Forum - View topicNEWS: ADV Takes Over Geneon's Sales, Marketing, Distribution
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prime_pm
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I've, actually, been seeing Geneon titles for $20 at Best Buy nowadays. Weird. But I really hope they'll help distribute better trailers for Geneon. It's difficult enough just getting to the trailers menu without skipping past it. But, I may be a little ahead of myself here.
As for conflict of interest, that's a tricky thing in the anime industry. I mean, in this industry, we're all generally anime fans and we all want to see one's titles as much as the next guy's stock, right? So there's really no reason to make conflict to begin with. But, nowadays, there have been some strange things going on in the industries; ADV just lost Golden Boy to another company, and Funimation's rereleasing Slayers and Love Hina. In any case, the synergy thing should help them forgo any unnecessary legal problems. Last edited by prime_pm on Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:17 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Porcupine
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Some people buy them, sure. But people who buy those magazines and ALSO keep up-to-date by downloading fansubs, checking online sites, etc....don't count. Why? Because they will have sufficient "advertisement" through their own means (downloading fansubs, etc). It's only people who buy a lot of those magazines, who DON'T download ANY anime...but yet buy a lot of anime, but NOT every single title that comes out (there are some people like this too)...that are affected by these ads. Now tell me, do you know a single such person? I bet not. Certainly, it's not the "average fan" who fits that description. I could be wrong, but the only regular poster on this entire board who never downloads anime but buys a reasonable amount of anime is probably me, and I never read those mags... I'd read them if they were free, though. But I'd rather use my money to buy another title and take my chances than buy one of those anime mags, which to me are a little too geeky. |
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musashi1600
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I'd have to disagree with you being the only one here doing that. |
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Porcupine
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musashi1600
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Doesn't buy anime-related magazines, doesn't download anime, and buys DVDs as my primary method of getting my fix? Yeah, that's me. 
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Porcupine
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But at Suncoast, the prices of titles from these 3 studios is generally identically discounted (when a New Release). So it's strange. And only Geneon gets the super huge 50% to 75% off discounts from time-to-time. ADVision never gets discounts at all. I once saw Bandai Ent get a 50% off discount but that was like 4 years ago. Like Hitokiri said, it's hard to say if these new developments will make the cost of Geneon stuff like ADVision stuff. But IF it happens, would that be good or bad? At least with the current state of things it would be bad because we would lose the occasional Geneon 50% to 75% off sales at Suncoast. A couple months back I got the Last Exile entire boxset for only $23...and the Mahoromatic entire boxset for only $23...because of that.
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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As a likely futile attempt to curb all the baseless speculation and rumormongering that will likely result in this thread, keep in mind that this story is effectively a leak; official details will likely come next week from either company.
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Porcupine
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In the whole world there are probably almost 0 people who are heavily affected by those ads but again that's just my opinion. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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You're basing this on what, the fact that you personally don't read magazines? Does the sun revolve around you as well, or just the earth? |
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Porcupine
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Porcupine
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1) has NEVER downloaded any anime fansub before 2) buys at least two or three anime titles each month, but not more than ten (this would count as "buying everything" in which case advertising is not relevant to such people) 3) buys all the anime magazines that come out If you can honestly say "yes" to that then you might have a LITTLE evidence that I'm wrong. If MOST of the people you know are like that, then I'm clearly wrong. But I'm guessing you don't even know a single person like that. Last edited by Porcupine on Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:47 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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prime_pm
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True. Makes sense. I just feel I'm going to miss ADV Films' Golden Boy, mostly. For an English dub, Doug Stone was a trip as Kentaro. Love Hina makes more sense because of both series of Negima here and there, not to mention Bandai's dubbing was lousy back then (still no word on redubbing the show, right?). As for magazines, I may occasionally pick up a free mag at a convention if it suits me. Otherwise, I have the internet. And Netflix. Last edited by prime_pm on Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:50 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Porcupine
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Yeah Golden Boy was just a random occurence I think. I'm curious how the Anime Works version will be, too. Since I don't have the ADVision DVD version of Golden Boy (I didn't buy it even when it was cheap) I might get the Anime Works version. But I want to get the better version. Mainly I care about the DVD authoring and encoding quality though, moreso than the dub. I never heard the Golden Boy dub that's why so I dunno (I only have the subtitled old ADV VHS tapes).
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musashi1600
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Advertising anime may have the aim of convincing people to buy a certain title, but in my experience, I haven't seen or heard of anyone (ranging from relatively new fans only familiar with major titles like Inuyasha and reading various anime magazines, to long-timers who have seen dozens of varied titles and stick with the Internet) who bought an anime on the sole basis of an ad, regardless of whether it was in a magazine, on a web page banner, or an actual banner at a convention. Instead, I see people basing their decisions on what they hear from other fans (word-of-mouth), or by catching a screening at a con, club, or even borrowing a friend's DVDs. The most I've seen advertising do is alert people that a given title exists, and may warrant further inquiry. Like I've said, this is just my personal experience, so there is the possibility numerous people I don't know have bought an anime because they saw it advertised in a magazine. I personally doubt that. |
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