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NEWS: Geneon USA to Cancel DVD Sales, Distribution by Friday

JackCox wrote:

Shame on the fansubbers and bootleggers who did this to Geneon, all of you have destroyed a great company.

Please let's not start this again, there was enough of this crap in the other thread.

Well there goes my Saiunkoku DVDs 3 and 4 since they aren't coming out until December and January. Now I am debating whether I should cancel my 2nd DVD or not.

I think that I'll write TRSI and cancel Saiunkoku. I'm not sure what the rest of my pre-orders are like but I will cancel that one.

Damn.

Based on my understanding of the situation, Geneon will turn into a Kadokawa Pictures USA type licensing organization (Kadokawa Pictures USA owns the rights to Haruhi Suzumiya, contracted Bang Zoom to handle dubbing and Contracted BEI to handle sales, production and marketing, likewise they contracted ADV to do the dubbing for FMP!TSR and Funimation to market & distribute).

I agree with Tempest.

Based on the way things are worded in this letter, I think that this is perhaps only a temporary halt on products current and future as they reset since they had already dissolved their sales division and were in the midst of finalizing the ADV deal. Will they renew a sales and distribution department or go the Kadokawa route? It's hard to say at this point, but I do not think they are totally abandoning the anime market period.

Here's hoping I'm right. I have a few titles that are incomplete that I need to get the rest of released o.o .

Yeah, I hope with what both Chris McD and you said becomes true and Geneon USA becomes another Kadokawa. At least this way they'll still be active in the R1 market, just not as prominent as they were in the past. It seems given the situation that this might be the "best case" senerio for the company. Maybe a temporary halt in production will give them time to reasset their position and be more selective in future licenses (if any at all).

Whatever happens, the Geneon we all know and love is gone forever.

Shame on the fansubbers and bootleggers who did this to Geneon, all of you have destroyed a great company.

Do you think we're likely to seen Geneon making a wholesale deal (similar to what was going to happen with ADV, possibly separate deals for production and marketing/distribution), or deals for individual series like Kadokawa does? Do you think one method would take longer to get part-finished series completed?