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Interview: President of NIS Sohei Niikawa

Our Home's Fox Deity - Nice art, ass animation. Nice core idea and some nice episode plots (particularly regarding the Byakki), but lousy execution of comedy and humor in general. Maybe the biggest mixed bag as far as NIS releases go. (That I've seen, that is.)

Cecilthedarkknight_234 wrote:

Mohawk52 wrote: angelmcazares wrote: Yeah, they are not in the boobs and senseless action crap Funimation is. I do not have anything against FUNi, but just because they dub almost everything it does not make them a better company automatically. Is there another reason why they are the biggest anime distributor outside of Japan then? They never where until genon usa and adv films went under and scooped up all of their old titles making them huge while sentai had a chance to restructure it's self?? Also didn't funimaiton only have dragon ball z, one piece, shuffle and few other titles before the collapse of 08?

They had quite a lot of titles, several of them hugely successful like FMA. Quantity means nothing unless those shows sell well. Geneon is gone and ADV became Sentai because both companies tended to license shows without figuring out if they could pay back their money. Geneon licensed series because previous series lost money so they needed to make a profit on the new title. The result is that they overpaid for everything.

Look at how Del Rey and ADV entered the manga business, Del Rey carefully chose their titles that they knew were going to make a profit, while ADV manga just randomly licensed manga because they wanted to challenge Viz as the leader in manga right off the bat. ADV licensed a ton of manga from Mag Garden that were sequels to manga that had been left unlicensed. The result is that Del Rey manga launch was a huge success with Negima being a huge hit while ADV manga floundered because the successful manga like Azumanga Daioh couldnt cover all the flops because Viz can release a ton of manga because its owned by Shueisha and Shogakukan.

I remember when NISA licensed Natsume. I felt like someone had just surprised me with a lavish gift, or I had won the lottery.

I can't thank NISA enough for my #1 most hoped for license. So happy to have the set, I'm ordering another one today and sharing the love. Can't wait for your future Natsume sets! I will order two, thank you.

I love the premium editions. Most of these titles I really had no hope of ever owning, but thanks to you - LUCKY ME!!! Titles like Bunny Drop, and House of Five Leaves. NISA premium boxes are the treasures of my collection.

In addition to what I've mentioned above, I've bought both premium sets of Pandora Hearts, Our Home's Fox Diety, Persona Trinity Soul, Katanagatari, and Arakawa, all three premium boxes of Kimi ni Todoke, and your beautiful single premiums of Anohana and Zakuro.

I even built a special shelf to accommodate them (which now can only fit about 4 or 5 more sets).

Looking forward to building a new shelf in the future!

I couldn't disagree more. I thought the comedy in OHFD was fantastic and had real heart. Humour is subjective, of course, but I encourage people to at least sample some of the show. It deserves more attention. I will admit that the first episode isn't the strongest, but it really picks up after that.

@ tuxedocat - your post warmed the cockles of my stony, dark heart, fellow NISA-lover. I intend to own a Premium Edition copy of every title NISA puts out.

Well, we've both watched the shows and we've both expressed our opinions about it. I guess that's all anyone else can expect, really. Don't worry about it.

And honestly, if you liked the comedy, you should present a few points -- you know, embellish a little -- so people can read both our statements and then decide for themselves.

But after a while I just got so tired of hearing the sounds of breaking plates and/or glass and Nobu fretting over his budget, ...