{"id":6529,"date":"2003-10-07T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/07\/ic-entertainment-controversy-goes-public\/"},"modified":"2003-10-07T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T14:31:00","slug":"ic-entertainment-controversy-goes-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ic-entertainment-controversy-goes-public\/","title":{"rendered":"IC Entertainment Controversy Goes Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial troubles of manga publisher IC Entertainment over the past several months have been the domestic anime community&#8217;s least well kept secret. Following a number of announcements from IC Entertainment at last weekend&#8217;s AnimeNEXT convention, Anime News Network has published an extensive interview with three former IC Entertainment employees.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.animeondvd.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Number=202231&#038;page=0&#038;view=collapsed&#038;sb=5&#038;o=2&#038;fpart=all&#038;vc=1\" target=\"_blank\">first hand report<\/a> of the IC Entertainment AnimeNEXT panel published to the Anime on DVD Forum, IC Entertainment is in financial straits resulting in much of its staff being volunteers; has announced that several of its regular titles are being placed on indefinite hiatus; and even appears to be uncertain of the company&#8217;s name. IC blames the problems on an un-named former employee. IC maintains that several anticipated upcoming releases including Di-Gi-Charat: Dejiko&#8217;s Champion Cup Theatre &amp; Hanaukyo Maid Team will still be released as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/feature.php?id=155\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network&#8217;s interview<\/a> is a detailed account of IC Entertainment founder and president Steve Bennett defrauding and taking advantage of employees&#8217; and business associates&#8217; good faith. According to the article, IC Entertainment has refused to discuss the accusations or respond to inquiries at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial troubles of manga publisher IC Entertainment over the past several months have been the domestic anime community&#8217;s least well kept secret. Following a number of announcements from IC Entertainment at last weekend&#8217;s AnimeNEXT convention, Anime News Network has published an extensive interview with three former IC Entertainment employees. According to a first hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}