I’m guessing this is all part of the fallout between ADV and their licensing partner Sojitz as many of the titles on this list were on the list of suspended shows in February:
- 009-1
- Ah! My Goddess: Flights of Fancy
- Air Gear
- Air: The Movie
- Air TV
- Blade of the Phantom Master
- Comic Party: Revolution
- Coyote Ragtime Show
- Devil May Cry
- Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor TV
- Jing, King of Bandits: Seventh Heaven
- Jinki:Extend
- Kanon
- Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora (once titled as Shattered Angels by ADV Films)
- Le Chevalier D’Eon
- Magikano
- Moeyo Ken TV
- Moonlight Mile
- Murder Princess
- Nerima Daikon Brothers
- Pani Poni Dash!
- Project Blue Earth SOS
- Pumpkin Scissors
- Red Garden
- Sgt. Keroro 1st & 2nd
- Tokyo Majin
- UFO Princess Valkyrie
- Utawarerumono
- Venus Versus Virus
- The Wallflower
- Welcome to the NHK
- Xenosaga
All titles were on the list in February except for Shattered Angels, which was licensed after the snafu, Murder Princess, who previously hadn’t had a licensed announced for it, and Sgt. Keroro, possibly because it had no scheduled releases yet.
Shows on the list in February which are not on the list above include 5 Centimeters Per Second, Best Student Council, Ghost Train, Innocent Venus, Kurau: Phantom Memory, and Synethesia, so they are reportedly staying with ADV Films.
The bad thing for ADV in this deal is that it is quite possible that ADV didn’t get a penny from the transfer since the Japanese company they were partnering with held the actual licenses. This could also be why ADV is in a hurry to license so many new shows, so they have a stream of income to replace these shows, since these constitute the bulk of all the shows that ADV has released over the past couple of years.
