Their Graphics Vision manga was first attempt at doing manga. Which they very quickly pull the plug on it after a few months. Few years later restarted doing manga in the unflipped tankobon format. Which ADV had been doing right to up when the company was closed.
I remember the last volume of the Chrono Crusade manga had a dip in quality, to where the artwork looked blurrier than earlier volumes, that was 2006, I wonder if times were already getting tough for them.
I remember they just stopped in the middle of publishing Yotsub&.
ADV had experimented with streaming back in iirc 05-06. They had promoted it at Anime Expo that year otherwise I wouldn't have known they done it. But in 2007-08 nothing have been mentioned of it. Point of reference Netflix didn't start streaming until 2007.
I often forget that I was streaming Netflix movies as far back as 2008 until they changed to Microsoft Silverlight which ruined the picture quality and I've not been a Netflix subscriber since like 2010.
ADV were shit too. ADV was how cunts like Monica Rial got their foot in the door. ADV gave us literal faggots like their former script writer Steven Foster, who completely rewrote dub scripts based on what he thought was funny or clever. It's because of Foster and ADV we get hacked together meme scripts like Ghost Stories where they lie to everyone's faces about "Japan letting them rewrite the dub because something something it bombed originally even though it didn't".
Yeah, yeah "hurr it's funny it has charm". This shit was only funny if you never watched an episode of South Park.
Aww, come on now, yes maybe they went a little too far with Ghost Stories, but they did include a faithful sub track if the dub wasn't your cup of tea.
As I said before they were obviously chasing the South Park audience, of which Ghost Stories was probably their most obvious attempt, but I liked when these companies had more of an identity of which ADV had the strongest.
What sucks is had they had managed to get Gurren Lagann dvds off the ground it could have saved the company, but alas, I'm sure the money they wasted trying to get an Evangelion movie made didn't help either.
Bandai Entertainment died 10 years ago. This should be evident by how their titles (like anything made by Sunrise) are now distributed by various other publishers (Right Stuff, Discotek).
And Central Park Media died because they never kept up on bidding for then-red hot shows (i.e. FMA, Wolf's Rain, etc), instead just re-releasing old shit no one in the early 2000s had any affinity for, and in 2006 had a loan recalled when their lender was bought by BoA, forcing them to enter into ch. 11 bankruptcy and terminating most if not all of their licenses (they went ch. 7 in 2009). Geneon died due to factors like over bidding on shows that were still production and never seeing a return on them, leading to tons of unsold inventory sitting in warehouses and pissing off retailers.
What killed Central Park Media is they very much released anime for the ponytail and fanny pack "comic book guy" style male nerd crowd, as stuff that was popular with female audiences started to be where the money was, I believe John O'Donnell himself said he had no idea how to appeal to the tastes of teenage girls and that was that.
Ghost Stories dub is a forced meme. No one likes watching it. Anyone who tells you they watched it and enjoyed it outside of YouTube compilations is a liar.
I confess I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but I think it's a funny idea.
Most of the humor references the culture and politics from when Bush Jr was still in office. Even if you understand the humor it's outdated anyway.
To me that would just add to the charm.
And Mama didn't raise me to be a liar. Ghost Stories is great with another person or two (I don't drink, so I imagine watching it with drinking buddies is the best way to do it). The less they know about the dub, the better it blindsides them. YouTube compilations don't even have everything the dub has to offer.
He worked better as an ADR director on shows where he didn't have anything to do with the script. One such example is Cromartie High School, which is based both subbed and dubbed. Treasure it always.
Cromartie High School is one of the times they nailed it best, shame ADV's decline was not long after.
On a side note, I sure love waxing nostalgic with all you old weebs here.
