Geneon Sinking?, layoffs, cancelled deals

Not that I don't love quality, but one would think that the exponential increase in animation quality over the last 5 years probably isn't cheap. Why keep breaking the bank on accelerating new animation techniques, if it's making you bankrupt? =\

They don't... seeing that the majority of animation is outsourced to Korea, for supare cheap!

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/11424.html :

Tiny bits of hope for some of the orphaned series, at least.

Also, http://avatar.mee.nu/good_news_cont:

This is (I think), "our" Avatar.

(There's a period at the end of the URL for Avatar's blog. It really belongs there, but the forum software won't let me put it there --- it keeps moving it outside the URL tag.)

This post has been edited by dm on Oct 9 2007, 09:28 AM

Slightly modified repost from the Nanoha thread:

Now our annoyances are put to rest and we'll see our Nanoha DVDs soon enough. I wonder if another distributor is releasing them or if Geneon is going to be resurrected under a new name/ownership. It's kinda ambigious when you take both news bits into account.

Maybe this good news for those Higurashi fans and the like?

Maybe. I'm somewhat dubious as to the prospects of Saiunkoku Monogatari, however. I did pick up Zipang out of this --- I was intending to Netflix it at some point, but Netflix is too prone to letting anime go out of print.

(I think) I've heard that Black Lagoon second barrage is going to get finished, too.

I thought Saiunkoku is going to be like, the next Kyo Kara Maoh, which was a sustainable title.

Yeah, somehow I feel Saiunkoku if anything is a prospective drop if they need to cut back on something ;_;


I just might start picking the series up now immidiately if there'd be some confirmation they'd be in the buisness to actually finish it up instead of waiting for a later boxset release as I originally planned :/

I started picking up Saiunkoku (and made the mistake of deleting my unwatched fansubs). I suppose my pending orders for that and Higurashi might breathe some life into future licenses of those series, but I doubt it....

Having said that, ADV is "restructuring": http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-...ifts-priorities

They're laying off some people and hiring others --- a shift in emphasis. I wonder if this might include ripples from the soured deal with Geneon. ADV employs about 100 people worldwide (not counting temporary staff).

Funimation has also had lay-offs in the past year (10% of their staff in July).

So I guess PixieBell (or Crack, I've forgotten who said it) was right in saying that all American anime companies are hurting --- even the ones with TV channels to hawk their wares.

ADV should study Funimation's trailers. For some reason, ADV trailers tend to make me less inclined to watch a series, while Funi's trailer persuaded me to watch a dog like Burst Angels (it was Spring, and there were breasts).

This post has been edited by dm on Oct 12 2007, 08:05 AM

Megs or ....?

Burst Angel is not a terrible show But I actually agree with your general idea--ADV's trailers are not really inspiring.

Seriously. The AIR TV trailer hurt to watch.