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ConanSan
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Well, that's what you get when you let Gurren Lagann AND Keroro Gunsou slip though your fingers.
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vashfanatic
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NO!! |
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prime_pm
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Well, this has been fun.
Zac, you might wanna step in on this thing now. |
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luffypirate
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now lets not forget about viz 
peace out adv. yall used to be good 
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Richard J.
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Does anyone else think this is just a prelude to selling off the company assets, such as they are? Even if they are just sold between John Ledford owned companies, I think we'll see some parts sold off in 2-3 years tops. While the current move doesn't mean much for what gets put out (though I'm sure they are using it as a chance to get rid of anything they don't think is worth keeping) I do not think it means good things for the future. |
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hypersoda
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Oh, so the titles are safe? That makes me a little happy...a little... Still, this is a very sad day. If it weren't for ADV, I wouldn't have known about Air (which then got me interested in Kanon and Clannad). Not just that, but ADV also released SuperGALS! season one and Kino's Journey, which are two of my favorite series. I mean, ADV wasn't doing well for a while and many people saw this coming...but it's still sad when it actually happens. |
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EricDent
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Well that sucks. I kind of predicted this would happen. It was bound to happen, especially when all they did (or so it seemed) for the last couple of years was re-re-re-rerelease DVD thin-packs of their old shows (seriously they made a Christmas version of Chrono Crusade & Evangellion then 3 months later re-released them again as normal versions). I had a feeling that it would happen when they lost the rights to most of their newer shows.
I always liked them, but it is pretty obvious who the kings are now (and they really don't have any competition anymore) FUNimation! |
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LKK
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My guess (emphasize guess) is that if you haven't seen those actors showing up in Funi titles by this point, you probably won't. There's been nothing preventing them from working for Funi in the past except for personal choice. I don't see how this situation would likely change their decisions. |
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The Anagelic One
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Good night sweet prince, you provided me with many an anime and you will sorely be missed...
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dragonrider_cody
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Most of those actors only did VA work as a side gig, and have other jobs as their primary income. (acting or otherwise) So traveling to Dallas/Ft Worth area for VA work is usually out of the question. |
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hikaru004
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I would look at it like you have a big chocolate chip cookie that got smashed in your backpack and you now have chocolate chip cookie pieces. It's still there and taste sort of like a whole cookie would taste but it's just not the same. |
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BlackJaded
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Well it's little sad that they folded, now the one thing it matters who will take the VA"s since it ended. I'm thinking Bang Zoom, Funimation and Viz will take those great talent and I heard rumors Bluewater Studios could be next on the list into closing down as and that would hurt Ocean Studios as well.
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MarzGurl
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Half surprised, half not.
The surprised part of me is simply because I didn't see anything noticeable coming up on the immediate horizon. After all, they were doing good things by beginning to secure other titles that otherwise would have been lost in the loss/reshuffling of the other recent localization companies. Yet, I'm not surprised because I've heard unsettling things about the Anime Network and Anime On-Demand, Newtype USA went under (did anything ever come of that other magazine they said they were going to publish?), and it seemed like ADV chose a poor battle tactic of over-flooding the market with TOO MANY niche things that only a tiny fragment of people would like, which initially you may think of as a good thing, but if the company can't afford to do it they shouldn't do it. There was just a lot of anime that was not good coming out in the last couple of years, and it was mostly from ADV, and it was ALL getting licensed and ending up collecting dust on shelves. And it doesn't help that too many fans don't appreciate business localization like they used to these days, but that's a whole 'nother kettle of fish. |
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Colonel Wolfe
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This is all the fault of Sojitz and Funimation working in conjunction to shut down ADV. This is a major blow to the anime industry here in the United States.
I have just three worlds to say: Screw You Funimation. |
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Panda Man
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This wasn't to clear to me in the post, so I will ask here. Are the future releases from Sentai Filmworks still on track for there releases this year? I would hate to have Clannad canceled.
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