ADV Films Registers Kanon (09:44 PM EDT): Though as we’ve seen in the past, registering a domain name does not always equal a license by that company or even a license at all. It is rare however to see ADV Films registering a domain like this and not doing it through a proxy as most try to do. Newly discovered today is that they have registered the domain for Kanon TV. With their acquisition of Air TV it isn’t exactly a surprise if it pans out and this will surely fuel the speculation a bit more.
Usually I don’t keep up with licensing news or much US-licensed anime news, but this got me a little excited. With the recent licensing of AIR by ADV, it doesn’t seem very much of a surprise that they would also want Kanon. However since ADV licensed both AIR TV and Movie, made by two different companies, which Kanon did they acquire? Well obviously it would be the KyoAni version but it does make me wonder if they also decided to get the Toei version as well. Either way if they do actually have it licensed, guaranteed I’ll be buying the DVDs, even if I’m getting the Japanese ones already.
Just a note on the scanlations of the R2 Kanon DVDs. Some are probably wondering where Volume 5 is? Well it’ll be coming together with Volume 6 since I had monetary issue at the start of last month. So look forward to those sometime early next week.
Source: AnimeOnDVD
“With the recent licensing of AIR by ADV, it doesn’t seem very much of a surprise that they would also want Kanon.”
It woudn’t be much of a surprise if the sells of their AIR DVDs were very good. But the DVDs aren’t released yet and might as well be a huge R1 flop … well… hopefully they don’t get disappointed.
“However since ADV licensed both AIR TV and Movie, made by two different companies, which Kanon did they acquire? Well obviously it would be the KyoAni version but it does make me wonder if they also decided to get the Toei version as well.”
They HAD to license both movie and TV for AIR, and who knows - it might be true for Kanon too…
Right now AIR is a gamble for ADV at the moment. I think how well AIR DVD sales go could determine the outcome for Kanon if it were to be licensed. Also I don’t see how ADV “had” to license both the TV series and movie. They could’ve just gone with either one but I think it was more of a title issue in case another distributor licensed either TV series or movie.
I’m ~pretty sure~ there was an interview with some ADV staff saying they had to get both, but I can’t find it now… if I do, I’ll certainly post it.