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The “people” at my place of vocation really need to learn that I'm not suited for manual labor and stop whoring me out to other departments. Seriously do I look that strong to you, i’m more suited to sitting at the desk and pretending to work but alas m problems are really nothing, but ADV's are real. Or are they? Lots of announcements following AX08 (some pertaining to the con and some not) have got me excited. The first and foremost would be Funmations rise to fuhrer. Fumimation is not only absorbing most of ADV’s “discontinued” series but also a lot of (if not all but I’ve haven’t checked the numbers) of Geneons old catalogue. This is good news for people who actually buy anime (but who does that) Lets just hope funimation doesn’t grow past a level they can handle. Also from Funimation it looks like Ouran is finally going to come out and I repeat finally and also Greg Ayrness level of dickdom is only superposed by how much of a tool he is (look it up). Seriously look at a picture of the guy and then watch him try and look cool, then again at any anime convention it’s really not hard to not look like a freak. Any who, back to the main topics at hand, here's where I got a bit lost apparently ADV is not finished yet and they’ve secured funding and are planning on licensing 23 new titles in the future. Yet why did they discontinue so many current series and sell the rights to many others? Maybe its just copyrights issues, who knows. Another odd thing is that in the second paragraph ANN stated they were not looking to acquire any new titles at the moment…so who knows but its not the first time ANN made a dumb mistake in the wording/grammar department, kind of funny to because they try to be serious journalist. I hate because I love though.
Out side of AX08 there’s been some bigger announcements, Full Metal Alchemist 2 anyone? Too bad its all what ifs right now, but all the leaked information and how they’ve handled it so far points towards a very good chance of this coming to fruition. Also Darker than Black 2 but I never made it far in that series so I could really care less, but good news for the fans. Kondsha USA (hope I spelled that right) has officially listened spice and wolf, so I defiantly stoked on that. No word yet on which studio will be handling the publishing duties. I have a feeling though that Kondsha will start handling their own domestic properties. Which I think may be a good thing but you can never be sure when dealing with the more Japanesey companies. See how that worked by looking at Bandai Visual. And now on to them, now they are called Hamonies or something (like wings of?) so I have no idea where they got that, they really could have just stayed Bandai visual for all I cared. One good thing is that the company was directly assimilated into Bandai Entertainment, and there was no “staff restructuring” which is defiantly always a good thing. There new plan if you haven’t heard if yet is to still do niche very Japanese like releases, just a bit cheaper now……awesome revelation guys, the only problem is…there still expensive as shit (who would buy expensive poo). But I guess paying 100usd for something that in Japan would cost 130usd isn’t that bad…. I guess. Another avenue there strolling through is Blu-ray. Yeah, not happening, I was very excited for blu-ray when if first came out, but if paying out the ass is what come along with high def I’ll stick to DVDs (which look good enough as is in my o-pin).
So mostly domestic re-release news and nothing really about any new domestic licenses or at least any that caught my eye. But it’s always a good thing to not have to worry about not being able to get all the old titles.
If I think of anything else ill post but for the most part these are the headlines that I could think of from the last week off the top of my head that interested.