but Ask John mentioned "The contemporary American anime industry is in dire straights. Evidence suggests that many of America's anime distributors are struggling financially." http://www.animenation.net/news/askjohn.php?id=1123
What's this all about?
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Onion2005-08-18 20:41
Paying $20-25 for four episodes on DVD is nothing. I remember when VHS cost that much.
1) They don't release the DVDs all at once. Even on a McDonald's paycheck you should be able to pay that much once every two-to-three months.
2) You can always wait for the boxsets. While not everything is going to get one, more titles are getting the set treatment.
People are forgetting that policies vary greatly between companies over here in the US. ADV =/= Funimation =/= Viz. Each brings something different to the table so saying 'the American anime industry' is a tad misleading.
Viz tends to pick up higher quality, long running titles. They were doing the manga+anime thing long before anyone else. They tend to make very minor adjustments to the point where you hardly ever hear people complaining about them.
Funimation has the distinction of having been a pretty terrible distributor back in the day, and yet has cleaned itself up to the point of being one of the better ones out now, especially when it comes to dubbing/subbing. I think they have both a dubtitle and subtitle track on all their newer releases.
ADV is hit and miss. They're sort of trying to do everything at once and it comes across jumbled.
Geneon I haven't anything bad to say about these days. Back in the Tenchi days, however...