It’s episode 17, and the Choir and Theater clubs come to a compromise on an advisor, but it’s shot down by the Student Council. Meanwhile, Sakagami decides to start a daily service for Okazaki and Sunohara. However, Sakagami ends up having a run in with some old acquaintances.
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It’s episode 17, and the information that Wilhelmina receives from Outlaw keeps getting messier and messier, but why? And speaking of Outlaw, Satou decides that it sounds like the perfect place for him to help the Flame Hazes out, but will Tanaka go with him?
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It’s episode 5, and Marco’s old flame Patricia gets caught up with an old acquaintance of her’s, Leo, who is investigating the truth behind the Social Welfare Agency. Will Marco be able to keep his secret from Patricia, while Leo has his own motivation for finding out about the Agency.
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We finally have some new information coming out about this whole ADV Films mess with their licensing partner Sojitz.
ADV Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing Mike Bailiff has made comments about the situation, including explaining the lack of comments from ADV about the situation:
There are a lot of parties involved in any anime production, and that can complicate even the best of negotiations. Frankly we had to keep quiet in the interest of resolving this situation as quickly as possible.
Which is basically what I suspected the situation was, even if it was frustrating. While Bailiff didn’t really say what the ultimate problem was which caused ADV to pull it’s products, the fact that all of ADV’s products have gotten new release dates suggests that the situation is either resolved, or resolved enough that titles can continue their releases.
Up until now, 9 ADV Films titles have passed their original release dates: Gurren-Lagann Volume 1, Kanon Volume 2, Kurau: Phantom Memory Volume 6, Moonlight Mile Volume 1, Project Blue Earth SOS Volume 1, Pumpkin Scissors Volume 3, The Wallflower Volume 2, Tokyo Majin Volume 2, and Welcome to the NHK Volume 3.
All of those except Gurren-Lagann Volume 1, will be released February 26th (but, as Robert’s Anime Store Blog notes, due to shipping time from ADV to online retailers, the shipping date in reality will more likely be around March 4th). No release dates for Gurren-Lagann or Devil May Cry have been made, but it was made known that further announcements about those titles would be made later.
All other release dates appear to be the same as they were before (if not pushed up a little) and all titles that had been released previously and had stopped shipping will ship once again.
To see all of my posts on this situation, see posts with the tag ADV Films.
That’s right, on February 28, 2006, I made the first post at Josh’s Anime Blog (though it wasn’t at this address, but at http://anime.calculusman.com, and I was using the Simple PHP blogging software at the time, which just got to be too unwieldy for my liking).
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In that time I’ve added a podcast and added the episode reviews. I’ve made a total of 643 posts (including this one) and, if my 1 year post is correct, 483 of those have been in the past year (so I’m averaging over 1 a day over that time).
Time seems to fly by (especially when you’re busy!) so now it’s onto Year 3 of the blog. Hopefully the growth from Year 1 to Year 2 continues on and that the blog will be better for it. It’s pretty bad that I’ve been running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off so much recently that I nearly forgot about the blog’s birthday.
