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A question I've been wondering about recently. Just how closely related is Sentai to ADV? I see a lot of people talking about how Sentai is essentially the natural successor to ADV, but how did it actually work in principle? Are they basically the same company under a different name, or something completely different?
 
Lutga said:
A question I've been wondering about recently. Just how closely related is Sentai to ADV? I see a lot of people talking about how Sentai is essentially the natural successor to ADV, but how did it actually work in principle? Are they basically the same company under a different name, or something completely different?
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Sentai and various other Section 23 properties were formed when ADV went bankrupt and spun off it's assets. They were formed by people closely connected to ADV, and many of the staff transferred between companies.

Effectively senior staff at ADV formed new companies, including Sentai Filmworks, and then sold the old ADV back to themselves in chunks. Wikipedia makes it sound like this was a very dodgy way of avoiding bankruptcy and associated legal obligations.
 
Buzz201 said:
Lutga said:
A question I've been wondering about recently. Just how closely related is Sentai to ADV? I see a lot of people talking about how Sentai is essentially the natural successor to ADV, but how did it actually work in principle? Are they basically the same company under a different name, or something completely different?
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Sentai and various other Section 23 properties were formed when ADV went bankrupt and spun off it's assets. They were formed by people closely connected to ADV, and many of the staff transferred between companies.

Effectively senior staff at ADV formed new companies, including Sentai Filmworks, and then sold the old ADV back to themselves in chunks. Wikipedia makes it sound like this was a very dodgy way of avoiding bankruptcy and associated legal obligations.
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Wasn't this also why Funimation went after them, because it did basically did look like they carved the company up and undersold it off to themselves. That whole law suit was a bit mad though, I can see how someone might go after Sentai & co because of the suspect way ADV was split up but I could never understand why Funimation had the right to the debt that was owed to Japanese companies.
 
And wasn't there a whole bundle of weird stuff too where ADV tried to sue Khara for 'blocking' them from making a live action version of Eva?
 
Buzz201 said:
Wikipedia makes it sound like this was a very dodgy way of avoiding bankruptcy and associated legal obligations.
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I don't think there's much doubt that this is what it was, at the time or now, on Wikipedia or anywhere else.
 
ilmaestro said:
Buzz201 said:
Wikipedia makes it sound like this was a very dodgy way of avoiding bankruptcy and associated legal obligations.
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I don't think there's much doubt that this is what it was, at the time or now, on Wikipedia or anywhere else.
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I'm not familiar with Texas corporation law, and there's all sorts of weird forms of bankruptcy in the US, wouldn't surprise me if the stunt ADV pulled was considered perfectly legitimate.
 
They clearly found an exploitable loophole, otherwise they wouldn't still be a going concern. Doesn't really change how generally scummy they are.
 
Bit of an odd question this but does anyone know of any websites that does professional custom blu-ray/dvd covers? Looking for one where you can create your own cover art and they'll print it professionally and send it to you. I want some good covers to replace my SAVE covers for Heroic Age & Shiki.
 
Would it not be faster + look better to just buy the LE (at least for shiki)? amazon.ca still have some in stock apparently for about £35. Although customs + shipping on top of that...

Amazon.ca even have some of the non-SAVE edition of heroic age... although it's over the customs limit on there... .com second hand has the non-save heroic age for under the customs limit by a seller who ships internationally... Although bit of a gamble on its state...
 
msgeek said:
Would it not be faster + look better to just buy the LE (at least for shiki)? amazon.ca still have some in stock apparently for about £35. Although customs + shipping on top of that...

Amazon.ca even have some of the non-SAVE edition of heroic age... although it's over the customs limit on there... .com second hand has the non-save heroic age for under the customs limit by a seller who ships internationally... Although bit of a gamble on its state...
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I did think about buying the LE for Shiki & Standard edition for Heroic Age but i haven't got the money for them atm and i haven't watched either show yet, if i do like them when i watch them then i'll probably go for those editions but the custom cover art idea was just something i thought of earlier for any SAVE edition dvd/blu-ray that doesn't have a reversible cover not just Shiki & Heroic Age. Another one i'd like it for is Darker than Black Season 1 as the disc holders in the premium edition are the worst.
 
Yeah I'm going to try and pick up the regular S1 darker than black as I have the S2 LE and it has space for S1. Little interest in the abnormally sized premium edition. But maybe if I hold out they'll release a SAVE edition...

TBH you'd probably be hard pushed to beat something you can do yourself with a regular inkjet, it's high quality setting, a couple of dummy attempts on regular paper, a hi-res source and some reasonable quality photo paper for the final print... (If replacing the covers is something you are determined to do)
 
msgeek said:
Yeah I'm going to try and pick up the regular S1 darker than black as I have the S2 LE and it has space for S1. Little interest in the abnormally sized premium edition. But maybe if I hold out they'll release a SAVE edition...
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Yeah about that. There are no plans to re-release the Blu-ray version (once the 5000 copies are gone, that's it) and just recently the DVD version (Anime Classics) is now out of print.
 
NormanicGrav said:
msgeek said:
Yeah I'm going to try and pick up the regular S1 darker than black as I have the S2 LE and it has space for S1. Little interest in the abnormally sized premium edition. But maybe if I hold out they'll release a SAVE edition...
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Yeah about that. There are no plans to re-release the Blu-ray version (once the 5000 copies are gone, that's it) and just recently the DVD version (Anime Classics) is now out of print.
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Hmm... I've had my eye on the original BR... (http://www.amazon.com/Darker-Than-Black ... 002DYGZKA/)..

I guess I was hoping the price would drop with the premium edition...

There just seems something wrong with buying the premium edition just to put it in a DVD case to put inside the S2 LE and putting the packaging in the cupboard... I don't really want to encourage Funi into releasing these abnormally sized (and from what I've seen kinda shoddy) sets either...

I think I'll hold out for a reasonably priced copy of the original release. One is bound to show up eventually...

edit: ah for some reason I thought that link above was an old Funi release but looks like it's actually Jap probably with no dub or sub... Why the heck does the S2 have a gap for S1 then...? Weird. Now I just don't know what to do...
 
The DtB S1 premium edition packaging is good for one thing, and one thing only. Unless you're going to display it, it's a nightmare. Storage-wise it's completely at odds with just about every other BD set ever released!
 
So after being hit with the £30 import fee I've been forced to reevaluate what I can afford in terms of new releases over the coming weeks and I'm going to have to drop either Chuunibyou or Tokyo Ghoul. I haven't seen either so I need some advice on what you guys think is the better show. I know they're really different shows so they might be hard to compare but I'd appreciate any advice. Here is a link to my anime list with a list of shows I've seen and how I rate them if you need a better idea of what shows I like. Thanks!
 
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