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NEWS: Sojitz to Dissolve ARM Subsidiary for Anime Overseas

I was just getting ready to say quite facetiously that you should get a job and learn something about business.

Dude, the reason you don't have a job is because you don't understand business at all

if for no other reason than they do have a job.

Just the fact that you are blaming "business" for no job security means you don't understand what creates job security.

This is a political line developed after the debacle began, because of course "somebody must pay!", and it won't be the politicians who set up the playing field

I worked for one of the largest mortgage companies at the time. The people running the place were extremely bright, well-intentioned, and doing everything possible within the rules of the game to make money for the company's stockholders and the employees.

If you offer someone a reward for "doing more", and they are the type who likes to compete, improve and win, then don't be surprised when they exceed the expectations you had when you made the rules. The law of unintended consequences so applies in this case.

Seems smart enough, but quite complicated compared to simply getting Sojitz to sell their 20% share to you.

and it won't be the politicians who set up the playing field or the Fed who virtually controls the monetary system in the U.S.

I blame the whole deal on Vic Mignogna. And Tiffany Grant. Heck, all VA's. They ruined it for all of us.

samuelp wrote:

Seems smart enough, but quite complicated compared to simply getting Sojitz to sell their 20% share to you.

Fastest way would be to just pop a reorganitzation. Unfortunately, that's also the fastest way to lose the tag "simple" because it requires (A) being able to pay fair value, unless you feel like having them win in court, and worse (B) getting the entire remaining 80% to vote together with you .. and if ARM had 21.6% as suggested earlier, tough dice.

GATSU, you epitomize what it is to be ignorant . It's so easy to criticize when you have no real idea on how a business operates.

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Leave it to someone who doesn't have a job to criticize on how someone else is running theirs ...

nyuck nyuck ... who cares about funi anyway? not me. I have my 450+ anime dvd library ... everything's good.

I may not have a job, but I have common sense; and that's probably more important than 'experience'.

Oh, I totally understand business. It's all about making money at everyone's expense, including the customer. And if anyone tells you otherwise, they're either in denial, or they haven't actually taken a course in the field.

John O'Donnell is happy to have Suncoast die on him in such a way that he's forced to give away his excess stock at a con, because he can't even make money on it through other vendors

That's because they like building overpriced houses near places which tend to burn pretty easily. Even Arnie's said the state needs to re-evaluate that trend.

I've managed to only be unemployed for all of 3 months since I started working after I turned 18 & that was 30 yrs ago. Experience is worth as much or more than common sense in the workplace

My job isn't all about making money. Mine is all about doing what the law says has to be done.

They were a nice company, but they were very, very, very outdated. Most of their titles were old &/or obscure. Yes, Musicland was a huge blow, but most fans want the hot NEW titles, not older titles.

Animated Classics of Japanese Literature?
Ayane's High Kick?
Birdy the Mighty?
Black Jack?
Lodoss?
Sohryuden?

Don't get me wrong-I have a lot of their stuff, but there was a time a few years back I wondered if Funi, scrambling to find it's way as DBZ was winding down & licensing stuff like Blue Gender, or CPM would die first. Lots of people used to complain CPM was totally out of touch for not having any new big titles that all the kiddies wanted.

It's as crazy as thinking ADV's problems were JUST the Sojitz deal. Yeah, that's why we lost Newtype USA

And all those manga titles they licensed & dropped.

And their anime network

They seem to indicate MAYBE ADV had itself spread a bit thinner than they should have been starting about this time last year when their deal with Geneon collapsed.

I know I sure don't see ADV's recent licensing deals as all that impressive. They're getting old catalog.

Uhhh, Sojitz isn't dead. Sojitz is a large Japanese corporation worth roughly 200 million dollars.

In the last 15 posts this thread has gone from the worst thread ever to the best thread ever.

Ah, GATSU you nut-bar. You totally brighten my day.

What skills did Arnie and Reagan have before running for office?

Hell, I took a test for office assistant for the state, and the last interviewer was more concerned that I had too much experience, rather than whether I could actually do the job.

So you're a cop?

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They were a nice company, but they were very, very, very outdated. Most of their titles were old &/or obscure. Yes, Musicland was a huge blow, but most fans want the hot NEW titles, not older titles.

Kakurenbo wasn't old.

Most of their titles were old &/or obscure.

Most of those were recent within the time-frame in which CPM was still running. In addition, the Black Jack manga made a comeback here, while Birdy has a tv remake.

Kind of ironic you bring up FUNi, what with them license-rescuing Slayers and all...But I guess that's only because it's brand new.

Utena used to be one of the biggest effing cosplaying fads, for eff's sake!

They were doing fine until Geneon collapsed.

No idea about Ronnie, but I voted for Arnold because he was a Republican with heavy Democrat leanings.

Sadly, everyone wants to work at government jobs for the perceived stability (Though we do our share of lay-offs).

There's also favoritism & nepotism to deal with in some areas. Basically you have to keep interviewing & interviewing unless you know someone.

No. I've said I work enforcing court orders.

NOW
Not 5 yrs ago when CPM was still in the game.

They said it was too important a title to allow the license to expire.

ADV had great titles & Bandai also. Geneon always had loyal fans but were always perceived as expensive. MB & CPM always seemed to go for older titles (I always assumed because a title that had been passed over was probably cheaper). This was at least 3 yrs before Yawaru was announced.

USED to be.
Everyone used to talk about Sailor Moon & Fushigi Yugi, but that's died down to basically a core audience. My teen's friends went from one hot title (Full Moon) to the next each year as the new titles were up to be downloaded.

However, the more time that passes with a title unlicensed, the more likely it seems we'll never see it licensed here which is why I was so happy Haruka & SRW made it over thanks to Bandai Visual. No one seemed to be beating down the doors of the studios that made those titles.

I thought it was Geneon's owners in Japan decided to close up their American office & were looking for an American partner & talks were proceeding but suddenly ADV dropped poor Geneon like a hot potato when their drop dead date given them by Dentsu was minutes away so that's why we ended up where we did.
Basically Geneon picked the wrong partner.

But as I said, all the stuff together suggested when ADV looked at their bottom line while planning to sign the Geneon deal, they realized their bottom line wasn't all that pretty.

Most of the titles announced in that last bunch were rescues which also suggests CHEAPER TO LICENSE.