blue Gender doesn't have the same, massive family/boy oriented appeal/market that Dragonball has/had. Besides, Yuyu Hakusho hasn't been doing super-amazingly well (not to say it's doing badly, it's just.. there, kinda), and Case Closed is a mixed basket.

Why does everyone keep mentioning Kiddy Grade and Tenchi? I'm talking about animes that are actually geared toward people 17 and older. I never said I wanted Blue Gender to do as good as DBZ. I just thought it was underratted. It's one of the best dubs I've ever seen and it should have gotten more recognition.

And have you seen Texhnolyze? It's not exactly in the same league as Kiddy Grade and Tenchi.

Ever see 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"? That production brought in money from Fox, Paramount and Miramax; sometimes three corporations will all toss funds into the pot to produce something.

Kazuki-san: While I agree that that is a strong statement it doesn't mention anime, just entertainment, so it really doesn't go against what Toboe said. In fact, if read alone it would probably do more to support what he said.

Call it bias or whatever, but i would lean more in favor of MB as oppossed to Funi. titles like The Puppet Princess,Gun frontier,Gunparade March,Mezzo Forte,Sadamitsu the Destroyer. (and not to mention their Toyko Shock line of Live action flicks like
Go joe .) May appeal more to the masses than say something like Case closed or rehashed concepts like Blue Gender. MB is just as ambitious when it comes to promoting Anime. Too bad i can't say the same for Manga Entertainment these days (with the one exception of GITS SAC which is a joint venture with Bandai) And IIRC Media Blasters is working on the Giant Robo DVD release, where Manga had dropped the ball on this one.

Does this mean the Tenchi OVA3's will get the original voice actors from Geneon??? or some BS from Funi??? (sincei ve heard Funi has liscenced or will) That would be nice... because when it finally hits the US and i don't hear my girls on my on tenchi ima be pissed and go postal on some Funigation heads!

What amuses me about this entire thing is how none of you have any idea what all this even means. That press release says absolutely nothing. It has to be one of the most vague PR sheets I've ever read, and believe me, that's saying something.

Yet you all pig pile on the forums, eager to give your individual take on this; some of you make more sense than the others but what annoys me so much is how you all seem to speak as though you have some kind of authority, like any of you have any idea what the hell this thing means. There isn't even the hint in your posts that this is all your wildly speculative opinion.

Nobody's "right" on this one because none of us have any idea what the heck this even means. So before one of you decides that your crazy pulled-out-of-your-rear-end theory is "more right" than someone else's crazy pulled-out-of-your-rear-end theory, think again. You're all just firing blanks in the dark.

Did someone mention firing blanks in the dark? ok lemme exchange my blanks for hollow points. everyone is entitled to his/her own opinion no matter how "speculative" it may be.(especially since all the facts regarding this joint venture has yet to be fully disclosed.) one can either take it with a grain of salt or dismiss it altogether, plain and simple.