ADV Discontinues Additional Titles
ADV Films has informed us that its domestic DVD releases of Best Student Council, Five Centimeters Per Second, Innocent Venus, and Robotech have been discontinued. ADV has not provided an explanation for why the titles have been withdrawn from circulation. These four titles were not included in the recent transition of anime properties from ADV Films to FUNimation.
Ironically, the announcement that Five Centimeters Per Second is no longer available from ADV Films comes exactly four months, to the day, after the film’s American DVD debut.
Like Grandma lectured, “If you’ve got nothing good to say, don’t say anything.”
July 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
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July 11th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
[…] The ADV implosion continues… AnimeNation notes that four more titles have been discontinued: Robotech, Best Student Council, Innocent Venus and […]
July 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
It’s sad. But the question I keep asking myself now is, Should I feel sorry for them?
July 12th, 2008 at 1:34 am
[…] not one to note events related to commercial releases, but when it’s uncertainty related to 5 Centimeters Per Second, I’ll make an […]
July 13th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Is this announcement just another harbinger for the death knell of ADV in general? Both their anime and their manga divisions are hemorrhaging titles like crazy.
In addition to all of the other recent ADV announcements, this can’t bode well.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:35 am
[…] their pre-2005 stuff except for the already OOP series like Princess Nine and Gunsmith Cats and the discontinued titles revealed (Best Student Council, Five Centimeters Per Second, Innocent Venus, and Robotech) on Friday. […]