"ADV Cancels 37 Titles
Anime Offerings on 'Indefinite Hiatus'
Canceled
January 28, 2008
In a letter to retailers ADV Films has identified 37 anime properties including Devil May Cry, Gurren Lagann, and Pumpkin Scissors that are "on indefinite hiatus, effective immediately." The list includes virtually all of the properties that ADV has announced since its financing deal with the Sojitz Corporation (see "Japanese Investment Bulks Up ADV") in late June of 2006. The properties that ADV has announced (and released) since then are from a variety of anime studios but they were all licensed through the ARM Corporation, a subsidiary of Japan Contents Investment, an investor group that included the Sojitz Corporation, the Development Bank of Japan and KlockWorx. In its letter to retailers ADV explained: "ADV has suspended certain elements of its former alliance with ARM Corporation, which financed the acquisition of these titles. ADV is working closely with various constituencies with the goal of restoring most if not all of these properties to our release schedule at a later date to the extent possible."
The list includes properties that have already been released in their entirety such as Nerima Daikon Brothers, Guyver, and 009-1, series such as Pumpkin Scissors, Kurau Phantom Memory, and Red Garden that have only been partially released, and eagerly awaited anime such as Devil May Cry, Gurren Lagann and 5 Centimeters per Second that have been announced for later this year. The complete list of ADV anime properties on hiatus is:
009-01
5cm Per Second
Ah! My Goddess: Flights of
Fancy
Air Gear
Air Movie
Air TV series
Best Student Council
Blade of the Phantom Master
Comic Party Revolution
Coyote Ragtime
Devil May Cry
Ghost Train
Gurren Lagann
Guyver
Innocent Venus
Jinki: Extend
Kanon TV Series
King of Bandit Jing: 7th Heaven
Kurau Phantom Memory
Le Chevalier D'Eon
Magikano
Moeyo Ken TV Series
Moonlight Mile
Nerima Daikon Brothers
Pani Pani Dash!
Project Blue
Pumpkin Scissors
Red Garden
Synethesia
The Wallflower
Tokyo Majin
UFO Princess Valkyrie - Third
and Fourth Seasons
Utawarerumono
Venus vs. Virus
Welcome to the NHK
Xenosaga
Coming on the heels of Geneon's departure (see "Geneon Ankles American Anime Scene") the ADV announcement is more bad news for the reeling North American Anime Industry. For the past few years ADV has been the number two anime company in the North America, with a solid 12-13% share of the anime DVD market. Recently though ADV has been showing signs of stress. It has pulled its support from its industry-leading collection of anime clubs and two weeks ago announced that it would cease publication of Newtype USA (see "Newtype USA Ending"). The collapse of ADV's deal with ARM does not necessarily mean the end of one of the trailblazing American anime companies, which was founded in 1992. ADV still has an extensive library of titles including the ever-popular Neon Genesis Evangelion. Still the fate of ADV subsidiaries such as The Anime Network, the Newtype successor PiQ (see "Newtype Successor Broadens Focus"), and the ADV manga publishing program that includes the bestselling Yotsuba&! manga remains in the balance as does the future of one of the pioneering powerhouses of the American anime market."
NOT ANYMORE SEZ HIMURO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess now ill HAVE to "BORROW" Gurren :(
I was going to buy Gurren Lagann okay? Get off my case, Ichi. You know just as much as I do that barely anyone buys anime period. So don't put the blame solely on me!
Plus, anime in america was doomed to have a crash. They oversaturated the market thinking everone was going to buy every 9999 anime titles they brought over here, and aside from the absolute RICH fucks like Morphix, no one really gives a shit.
stfu re re
Haha yes thats why walmart sells anime now. stfu re re
I think my brother owns approximately 1000 anime titles. I borrow stuff from him a lot (no quotation marks around borrow).
Look at the titles of those shows. Who, aside from internet UBER GEEKS, could possibly cultivate an interest in PUMPKIN SCISSOR TWINS? This has less to do with piracy and more to do with the gravy train slowing to a stop. Try marketing and not just drift netting Japanese television next time.
Ive never pirated any of those shows
me :bow
When they cancel bleach tho you can blame or praise me
Anime pirates :bowWoah there pahdna, I ain't pirated shit, except for music and OLD roms.
my brothers
Dling GTO right now.
Himuro kills anime in America;
About time you did something good!
QuoteHimuro kills anime in America;
About time you did something good!
Hahaha not really.
Anime is a niche hobby. "lots" aka 10k people
Gankutsuoh :bow 2nd best anime tv series ever
I always figured anime was a healthy seller in Japan, and a better seller in the US simply due to the difference in population size.
[16:20] <duckroll> let's laugh at anime
[16:21] <duckroll> and how it makes no money
[16:21] <duckroll> because no one fucking buys it
[16:21] <duckroll> are you ready?
[16:21] <duckroll> 1
[16:21] <duckroll> 2
[16:21] <duckroll> 3
[16:21] <duckroll> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
[16:21] <Himu> LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Gankutsuoh :bow 2nd best anime tv series ever
Released in the US by your first victim, Geneon. What company will you kill next, Himu? Which of my sources of enjoyment will you slowly strangle with your gigantic flaccid e-penis? I'm betting it'll be Bandai, you cheese-eating bastard.
I just hate self conscious fucks who rattle on about piracy, especially in regards to anime, something who's quality is so random, you must be a fool to buy blindly without having watched before.
People who give me lectures on pirating stuff, especially anime, are on the list. Raijin, Fujin. Don't forget to toss Ichi on THE LIST.
I'm not an otaku. An otaku is something who lives for a certain thing. I rarely watch anime as it is.
I'm not making up excuses at all. I don't give a shit. No one I know has the anime network. I have satelitte and don't have that shit.
Get off my balls when practically every single anime fan on the internet pirates.
Look at the titles of those shows. Who, aside from internet UBER GEEKS, could possibly cultivate an interest in PUMPKIN SCISSOR TWINS? This has less to do with piracy and more to do with the gravy train slowing to a stop. Try marketing and not just drift netting Japanese television next time.
Exactly. It's like I said. Oversaturation. They think we are willing to buy these piece of shit?
Look at the titles of those shows. Who, aside from internet UBER GEEKS, could possibly cultivate an interest in PUMPKIN SCISSOR TWINS? This has less to do with piracy and more to do with the gravy train slowing to a stop. Try marketing and not just drift netting Japanese television next time.
Exactly. It's like I said. Oversaturation. They think we are willing to buy these piece of shit?
I'm sure this does play a part, but come on. It's all the people downloading anime that are the cause of this. Your typical anime geek IS an internet uber geek, and it is ridiculously easy to find and download fansubbed shows, DVD rips, or just watch something on Youtube or a similar video site.
Ichirou says I'm the otaku when he lives in Japan.
Pot meet Kettle.
That's not really fair since Evilbore is pretty anti-anime in the first place.
I "pirate" one piece manga and have been "pirating" one piece manga since 2004. however, i buy one piece manga in the states as well.
I "pirated" beck manga, prior to being licensed some of which I have domestically. they STILL haven't caught up to the point I was at when it was licensed.
I "pirated" deathnote manga, prior to being licensed, some of which I have domestically
I "pirated" 20th century boys, prior to being licensed, but the manga creator is a git who refuses to let them release 20th Cent in the States until they're done releasing his amazing manga Monster
I "pirated" Monster manga, prior to being licensed, and own most of it domestically.
So on. However, with manga I tend to pick up random stuff off the shelf that looks intersting, unlike anime since it tends to be much cheaper. Through this I have been introduced to Tezuka Otomo's Buddha, Yoshihiro Tatsumi's The Push Man and Other Stories, and Abandon the Old in Tokyo.
Suck my nuts. I support the manga industry proudly.
Uh, no. Seriously, even people like Prole who make fun of anime, watch it. Maybe you've been spending too much time at GAF (that forum you swore you'd never go back to) or at their OT (that sub-forum you swore you'd never post in again) and forgot how things actually work at the 'Bore.
Ichirou says I'm the otaku when he lives in Japan.
Pot meet Kettle.
Ichi seems to have himself a social life, and you know...FRIENDS. So I think he's fine. I'd wager you probably are too, Himuro. We aren't otaku. We're just nerds. I'm a big video game nerd. Nerds are okay 'cuz they also have lives outside their hobbies.
Himuro is NOT fine. He is totally fucked up.
Does this mean GL fansubs will finish? I got busy with school and didn't finish GL.
Exactly. I didn't want to get offensive but then Ichi starts calling me an otaku. This guy takes a piss poor troll and turn it into ridiculousness.
i consider otaku the japanese sense. which is the bad sense.
Himuro how many animu women covered pillows do you hug at night
Himuro how many animu women covered pillows do you hug at night
5
*belch*
DMC volume 1 is sitting on the shelf at my job right now. WTF happened to ADV to make them pull so much of their crap? :o
what :lol
No, otaku is a phrase NO ONE should be happy being called, especially referring THEMSELVES to that name. Why would anyone call themselves an otaku? An otaku is an otaku. It has nothing to do with Japanese mindset. How can you change a definition of a word to fit your own culture? An otaku is an otaku, point blank.
i'm doing it because practically every other anime fan thinks ur dum
Himuro how many animu women covered pillows do you hug at night