A.D. Vision, the parent company of ADV Films, has announced that it is shutting down after transfering its assets to several other companies that will continue its operations. AEsir Holdings has acquired selected programming from ADV's film library along with other intellectual property. The SXION 23 (Section23 Films) home video distribution company will assume account servicing and distribution operations for AEsir's assets. Valkyrie Media Partners has acquired 100% of ADV's Anime Network television unit, while Seraphim Studios has acquired ADV's Amusement Park Media production unit.
Former ADV Films staffer Chris Oarr has notified ANN that several former staffers have been hired by SXION 23 and the other companies.
Update: All of the new companies are officially based in Houston, the home of A.D. Vision. SXION 23's business filing was dated on May 20, while AEsir Holdings, Valkyrie Media Partners, and Seraphim Studios were filed eight days later on May 28. SXION 23, Valkyrie Media Partners, and Seraphim Studios share the same address in western Houston, 8 miles (13 kilometers) from A.D. Vision. Sentai Filmworks, another business entity for which A.D. Vision and Amusement Park Media handled distribution and production, is also located in western Houston.
Update 2: SXION 23, Valkyrie Media Partners, and Seraphim Studio are filed under Griffin D. Vance IV's name. Griffin Vance was A.D. Vision's former Senior Vice-President of Business and Legal Affairs, but he now operates his own law practice. Vance's law firm shares the same postal address as SXION 23, Valkyrie Media Partners, and Seraphim Studio.
Update 3: The Anime Network confirms that, since it "has always been a separate entity from ADV," it will continue to operate.
Update 4: According to Anime Corner Store owner Robert Brown, former ADV Films Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Mike Bailiff will now head up Sales and Marketing at SXION 23 (Section 23). Brown reports that SXION 23 has all of ADV's former licenses and most of its staff, but not ADV's former owner John Ledford. SXION 23 will continue to distribute the current orders and future pre-orders that ADV used to fulfill, without changing their schedules.
This is a victory for good taste in general.
seedier aspects of non-hentai anime?
Does anyone really care? I thought otakooz just downloaded everything anyway.
ADV is essentially still around, just now as several smaller companies, all based in the same area as ADV was. A lot of the same staff even went to these companies.
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They didn't do a good job with their terrible pricing, but that had a lot to do with the insane licensing fees that most Japanese animation companies charge.
They didn't do a good job with their terrible pricing, but that had a lot to do with the insane licensing fees that most Japanese animation companies charge.
there aren't many big players in anime in the U.S., but there's gotta be a profitable way to market it that isn't $30 for 4 episodes.
This is a victory for good taste in general.
ADV has had a lot of good anime series and movies
seedier aspects of non-hentai anime?
One of ADV's big things was the jiggle-counter, for a while anyway. It's not that hard to figure out what it was used for.
Does anyone really care? I thought otakooz just downloaded everything anyway.
Some people probably don't care and I know there are people that are rejoicing right now, but a collapse in the American anime industry would only be a bad thing for anime fans since it means less money going back to Japan to support new shows there.
They didn't do a good job with their terrible pricing, but that had a lot to do with the insane licensing fees that most Japanese animation companies charge.
why does japan always fail at weird stuff like this...
it's like konami and music games. if they weren't so restrictive and stuck in the mud, they could've had the music game genre tied around their fingers.
there aren't many big players in anime in the U.S., but there's gotta be a profitable way to market it that isn't $30 for 4 episodes.
seedier aspects of non-hentai anime?
One of ADV's big things was the jiggle-counter, for a while anyway. It's not that hard to figure out what it was used for.
They did this with more than just Agent Aika?
DOES NOT COMPUTE
Funimation has the Initial D license, right?They didn't do a good job with their terrible pricing, but that had a lot to do with the insane licensing fees that most Japanese animation companies charge.
there aren't many big players in anime in the U.S., but there's gotta be a profitable way to market it that isn't $30 for 4 episodes.
This is why Funimation has become the biggest player in the anime industry in just a few years, THEY STARTED RELEASING BOX SETS OF NEW SHOWS.
They were actually co-producers for the excellent Kino's Journey. Plus, they had Cromartie High School, Diamond Daydreamers, Full Metal Panic, Excel Saga, Dirty Pair, Slayers, Robotech, Princess 9, Sakura Wars, and...uh...maybe something else that I can't think of at the moment.
Funimation has the Initial D license, right?They didn't do a good job with their terrible pricing, but that had a lot to do with the insane licensing fees that most Japanese animation companies charge.
there aren't many big players in anime in the U.S., but there's gotta be a profitable way to market it that isn't $30 for 4 episodes.
This is why Funimation has become the biggest player in the anime industry in just a few years, THEY STARTED RELEASING BOX SETS OF NEW SHOWS.
They were actually co-producers for the excellent Kino's Journey. Plus, they had Cromartie High School, Diamond Daydreamers, Full Metal Panic, Excel Saga, Dirty Pair, Slayers, Robotech, Princess 9, Sakura Wars, and...uh...maybe something else that I can't think of at the moment.
I think Triumph is implying all anime is shite.
ADV has had a lot of good anime series and movies, but they have also been at the forefront of some of the seedier aspects of non-hentai anime. Plus, for the past year or two they haven't done much of anything.
ADV has had a lot of good anime series and movies, but they have also been at the forefront of some of the seedier aspects of non-hentai anime. Plus, for the past year or two they haven't done much of anything.
i dont think you get the point, just the fact that it is an anime company makes it a bastion of bad taste
Most years it's like 1-2 max, which suuucks. The ratio used to be better before the 2000s, but now the industry is commercially driven to the point of producing only shit anymore.
Agreed.
I think pre-2004-2005 we saw more interesting anime but now you're lucky to get one great show a year.