ADV:
We know there are a lot of rumors swirling about, and that fans are looking for assurances that ADV will continue to distribute the anime series they know and love.
While we can’t go into any detail at this time, please know that ADV is working through a few short-term challenges and fully intends to continue our releases.
We thank you for your patience.
So it’s basically sounding like what I increasingly suspect - something went funky with the licensing and that this isn’t a money matter (ie, ADV isn’t going out of business). As I suspected too, it’s also something they probably can’t talk about until whatever they’re doing is done, so I’ll be interested in what happened here.
At least ADV finally decided that things had gotten out of hand to a point that they felt like they had to say something.
Update
More from the Robert’s Anime Corner Blog:
I have heard what I deem as reliable information this morning that ADV is close to a solution to the licensing problems and that there is a very good level of confidence that their existing catalog will remain in-tact with nothing more than a few bumped street dates. I’ve been doing business with this guy for 10 years and he never bullshits me, so I think this is as good of information as we can get less than an official statement. I have verified this info through a couple other inside industry contacts and it jives. ADV will probably not be able to make any official statement though until everything is wrapped up which could be a few more days.
