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NEWS: ADV Films Licenses Xenosaga Anime

I see ADV's licensing of this anime a bit too late for its own good; the series is already finished and many people already watched the fansubs or heard enough bad things about it to steer clear from it.

I don't know how this release will do (personally, I won't get it until the cheap thinpak is out), but I think that ADV would've made more profit if they licensed it a year or two ago when the series was at the peek of its popularity.

It's been a while since the anime was made, the games were not that popular. This had to be a condition for them to get something bigger from the company.

You have to snipe the good titles, that's all that will sell. Everything else, the stores don't want it, the fans will download it. Where does it have a home? Maybe on mobile, maybe on internet but certainly not on video; the home video market will not take it. There's simply not enough shelf space and the product doesn't turn fast enough. So I think that's what you're going to see. A much lower quantity of titles, but you'll see a better quality. Perhaps some silly company will put some Bs or Cs out there, but that'll come back to them.

1) ADV sees Xenosaga as an "A" title
2) ADV is going against its own marketing/licensing philosophy
3) ADV had to get this in order to get something else.