CPM licenses to be liquidated

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from ANN

The New York company MYC & Associates is liquidating the licenses of the bankrupt anime distributor Central Park Media (CPM). David Kittay, the trustee that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York assigned to handle CPM's assets, appointed MYC & Associates to handle the liquidation.

MYC & Associates has provided a list of CPM's former assets, including the partial listing of copyrights below. However, CPM did not retain permanent ownership of most of these titles, so many of these copyrights cover only the materials that CPM itself produced, such as subtitles, dubbing, and packaging. Darkside Blues, Grave of the Fireflies, M.D. Geist., and Now and Then, Here and There have already been acquired by A.D. Vision for DVD reissues.

* A-Ko the Versus
* Adventure Kid
* Agent Aika
* Akai Hayate
* Angel Sanctuary
* Animated Classics of Japanese Literature
* Area 88
* Ariel
* Ariel Deluxe
* Armored Trooper Votoms
* Art of Fighting
* Ayane's High Kick
* Battle Arena Toshinden
* Battle Skipper
* Big Wars
* Birdy the Mighty
* Black Jack
* La Blue Girl
* La Blue Girl Returns
* Blue Sonnet
* Botchan
* Crystal Triangle
* Cyber City Oedo 808
* Cybernetics Guardian
* Dancougar - Super Beast Machine God
* Dark Angel
* Darkside Blues
* Demon Beast Invasion
* Demon City Shinjuku
* Demon Warrior Koji
* Descendants of Darkness
* Detonator Orgun
* DNA²
* Dog Soldier: Shadows of the Past
* Dominion Tank Police
* Dream Hazard
* Explorer Woman Ray
* Fencer of Minerva
* Fobia
* Four Play
* Gall Force - Eternal Story
* Gall Force 2 - Destruction
* Gall Force 3 - Stardust War
* Gall Force: Earth Chapter
* Gall Force: New Era
* Garaga
* Garzey's Wing
* Genocyber
* Geobreeders
* Grappler Baki
* Grave of the Fireflies
* Hades Project Zeorymer
* Harlock Saga
* Harmagedon
* Here is Greenwood
* The Heroic Legend of Arslan
* The Humanoid
* Hyper Speed GranDoll
* Iczer 3
* Iria - Zeiram the Animation
* Judge
* Knights of Ramune
* Lady Blue
* Legend of Himiko
* Legend of Lemnear
* Love Lessons
* Lunatic Night
* Machine Robo: Revenge of Chronos
* Mama Mia!
* Mask of Zeguy
* Masquerade
* Maze
* M.D. Geist
* MD Geist II - Death Force
* Metal Fighter Miku
* Midnight Panther
* My My Mai
* Mystery of the Necronomicon
* Night on the Galactic Railroad
* Night Shift Nurses
* Nightmare Campus
* Nightwalker
* Now and Then, Here and There
* Odin - Starlight Mutiny
* Ogenki Clinic
* Patlabor The Mobile Police
* Patlabor The Mobile Police: The New Files
* Peacock King
* Photon: The Idiot Adventures
* Ping Pong Club Anime
* Private Psycho Lesson News
* Professor Pain Network
* Project A-Ko
* Project A-Ko 2: Plot of the Daitokuji Financial Group
* Project A-ko 3: Cinderella Rhapsody
* Project A-Ko 4: Final
* Pure Love
* Record of Lodoss War
* Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight
* Revolutionary Girl Utena
* RG Veda
* Rhea Gall Force
* Roots Search
* Roujin Z
* Rumik World: Fire Tripper
* Rumik World: Maris the Chojo
* Rumik World: Mermaid Forest
* Rumik World: The Laughing Target
* Shamanic Princess
* Silent Service
* Sins of the Sisters
* The Slayers
* Sohryuden - Legend of the Dragon Kings
* The Sound of Waves
* Spaceship Agga Ruter
* Sprite: Between Two Worlds
* Stepmother's Sin
* Strange Love
* Takegami - Guardian of Darkness
* They Were 11
* Tokyo Babylon
* TriAngle
* Twin Angels
* Ultimate Teacher
* Urotsukidoji
* Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend
* Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer
* Venus 5
* The Venus Wars
* Virgin Fleet
* Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
* Wanna-Be's
* A Wind Named Amnesia
* Yotoden
* Yu Yu Hakusho The Movie: Poltergeist Report
* Zenki
 
According to Justin Sevakis, CPM only owns the dubbing, subtitling and DVD menus/extras (etc). The copyrights to these features are all that the liquidator is putting up for sale; the shows themselves still need to be re-licensed from the Japanese copyright holders.

I'm glad we already have New Dominion Tank Police here. Unfortunately many other older titles are now in an indefinite state of flux, until able companies (i.e. Funimation and possibly somebody else) take advantage of these offers.
 
iisan said:
What does liquidating the licenses mean?
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selling for the best offer.

Tokyo Babylon
Loddoss TV & OVA
Utena

These are the titles I would like to have. Other than that, there is nothing that I care about (except for patlabor and slayers, but I've got these already).
 
I hope someone picks up Patlabor at least. It would be terrible for that were to no longer be available in English (but please guys, don't use CPM's naff cover designs). Seems like it would be a sensible move for AnimEigo to pick up Beautiful Dreamer to complete their UY movie set.

Other than that it would be nice to see Night on the Galactic Railroad, Gall Force, Wanna-Be's and Cyber City picked up as well - mainly because I don't own those but would very much like to.
 
I was about to lament the loss of the underappreciated Iria: Zeiram the Animation when I remembered that Media Blasters have owned the licence for years. D'oh. But at least it gives me a good opportunity to recommend that people check it out.

I'd love to see Patlabor rescued (and remastered and with better packaging) but sadly I don't think anyone will touch it. I'm surprised that Lodoss hasn't already been picked up by ADV since they own Legend of Crystania and Rune Soldier, both of which are set in the same universe, and because the OVA is still highly regarded. I kind of regret not buying the TV series while it was available.

Eh, aside from that it would be a terrible shame if Beautiful Dreamer, Roujin Z, and Cyber City were never seen again. Looking through that list I'm struck by how CPM's shows fell into two broad categories: utterly fantastic or bottom-of-the-barrel garbage.
 
ayase said:
I hope someone picks up Patlabor at least. It would be terrible for that were to no longer be available in English (but please guys, don't use CPM's naff cover designs). Seems like it would be a sensible move for AnimEigo to pick up Beautiful Dreamer to complete their UY movie set.
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In R2, it's available from Beez, so we are safe :)

I must say that the special editions are REALLY sexy.

fabricatedlunatic said:
...I'm surprised that Lodoss hasn't already been picked up by ADV since they own Legend of Crystania and Rune Soldier, both of which are set in the same universe, and because the OVA is still highly regarded. I kind of regret not buying the TV series while it was available....
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Same universe? Mmm, I'm interested now, really interested.

Edit - found some used copies on amazon, fulfilled by amazon itself. I guess I'll buy those. Can't believe I completely forgot about this series. I've seen Lodoss a long time ago, but I even brought the books with me whne I moved to London, as i couldn't find the heart to leave them at my mum's house.
 
chaos said:
ayase said:
I hope someone picks up Patlabor at least. It would be terrible for that were to no longer be available in English (but please guys, don't use CPM's naff cover designs). Seems like it would be a sensible move for AnimEigo to pick up Beautiful Dreamer to complete their UY movie set.
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In R2, it's available from Beez, so we are safe :)

I must say that the special editions are REALLY sexy.
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Nah, I have those chaos. I'm talking about the Patlabor TV series and OVA's CPM released which have never been released over here. (though for those to be released by Beez in similarly sexy boxes would be awesomely awesome. ;)) I own them all already but it seems a shame for such a classic series to disappear.
 
ayase said:
I'm talking about the Patlabor TV series and OVA's CPM released which have never been released over here. (though for those to be released by Beez in similarly sexy boxes would be awesomely awesome. ;)) I own them all already but it seems a shame for such a classic series to disappear.
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Yes. I've been meaning to watch more of the franchise, but lack of contemporary licences currently prevent me. I could try browsing the R1 second-hand market for the TV series, but my interest isn't high enough to start blindly paying obsessive collectors' prices.
 
There's like 3-4 series that i'd get from CPM, their other stuff where oddities or hentai, not worth it.
But for many individuals that still want to collect some of their shows, we hope that their former titles won't skyrocket like Geneons', where £34 may just get you a dozen ep.

Slayers is cheap, i mean really cheap, for when it comes to getting the seasons. Last thing we want is to spend £50 or more for one
 
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