2012-05-04, 17:59 | Link #1 | |
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The current state of Media Blasters...
Media Blasters has had a bad year, and it seems it just gets worse for them. A few months ago, they had announced layoffs, and they also announced delays on several of their licensed shows. Recently, Sentai Filmworks got Queen's Blade Rebellion instead of them, and now, it appears they have some tax problems with New York state
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...-of-april-2011 I wasn't sure if the headline ought to be something like "Is Media Blasters Gonna Survive the Year?" or "RIP Media Blasters?" or even something like "New York lists Media Blasters as inactive" or a generic "Is Media Blasters in trouble?". I figured at least as this story develops and more information gets released, we can analyze it and form our own conclusions if Media Blasters will be able to come back from this or whether Media Blasters will join Bandai Entertainment and Geneon as companies that are now defunct as far as releasing new anime. EDIT: quoted some of the ANN article too as far as timeline and stuff: Quote:
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2012-05-04, 18:21 | Link #2 | |
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They responded on Facebook
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Thread (jhon shows up on page 2) for those interested. Be advised, popcorn and coke is needed for maximum enjoyment.
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2012-05-04, 18:31 | Link #4 |
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As for an actual answer to the thread title, it does seem that MB is indeed in trouble. Of course, how much in trouble are they in is unclear atm, but it does seem like they aren't doing so well right now.
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2012-05-04, 18:54 | Link #5 | |
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Personally I don't care who called whom or whether emails were lost (see the ANN thread for context). What bothers me more is this comment from Sirabella quoted above:
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2012-05-04, 19:33 | Link #6 | |
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I think it's pretty clear that they are operating at a Zero Level professionalism on the thread. When everyone calling each other a lair and unprofessional, you know that you reached the lowest form of flamebaiting ...
I'm actually wondering if there are going to be any serious legal ramifications for this for MB down the line. They clearly are going to need to look for better legal aid ... Quote:
And I think this is where the who ''missing e-mail/no one called us'' comes into play, and how this whole fiasco over a the thread show how much John really cares for his ''baby''. Even if we were to accept that ANN didn't try and contact someone over at Media Busters (which even by ANN's current reputation for reporting news wrongly I find hard to believe) according to the comment John made, they had been aware that such rumors had been flying around since last TAF (I believe late March) then would it really have been hard to think that a large news sources that might try and get in touch with them? And if Christopher is right and they did try and contact them for an entire week before going through with the news, then that shows a serious lack of communication on their end. Furthermore, going on a public form and calling out the CEO of the news site as well as freaking out on everyone is something that can only be described as adding more fuel to the fire, and certainly didn't help at all making this look good for MB in any way.
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2012-05-04, 20:20 | Link #7 |
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Given the fact that it is ANN and their rep for throwing gas on a fire, I would tend to listen to The guy who actually WORKS at MB!
Thing is all these companies state side are in deep water, what with Japan planning on doing there own dub/sub work over there. Last edited by Lost Cause; 2012-05-07 at 21:51. |
2012-05-04, 20:39 | Link #9 |
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Agreed completely. This should have been handled privately. Going on a public forum to "clear the air" just invites all sorts of problems, from legal liability to irreparable misunderstandings. Not to mention that his posts have no degree of professionalism at all and look like they were written by any random person. If the ANN staff weren't treating his posts as the real deal you could easily surmise this is someone trying to make the company look worse.
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2012-05-04, 21:42 | Link #10 |
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Sigh its a shame that anther anime company is about to go under but it would be nice to see them around long enough to see squid girl 2 to come out but maybe it just time to take them to the back of the barn and shoot them
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2012-05-04, 22:38 | Link #12 | ||
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And even if he was ever so inclined to bring everything out to the open (not a wise move, but maybe if he wanted to clear things himself), all it would've taken was a single post from him explaining that he never got a message for some reason, and that they should rephrase the article. Instead he went on saying things like ''having fun on my expense?'' and acting (while understandably) upset, lashing out on everyone in the thread and the news staff. I honestly couldn't believe what was I reading, and even thought it might've been a troll till I seen confirmation from several ANN staff and Chris replying to him. Really shameful. The way the article is titled, it might give that idea, but MB is still around and apparently still releasing stuff. The news just points out that they dissolved back in 2011, but that was more of a mistake on MB's part by filling too many extensions and ending with it biting it in their ass. This isn't a zombie, don't worry
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2012-05-05, 06:29 | Link #13 |
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Lmao at the ANN thread. That is pure popcorn alright. And lol at arguing on a public forum. It's one thing for normal members of ANN or MB to be ranting at each other, it's another issue altogether for officers of each corporation going at each other's necks.
It reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If1Wk...eature=related |
2013-03-08, 16:45 | Link #15 |
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I am not sure what to think of this piece of Media Blasters news.
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...enshin-berserk I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that their license to Bakuman and Rurouni Kenshin(and Berserk) have expired. I guess they gave up on Squid Girl season 2 based on the comments(and I didn't know that they had Moyashimon at some point). Media Blaster also isn't going to release anything on BD, and they want to focus on DVD and "New Media" according to this Crunchyroll News story http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...anime-licenses |
2013-03-08, 20:12 | Link #16 |
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From reading the article, it sounds to me more like they intend to focus on their porn lines. Oh, and that "tax paper" Sirabella refers to in the CR story came from MB's run in with the New York State tax authorities in 2011. I notice that he has moved the company to New Jersey.
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2013-03-09, 19:55 | Link #17 |
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Regarding Moyashimon, from memory, it was never officially announced. The only reason some people had known they had it is because one of their employees mentioned at a con a couple years back, saying they had plans to release it or something like that. I can't remember the details, exactly. So, it's really no surprise that you didn't know it was licensed.
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