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jenthehen
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ADV Dubs were pretty good: AzuDaioh Kanon Air Princess Tutu .... |
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Ryusui
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It's sad to say, but this news didn't surprise me in the least.
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Megiddo
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At least half of my collection are ADV titles.
Thank you so much for Evangelion, Nerima Daikon Bros, Air TV, Noir, Utawarerumono, Nadesico, Hoshi no Koe, Peacemaker Kurogane, and many others. Another big distributor is down. Now that just leaves FUNi, Bandai, Nozomi/RightStuf, and Media Blasters =\ |
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Polly E.
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On both nostalgic and sorry for those involved in the collapse levels this one's a pretty big oof. So many VHS and DVD titles in my library are from them. Seeing their struggle for the past year or two has been pretty painful and I can only imagine how awful it must be for those that had to live through it.
Oof. |
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Myaow
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Sob! ADV was always my favorite. It released two of my favorite series in the world, and almost released the third. This is sad news.
ADV IS DEAD, BUT IN MY HEART AND IN VARIOUS SMALLER COMPANIES IT LIVES ON [/pathetic] |
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einhorn303
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Although, ADV has basically just been reconstituted as Sentai.
All of "ADV's" new anime releases, including the upcoming Clannad After Story, have technically been produced by Sentai. So outside of corporate reshuffling, I'm not sure this will actually lead to many real changes. |
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vashfanatic
 Posts: 3492 Location: Back stateside |
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Forgive my total lack of business understanding, but from the way I'm reading it (which is probably wrong), ADV is dividing itself up into a bunch of smaller companies. Is that completely off-base? Could someone who's more savvy on this sort of thing explain what's going on?
And of course the most important question: what's going to happen to their licenses? (they just picked up some from CPM, after all) |
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britannicamoore
 Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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Wow. I figured it was going to happen but it sucks to see it did. ADV has been dead on its feet for awhile now. I'm just glad that the ref finally hit ten on the down count.
Funimation is just too hot to handle now. It's pretty much the whole anime market besides Bandai. |
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firedragon54738
 Posts: 3113 Location: wisconsin |
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Sigh there goes anther one and one of the good ones to i wounder how long before anther one goes under
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Craeyst Raygal
 Posts: 1383 Location: In the garage, beneath a 1970 MGB GT. |
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It's certainly sad that ADV as a company is going away, however I think that it would be interesting to trace the money trails on AEsir, Valkyrie, SXION23, and Seraphim Studios.
There's a solid chance that this is more of a reorganization than anything else, much like Geneon's restructuring. While it's sad to lose the ADV name on some levels, it doesn't appear that stalwart titles like Evangelion and Azumanga Daioh are going to be leaving shelves anytime soon. |
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8467 Location: Penguinopolis |
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Azumanga Daioh is the only of those I've heard. It was barely tolerable. Bad ADV dubs: - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Blue Seed - Bubblegum Crisis 2040 - Fist of the North Star - Getbackers - Elfen Lied - Dai-Guard - RahXephon - Comic Party - etc Good ADV dubs: - Excel Saga Annnnd that's about it. Last edited by penguintruth on Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:22 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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hussar67
 Posts: 57 Location: Culpeper, VA |
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A good way to say goodbye: a simple expression of thanks. ADV was the garage band that made it big. It's rare to find a company that has real personality and quirks and has the "by fans, for fans" mindset. This hits me tons harder than Geneon or Central Park Media. It's silly to say so, but I got the sense of being part of a community with ADV from their DVD commentaries, reading interviews with their producers and actors, reading NewtypeUSA, and being able to personally meet so many ADVers at conventions. Thank you ADV, for everything. I will miss you and value your products that I own even more now. |
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The_Libertarian_Otaku
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WHAT THE HELL MAN? WHY DID THIS HAVE TO HAPPEN?
Now who's gonna sell me CPM's former shows? What about the rest of ADV's catalog? How am I supposed to snatch up Sister Princess, Rune Soldier, Gantz, Madlax, Getbackers, Macross, Evangelion, the Slayers OVAs, and everything else that they had? WHY DID ADV HAVE TO DIE? THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN! |
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bayoab
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You basically nailed it.
This should give you a start: http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/Index.html Also check Sentai while you are at it. 
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MeggieMay
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 Am I one of the few people reading this thread that realizes that nothing much has changed but the name on the companies? Basically they owners of ADV sold their single company to several other companies owned by them (i.e. they sold ADV to themselves). It's a big shell game that business sometimes do. While I'm saddened to hear that ADV Films as a name is no more I'm fairly sure that everyone who was left at this point at ADV has a good chance, if not already moving over too, being employed by the new companies created (and ADV had been re-releasing much of their back catalog under the Sentai Works company title all year, for those who hadn't noticed).
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