{"id":575,"date":"2007-09-27T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/09\/27\/sayonara-geneon\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:47:00","slug":"sayonara-geneon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/09\/27\/sayonara-geneon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sayonara Geneon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry to hear that Geneon has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2007-09-26\/geneon-usa-to-cancel-dvd-sales-distribution-by-friday\"> decided<\/a> to  stop publishing Region 1 DVDs (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/09\/27\/on-geneon\/\">Don<\/a>). Of all the North American <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> publishers, Geneon probably has the best taste. This means that some of the best anime series are going to become hard to obtain, at least for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Geneon&#8217;s licenses and master recordings are valuable properties. Barring unexpected legal problems somebody will probably pick them up, so we may hope that completed series like <a href=\"\/fun\/2006\/09\/02\/shakugan-no-shana-review\/\">Shakugan no Shana<\/a>, <a href=\"\/fun\/2006\/11\/11\/haibane-renmei-anime-review\/\">Haibane Renmei<\/a>, <a href=\"\/fun\/2007\/03\/17\/chobits-anime-review\/\">Chobits<\/a> and <a href=\"\/fun\/2006\/12\/30\/kamichu-anime-review\/\">Kamichu<\/a> will be available before too long under another label.<\/p>\n<p>Things look worse for series that are not yet complete. For example only one disc of <em>The Story of Saiunkoku<\/em> has been released so far; most of the remaining episodes are probably not translated yet, let alone dubbed. This is a worthy story but since it lacks <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#fan_service\">fan service<\/a> or constant violence, yet is over the heads of most children, its mass appeal is probably limited. It is quite possible that the rest will never be released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sorry to hear that Geneon has decided to stop publishing Region 1 DVDs (via Don). Of all the North American <a href=\"\/fun\/terms-used-in-anime-reviews#anime\">anime<\/a> publishers, Geneon probably has the best taste&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2007\/09\/27\/sayonara-geneon\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","tag-geneon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}