Afro Samurai DVD now available.
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No other anime company has before, so yes. Most use either agents to distribute for them or licence the anime to local licensors. GDH appears to have been extending its arm beyond simply creating anime into distribution and other areas (such as live action). The company also appears to be quite particular about its properties and seems to control them outside of Japan more than most.J_C_X said:
PS don't double (or triple post as you have here). There is an edit button on all posts made by yourself. If the last post was made by yourself and there is less than a day (or a few days) since that post it is best to edit it rather than having multiple posts, one following another. It looks spammy, messy and can put readers off.
I'm sorry won't do it again.
I was just going to say that Bravo have an empty half hour slot at Friday August 3rd which was help previously by Afro Samurai, there is only two other shows on adult swim which last half hour Venture Bros and Stoker and Hoop but they have been listed.
Could it be more anime?
I was just going to say that Bravo have an empty half hour slot at Friday August 3rd which was help previously by Afro Samurai, there is only two other shows on adult swim which last half hour Venture Bros and Stoker and Hoop but they have been listed.
Could it be more anime?
I actually have a PR contact with GDH (the only Japanese company to send me PR releases), so I may e-mail them to see if I can get a definite answer. If this is GDH, it could represent a quite profound shift in the way licenses are handled over here; I remember reading the likes of ADV and MVM were after Gankutsuou but were beaten to it by another company - maybe that was GDH themselves?
The fact this is an exclusive distribution agreement with an online retailer indicates that this is either a one off or an experimental release. They did recently license out a bunch of their shows to ADV after all. This has obviously done exceptionally well for them, which is hardly surprising (it did exceptionally well in R1 too), so it wouldn't surprise if we saw more from them. This probably cost next to nothing for them to release, they already own the series after all and they probably own the dub too. it might be worth asking why they didn't send out so much as a press release about this though. As for their next release, assuming they do repeat this? My money's on Hellsing Ultimate.
The basic marketing ploy they used was to give Amazon the exclusivity. That prompted Amazon to use its promotional engine to target likely buyers, which is how I found out about it.Noratav said:
It works and GDH (probably) spent and did very little to get a fair amount of publicity. One fan gets it and tells others about it then more fans get it. They probably don't have to pay Amazon for their services either since they have practically gotten paid with the exclusive distribution deal. It is a form of viral marketing that GDH employed I suspect.
Gawyn said:
That may be, but relying on Amazon to do your marketing for you strikes me as extremely lazy. It doesn't take much effort or money to throw together a brief press release and send it to all the UK people on their mailing list. I don't know the ins and outs of how Amazon's promotional system works, but relying on it market a product which no one knows about strikes me as dangerous given that it is in large part based upon page views and purchase history. It's going to work for a popular title, provided GDH are willing to allow time for word to spread. but if they decided to do the same thing for a less popular there's a significant risk that people won't notice or care, so word won't spread and people won't notice it's there. I suppose my reaction is heavily influenced by the fact their strategy is the complete opposite to standard practice in the entertainment industry, and as someone who works for a marketing company (although we don't deal with the entertainment industry) I'm more atuned to that.