Yesterday, Anime News Network reported that several pages for many of ADV Film’s recently acquired series disappeared off of their website and store.
Apparently, also yesterday, ADV sent a press release to ICv2, which no longer appears on their website, but can be viewed using Google cache.
In it, ADV reported that 37 series were on “Indefinite Hiatus” due to ADV “suspending certain elements of its former alliance with ARM Corporation” which ADV used to license nearly all of it’s new shows since ADV started their partnership with Sojitz.
The titles in question were:
009-01, 5cm Per Second, Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy, Air Gear, Air Movie and TV, Best Student Council, Blade of the Phantom Master, Comic Party Revolution, Coyote Ragtime, Devil May Cry, Ghost Train, Gurren Lagann, Guyver, Innocent Venus, Jinki: Extend, Kanon, King of Bandit Jing: 7th Heaven, Kurau Phantom Memory, Le Chevalier D’Eon, Magikano, Moeyo Ken TV Series, Moonlight Mile, Nerima Daikon Brothers, Pani Pani Dash!, Project Blue, Pumpkin Scissors, Red Garden, Synethesia, The Wallflower, Tokyo Majin, UFO Princess Valkyrie - Third and Fourth Seasons, Utawarerumono, Venus vs. Virus, Welcome to the NHK, and Xenosaga.
ADV Films still continues to refuse to comment, according to ANN.
However, before people start panicking, Robert from the Anime Corner Store had this to say on the ANN forums:
The letter was NOT sent to retailers. It was pulled at the last minute. The pulled article on ICV2 reflects the bleak situation as of last Friday, but things have changed since then and I’m sure ADV was hoping they could rectify the situation before too much of this became public and caused a panic.
Obviously it is impossible to know what this means for these licenses until ADV decides to speak, and perhaps not even they know the answer to that question. Hopefully the totality of these statements suggest that it looked like titles were going to have to wait, but maybe that isn’t the case anymore. ADV may not talk until whatever dealings they need to do are finished.
In any case, the only thing we can do is wait for official word from ADV before we know anything for certain. Unfortunately they’re keeping quiet for the time being.
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