Lucky Star 4 in the can. Bit of an awkward volume - the new characters start showing up one after the other, but we don't really have a good read on most of them yet (saving Yu-chan, who's cute as a button). Felt pretty good, though. Back to Ayakashi for a week or so, then on to the next LS...

A quick peek over at the Saimoe prelims suggests that the Hayate characters will be riding high this year. Hey, no objections here.

Took the opportunity this weekend to plow through some more Clannad. Definitely like the feel of it a little more than I did Kanon. It's moving away from the "one heartwrenching story after another" paradigm, and putting more zany humor in. Still six episodes to go, and I'm interested to see how it's going to resolve the story. Kanon did so largely through a process of attrition, but Clannad's not getting -rid- of anybody (and doesn't look like it's gonna start, heh.) All of the characters are starting to get the idea that there's going to be a big romantic pile-up near the end...

To all outward indications, my former employer, ADV, is bleeding out. Ah well. I don't know if there's anything there that's left saving, possibly excepting Matt and the Houston voice talent. Things definitely got overextended, and honestly, the market's changed; you can't use a scattershot release strategy these days and hope to get lucky every so often.

The Anime on DVD folks are focusing on Funi potentially licensing ADV's work on a couple of the shows left hanging, such as Kanon or NHK (both one volume away from done). Speculation seems to be that ADV would prefer a package deal, where they get an agreement to keep working on the other titles as well. Honestly, I can't see Funi agreeing to that. ADV still has at least a little cash flow from old licenses, so it's hard to estimate what would be enough to make it worth ADV's time, but not so much that it would allow them to get their feet back under them and get back in the licensing business... which I'm sure Funi would hate to see. In the end, re-doing a couple of volumes' worth of dubs (even if you're driving VAs from Houston to Dallas) isn't that expensive.

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