Forum - View topicNEWS: Media Blasters Delays, Cancels Releases
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Angel M Cazares
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I agree with the people genuinely worried about Media Blasters, who would rather seen it exit the market for good rather than it being in intensive therapy.
I also see some hypocrisy and selfishness from those who are basically saying: Just release the series I want and who cares if MB continues to struggle and, in the process, screw the market with their irresponsible practices. I am not very familiar with Media Blasters titles, but it has to be a shitty deal to trust a company to release something and then be screwed. We do not need unreliable distributors. |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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On their inevitable exit from the anime game... "i can feel it coming in the air tonight..."
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Catseyetiger
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well, company bite the dust.
this means the death of Geneon and bandi-entertainment now have company! sad day for anime. |
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Mesonoxian Eve
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In the US, the costs of intensive therapy are far more expensive than death. For me, MB simply has nothing else to offer me, save one final purchase of Kite on DVD (as the bluray has been postponed), that I'm interested in and I will not be surprised if others feel the same way. I just see the death of MB as being inevitable. It just doesn't have the inventory the bigger players have. It's last gamble appears to be Squid Girl, because they dubbed it despite an obvious strapped-for-cash situation (evidenced with their freelance employee situation). |
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Chrno2
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This doesn't sound good at all. I'm really worried if they disappear. But you have to keep in mind they are a small time company that releases niche titles. It can either do you good or will kill you. I doubt the adult releases will keep them going.
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Ambimunch
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and I was looking forward to Kite....
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AnimeCornerStore
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If someone at Stuf was told by Sirabella that the FY OVA will be rescheduled later, well, I'm not sure I would be comfortable putting that out to people (or maybe they are still just drinking the coolaid), but we were definitely told that the release for the FY OVA was being CANCELED. Here's a copy of the sheet we were sent: CANCELATIONS TSV 4 1224 Tokyo Vengeance............. 3/26/2013 CANCELLED 631595122480 SSW 4 1222 Unaware..................... 3/12/2013 CANCELLED 631595122299 AWS 4 1303 Fushigi Yugi OVA............ 2/26/2013 CANCELLED 631595130379 AWS 4 1221 Gaogaigar Complete.......... 3/12/2013 CANCELLED 631595122176 TSV 4 1226 Suzune Genesis.............. 2/26/2013 CANCELLED 631595122688 TSV 4 1305 Suzune Evolution............ 2/26/2013 CANCELLED 631595130584 AWS N 1208 Kite Blu-ray................ 2/26/2013 CANCELLED 631595120875 SSW 4 1221 Feed, The................... 2/12/2013 CANCELLED 631595122190 TSV 4 1304 Chanbara Beauty: The Movie V 2/12/2013 CANCELLED 631595130485 TSV N 1221 Dracula vs Frankenstein..... 2/12/2013 CANCELLED 631595122183 TSV 4 1302 Zombie Ass.................. 1/22/2013 CANCELLED 631595130287 DATE CHANGES AWS 4 1223 Ai No Kusabi: The Space Betw 3/12/2013 4/23/2013 631595122374 SSW 4 1220 Claustrophobia.............. 2/26/2013 1/22/2013 631595122091 TSV 4 1223 Lady Ninja: Reflections of D 1/22/2013 2/26/2013 631595122381 SSW 4 1218 Darnell Dawkins Mouth Guitar 1/8/2013 2/26/2013 631595121896 SSW 4 1219 Bio-Slime................... 1/8/2013 2/26/2013 631595121995 TSV 4 1301 Possession in Japan, The.... 1/8/2013 3/26/2013 631595130188 That's got to be about one whole quarters worth of new releases for them. Squid Girl 2 was not listed in yesterday's e-mail but apparently has been shot down as well. At this point we are considering all release plans from MB to be soft until the titles actually arrive on our dock. Outside of that, it's just dust in the wind. Bob (aka Robert) President The Anime Corner Store Follow RACS on Twitter or Facebook or on the RACS Official Blog |
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Clyde_Cash
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What's it going to take for the Great Anime Crash to finally end?
Note to John Sirabella: Sell the company! I don't care if FUNimation, Viz, Manga, or Sentai buys MB. Just sell the company and avoid Bandai's mistakes! |
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TsukasaElkKite
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Ai no Kusabi: The Space Between: April 2013
and cancelling Squid Girl, Part 3 (Season 2) *INCOHERENT SWEARING* GODDAMNIT, MEDIA BLASTERS, GET YOUR SH!T IN ORDER!
WHAT?! Last edited by TsukasaElkKite on Thu Nov 29, 2012 4:15 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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chichiri_chan
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Although that's definitely not what I wanted to hear, I greatly appreciate your sharing that. Hopefully either them or someone else will release it again someday... ::sighs:: Even after being burnt by them, I hate to see an anime distrubutor suffer. I would love to see them somehow pick themselves back up again... |
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Mr. sickVisionz
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I hope they relinquish the Squid Girl rights so that someone else could pick it up. I think a company like NISA or Sentai (boo hiss at Sentai though because it would DVD only) could find a way to make it break even, if not profitable series.
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Lynx Amali
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WELP.
Time to pick up those GGG Season Sets after all. FFFFFFFFFF. 
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Blood-
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What makes you think it would be DVD-only if Sentai gets Squid Girl? |
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PurpleWarrior13
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If Media Blasters shuts down, it really wouldn't be as big a deal as Bandai:
1. Unlike Bandai in it's final days, Media Blasters hardly licenses or releases anything new. 2. Media Blasters has let nearly their entire catalog expire, so there won't suddenly be tons of anime going OOP... it's already happened!
Yeah, the days of releasing anime on in low-episode DVD singles is pretty much over. MB claims that they were told to release it this way by the Japanese company, but I'm pretty sure they could've handled the release far better. |
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penguintruth
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Quick, somebody check Manga Entertainment's pulse.
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