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| Conan-san Posts: 766 |
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| Well, my hands are in the air, I realy REALY want to support ADV but I can't do that if there's no show I want to buy off them.
I can only buy Nadesico so many times before I start wasting my money. |
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khryoleoz Posts: 112 |
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I'm not following the import of your response. Are you saying that ADV can afford to take no particular interest in this guy's money? Why ADV would think it acceptable to cut off revenue from certain pissed off fans given the current state of the industry isn't something of which I can make sense. Consumers are made up of lots of people of different views and temperaments. That includes we whose bloated idea of self-importance delude us to thinking that our buying a studio's DVD from our local anime shop has every bit of financial significance as buying that studio's shares from our local broker. ADV partnered with Sojitz towards a single end, raise venture capital to put out products in order to compel me to pay for them. We are compelled to buy Gurren-Lagann. So where is it? It's not illegitimate to ask for the state of a certain title which scheduled release date has long passed, and be concerned about a new acquisition being announced while silence is maintained over that past due title. A simple comment such as "we still have the title and we are working on releasing it" is very reassuring. To be unable to either confirm or deny where the issue is a matter of fact only affirms something about the issue that cannot be taken as fact. Hence, any comment one way or another would be preferred. Last edited by khryoleoz on Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:21 am; edited 1 time in total |
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| nuaythebest Posts: 22 |
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I think the article is not complete because same one at AoD said that ADV did say something about these titles.
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kokuryu Posts: 910 |
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| Well I for one am very glad that Kiba is finally coming to the US. It's a GREAT series, with a good plot line and tons of action in it. I just hope they skip the DUB route and just release the whole series in a box set. I'm getting tired of waiting for years after the announcements to get the whole series on DVD. | ||||
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britannicamoore Subscriber Posts: 2354 Location: Detroit, MI. Or should I say Mt. Pleasant, MI? I live in a hand. |
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I just click the link for that, and adv's site for the show is gone as well. *sigh* I feel like giving up. As for kiba, saw a few episodes and it looks ok. Maybe a box or thinpak for me. |
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| minuet Posts: 14 Location: USA |
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| I watched all of Kiba. I nearly stopped, but around episode 8 it really went in an unexpected direction and I was hooked! | ||||
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| Conan-san Posts: 766 |
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And, frankly, they will only have themselves to blame. I wonder if Ledford will throw another temper tamtrum once they run out of "keep the licence for Gunsou" money and blame it on the fans who want to see the damn thing again. |
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| Lonestar9 Posts: 15 |
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I don't see this happening, to me it's later if ever, something odd is going on, but we'll just wait and see what the deal is. |
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Toshirodragon Posts: 151 Location: Ogden, Utah... in my computer chair where I belong |
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After episode 22 it took off and got really good... had to get the whiny female out of the pic so our shounen heros could fight unencumbered! ~_* |
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lyricaldanichan Posts: 130 Location: Sacramento, CA |
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Apparently Zac knows that ADV lost the rights to G-L and doesn't want to confirm or deny! 
Why is ADV giving everybody blue balls? If it is true they sold it to another company *cough*spoiler[Funimation]*cough* then just announce it and move on instead of announcing a new title. Just saying... |
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Mmsven Posts: 79 |
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Has it ever occurred to you that dubs are one of the reasons anime DVDs sell at all? If a DVD is sub only, it will have to be very cheap for me to buy it (like Millennium Actress). Anyway, Kiba sounds really cliche by its plot summary but since its Madhouse I will check it out anyway. |
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| Zac ANN Executive Editor  Posts: 4298 Location: Death Star Cocktail Lounge |
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No, but the "RARGH ADV HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT OR DO ANYTHING AT ALL BEFORE GIVING ME MY GIANT ROBOT CARTOON I ALREADY SAW MONTHS AGO!!!" thing is obnoxious. They'll get it out when they get it out. I can see being annoyed but yeesh, some of you are ridiculous. |
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Skyhawk Posts: 17 |
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Thank you for saying what I have been wanting to say for a long time. I am really glad that ADV picked up Kiba, I have seen all 51 episodes three times, its one of my favorite shows like Monster, Kenichi and Angel Heart. Now for Guren Lagaan, after 5 episodes I couldn't stand it any more and got rid of it. |
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| belisarius Posts: 193 Location: Concord, NC |
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First, I watched roughly six episodes of Kiba fansubs and it was an epitome of distilled shonen cliches. The surprisingly proficient young punk, the grizzled mentor, the morally ambiguous conflict that isn't really morally ambiguous, the villain and rival archetypes. I could see it selling well to a young DBZ type crowd but everything it does, Naruto does 10 times better. Most of the time it's bad, when it's not being bad it's horribly contrived. Secondly, there are a group of people who started watching TTGL via fansubs and stopped when ADV made their licensing announcement and who have (as a result) been waiting with breathless anticipation for its subsequent release. I am one of these people. The treatment the series has received since being picked up has been, to say the least, rather vexing. It's like going on a date where you make it to first base, being promised a second date where more will happen, and then never having your phone calls returned. Yes, in the grand scheme of things whether or not I get to see my giant robot Japanese cartoon is less important than paying my rent or having health insurance. I understand that. But when a vocal majority of people online (including some of the people chiding posters over their frustration in this thread) are trying to encourage domestic companies like ADV to expedite their release times, how this situation can be looked upon as anything but an embarrassment for ADV is beyond me. You don't have to be a shareholder or an economics major to know that failure to get your product on the shelves in a timely manner is bad business. |
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| Mysticmidnightmaiden Posts: 114 Location: California (Bay Area) |
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| I think the thing that vexes most of us TTGL fans is that we just have no info regarding the delay of the DVD release. I don't know about you, but I've preordered the first DVD since I saw it come on Amazon. If ADV just gave us a typical "There are problems here and here, but don't worry! We're working on it..." response, I think many of the fans would be satisfied.
BTW, ADV, WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM!!! My credit card is one with enough credit to pierce the heavens! Shouldn't you have me and my fellow fans ROW ROW FIGHTing the crowds in stores and online merchants to buy your products?! BELIEVE IN ME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU and please release either Volume 1 or some info!!! kthxbye (/TTGL references... lol) |
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