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Zac
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You're backseat moderating, knock it off. That said, everyone please keep the "fansub debate - oh no the R1 industry is collapsing" stuff to an absolute minimum in this thread. |
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LydiaDianne
Posts: 5634 Location: Southern California |
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I just wrote TRSI and cancelled all 1-4 of the Saiunkoku that I've pre-ordered. Perhaps I'm jumping the gun but I really don't want to be "emotionally" invested in the series when there is a possiblitly that I will not get the rest of the series. It does look like I'll get the final volume of Fate/Stay Night. And I've invested Time and Money in Kyo Kara Maoh! & Shonen Onmyouji so I won't cancel those pre-orders yet. But this still sucks. |
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kyokun703
Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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I'm going to keep mine on order for now, and hope that someone will pick up the remaining 7 discs. If worse comes to worse, I'll go the fansub route and watch the rest that way. I love this series so far, and will definitely buy them all if somebody else picks them up. |
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la_contessa
Posts: 200 Location: Pennsylvania |
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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? |
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Roy9076
Posts: 286 Location: California |
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Looks like I have to wait longer for Hellsing Ultimate and other shows I wanted to watch on DVD. Well, seems more like a halt than a cancel.
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bci110
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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. |
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JackCox
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But nonetheless this is horrifying, I really want Hellsing Ultimate 3 and I think The Gankutsuou box set. This is just a sad sad day.
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kokuryu
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Dangit - I was looking forward to getting Nanoha, and I'm glad I didn't order the other titles I was about to order yesterday - I would never have gotten them. This bites big time!
ARGGGGH!!!! |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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I don't think it's unrealistic to expect that most of Geneon's top-shelf titles - things like Hellsing or Black Lagoon - will be contracted out a'la Kadokawa. |
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W-General
Posts: 280 Location: Ithaca, NY, USA / Taichung, Taiwan |
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Fansubbers are not at fault. It's people who are too cheap to buy DVDs that are at fault. Don't use broad generalizations. [Since the topic has been done to death, I will not permit any repeat of the fansub / bootlegger angle in this thread. -t (posts made after I started posting this will be deleted, but I won't punish people who posted earlier)] |
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Aromatic Grass
Posts: 2424 Location: Raleigh, NC |
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I never thought I'd see the day. Still, I hope for the best, especially since I was looking forward to Nanoha and Guardian of the Sacred Spirit.
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Midonin
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I hope someone else can get Nanoha and Zero no Tsukaima out there. I really wanted to get those series when they were released.
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recca25
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I have old geneon titles that I would like to buy such as Fighting Spirit Champion Road and X-Remix. Does this announcement mean that copies of old geneon titles will no longer be produced and so I should order old geneon titles that I need sooner rather than later? I would really appreciate advice on this matter.
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Tempest
I Run this place.
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I think they're going to try for a whole-catalog (avoiding use of the word wholesale here since it might be misunderstood) deal first, particularly for their existing catalog titles. However my money is on them not finding a partner and ending up going the individual route the Kadokawa way. Even if they find a whole-catalog partner for all their existing titles, would it apply to all future titles? Or would those be done on a case by case basis? I'd rather not speculate that far ahead. Likewise, even if they found a whole-catalog partner for future productions, would it include production, or just sales, marketing & distribution? If it didn't include production, they'd still be similar to Kadokawa in that they'd be subcontracting production and S,M&D to different parties. -t |
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CaptainAvatar
Posts: 381 Location: Saint Louis, MO |
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Well, the reverberations from this may be felt for quite a while. I would sure like to have been in on what went down with the discussions between ADV and the Geneon reps that led to Geneon's decision to pull the plug. I am sure they are going to be back ala Kadokawa, but certainly not for all the licenses they have. Hellsing Ultimate is the only series I was buying right now, but I was considering some others. Now it will be even longer until Ultimate continues, and I certainly am not going to invest in other series until I know whether they will be finished or not. In the short run until this settles out, this is going to kill Geneon sales, and if you want any of their shows already released, you better grab them now as I see most retailers not wanting to take a chance on being stuck with stock after the drop dead date they set for returns.
Ultimately, niche titles like Rozen Maiden will likely be affected, and I could see them dropping all underperforming titles from their plans. Sad day indeed, especially if you like niche titles like I do. |
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