Nozomi Entertainment kicked off their Anime Expo experience this evening in California by announcing three properties that are going to send quite a few fans into a frenzy for next year.
First, they've acquired both seasons of Junjo Romantica:
"Misaki is struggling to prepare for his upcoming college entrance exams, so his older brother, Takahiro, arranges for his friend - the best-selling novelist Akihiko Usami - to be Misaki's private tutor.
However, when Misaki visits the famed author's home, he's shocked: In addition to the critically acclaimed books, Usami also writes boys' love novels with lead characters that bear a striking resemblance to himself and Takahiro! Misaki's angry - and pretty freaked out - but his nightmare is just beginning when Usami wakes up in a bad mood and comes on to him! With a tutor like that, how will Misaki ever manage to pass his exam? And why does he feel so mysteriously drawn to Usami?
It's just the first of three intertwining love stories..."
Both seasons are due in 2010, giving fans all twenty-four episodes.
Second, they've announced the acquisition of the Aria: The Origination season 3 episodes and the Aria OVA - Arietta- for release in 2010.
Also of note with Aria is that they're looking to release an "Art of Aria" series of lithographs in the fall of 2009, numbered in fact, with a voting period starting on their site on July 14th to choose which ones should go first.
Finally, Nozomi has announced the acquisition of Antique, a 12 episode adaptation of Fumi Yoshinaga’s best-selling and award-winning Antique Bakery manga.
As Keiichiro Tachibana abandons his ordinary office job to open a bakery, he envisions a workplace inhabited by a cute (female) wait staff and a predominantly feminine clientele. Instead, his employees include a former classmate whose standing as a gifted pastry chef is almost eclipsed by his reputation as a gay man of irresistible charm, a former boxer with an insatiable sweet tooth, and his childhood friend and sometime bodyguard. Each day brings with it new customers and complications, but at the bakery “Antique,” this unlikely quartet of handsome men may just have the recipe for culinary success!
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No dub? No sale.
I somewhat understand the need to save money by going sub-only, but that also means I don't understand why Nozomi would go that route. Dubs sell, subs don't. (See Emma or Aria anywhere on various top 25 sales lists? I think not. In fact, the only list I'd see it on is "Top 25 Anime Licenses Squandered By Poor Business Decisions".) On top of that, On top of that, you've also caused the New York anime dubbing scene to collapse. ("Ninja Nonsense" was the last major title dubbed in New York by Right Stuf; wouldn't a bunch of British ex-pats help "Emma" increase sales? It certainly worked for Hellsing and R.O.D. The TV.) Please reconsider your business strategy and don't go the route that ADV/Sentai's been taking lately (and Bandai is starting to follow). Otherwise, you've just lost another customer (and alienated a potential customer).