Anime things...yeah. Other markets are not quite what I have sources for. :> Animeondvd.com is where I get most of my news from, but I can dig up a couple of ICV2 articles too. I'll sum it up a bit for the most recent news.
Bandai Visual putting three titles on hiatus: Press Release (http://www.animeondvd.com/news/pr.php?pr_view=1306). Most of their releases, with the exception of the regular editions of Patlabor movies, are way above market norms for price and below for episode counts. RightStuf Search Listing (http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/ubWoduehaToqkEnLCC/browse/search/5/4/0/0/results/desc/asc/50/1) for Honneamise which is Bandai Visual's imprint. The $30 ones may look normal, like the Haruka ones, but that is for two episodes subbed only. Video quality is probably the highest in the Region 1 market though.
ADV: Most latest "crisis" was that ADV removed 34 titles from their webpage one night - all current and recent releases that were supposedly aquired after their deal with Japanese investors Sojitz. They went nearly four weeks without saying anything other than they were working on the problem. Though a rep did talk to ANN: here (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-01-30/adv-films-removes-titles-from-website-update-2). No real press releases for these, a lot of the information I picked up from the AoD forums...which were speculating wildly about why and how and a few posters were "oh, they're dead and the market's doomed."
February 26th brought news, ADV's line up with new release dates for the titles that had missed streetdates. (http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/news/individual/;jsessionid=stXuL60Y+fPvBEdge-wdxQ**?ForumThreadName=FT0000000319&ReturnTo=Main) Everything seems fine right now, all titles are shipping and new releases were just announced for May. Older backordered titles from the 34 pulled from the site are back shipping again from what I heard, so no one will really know what happened except for those involved. There is no news other than no comment and "we know you want them, and we're working on that" (paraphrased) about two titles: Sgt. Frog and fan favorite Gurren Lagen, both rumored to be huge financial investments to aquire.
Just before this, Newtype USA was canceled (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11893.html) and remade into a not anime only magazine "PiQ", The Anime Network's linear service was ended (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11894.html) and ADV's fan club section was shut down.
Also, Anime DVDs Down 20% (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12068.html).
The Fall of Geneon: This one really, really sucked. Geneon cancels all post Nov. 6th releases (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11368.html). ADV and Geneon tried to broker a deal that would ADV distribute all of Geneon's catalog (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11325.html). My own post about it is here (http://riari.livejournal.com/145593.html), if you hadn't seen it yet. There was a lot of panic buying after that announcement, which I also did because a lot of the popular titles I was collecting were getting harder and harder to find. You can still find some titles out there, but anything printed just before they stopped or that was really popular will be hard to find. Dentsu, Geneon's owners, supposedly are still looking for companies to take the licenses, but its hard for another company to pick up where they left off. Because they will either have to start up where Geneon left off, or restart the series where only a few will buy because they already have Geneon's discs. Hopefully they will make a decision soon.
So the anime industry is okay, but not great, for now, but not forever and will probably make more corrections soon. Musicland going bankrupt (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/7962.html) hit the anime industry hard, Geneon going under was just as bad as they also did a lot of advertising besides the whole losing a major anime company in the R1 market.
Hopefully this all helps, and was somewhat what you were wanting to know. :>
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Date: 2008-03-23 09:42 pm (UTC)Bandai Visual putting three titles on hiatus:
Press Release (http://www.animeondvd.com/news/pr.php?pr_view=1306). Most of their releases, with the exception of the regular editions of Patlabor movies, are way above market norms for price and below for episode counts. RightStuf Search Listing (http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/ubWoduehaToqkEnLCC/browse/search/5/4/0/0/results/desc/asc/50/1) for Honneamise which is Bandai Visual's imprint. The $30 ones may look normal, like the Haruka ones, but that is for two episodes subbed only. Video quality is probably the highest in the Region 1 market though.
ADV: Most latest "crisis" was that ADV removed 34 titles from their webpage one night - all current and recent releases that were supposedly aquired after their deal with Japanese investors Sojitz. They went nearly four weeks without saying anything other than they were working on the problem. Though a rep did talk to ANN: here (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-01-30/adv-films-removes-titles-from-website-update-2). No real press releases for these, a lot of the information I picked up from the AoD forums...which were speculating wildly about why and how and a few posters were "oh, they're dead and the market's doomed."
February 26th brought news, ADV's line up with new release dates for the titles that had missed streetdates. (http://www.rightstuf.com/rssite/main/news/individual/;jsessionid=stXuL60Y+fPvBEdge-wdxQ**?ForumThreadName=FT0000000319&ReturnTo=Main) Everything seems fine right now, all titles are shipping and new releases were just announced for May. Older backordered titles from the 34 pulled from the site are back shipping again from what I heard, so no one will really know what happened except for those involved. There is no news other than no comment and "we know you want them, and we're working on that" (paraphrased) about two titles: Sgt. Frog and fan favorite Gurren Lagen, both rumored to be huge financial investments to aquire.
Just before this, Newtype USA was canceled (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11893.html) and remade into a not anime only magazine "PiQ", The Anime Network's linear service was ended (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11894.html) and ADV's fan club section was shut down.
Also, Anime DVDs Down 20% (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/12068.html).
The Fall of Geneon: This one really, really sucked. Geneon cancels all post Nov. 6th releases (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11368.html). ADV and Geneon tried to broker a deal that would ADV distribute all of Geneon's catalog (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11325.html). My own post about it is here (http://riari.livejournal.com/145593.html), if you hadn't seen it yet. There was a lot of panic buying after that announcement, which I also did because a lot of the popular titles I was collecting were getting harder and harder to find. You can still find some titles out there, but anything printed just before they stopped or that was really popular will be hard to find. Dentsu, Geneon's owners, supposedly are still looking for companies to take the licenses, but its hard for another company to pick up where they left off. Because they will either have to start up where Geneon left off, or restart the series where only a few will buy because they already have Geneon's discs. Hopefully they will make a decision soon.
So the anime industry is okay, but not great, for now, but not forever and will probably make more corrections soon. Musicland going bankrupt (http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/7962.html) hit the anime industry hard, Geneon going under was just as bad as they also did a lot of advertising besides the whole losing a major anime company in the R1 market.
Hopefully this all helps, and was somewhat what you were wanting to know. :>