Bandai Entertainment to Stop Production and Distribution of New Releases

[Kasei2025]

None of my faves on that list. Oh well *shrugs* "First they came for the communists..."

[szfzafa]

Perhaps there will be no Gosick or Nichijou in official English dub forever.

[Kid Ryan]

Perhaps there will be no Gosick or Nichijou in official English dub forever.

That would be the end of the world if Nichijou never reached an english speaking audience.

(don't care for Gosick)

[tvalien]

awwww I feel bad for pirating now. I know! Some anime will cheer me up! *disappears to the downloads section*

I know the feeling ^L^

[SSJSilva]

Doesn't have anything to do with Piracy. The simple fact is, to make money you need to actually release something. Bandai has been holding out for a long time. Especially with their Gundam series which is their biggest and highest seller. They failed to even release Gundam 00 on Blu-ray despite being released on Blu-ray in Japan. The same problem occurred with Code Geass which would have sold like crazy had they released it on Blu-ray with reasonable prices.

Instead though, they wanted to release way over priced sets of just 7-9 episodes and only on DVD.

So Bandai pretty much built their own coffin.

Koby is right. I'm still waiting for Gundam ZZ, Victory Gundam, Gundam X and Turn-A Gundam to be released here in the west. They have indeed have been holding out, it's practically been decade(s) for each of these series and yet no releases. Hopefully some other company would do a better job to get these anime as well as others to be released.

[Nienna]

The entire entertainment industry is killing itself and it's starting with the worst offenders first.

I do a lot of conventions and I don't have any problem going into a dealer's room and laying down a nice chunk of change. But I spend the vast majority of my money on "accessory" purchases. Everything from T-shirts to key chains. These are, for the most part, licensed products and the same studios that produce the anime get the revenue for my new messenger bag. Still my friends and I often lament the lack of selection. The problem is that over priced DVD's limit the fan market, even with filesharing (I refuse to call it piracy, I've never pillaged and burned anyone's TV console to get their DVD's) If anime was more affordable more people would buy it, more people would see it and more people would just have to have a new character plushie at the next convention. This is more work, and no one in the entertainment industry actually wants to do any of that.

As a business owner myself I can tell you; you have to sell the customer what they want at a price they can afford. You can't expand your business by milking people.