Anime & Manga News (early to mid November)

Published: November 28, 2007, 7:48 am

Tags: anime news, manga news, adv, anime, anime news november, funimation, geneon

Anime News Geneon Update There has been one recent interesting tidbit in the Geneon situation. Navarre CEO Kerry Deacon held a conference call to talk about his company’s recent quarterly earnings report. Navarre is the parent company of FUNimation. Part of the call dealt with the impact of Geneon’s recent withdrawal on its FUNimation division. Mr. Deacon said, "Generally we believe it could be positive to our position in the marketplace, both from a sales and a content acquisition basis." He specifically mentioned that Geneon had some "very strong content such as Sailor Moon, Van Helsing, and Black Lagoon, whose futures are unknown." However, the above comments should be tempered by the fact that the main reason for the conference call was to discuss Navarre’s most recent quarterly earning’s report. That report had some bad news. The net sales of its publishing segment (which includes FUNimation) was down 22%…sales of $27 million

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