An article from Publisher's Weekly has confirmed the layoffs at ADV Manga (remember that?). As many as 25 people from the manga division have been laid off, which is probably one of the reason why in 2005, ADV will release about 50 manga titles, down from 80 in 2004.
Is this a sign that they're starting to crash and burn? I hope so.
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Anonymous2005-03-18 19:36
LOL BLAEM THE FANSUBBERS OFCOURSE
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Anonymous2005-03-18 20:18
Hopefully they laid off 100% of their voice actors.
Inflection, people! Inflection!
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Anonymous2005-03-19 13:23
Did either of you bother to read the words manga division?
I doubt their crappy anime division is going away soon.
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Anonymous2005-03-20 15:39
I'm glad this happened. If companies keep putting out filler/fluff books it'll only make the market crash.
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Anonymous2005-03-23 0:48
Well really, this is what happens when one licenses a goddamn thousand titles at once. What did they think was going to happen? The bookstores would just naturally expand their manga sections until they became manga shops, and THEN you could easily sell EVERY SINGLE ONE of your randomly picked-up thousand-some licenses? The whole thing with ADV Manga just didn't make any sense.
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MJP!3GqYIJ3Obs2005-09-09 10:44
OH NOES, WHERE AM I GOING TO GO FOR ROMANCE DRAGON WARRIOR VOLUME 17?!! OR DRAGON ROMANCE WARRIOR VOLUME 5?!!! OH NOES WHAT AM I GOING TO DO IDK IF THE YAOIIII HAPPENS IN DRAGON WARRIOR ROMANCE VOLUME XT!!!
Perhaps it also has something to do with people being pissed at having to wait TWO FUCKING YEARS for Gunslinger Girl volume 2 to come out. Dave Williams himself said during the ADV panel at AnimeNext that they delayed it to coincide with the Funimation release. Rrrrr...
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Anonymous2005-09-09 18:32
Fuk even with all the staff they had they still didn't accomplish much. They never even finished Aria. Who ever owns ADV is one dumb muthafuker
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Anonymous2005-09-10 1:31
>>5
so uh...... i hear tokyopop's doing pretty good
ADV wont die, just less stuff will be released, blame the fact that they licensed so much stuff like most other region 1 companys, so the japanese studios increase the licensing costs? and why not? if you know your shit will sell why not add an extra 1 or a 0 to the end of something
funimation wont die, infact they are bum buddys with Gonzo at the moment
Geneon wont die
Bandai are failing but are doing okay
ADV.. will only get smaller staff wise
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Anonymous2005-09-10 10:29
>>10
GENEON IS THE US DIVISION OF PIONEER, THEY SURE AS HELL WONT DIE
THEY ARE NOT A 3RD PARTY LIKE ADV
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Anonymous2005-09-11 0:45
>>11
actually, pioneer animation doesn't exist anymore. they're geneon in japan too
but yeah guys it's totally a great idea for the US anime/manga business to die, because oh hey, then the japanese business will lose a huge source of funding, and being as they're in such great shape right now they can totally take such a loss!
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Anonymous2005-09-11 12:09
in every ADV thread I have to mentiont that those fuckers still owe me $20 for their cool anime specials deal from many years ago. Fuck ADV.
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Anonymous2005-09-11 13:07
What is anime?
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Anonymous2005-09-11 15:12
What is Annie May?
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Anonymous2005-09-26 8:57
A cute little redheaded loli who uses only chemical based weaponry?
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Anonymous2005-10-09 20:41
am i the only one who likes ADV manga? they're doing a great job with Yotsubato and they did a great job with Azumanga Dioh as well.
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Dioh=Daioh for anyone who hasn't seen it.
splchk, pls.
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Anonymous2005-12-12 8:29
ADV are retards who liscence everything and then don't have the cash to actually go and make the dvds. They fucking suck. (Thx for Kaleido Star season 1 and not season 2... fuckers...)
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Anonymous2005-12-23 2:11 (sage)
HAY GUYS CROMARTIE IS THE HERO OF ALL FAGGOTS AROUND THE WORLD! BY LIKEING CROMATIE, YOU ARE ALSO A FAGGOT. FUCK THIS GAY THREAD, SO I SAGED IT AHAHHAHAHA
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Anonymous2006-01-27 3:05
GTFO
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Anonymous2006-02-12 3:31
ADV manga has much left to be desired. Sometimes the translations are fine, sometimes there way to off without any reason. Why licence that much? Heard they were going to drop evorything that wasn't an anime they had. first you ruin me with only translating the second half of Mantantei Loki Ragnarok, now you kill me with never releasing more then the first 2 volumes of tactics.... Thank you ADV for beeing sucky.