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ADV saves CPM anime


4:22 PM on 05.06.2009
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Remember when Central Park Media filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy a week ago, and that all those anime titles that used to belong to them were going to be burned in some kind of giant bankruptcy fire? Well not anymore! The good-natured ADV acquired four titles from CPM before the fire was lit. Those titles are: Grave of the Fireflies, Now and Then--Here and There, The World of Nature, and MD Geist.

These anime will be rereleased in July on DVD thanks to ADV, but there are a lot more titles that need to be recued as well, like Utena and Project A-ko for example. This really isn’t surprising; it would be dumb to have these titles fall away to obscurity when they could be making money. So thanks ADV, we owe you one.

[Via ADV Nation]





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YES! MD GEIST!
A couple of weeks? A WEEK AGO ain't a couple of weeks! >:O
Why would they even save the horror that is MD Geist?

It's only good if you want someone to leave, so you just pop it in.
Damn, it feels like a couple of weeks.
Someone should save La Blue Girl, though, now that CPM is gone.
This is great great news..... Well mostly... They should have burned MD Geist but everything else GREAT NEWS... Will finally be able to get my hands on Now and Then Here and There.
I swear to god, God Len makes the best title pictures lol.
So the works of a dead company have been saved by another company with one foot in the grave? This will end well...
Call me crazy, but shouldn't ADV be getting their own company in order instead of buying up anime that have already been on the market and probably won't bring in a ton of cash? I can't see it being a smart idea unless the properties were being offered for dirt cheap.
I can't believe Funimation hasn't picked up Utena yet? This series is right up their alley.

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