Forum - View topicNEWS: Media Blasters Halts Releases of Bakuman., Ikki Tousen Great Guardians
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Kakugo
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They must be selling well, or else we wouldn't see the OVAs/sequels getting released while a masterpiece like Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei sits on the back burner for three years. (That said, I happen to think Queen's Blade is above average exploitation and bought both Blu-ray seasons... but hey, taste is optional.) For what it's worth, the guys who put the bonus features together for their two Godzilla releases ("Destroy All Monsters" and "Godzilla vs Megalon") have recently said that MB is simply ignoring them and refusing to pay for work that's already been done. If that's how they tend to treat their independent contractors,and they've already fired their production staff, I'm not sure how they're supposed to produce Blu-ray and DVD in the first place... besides, how many people were really buying schmitty looking Blu-ray releases of Zombie Holocaust and Grotesque to start with? If MB goes under now, I won't feel too bad about the remaining staffers; they ran the company to where it is today themselves, and if they fold now they have no one to blame but themselves... of course this could all be a brief hiatus and John Sirabella and pals will scurry out from under this without a major hitch. Who knows. That guy's squirmed out of worse situations than James Bond. |
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vega427
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And with that, MB is pretty much dead, short of the actual announcment........
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TurnerJ
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Hope you're right about that; although like dragonrider cody said, it isn't out of their style to delay releases, even with the job losses. MB isn't dead, but they aren't exactly thriving either. Still, if John Sirabella has really "gotten out of scrapes worse than James Bond", then we'll have to see what happens. Right now, the end of Media Blasters is the last option I want to consider. |
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iamthevastuniverse
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It was annoying enough when Viz Media released one box set of Monster and because of low sales never released the other box sets but now it looks like the same issues is happening with Bakuman after only one release I really hope they release the remaining sets!
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I would be very sad if MB halted operations altogether. They are still, and always will be, my favorite North American licensor.
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