Forum - View topicNEWS: AnimEigo's You're Under Arrest License Ends in January
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ljaesch
Posts: 299 Location: Enumclaw, WA |
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I've really been getting the impression lately that AnimEigo is quietly pulling itself out of the anime business, especially since all we hear from them anymore on the anime front has to do with the anime licenses that the company is losing.
However, I do give them credit for announcing to the anime fanbase that they are losing the license to a property, and especially for giving as much notice as they do. At least it gives the fans of the property a chance to try to acquire AnimeEigo's releases for it before they officially go OOP. |
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Gilles Poitras
Posts: 476 Location: Oakland California |
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You can still get two of the box sets, 2 and 4, from AnimEigo, the boxes came with a bonus disk.
http://www.animeigo.com/products/anime/youre-under-arrest If folks want AnimEigo to license more anime consider buying titles from them that you don't own. They have had major gems in the past that no one has rescued. |
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Weiss_Yohji
Posts: 115 |
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AnimEigo's not even going to bother renewing the license for You're Under Arrest? Don't they even give a shit?
Looks like FUNimation, Bandai, or some other company should just buy AnimEigo. |
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AnimeNerd25
 Posts: 2 Location: Tampa/Orlando, FL |
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It's sad to see AnimEigo lose the license to YUA. But what bugs me is that The Anime Network streams season 1 of YUA on their website. Does this mean that Sentai Filmworks might rescue license YUA season one? It would make sense because they have the second and third seasons already.
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enurtsol
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They already have the license for years. Unless the re-license is cheap, whatever return of investment they will get back from it is mostly in the past, not in the future. (It's like re-signing an aging sports player - his best days are behind him.)
What's the point? They don't have that many licenses left. 
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GATSU
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Personally, I think Animeigo's sort of lost it, ever since they let FUNimation have Yu Yu Hakusho. That would've been the show to get them the kind of exposure they normally wouldn't get with their other properties, and they just fiddled around with niche anime licenses they were only going to have a few years on. [Macross and KOR.] It just seems like they totally missed the boat on the anime bubble and the emerging DVD market, and never really came back since then.
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kusanagi-sama
 Posts: 1723 Location: Wichita Falls, TX |
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Looks as though AnimEigo is getting out of the anime business.
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Kabuman
Posts: 6 Location: Virginia |
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This is sad. Can they even be called Animeigo anymore if they lose their anime licenses? When they lose their UY license in September they'll be selling more live-action DVDs than anime. Shouldn't they just change their name?
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1817 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Should get the Bubblegum Crisis OAVs before AnimEigo's license expires.
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Surrender Artist
 Posts: 3264 Location: Pennsylvania, USA |
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I've been equivocating over how to buy You're Under Arrest for a while. I've been unable to decide whether I should go through the nuisance of gathering the box sets or just buy the single discs. I'm still not sure, but in light of this, I should probably hurry at least a little. |
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Deadwing
 Posts: 174 Location: North Augusta, SC |
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Well, it looks like I'll have to pick me up a copy before January. I put it off for years since I had rented it from a local anime shop some 8 or 9 years ago, but I better get it while the getting's good.
Actually, some of them have. If we're not counting "licensors" that are really just the American branch of the Japanese company that produced a series (e.g., Bandai in the case of Gundam, Tenchi in the case of Pioneer), then Funimation has had DBZ for 15 years, and they've had some other properties (Blue Gender, Yu Yu Hakusho) for about 10 years. Manga has had the rights to several properties, including the original Ghost in the Shell film, since the 90s. ADV had Evangelion and Devil Hunter Yohko (and perhaps other titles) for well over 10 years. Viz has had the rights to the Ranma ½ anime since 1994. And AnimEigo has had the rights to Madox-01 (their first ever release) and Bubblegum Crisis since the late 80s (source for BGC; I actually have a copy of that magazine somewhere), which makes those the oldest existing licenses, and they may have had Urusei Yatsura for just as long. So, it's far from unheard of for a licensor to have held on for a title for a decade or longer.
They're a scrappy little company, that's for sure. They've been in the business since 1988, longer than any other licensor of anime (well, Viz is older, but they didn't start licensing anime until the 90s). |
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RoverTX
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This show is a total buy..... except for strike man...... god how I hate him. How can any character be any more annoying. The worst part is I can't decided if he is worse in the subs or in the dub.... but besides that the show is awesome, its very funny, with a little slice of life, and some really light fan servicespoiler[(which half the time is used in jokes about a certain officer who is not what she seems)].
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GATSU
Posts: 15307 |
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Gilles:
I have. In fact, I just salvaged the rest of UY. I'm not sure what the hell goes into their licenses nowadays. I mean, some obscure space thingey which would probably be a low-profile release from Kino? Gimme a break. enurtsol:
Well, they could've still re-issued it all as thin-packs... Surrender: Just wait for someone to bring it out cheaper. |
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Finny-chan
 Posts: 448 Location: West Virginia, U.S.A |
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Maybe Sentai might get it since they have the sequels? |
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