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Farewell Geneon
Sep. 26th, 2007 11:09 amIn the "oh damn that freaking sucks" category:
From AnimeonDVD.com:
"Geneon Entertainment Exits (10:46 AM EDT): Though the finality of things is still up in the air, Geneon Entertainment has sent out information to retailers regarding their 4th quarter plans. According to the information, Geneon will be shipping all releases they have in the queue for street dates through 11/05/2007. All orders placed after this coming Friday is non-returnable. As of 12/31/2007, they will be shutting down, apparently completely as AnimeNation is listing everything past 11/11/2007 as canceled. Plans for beyond 12/31/2007 are still up in the air but what little is being said indicates that they're intending to focus on their own properties in a similar way to Kadokawa Pictures USA is doing things. "
Rightstuf.com also has a message on their front page about it, in concerns of customers' orders.
This means I need to scramble to get the rest of Gankutsuou. I only have volume one, but from the looks of it, unless I try e-Bay, I should just go ahead and order the boxset as it will be cheaper than trying to buy five volumes.
I'll probably drop by BestBuy or Fry's this weekend to pick up Shonen Onmyoji vol. 02 as well. Erg. But there is also Kyo Kara Maoh... Oh man. I'm up to vol. 04 and it's at Season 2 vol. 05... Wonder if someone is going to have a liquidation sale for older releases. Now to think if there is anything else I wanted from that company that I can't really wait now on... And dammit I haven't finished watching Zipang. I was waiting for a collection.
Geneon had such gorgeous DVDs. Beautiful covers, and a quality of video to match. I heard from "iffy" sources that Geneon wasn't doing well, but I didn't trust that source.
Farewell, Geneon. Too bad you couldn't make it in this market.
(Which, btw, is very worrisome.)
ETA: Forgot Kyo Kara Maoh and Zipang.
From AnimeonDVD.com:
"Geneon Entertainment Exits (10:46 AM EDT): Though the finality of things is still up in the air, Geneon Entertainment has sent out information to retailers regarding their 4th quarter plans. According to the information, Geneon will be shipping all releases they have in the queue for street dates through 11/05/2007. All orders placed after this coming Friday is non-returnable. As of 12/31/2007, they will be shutting down, apparently completely as AnimeNation is listing everything past 11/11/2007 as canceled. Plans for beyond 12/31/2007 are still up in the air but what little is being said indicates that they're intending to focus on their own properties in a similar way to Kadokawa Pictures USA is doing things. "
Rightstuf.com also has a message on their front page about it, in concerns of customers' orders.
This means I need to scramble to get the rest of Gankutsuou. I only have volume one, but from the looks of it, unless I try e-Bay, I should just go ahead and order the boxset as it will be cheaper than trying to buy five volumes.
I'll probably drop by BestBuy or Fry's this weekend to pick up Shonen Onmyoji vol. 02 as well. Erg. But there is also Kyo Kara Maoh... Oh man. I'm up to vol. 04 and it's at Season 2 vol. 05... Wonder if someone is going to have a liquidation sale for older releases. Now to think if there is anything else I wanted from that company that I can't really wait now on... And dammit I haven't finished watching Zipang. I was waiting for a collection.
Geneon had such gorgeous DVDs. Beautiful covers, and a quality of video to match. I heard from "iffy" sources that Geneon wasn't doing well, but I didn't trust that source.
Farewell, Geneon. Too bad you couldn't make it in this market.
(Which, btw, is very worrisome.)
ETA: Forgot Kyo Kara Maoh and Zipang.
