Wonderduck inflicts upon us a clever piece of art, which, once the eyes stop bleeding, begs the question, "Could this work?".

Could a slice of life show about a bunch of guys work in the same way?

I'm  sure a similar show with a mixed cast could...it was done well over here with Peanuts.

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I now hold in my shaggy little palms...volume 5 of Welcome to the NHK.
(Which I am told does not exist)

The logo and box all indicate an ADV product.

2 possibilities jump out at me.

1:  I have inadvertently used my entire lifetime allotment of "swell"...on producing a nonexistent cartoon DVD out of the ether....as opposed to hair.... or a cure for cancer....superpowers...or something of greater monetary value than $19.99...meaning it's all downhill from this point.

2: It's A SINISTER CONSPIRACY!!

# 2 seems the one to hope for....

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The weekend was completely nonproductive. Due to weather, exhaustion and psychological trauma inflicted by an online quiz, I contracted a passing case of hikikomoriism and pretty much did not accomplish any of my yardwork and watched more anime in 2 days than I have in 2 months.


Fluff follows....
more...

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 19.95 for the first 9 episodes of what is a very highly regarded show. OK...sure.

I'm really not impressed with the art style or the animation.

 Hmmm...2 male leads...one is an idiot...one is a nebbish.

feh...

OK, the Nebbish hero (?) is a digger in a Dystopic underground village...
It's like Logans Run meets Dirty Jobs....
Good grief...is there such a thing as "Gainax Opening"?

This show was heavily hyped.

This makes it is clear that the popular culture has passed me by. I think I'm gonna...wait..what..?

more...

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Art by Tony Taka and is from the PS2 game Shining Tears.
_{(TonyTaka link NSFW)}

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Ubu Roi has a good overview of the Funimation buy-up of ADV and Geneon  titles with some informative updates and comments.

_{(Thanks to PulpJunkie for the links)}

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Some of the upcoming anime shows that were/are premiering in the next few weeks.

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Via Chizumatic comes the news that ADV is again having problems. It seems they have put several titles, including the excellent Welcome to the NHK on indefinite hold.

Founded in 1992 by John Ledford and Matt Greenfield two Texas anime fans, ADV is one of the more established and prolific outfits to focus on licensing anime here.

Now it appears they, like the much larger and better financed Geneon may have fallen victim to the fact that it is pretty damned impossible to really compete with fan-subbers who's overhead consists of Mountain Dew and pretzels.......... as opposed to rights, distribution infrastructure, advertising, translator and tech salaries, taxes, legal fees, printing, inventory and rent or property taxes on the spaces needed to house said overhead.

This is not good.

<sub>UPDATE: There is very good discussion in the comments at the Chizumatic post.

ADV's website is currently down.</sub>

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