October offers another set of new anime titles, along with a few complete collections. This month’s titles include D. Gray-man (Season 2 Part 1); Loveless Complete Slim, a bunch of Astro Boy re-releases in anticipation of the upcoming CG film and more! We also have some news regarding ADV Films. Here’s the complete list:
ADV Films (distributed by SXION 23)
On September 1, 2009, AD Vision (ADV Films parent company) shut down and transferred most of its assets to other companies. Specifically, select portions of their film library was acquired by AEsir Holdings. The servicing and distribution of the assets acquired by AEsir Holdings will be handled by the SXION 23 (Section23 Films) home video distribution company.
October 6, 2009
- Rahxephon Complete Collection (2009 Edition) – 770 min
October 13, 2009
- Kiba Complete Collection – 1275 min
- Neo Tokyo/New Fist of the North Star (2009 Edition) – 225 min
AnimeWho
- No releases this month
AN Entertainment
- No releases this month
Bandai Entertainment
October 6, 2009
- Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 Part 2 (also w/LE) – 150 min
- Toward the Terra Complete Collection (Anime Legends Edition) – 600 min
October 20, 2009
- Escaflowne The Movie – Blu-ray – 120 min
- Vision of Escaflowne (Super Legends Edition) – 650 min
Bandai Visual
- No releases this month
Bandai Visual USA, Inc.
As of July 1, 2008, Bandai Visual USA was absorbed into Bandai Entertainment. Titles will still be released under the Bandai Visual USA name. Bandai Visual USA titles will still be sold through their own online service (dot-anime.us website). Bandai Visual has recently launched a new label called Honneamise. Looking at their product line, it looks like it will be replacing the Bandai Visual label.
- No releases this month
BuenaVista Home Entertainment Japan (Movies.co.jp)
- No releases this month
Discotek
- No releases this month
FUNimation Entertainment, Ltd.
October 6, 2009
- D. Gray-man – Season 2 Part 1
- Mushi-Shi – Box Set
- Save Me! Lollipop – Complete Series
- The Story of Saiunkoku – Complete Box Set
October 13, 2009
- Full Metal Panic! – The Second Raid – Box Set – Remastered – 320 min
- Tokyo Majin Complete Collection – 650 min
October 20, 2009
- Blassreiter Complete Series Part 1 – 288 min
- Comic Party Revolution Complete Collection – 317 min
October 27 , 2009
- Claymore Complete Collection – 620 min
GDH K.K.
- No releases this month
Geneon Entertainment (USA), Inc.
Some good news with select Geneon titles…FUNimation has signed a deal with Geneon Entertainment to manufacture, distribute, and sell some of Geneon’s DVDs in North America.
October 27, 2009
- Shonen Onmyouji Complete Series – 625 min
Illumitoon.com
Until further notice there will be no more releases from Illumitoon.
ImaginAsian (distributed by Right Stuf!)
- No releases this month
Kadokawa Pictures, Inc.
- No releases this month
Manga Entertainment
- No releases this month
Media Blasters
October 6, 2009
- Otoboku Complete Collection – 325 min
October 13, 2009
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit Part 3 – 175 min
- Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit Vol. #6 – 75 min
- Mouse Complete Litebox – 180 min
October 20, 2009
- Loveless Complete Slim – 300 min
October 27, 2009
- Genshiken 2 Vol. #2 – 100 min
- Magic Knight Rayearth Season 1 Remastered Set – 500 min
Nozomi Entertainment
October 6, 2009
- Astro Boy Mini Set 1 – 550 min
- Astro Boy Mini Set 2 – 594 min
- Astro Boy: The Beginning – 110 min
- Kimba: The White Lion Mini Set 1 – 550 min
October 27, 2009
- Boogiepop Phantom/Boogiepop and Others Collection – 470 min
- No releases this month
Sentai Filmworks (distributed by ADV Films)
October 6, 2009
- He Is My Master Complete Collection – 300 min
October 20, 2009
- Clannad After Story Collection 1 – 300 min
- Ghost Hound Complete Collection 1 – 275 min
October 27, 2009
- Little Snow Fairy Sugar Complete Collection 1 – 325 min
- Popotan Complete Collection – 300 min
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- No releases this month
October 20, 2009
- Bleach Vol. #21 – 100 min
October 27, 2009
- Death Note Re-Light, Vol.2: L’s Successor
- Naruto Shippuden Vol. #02 – 100 min
- Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl – Battle Dimension Vol. #05 – 70 min
- Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl – Battle Dimension Vol. #06
- Pokémon: Diamond & Pearl Battle Dimension Box 3 (Vol. 5-6), Vol. 3 (DVD Box Set)
Warner Home Video
- No releases this month
beside all above, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san Light Novels Get Flash Anime !!! i just read the news in dormitory.com
thanks for the info^^
I wish Geneon would begin licensing Anime again. They had my favorite Voice Actors! Michelle Ruff, Wendee Lee, Steven Blum, Crispin Freeman, Yuri Lowenthal. T_T
I already got this news from anime.dormitory.com .
I wish a lot of things were different now in the domestic side of anime, too, guys.
I’ve been looking at and collecting anime for the better part of 20 years now.
Never have I seen so much available in the States as there is now, and never have I seen fandom and industry at such a low-point, too.
Let’s face it — most anime fans are flakes and fandom-at-large is fickle and faddish.
The best-selling anime rarely gets above 20,000 units disc sales and many titles languish and just don’t sell out for years, if ever…
Both the Internet and declining DVD sales have contributed to the near-collapse of the home market. It’s so easy for many people to bootleg and they think they’re doing everyone else a big favor by posting fansubs of R2 titles or rips of the week’s current new R1 releases.
Both rabid and faddish fandom are doing the industry in.
Likewise, the Japanese and American licensees have to get smarter about both distribution and how they market product — like 3-5 years ago!
I doubt anime will disappear ever completely but it certainly has to change in the way it satisfies demand and gets distributed. The DVD//Blu ray distribution is broken as is… There will always be those of us who want the higher-quality of a home release and are willing to pay a (reasonable) price for it and then there will always be cheapskates willing to skirt around the law to get something for free, too. It’s the latter creating most of the problems no in addition to general managerial incompetence at higher levels of production and the oversaturation of the market over the past decade or so with inferior shows and movies.
P.S. — I miss the old Pioneer Anime, too. When it became Geneon, that’s when things went downhill. Not missing so much CPM, Urban Vision, or Synch Point. They never released much on DVD worth buying. Glad to see ADV morph into SentaiFilms/Section 23 but if they had been better-managed a reorganization wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place!