Press release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
http://www.advfilms.co.uk/

ADV FILMS' WAREHOUSE BLOWOUT SALE FOR 1 WEEK ONLY!

FROM MONDAY TO MONDAY, ONE TIME ONLY BARGAINS WHILE STOCKS LAST

LONDON, UK, 21st JANUARY 2008

ADV Films is pleased to announce that you, the consumer, will be the beneficiaries of the corporate group's current streamlining: as operations are transferred from our own warehouse to a third-party distributor, we need to clear out the remaining stock, and so we're putting it on sale this week only.

From today Monday 21st January up until the end of Monday 28th January, titles throughout our extensive catalogue will be on sale from £1 up, but only while stocks last! Once titles are sold out, we will not be restocking them, so get your orders in early on to avoid disappointment and take full advantage of these outrageous rock-bottom prices. Titles in the sale include:

Area 88
Angelic Layer
Aquarian Age
Azumanga Daioh
King of Bandit Jing
Chrono Crusade
Cromartie High School
Colorful [note: license expires 31/01/08]
Dai Guard [note: license expires 31/01/08]
DN Angel
Divergence Eve
Excel Saga [note: license expires 31/01/08]
Full Metal Panic! & FUMOFFU
New Fist Of The North Star
Get Backers
Gilgamesh
Gravion
Kino's Journey
Rune Soldier
Last Exile
Madlax
Mahoromatic
Mezzo
Mazinkaiser
Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi
Najica
Noir
Peacemaker
Pretear
RahXephon
Samurai Gun
Shadow Skill
You're Under Arrest [note: license expires 31/01/08]
Yugo The Negotiator
Zaion

About ADV Films

ADV Films is the leading producer-distributor of Japanese animation ("anime" in the United Kingdom, with the firm's holdings including such premier titles as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Spriggan, Samurai X, RahXephon, Hellsing, Full Metal Panic! and Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor. Parent company, A.D. Vision, Inc., encompasses a multitude of complementary media divisions, spanning publishing, television, licensing and merchandising and continues to expand into new areas. Its Anime Network(tm) is America's first and only television network dedicated to bringing anime and anime-related programming to consumers nationwide via digital cable 24 hours a day. The company has two publishing arms: Newtype USA, the premier anime and manga monthly magazine, and ADV Manga(tm), dedicated to publishing graphic novels. A.D. Vision, Inc. maintains world headquarters in Houston, Texas, USA with additional studios in Austin, Texas and offices in Tokyo.


Everythings selling out VERY fast, so if you want cheap disks go there now, this wont happen again...

Azumanga Daioh is out of stock. Bugger.

I got an extra copy of Azumanga if the club wants it, not sure what we'll do with it but I figured it was worth getting.

shit most stuff has gone...

update: ok 7 discs for a tenner. I have no idea what I have bought...! ^_^

Hmm having looked into things a little more in some ways I feel like I just robbed a grave....

Lets hope not

Jonny wrote:

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Hmm having looked into things a little more in some ways I feel like I just robbed a grave....

If you robbed with a shovel, then I robbed with a JCB.

And yes, it does

I'm just surprised this is happening to adv.

I was somewhat shocked and saddened, but not hugely suprised. I think all the US anime companies are struggling to some extent, and foriegn branches are always going to be sacrificed fairly early on.

Now for a little experiment. My Karma is currently 5 and I'm not taking the moral high ground (I'm certainly pointing at it, but I don't claim to stand on it) or being devil's advocate.

I think one of the major reasons anime companies are struggling in the UK is that a lot of fans download series even though they are available on DVD. It must damage their sales pretty badly. Buying licences, productising a series, and getting all the tracks and any extras through the BBFC is not cheap. Illegal downloads may well have killed ADV UK.

I can't agree more! If the UK anime industry disappears it's worse on a global scale, as legit buyers turn to other means of getting their anime, that are illegal, by which, I mean downloading, thus enhancing the global downloading problem. Also, the fact that people are buying from places like United Publications and Otaku.co.uk, who sell region 1, and higher quality items, for a cheaper price. With the loss of MVC (used to be upstairs, near the escalators, GAME end in Vic Center), who sold UK DVD's for a cut price, and bonus points, that's the main reason I turned solely to region 1 DVD's. I'm sure a few others will have done the same, because it's cheaper. That being said, I'll accept I'm no angel, but at least money is going to the right people's pockets my way. All I did, was exploit a loop hole.

+1 karma for absolute agreement

Rob wrote:

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I think one of the major reasons anime companies are struggling in the UK is that a lot of fans download series even though they are available on DVD. It must damage their sales pretty badly. Buying licences, productising a series, and getting all the tracks and any extras through the BBFC is not cheap. Illegal downloads may well have killed ADV UK.

I think there's some truth in that. The download scene has meant the popular anime series are known to the fanbase years before they get here, by which point people have lost interest. Diehard fans don't buy UK disks, which in turn are perhaps too expensive for newbies to take a risk on.

That having been said, why ADV? They are the biggest in the USA, and have no end of good series. I would have thought they could take the pressure. As opposed to say, Manga, who seem to have very small catlogue these days, but seems immortal.