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dragonrider_cody
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 Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:44 am
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I'm curious what affect this will have on the licensing of their properties outside of Japan? Other than those concerns, this makes a lot of sense from a business standpoint. Considering all of these subsidiaries overlap in their core businesses, there is no reason to keep them all operating separately.
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mgosdin
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:03 am
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| dragonrider_cody wrote: | | I'm curious what affect this will have on the licensing of their properties outside of Japan? Other than those concerns, this makes a lot of sense from a business standpoint. Considering all of these subsidiaries overlap in their core businesses, there is no reason to keep them all operating separately. |
With this many different lines of business being combined it's bound to somewhat disrupt the flow of product out of Kadokawa as a whole. Each business typically does have a "unique" editorial operating style, publishing houses always do, it will take some time to evolve a new unified style ... if the process is handled correctly.
Mark Gosdin
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Tanteikingdomkey
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:59 am
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A LOT less blurays in R1. kadokawa is famous for trying to deny bluray rights to funimation and others because of fears of reverse importation.
Also a lot more licenses going to kadokawa US or no one at all. blood alone is currently suffering because of th
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ultimatemegax
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:40 am
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| Tanteikingdomkey wrote: | | A LOT less blurays in R1. kadokawa is famous for trying to deny bluray rights to funimation and others because of fears of reverse importation.
Also a lot more licenses going to kadokawa US or no one at all. blood alone is currently suffering because of th |
That is related to the portion of the company Kadokawa Pictures was formerly from. This is relating to the light novel portion. They're two separate divisions and should not be considered together. The article is referring to the publishing aspect, not the video distribution aspect.
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Tanteikingdomkey
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:28 am
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| ultimatemegax wrote: |
| Tanteikingdomkey wrote: | | A LOT less blurays in R1. kadokawa is famous for trying to deny bluray rights to funimation and others because of fears of reverse importation.
Also a lot more licenses going to kadokawa US or no one at all. blood alone is currently suffering because of th |
That is related to the portion of the company Kadokawa Pictures was formerly from. This is relating to the light novel portion. They're two separate divisions and should not be considered together. The article is referring to the publishing aspect, not the video distribution aspect. |
Kadokawa is still trying to steal the blood alone series away from seven seas and likely will continue to screw over other people and series.
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adam_omega
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 1:03 pm
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| Tanteikingdomkey wrote: |
| ultimatemegax wrote: |
| Tanteikingdomkey wrote: | | A LOT less blurays in R1. kadokawa is famous for trying to deny bluray rights to funimation and others because of fears of reverse importation.
Also a lot more licenses going to kadokawa US or no one at all. blood alone is currently suffering because of th |
That is related to the portion of the company Kadokawa Pictures was formerly from. This is relating to the light novel portion. They're two separate divisions and should not be considered together. The article is referring to the publishing aspect, not the video distribution aspect. |
Kadokawa is still trying to steal the blood alone series away from seven seas and likely will continue to screw over other people and series. |
Blood Alone's author changed publishers in Japan from Media Works to KODANSHA (not Kadokawa). There's also no stealing going on, Kodansha publishes their own titles in North America now, so they just don't license their books out to other publishers.
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nargun
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:25 pm
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Yeah right.
[the economies of scale in publishing are not huge, books being essentially artisan/handcrafted, each individually, with not a huge amount of coordination between individual books. This with the picky nature of readers compared to customers for machine tools or tomatoes push medium-to-large publishers being structured as essentially autonomous collections of finely-targetted imprints, because it involves little extra cost at a huge boost to needed flexibility. If someone suggested merging yen press with... checks wiki... the christian publisher FaithWords, say, to "boost branding" you'd be called a crazy person.]
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agila61
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 3:43 pm
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| nargun wrote: | | Yeah right.
[the economies of scale in publishing are not huge, ... |
Yes, its more economies of scope, hence mgosdin's concerns.
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Mohawk52
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 7:09 pm
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But then again they might not change anything except the logo on the buildings and stationary. Kadokawa might simply be consolidating for business tax purposes.
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11G4GUNOT
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:10 pm
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| Tanteikingdomkey wrote: |
| ultimatemegax wrote: |
| Tanteikingdomkey wrote: | | A LOT less blurays in R1. kadokawa is famous for trying to deny bluray rights to funimation and others because of fears of reverse importation.
Also a lot more licenses going to kadokawa US or no one at all. blood alone is currently suffering because of th |
That is related to the portion of the company Kadokawa Pictures was formerly from. This is relating to the light novel portion. They're two separate divisions and should not be considered together. The article is referring to the publishing aspect, not the video distribution aspect. |
Kadokawa is still trying to steal the blood alone series away from seven seas and likely will continue to screw over other people and series. |
good KADOKAWA good
another Dengeki subsidiary change from ASCII and MediaWorks just plain KADOKAWA the parent of all Dengeki names LULZ
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