>>24738140

>John Ledford, ADV's President and CEO, states "We believe the actions we initiated and completed provided the same or more value to the Company's secured lender and its programming licensors while giving other key stakeholders such as employees and customers some potential value or the reasonable probability of realizing value."

>In a separate transaction, Valkyrie Media Partners, LLC ("Valkyrie") acquired a 100% equity position in Anime Network, Inc. ("ANI"), formerly ADV's television unit, pursuant to a stock purchase agreement between ADV and Valkyrie. That transaction includes an assumption by Valkyrie of specific liens and security interests of the Company's senior secured lender.

>In another separate transaction, Seraphim Studios, LLC acquired Amusement Park Media, the production unit of A.D. Vision, Inc.

>Further announcements are expected from the respective acquiring entities over the coming days.

Source: www.advfilms.com

And something of value was lost.

tell me why i dont give a flying fuck

>AEsir Holdings, LLC ("Aesir")
Here we go again...

>>24738351
What's AEsir Holdings anyway.

>>24738719
Drugs and political assassinations.

The last time I cared about ADV was when they were originally going to dub TTGL.

BT - Bringing down the shitty entertainment industry one shitty company at a time.Expect IQ raise among the populace.

aesir and valkyrie?

ADV was never one of my favorites, still sad to see them go. I guess the market really is dying here.

Not that I expect anyone here to care.

/a/ hates ADV yet fails to realize that we wouldnt have Rurouni Kenshin without them.

>>24738798
>Vic Mignogna as Viral
Thank god we averted that disaster.

>>24738932
More free anime for us. XP

>>24738798

bawwww!!!! ;_;

i would have so watched gureen lagan for that cast!

ADV dubs were terrible.

>>24738973
RK is Media Blasters, not ADV.

and nothing of value was lost

So does this mean I can't get VA dub gigs there anymore?

>>24738988
japanese companies only let fansubs exist because they raise interest in foreign markets. if they stop making money in foreign markets, you can expect them to crack down.

>>24739089
durrr hurrr trust and betrayal are both ADV, stupid ass. The legendary oav relating to Kenshin's past? dumbass.

>>24738798
>Tiffany Grant as Yoko Rittona
;___;

I actually liked ADV as far as R1 companies go. Seemed like they usually picked series that I liked to bring out here.

It's only natural that they fade out though. With the proliferation of Internet fansubs and now HD broadcasts in Japan, everything is available faster and cheaper for English speakers.

It's kind of sad to see them go before others, since I thought they had a good eye, but they've basically served their purpose.

>>24739145
Most English female VAs need to have their heads chopped off, and they all wear stupid fucking glasses too. Snooty white women with stupid fucking glasses who don't even care about or like anime.

>>24739184

what

>>24739184

raaaaaaaaaaaaaaage

That's a shame. I liked a lot of their dubs.

>>24739149
They tried too much, put too much faith in dubbing and tried to start their own anime channel and wasted alot of money on this whole Evangelion live action affair. Had they gone hardcore with season sets from the get go without dubs they could have been bigger than FUNi I believe

>>24739299

If I remember correctly, wasn't some of their problem that they jumped in with both feet 4-5 years ago when manga became a hot ticket, licensed a bunch of series few people knew about, and failed to generate enough sales to pay for it?

Today is a good day.

The role of dubbing companies is to make anime more popular outside of Japan. Once the market is established they should step down and leave the field to the fansubbers.

Bravo ADV!

>>24739217
>>24739289
prove me wrong, dicks. Female VAs are not the fans you think they are, they are snooty bitches and should be shot.

The only dub they';ve done that holds up is Excel Saga.

Evangelion, Rahxephon, Azumanga Daioh, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Blue Seed, Getbackers... all shitty dubs.

>>24739627
YOU WATCH GETBACKERS?!?!?!

>>24739575

Monica Rial is not snooty!

>>24739575

aw, sounds like someone couldnt get their kawaii box set signed by an actress

>The role of dubbing companies is to make money.

Fixed that for you.

>>24739658

I thought I would give it a try.

>>24739688

>The role of companies is to make money

further fixed

>>24739694
okay, i've never watched it...heard it was okay.

>>24739627

Cromartie was also done by ADV, and that's probably the best dub of anything

>>24739627

I thought the Azumanga dub was pretty good.
Especially Osaka's Texan drawl.

>>24739120
yup just like after the music, movie, and gaming industry crackdown you can no longer find high quality torrents out there.....oh...wait...

>>24739731

Cromartie is pretty much a fluke. Nobody knows how they were able to pull it off.

>>24739120
lololol just like the RIAA and MPAA are "cracking down" aka accomplishing nothing but wasting money on frivolous litigation.

>>24739731

Oh, wow. I can't believe I forgot.

But that was like the perfect storm.

I always liked their co-productions with Exiled Destiny.

>>24739771

those industries arent nearly as threatened by piracy as anime is. the anime fandom is essentially built on piracy, as its the only effective way for people overseas to discover new franchises. without the internet, the only anime we would ever get are generic shonen fighters guaranteed to sell toys and video games. japanese companies look the other way when it comes to piracy because it spreads the word about other franchises, and they hope that interest will generate sales when the release those franchises overseas.

>>24740068
Your missing the point those industries attempts to fight piracy have failed horribly and maybe even drove more people to piracy as a result of bad business practices. Besides what would be the point of even bothering to crackdown on an industry where very little money is being made. Its not even possible to crackdown on piracy if they wanted anyways so whatever.

Does that mean we're gonna see a lot of new torrents over at bakabt?

>>24740262
I think they stopped fighting and figured to try and beat them at their own game. That's why all those shows are popping up on crunchyroll now, all perfectly sanctioned, translated, and ready to go. The quality and the site suck, but now they're pulling in cash from subscribers and not frittering money away on hiring lawyers in other countries to protect their IP.

>>24738140
>>24738155
Sad to see them go. I got into anime around the same time that ADV started localizing it.

>>24739771
>>24739918
Actually this is very different. When people pirate music and movies, they get them maybe a week before they normally would on a high-quality audio CD or Blu-ray. When people pirate anime they're getting it months or (more likely) years before they normally would on just regular DVDs.

When you pirate anime you're getting something a few days or weeks after it airs in Japan instead of years later or possibly never. The quality is also much higher now that things are broadcast in HD and ripping from broadcast can be cone digitally. In many cases the raws from TV look better than the R1 DVDs.

Pirating movies and music is a difference of ability or willingness to pay. Pirating anime is a difference of quality and speed.

So those this mean ADV manga is dead too ?

Didn't they pick up the license for Yotsuba&! ?

The sooner the entire American anime industry dies the better.

>>24740262

if those industries were losing serious money to piracy, you can bet they would be doing a lot more. right now, they simply resort to intimidation because the actual loses are a drop in the bucket compared to what the make. for instance, a quick look on pirate bay suggests that less than 10 000 people have downloaded (or are downloading) batman arkham asylum, a game which is guaranteed to sell at least a million copies in north america alone. thats not really a serious loss.

can you name one anime title thats sold a million copies in north america? or even 100 000? the vast majority of anime consumers, am already small market, download their shows and then never bother to buy the dvds once the show becomes licensed. many shows sell enough to break even, but not enough make a profit, which is one of the reasons so many companies have shut down recently (geneon, central park media, and now adv). if this continues, japanese companies may pull the plug on all anime licensing, and then crack down on the piracy, because it no longer serves their purposes of getting the word out. an industry that has real money to lose will fight much harder than one that only loses pocket money.

>>24740830
How would they have money to lose if there is no infrastructure in place to sell translated anime? The western market is barely on any Japanese companies radar as it is, if more companies die and the lump sum they get from licensing dries up let me assure you, they will not give a shit about fansubs nearly enough to "crack down on them".

>>24740952

they make (some) money from the west right now. losing that is money lost. and id say that western interest is becoming a much bigger interest to them, like the english haruhi dub hype or multilingual release of kurokami.

>>24741102
gundam unicorn is also plan for a simultaneous world release

>>24740830

Regardless, there's not really anything they can do about it. The best they can hope for is sending cease and desist letters to fansubbers (many of whom will ignore them or sub anonymously) and the ISPs of people on torrents (obviously not the only way to get animu)

Well hell, this means nothing else like ghost stories either. That kind of sucks.

dubs are for fags

I've been waiting for this
NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST

>>24739627
Goddanar, Ghost Stories, Cromartie.

Should have released their anime on UK R2 DVD BEFORE USA.

That's what you get for being Americentric. We Brits get our revenge. Just as we have on the record industry with MP3 filesharing. Our kick in the bollocks to them for ripping off we Brits. Should've released CD albums here BEFORE the USA. AND be cheaper than America.

Our downloading fansubs is our kick in ADV's Yank bollocks. Should've licenced anime ASAFP. NOT years later (a few months later at most), AND on UK R2 DVD FIRST. AND cheaper than USA.

You're paying the price for treating us as 2nd class customers, ADV.

Enjoy your bankruptcy. I'll still have my anime.

Why is this news? ADV has been dying for years. Their actors/translators/engineering already work for Funimation too, most of their old titles are being released by other people, and really the only person going out of business here is Matt Greenfield and does anyone even give a shit about Matt Greenfield going out of business? Hell I bet his wife doesn't even give a shit, she's probably too busy bugging Funimation about Rebuild 2.0

Bush would have bailed them out.