hopeful_monster
Thousand Master
Going to start with the list of new licenses license they on to some of the other things that were said and not said.
Beez
Gurren Largen (bought bloody time)
Sword of a Stranger (Bones orginal movie)
Many many boxsets of older stuff (but we knew about that)
ADV
Nothing New (waiting on a press release for an American con, where 13 new titles are going to announced)
lots boxsets
MVM
Desert Punk
Solty Rei
Romeo and Juliet
Manga
No announcements (cause the poor lad had just spent 3 months in China and only heard he was doing a panel 5 min before it was supposed to start.
Revelation
Where not present at the Con
All respect to Chaos who sat through all the announcements and texted them to me.
What was more interesting that the license was some of the talk in the rest of the panels (especially ADV's and the Industry Panel)> ADV's was interesting as they did something I've never heard an anime company do. Talk using numbers. How much it costs to licenses a series (Final Fantasy cost 1 Million USD PER EPISODE), How many copies a DVD has to sell to make its money back ( a strong selling anime will shift a thousand copies), and how badly some tiles are selling (Red Garden vol 3 shifted less than 50 copies). Hugh also talked about why certain anime are on hiatus, all the titles that are on hold have their American licenses owned by Funimation, but no one is sure who owns the UK licenses. They are holding on so they don't tread on toes ( and get sued).
There was also talk about collaboration with Japanese companies ) and diversification as long as you understand each other and what the other wants for the former and as long as you don't use some one else's money for the latter. Which is where ADV buggered up. As for the bugger up it was asked if Hugh felt ADV might go under. His response was that it had, and had then resurfaced as something different. ADV's future is more that of a production company ( doing the dubs etc) for other companies (Funimation) rather than licensing and distribution it them selves.
Beez
Gurren Largen (bought bloody time)
Sword of a Stranger (Bones orginal movie)
Many many boxsets of older stuff (but we knew about that)
ADV
Nothing New (waiting on a press release for an American con, where 13 new titles are going to announced)
lots boxsets
MVM
Desert Punk
Solty Rei
Romeo and Juliet
Manga
No announcements (cause the poor lad had just spent 3 months in China and only heard he was doing a panel 5 min before it was supposed to start.
Revelation
Where not present at the Con
All respect to Chaos who sat through all the announcements and texted them to me.
What was more interesting that the license was some of the talk in the rest of the panels (especially ADV's and the Industry Panel)> ADV's was interesting as they did something I've never heard an anime company do. Talk using numbers. How much it costs to licenses a series (Final Fantasy cost 1 Million USD PER EPISODE), How many copies a DVD has to sell to make its money back ( a strong selling anime will shift a thousand copies), and how badly some tiles are selling (Red Garden vol 3 shifted less than 50 copies). Hugh also talked about why certain anime are on hiatus, all the titles that are on hold have their American licenses owned by Funimation, but no one is sure who owns the UK licenses. They are holding on so they don't tread on toes ( and get sued).
There was also talk about collaboration with Japanese companies ) and diversification as long as you understand each other and what the other wants for the former and as long as you don't use some one else's money for the latter. Which is where ADV buggered up. As for the bugger up it was asked if Hugh felt ADV might go under. His response was that it had, and had then resurfaced as something different. ADV's future is more that of a production company ( doing the dubs etc) for other companies (Funimation) rather than licensing and distribution it them selves.
