ADV DOA – WTF?!?
ADV Rest in Peace…
By now you’ve all heard that ADV, once the largest distributor of anime in North America, has gone the way of the dodo. Honestly, I can’t feign surprise – although it’s pretty amazing to consider that less than 5 years ago ADV were at the top of the heap. Seriously, the fall [...]
CGI Appleseed returns to DVD
ADV’s re-release of 2005’s Appleseed, based on the Masamune Shirow manga of the same name, hits store shelves today. Full press release follows, though no BluRay is mentioned (boo!).
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The Original Movie Back On DVD
HOUSTON, June 30, 2009—Sentai Filmworks is proud to announce the return of Appleseed to DVD! The [...]
ADV has 50/50 chance of survival?
Robert’s Anime Blog posted a dire warning regarding the future of ADV, once the cornerstone of the U.S. anime industry.
Because ADV has so much business exposure to the failing mass market retailers, I’m currently putting ADV’s survival at only about 50/50 into next year, and the only reason I’m commenting on this is that a [...]
New ADV titles available via VOD
ADV just announced a bunch of shows available via Anime Network’s Video On Demand service. There’s some good stuff in here, including Boogiepop Phantom and the U.S. debut of the Gravitation OVA. ‘Read more…’ for the press release.
ADV drops ‘Robotech’, other anime releases – UPDATED
Just read at Aint-It-Cool-News that ADV has ‘discontinued’ its Robotech lineup, as well as Best Student Council, Five Centimeters Per Second, and Innocent Venus. I’m a little stunned, seeing as ADV has held the Robotech license for about – I dunno – forever.
What with Funimation’s recent release of Shadow Chronicles and (presumably) whatever followup [...]
PIQ magazine 2008-2008
Damn, three obits in one day. That’s some sort of record, for sure. Thankfully, however, this one is for a magazine, not a person – the magazine in question being PiQ, which was supposed to carry the torch for the late, lamented Newtype USA.
A recent post on PIQ’s website sadly proclaims that the July issue [...]
‘Welcome to the N.H.K.’ hits the internets for free
ADV and Crunchyroll have teamed up to distribute Welcome to the N.H.K. to eager anime fans via the internets, free to anyone with a magic electronic pipeline and some free time. I haven’t seen the series myself, but at a cost of nothing what’s there to lose?
Full press release follows…
