The Crap Shooter

[oldwrench]

Oh, our friend Sango's pet fish died, she told me on the yahoo chat. It is a sad thing for her. Pets can mean a lot to some people. I feel sorry for her, wish I were able to make her feel better.

[oldwrench]

Another anime distributor bites the dust. Central Park Media, filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, that means the company is dissolved and the assets sold to pay creditors.

Central Park Media Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

The Crain's New York Business news source reports that the anime and manga distributor Central Park Media (CPM) filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and has closed its doors as of Monday. According to Crain's, the company owes US$1.2 million to creditors. The company has not been active in releasing new titles in the past 12 months.

CPM and its Software Sculptors, U.S. Manga Corps, and Anime 18 labels were once the North American homes of such prominent works as Grave of the Fireflies, Utena, Mobile Police Patlabor, Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Project A-Ko, Dominion Tank Police, Descendants of Darkness, Demon City Shinjuku, Urotsukidoji, and La Blue Girl. It later branched out into the book publishing field by releasing Comic Party, Record of Lodoss War, Slayers, Embracing Love, Kizuna, and other titles under the CPM Manga and Be Beautiful Manga imprints. It sponsored the Big Apple Anime Fest earlier this decade.

Companies that file for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code in the United States will face liquidation — unlike Chapter 11 and 13 bankruptcies which still allow companies to restructure and continue to operate.

CPM's former management did not respond to ANN's request for comment.


If you don't think that illegal fansub downloads are hurting the industry, you aren't looking around.
At this rate, in a few years, the only animation you'll be able to find will be stuff like Harvey Birdman, or The Family Guy.

[Dinky]

That sucks.

[Sakura]

They refues to have any good anime though mreow

[Elvin]

The recession is probably to blame as well

I'll also shoot some crap.

My statistics teacher is a joke. Her accent is too damn strong so I can't follow half of what she's saying, and she mows through the material so fast you pretty much have to have everything click inside your head the moment she says it. Her 1's also look like 2's, which are her most written numbers. I've taken this same class with her as the prof before, and I failed. As I couldn't understand what she was trying to say, all I had to go on were the notes written on the board, and that just wasn't enough because she throws in a damn twist that I'd never seen before in every single question, leaving me screwed even before I begin.

Seeing as how I'm seriously considering changing my career path to become a sci-fi writer I don't even need this. I should drop this course so hard it'd grow up cross-eyed.

[Sakura]

I meow too.

I cannot afford my hospital right now.

[Dinky]

One of our front trees just up and died sometime between last fall and spring, and now it's going to cost us approx. $1000 to have it removed, due to the difficulty of getting to it and it's extreme height.
I hate nature right now.

[Sakura]

Say, your dad has a chainsaw.

[Zeratul2k]

And a truck.

[JHawkNH]

They just called us into a meeting this moring and announced 4% pay cuts across the board. I haven't recieved a raise yet, so that means I am heading the wrong way on the pay scale.