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NEWS: ADV Gets Indian Summer Anime, Five Live-Action Titles

[Macross Frontier can't be licensed due to many reasons. But stuff like Library War, Real Drive, Allison & Lillia, Daughter of Twenty Faces, Kaiba, Kanokon, Bartender, Moyashimon, ef - a tale of memories, Rosario + Vampire, and others. Also, $20-30 dollars for an hour and 15 minutes is actually a pretty big loss when a show has no re-watch value, thus you won't be able to re-sell it. And don't tell me Game Stop, they'll give what, 2 bucks? Price it at an MSRP of $19.99, and maybe we'll be talking a reasonable price for crap.

Do these live action titles even sell well? They are the only things that, don't really move off the shelves at the Best buys I visit. Even during a sale.

Daimao: Dunno if Gin Tama the anime could really be a cash cow. It might end up suffering the same fate as Bo^7.

ADV Otakon Panel 2008 News (additional info added)
"ADV is doing better than expected" (direct quote from ADV) after the dissolved partnership with Sojitz, thanks to the fans, retailers, worldwide partners, the down cost cuts ADV has made in the company. "We are reorganizing to be much more profitable."

ADV has replaced Sojitz after Anime Expo sometime in July..with 3rd "parties" (currently unknown if it's multiple companies or just one) and they hope to announce it in the near future.

ADV has licensed 5 Live Action titles and 1 Anime Title, Koharu Biyori and potentially another anime they couldn't announce today.
ADV has more anime titles they are very close to getting, including "one that everyone asks."

A lot of ADV re-release box sets will be coming in the near future, including some titles that have never been released in boxsets, as well as some titles that have not been on DVD before.

There may be news on Evangelion Live Action later on this year: Joseph Cho (of Appleseed Deus Ex Machina) is involved.

ADV stated they are not interested in getting back any of the 30 titles that were transfered by Sojitz. It is in the past. No Contracts have been signed yet, but ADV is still in negotiations with the rights holders/Funimation to continue productions to complete the titles.
Most of the Live Action stuff will be released only subtitles as ADV wants to get them out quickly and they want to clear their plate with the Sojitz titles remaining, before focusing on new stuff.

Blu-Ray releases are expected, and will have announcements at the end of the year.

Kiba being on TV depends on Toonami Jetstream status, and DVD releases depend on when Upper Deck decides the go ahead.

ADV Anime is coming to Playstation Network. (ADV was first to Xbox)

5 cm per second and Kurau is still caught up in licensing limbo. The Japanese licensor is still deciding both, although Kurau likely went to Funimation as part of the Sojitz transfers (but right now no one knows what's going on with it, including Funimation).

ADV was asked, per the rumors, if they merged with Funimation. ADV said No.

When asked about picking up Geneon titles, ADV said "there is a lot of stuff we are working on that we can't announce."

There's a very solid market for trashy Asian cinema that a lot of people in this discussion are overlooking. None of them are going to sell anywhere near the number of copies that top anime series do, but I imagine that they'll do better than many of the obscure ones. Those films are probably cheaper to license than a lot of anime series, and unlike long-term series you don't have to worry about sales dropping off after the first disk. So considering the position ADV is in I think this is a pretty good decision.

ADV stated they are not interested in getting back any of the 30 titles that were transfered by Sojitz. It is in the past.

Macross Frontier can't be licensed due to many reasons. But stuff like Library War, Real Drive, Allison & Lillia, Daughter of Twenty Faces, Kaiba, Kanokon, Bartender, Moyashimon, ef - a tale of memories, Rosario + Vampire, and others.