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Saucepan · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:36 pm Post subject: ADV dies.

Seems A.D. Vision after a long struggle has finally closed.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-09-01/adv-films-shuts-down-transfers-assets-to-other-companies

All it's assets have been bought out by other companies in the U.S. question is how will this affect the U.K arm. Have they also been bought out if so will the bought out company have any presence in the UK (didn't I hear sometime ago they made a deal with another company after losing U.S. support?)

Also what does this mean for the Live-action Evangelion movie...dead in the water?

Fudce · Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject:

Basicly A.D. Vision has been on life support for a while now. This is them finally doing away with it.

What I expect is that things will carry on as they have done in the last few months. Sentai Filmworks has been releasing box after box of old ADV titles recently under the "Sentai Filmworks" branding. This is them transfering their assets away from the ADVision company in a legal way, to keep the assets they want to keep away from creditors and danger.

Pretty much everything is a seperate company now, but if you look, they're owned by either ADVs solicitor or John Ledford.

ADV UK hasn't existed in a long time, and ADV US have been distributing their titles via Lace. We haven't heard what's going to happen with their UK titles yet, I assume they'll be transfered somewhere else.

As for Live Action Evangelion - that was less likely to happen than Duke Nukem Forever.
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Titan · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:25 am Post subject:

It’s sad to read but it was something that was going to happen for a long time now. I hope the ADV UK titles won’t just disappear.

Damo · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject:

that is dsad news indeed. Not exactly out of nowhere but still sad.

How this will effect the UK and what it currently out we'll have to see.
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Just Passing Through · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:20 pm Post subject:

As mentioned already, it's just a means of seperating the profit from the debts, bundling up the debts and letting some poor schmuck deal with the mess, while the money making stuff keeps happening.

As long as the UK titles keep selling and making money, I doubt anything will happen (except maybe a logo change on the DVDs)

Quite frankly, it's pretty small news. Sad that the ADV name will probably die, but that's about it.

I would have figured the Tokyopop Kodansha split would have been a bigger news item...

http://manga.about.com/b/2009/09/01/the-kodansha-tokyopop-split-which-manga-are-left-in-limbo.htm
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Fudce · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

The latest news...

Sentai has licenced several new titles:

Blue Drop
Polyphonica
Special A
Tears to Tiara
You're Under Arrest Season 2

There are two Live action titles for Switchblade as well.
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Saucepan · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:54 am Post subject:

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Fudce · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject:

They've all been solicitted as sub only so in the short term I doubt it.
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Damo · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:08 am Post subject:

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Damo · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 8:19 am Post subject: