| Geneon's US branch, Geneon USA, has informed all of its US retailers that it will cease the sales, production, and distribution of all its DVDs. The official date for the pullout is this Friday (September 28th) and it will go into effect at 5pm PDT. Source: Anime Nation. |
| Huh, did they mention a reason? |
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| Hm, I don't see the related post on AnimeNation's news area. |
XinilSep 26, 2007 7:42 AM
Xinil said: Hm, I don't see the related post on AnimeNation's news area. http://www.animenation.net/news/ It's there for me though. |
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| Bah, it isn't on their main home page. I see it if you click news though. |
| ooh...this one will make ripples |
| Oh... wow. O_O |
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| I was reading about this a couple of days ago on ANN when it was still a rumor. But now that letters have officially been sent out announcing their departure it really makes me sad. This will be a big hit to the domestic anime industry, especially for those who have been supporting Geneon and are mid-series only to find the rest won't be coming out. I wonder if anyone will pick up where they left off or will it be the end of their currently releasing stuff? Then there's also their prior announcements that have yet to come out like Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and the Shana movie. Sad, sad day indeed =\ |
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| I better rush out and get Ergo Proxy and Shana. =( |
Xinil said: Bah, it isn't on their main home page. I see it if you click news though. yeah even if i had linked it to animenation.com/news it goes straight to the main page anyways. animenation fails me in that aspect. |
| Well, they merged or were bought by ADV Films. So I can't remember which and where I read it ^.^'' |
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theplayster said: Well, they merged or were bought by ADV Films. So I can't remember which and where I read it ^.^'' The merger failed, actually |
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accela said: Oh... wow. O_O |
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| Can anyone provide a list of titles that will no longer be distributed? Or wait... *searching for geneon anime producer* http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?p=31 I take it that list isn't complete though. :( |
| Compete List http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneon |
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| Damn. I need to hurry and get my "Samurai Champloo" O_o |
| This is sad news indeed. Geneon has release many good titles and I hope that some other company will then pick them up. I wonder what will happen to the rest of Rozen maiden series, or will the box set I started to collect remain half empty. And there are several other titles that I have been looking to buy. |
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| Are you F!@#$% Serious?!?!? NOOO!!!! NO! NO! Thats my Favorite!!! NO Geneon' Why have you forsaken us!?!?! grrrr!!!! theyve had so many good animes! why quit now?!?! this is Boogus! >.<! sigh* this is depressing news. NOOO MY HELLSING?!?!? It was starting to OWN!! now that ive thought of it..that pisses me off...grr.. O____________________________________O |
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| Crap. Too many good titles :( It just doesn't make sense, though.... why? |
| I won't miss them too much. Most of the Geneon dubs I own, when I do bother to watch them, are some of the cheesiest I've ever heard ("I'd counter every one of them ... with a counter-punch"). Still, I thought they did a good job on NieA_7, and it'll be sad to see another distributor off the map (meaning less competitive motivation in the quality area). |
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| 0_0 ... Looks like I'd better find those released Higurashi DVDs while I still have the chance... |
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| Damn, i guess i wont be getting Higurashi or ZnT for awhile. I see why they were trying to deal with ADV now. |
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| My greatest hope is that this is a publicity stunt so people will buy their DVDs else I hope other companies will pick up their unfinished Series and dub them using the same voice actors. Big Dub fan btw... |
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| ...FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFRICK. Time to bookend the Samurai Champloo collection already, though I would have preferred to spread out the purchases. Yare yare daze. |
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| Say, does this mean that all of their licenses get dropped? That should make fansubs easier to get a hold of. |
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| Oh, man, this sucks! I'm so glad I'm not following any of their current series. At least maybe some of their old titles will hit the bargain bin? *wantss to buy Paradise Kiss and Gankutsuou soon* |
I won't miss them too much. Most of the Geneon dubs I own, when I do bother to watch them, are some of the cheesiest I've ever heard ("I'd counter every one of them ... with a counter-punch"). Still, I thought they did a good job on NieA_7, and it'll be sad to see another distributor off the map (meaning less competitive motivation in the quality area). I hate when people auto-think that Geneon does its own dubs. They don't. They outsource dubs to different studios, be it Bang Zoom, Ocean, Odex or NewGen. Otherwise, this is a very sad day for the anime industry in North America. We will truly lose a company that worked for the fans and took risks. Say, does this mean that all of their licenses get dropped? That should make fansubs easier to get a hold of. Geneon still has 100% control over the licenses. However, FUNimation, ADV, Media Blasters and BEUSA are likely to "license rescue" a few titles. My greatest hope is that this is a publicity stunt so people will buy their DVDs else I hope other companies will pick up their unfinished Series and dub them using the same voice actors. Big Dub fan btw... Not a publicity stunt at all. I hope for someone else of the Big 4(now Big 3) to license the titles and keep dub continuity. |
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| someone should e-mail Geneon and ask them http://geneonanimation.com/MainContentPage.aspx?PageUID=6bdd75f1-64cf-41dd-a18e-bef07f6bd169 lol |
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AnomalousOne said: Oh, man, this sucks! I'm so glad I'm not following any of their current series. At least maybe some of their old titles will hit the bargain bin? *wantss to buy Paradise Kiss and Gankutsuou soon* whats a Bargain Bin? O.o; i can see it now, all other anime companies will quit and then ill be stuck with tokyo pop. -___-; sigh* i got no money atm and i want the rest of those hellsing ultimate dvds..Geneon..just killed me deep inside. >.< |
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whats a Bargain Bin? O.o; i can see it now, all other anime companies will quit and then ill be stuck with tokyo pop. -___-; sigh* i got no money atm and i want the rest of those hellsing ultimate dvds..Geneon..just killed me deep inside. >.< Bargain Bin = Where you get stuff cheap. All the other companies won't quit. ADV, FUNimation and Bandai Entertainment USA -- the Big Three -- still are around and aren't leaving or quitting anytime soon. Don't worry. :) Tokyopop is technically no longer in the anime business, just manga. |
| Very sad news. Geneon was one of my favorite R1 companies. Most of my DVD collection consisted of shows they had licensed. I just started collecting Rozen Maiden (which is a great show, btw), so it's kind of disheartening to hear the last two discs won't be getting released anytime soon. :( |
| Well that sucks. I need to buy me those released Higurashi DVDs soon then. :/ |
| Although I hate dubs Geneon was one of the better dubing companies... |
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| LOL, you guys should check out the doomsayers on ANN's forums about this.....funny stuff. According to them, fansubs/bootlegs are the reason why Geneon ended up like this. One guy even put up an online petition to get the "remaining" R1 companies to pick up Geneon's licenses >_> OMG GENEON'S DEAD, THE FUTURE OF ANIME IS DOOOOMED Whatever. |
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| This sucks! This will definitely send a huge ripple effect through the anime industry in the US. Geneon was such a major distributor of anime. A lot of the Adult Swim anime came from Geneon distribution. T________T I will definitely miss sitting at the Geneon booth at the next anime con. T______T |
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Although I hate dubs Geneon was one of the better dubing companies... Geneon doesn't dub anime, they only distribute and work on the production aspect. They just outsource dubs to studios such as Ocean, Bang Zoom, NewGen and others. LOL, you guys should check out the doomsayers on ANN's forums about this.....funny stuff. According to them, fansubs/bootlegs are the reason why Geneon ended up like this. One guy even put up an online petition to get the "remaining" R1 companies to pick up Geneon's licenses >_> OMG GENEON'S DEAD, THE FUTURE OF ANIME IS DOOOOMED Whatever. The reason Geneon ended up like this 15% fansubbers, 65% the Japanese, American and Canadian economies, 20% other projects/issues. The remaining R1 companies will probably pick up Geneon's shows. Media Blasters' John Sirabella has hinted at it. ADV, BEUSA could as well. Let's not forget FUNimation either, which would actually be bad. It's by no means doomed. Geneon was only 12% of the total market. Nothing too bad to worried about. |
| Current priorities: -Kamichu (where the hell is it that boxed set?) -Haibane-Renmei -Serial Experiments Lain -Last Exile Then there are a bunch of other things. And damn me for not getting the $34.99 Paranoia Agent set at Suncoast yesterday. Went today and it was gone. Hope Rozen Maiden, Higurashi, and Karin are eventually completed one day. I'll assume that the Kamichu set was delayed due to all this going on. Anyone know if there were any other Geneon releases for the 25th that also didn't come out on time? |
| As I understand it, Geneon hasn't said they're shutting down and dropping all of their series. They're just ending their merchant partnerships and tabling releases for now. They could still come back from this... |
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| I might pick up Samurai Champloo and Last Exile.. Not going to bother getting hirugashi.. I'll wait to see what happens with that >_> Maybe if anime dvds weren't so fucking expensive.. |
| woah... thats a suprise indeed o_O.... .Wonder why ... |
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| On a totally lame attempt... "Geneon leaves US" = Geneon leaves us ¬_¬; |
DeathfireD said: someone should e-mail Geneon and ask them http://geneonanimation.com/MainContentPage.aspx?PageUID=6bdd75f1-64cf-41dd-a18e-bef07f6bd169 lol I actually did for the heck of it yesterday when I heard the newsXD I seriously doubt I'll get a response~ I was just boredXD |
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Geneon to Cease DVD Sales Operations Posted on: September 26, 2007 According to a letter that we received today, Geneon plans to cease DVD sales and distribution by the end of this week, accepting only non-returnable orders for releases with scheduled street dates through 11/6/2007. We are verifying now whether the remainder of the releases will be canceled completely, but it is our guess that the 11/13 releases and beyond are canceled. Rest assured that we have adequate incoming inventory on all of the titles through 11/6 on order and will be able to fill all customer orders -- if you haven't ordered these titles, order them now! Things are still a bit unclear as to how things going forward for Geneon will be handled, in terms of licensed properties that are in mid-release or have not yet been released. As more information is available, we will certainly update you. http://www.rightstuf.com/ ANN Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-09-26/geneon-usa-to-cancel-dvd-sales-distribution-by-friday Kinda doubt its a marketing scheme. |
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| someone needs to release a more thorough article about whats happening to Geneon because no one seems to know what they are doing |
marukawa said: near the very end of the report on ANN, it says: "from October 1, 2007, Geneon USA will focus mainly on management of its works portfolio." what does that mean, exactly? that they'll just be working on the series that they're in the middle of working on? i don't get it. T__T ender650 said: someone needs to release a more thorough article about whats happening to Geneon because no one seems to know what they are doing They'll probably be working on the production of anime in Japan. Don't know if you know this, but the company is based in Japan. Geneon USA is finished (for now?), but the main branch will still be involved in anime. |
| As a memeber of that Geneon Spot thing, I got an e-mail that came attached with a letter from Eiji Orii, CEO of Geneon USA. October 5,2007 To our fans, Recently, we announced that we will not be accepting orders on Geneon products after Friday, September 28,2007. We have read your comments that you have e-mailed and posted on various web sites, and received your numerous calls. At this time, we are internally discussing plans to explore all available options to continue distribution of Geneon titles, both old and new, at a later date. However, nothing is certain at this time. We will release more information to the public once we have any concrete plans, if any. We would like to thank you for your support over the last 20+ years'- first as Pioneer and then as Geneon. We have worked hard to bring you the best in Japanese animation and you have responded with an intense passion and support for our products. As Geneon evolves, we hope that we can continue to be a part of your future. Thank you, Eiji Orii President and CEO, Geneon Entertainment (USA)slnc. Anyone else get this? Hope they do figure something out. |
| I need to get my Fate/Stay Night dvds quick!! And Ergo Proxy………oh I need a job first!! O.O F/SN!!!!!! *obsessed F/SN fan* |
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