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Just wondering who gets the most customer loyalty?

I look at my collection. I call it a collection, it's more of a pile.

And I find that three-quarters of it is MVM and Manga, with MVM taking the lions share of the space. Even those titles which are now Revelation, like Gunslinger Girl and Fruits Basket, I bought as MVM discs. The Full Metal Alchemist discs are fifty-fifty MVM and Revelation. I have many more MVM series than Manga, but then again, Naruto takes up a lot of space.

Lagging way behind, in third place is ADV, I have about 10 series and a handul of single shot discs. Last year, before they went kaplut, I didn't have any. It's their warehouse clearance last winter that got me interested in some of their titles.

Just behind them is Revelation, though not through any reticence on my part. I didn't get Peach Girl, Hell Girl, or Robotech Shadow Chronicles, but did get pretty much everything else.

My eternal shame as a UK customer is that I have no Beez titles. Beez sales that appeal to my wallet are harder to find than a mousefart in a hurricane. And importing a series for £20, as opposed to buying it locally for £100-ish is a simple choice to make. Even still, I don't have too many Bandai series.

Otherwise it's a mish-mash, a couple of Funimation collections, a handful of Optimum discs, a couple from Fabulous Films, some movies from Sony, one from Momentum, A series from Nozomi, a couple of Madman imports all making up the numbers. And Salaryman Kintaro.
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Gawyn · Elite Poster Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 610

To be somewhat fair, the lion's share of releases tend to be from MVM and Manga Ent these days. In the past the majority has been released by ADV and MVM and even earlier than that ADV was by far the most prolific distributor. In that regard it is hard to compare distributors in a quantifiable way.

If it comes to brand loyalty I would probably say that BEEZ wins out in my collection since I have invested in 100% of their series/one-offs (all in singles and none of their boxed sets) but that is somewhat easier to do in the sense they have released a lot less than MVM or Manga. From both MVM and Manga there have been a few titles I have not been interested in but in percentage of titles released and bought MVM is probably slightly ahead of Manga. ADV comes 4th due mostly to the number of shows they have released in the past (I probably have invested in about 70-75% of their series/titles) whilst Revelation comes in 5th since I have only bought into about 50-60% of their titles.

In a very real sense none of this equates to loyalty but rather what titles take my fancy and in that respect a higher percentage of BEEZ's releases were to my liking than any of the others.

Fudce · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject:

Its an interesting question. I don't think I favour any company over another, I probably have more ADV releases than most, and less Manga than the others, but other than that...
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Toraman · Shinigami Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 2517 Location: London

Got quite a lot of ADV titles thanks to their various clearouts over the last couple years.

Probably Manga next followed by MVM, then Beez and then Revelation. Hell, I've even got about 5 Kiseki DVDs!

IanC · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:43 pm Post subject:

JPT, you sound... cheap.

Im not even going to figure out this one. Its probably MVM or ADV, although the number of ADV titles has dropped dead so MVM have probably overtaken them.
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Damo · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:45 am Post subject:

I have no loyality, I buy the titles I like reguardless of distrobutor, cost and time and shelf spae are the issues at hand. The more a distrobutor licenses titles i like the more I'll buy of their shows.

Contentious issue, but there seems to be a lot of fans out there in general who buy everything, which leads to the notion of loyality.
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Saucepan · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

I haven't separated these by series or anything but going on individual items (so this includes box sets and single DVDs as one) ADV Films is a clear winner with 143 items but that's counting US and UK together. I don't have time to break down the rest of my collection just now as I have to go to work, but will do later.

Just Passing Through · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 11:23 am Post subject:

Random · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:

Mostly ADV, MVM and Manga the same as you.

Also the 15 Studio Ghibli Collection + Brave Story from Optimum, Haruhi from Beez, and a few oldies from Animazing such as Tank Police and Project A-Ko.
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Saucepan · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:33 pm Post subject:

So yeah ADV are first followed by Beez with 100 items, Manga Ent are a distant third with 66, with MVM a close fourth with 52, Funimation and Pioneer are joint 5th with 31 each, then Bandai Entertainment with 22, Optimum 16, Revalation 12, U.S. Manga Corps 10, Anime Works 8, Animazing and AnimeEgo both 7, Metrodome and Geneon 6, ArtsMagic and Sony 5, Columbia/Tri-Star 4 then Animax, Buena Vista, Dreamworks, Kieski, Kitty Media, Miramax, Right Stuff, Voyager Ent and Disney all 1.

PaleBlack · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject:

I'm not going to get up and walk to look, because I am tired Very Happy

But I'd say mine is mainly ADV and MVM (probably more ADV when it comes down to it)

1 Fabulous Films, some Beez and Revelations Films in third.

botmaster2005 · Robot in disguise Joined: 08 Aug 2006 Posts: 1061

The lions share bleongs to manga and ADV, it looks like ADV has more of my shelf space as I tended to get their individual volumes, whereas manga go more for compact boxsets. after that it's probably MVM and then the others
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