Forum - View topicNEWS: Kadokawa USA Announces Six New Licenses
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HitokiriShadow
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Ah, so you work for an anime company and have access to sales data?
Ahahahahahahaha. You're "EXP" sure isn't worth much. This is exactly the kind of thing that does sell.
I remember NewtypeCJ commenting on what he knew (not firsthand, mind you) about the Newtype deal going south. I don't think he said anything about the ADV/Geneon deal. Nor has anyone else, as far as I know. |
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FireChick
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I have a question. If Kadokawa USA licensed all of these titles, how come ANN hasn't considered them licensed? I looked at all the titles and they're still considered unlicensed.
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samuelp
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They aren't licensed, in the traditional sense yet. Consider it the same as if Toei or some other JApanese company basically made a statement like "We intend to sell this anime in the US". So far no announcements have been made of who will actually be producing the DVDs, localization work, etc. Nor has Kadokawa actually said that they have found someone to do the work yet. So for all intensive purposes we should interpret it as a very strong statement of "intent" by Kadokawa, but nothing definite yet. |
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FireChick
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Oh. Okay. Just wondered.
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Dargonxtc
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To be honest, this is always what I had assumed as well. Of course I have no proof or insider information, but it just follows logically especially after seeing what we are now. If we are to believe ADV, then they never meshed from the start, as we heard a few days ago from them. I'd be interested in what Key's theories are though, if he would like to make a quick rundown. Though to be honest, Dentsu is not high on my confidence list either. 
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CCSYueh
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I'm not going to dig thru page after page of comments, but as I recall it was an ADV VA or someone reporting an ADV VA on their website saying the Geneon deal wasn't going to happen as posted on one of the several forums here discussing the issue. Something like-just wait XX said it's not happening about a week or so before the deal fell apart. Yeah, I discounted it when it was said (typical forum bull/yeah VA's know everything, right?) because I trusted ADV was sincerely in talks with Geneon to distribute their catalog, but sure enough the deal did go south. That does make it a tad more suspicious that ADV was spending money like water until the credit card got declined & were a tad surprised when they checked their bankbook balance & found a lot less bucks than they thought they had Dentsu-yeah, they're a cold, heartless business with an eye to their bottom line. They didn't give a rat's rear about American fans. They needed to save XX yen. CLosing the US franchise saved XX amount of it. They tried to keep an opening to continue to make money with less risk of damage (so people said last fall about ADV would be taking on the potential of returns at no risk to Geneon). I do know those sales ADV had all the time on their website offering stuff very cheap were often cut-outs. Some of the dvds I got still had Best Buy price tags on them so I was always amazed at the amount of returns ADV had on their titles to offer those sales as often as they did. I wondered if they were over-pressing the amount of dvds for each title. |
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poonk
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 ). Either way, though, it will be mine. (...eventually... I hope).
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