Edit: comic shop owner Adam Stephanides left a comment on this entry noting that he received copies of Gunslinger Girl v6 a few weeks ago, which certainly seems to negate the statement.
Reader c-non dropped me this URL, in which someone who c-non tells me is Chris Johnston, former senior editor of Newtype USA (owned, of course, by ADV), who says the following on ADV Manga:
I don’t think there’s been any announcement of the sort, but ADV Manga’s been shut down for months now even though they never removed the solicitations for 2008. Your best bet is to rally around someone else picking up the license.
Now, I haven’t been able to even confirm that IS Johnston (the board requires moderator-approved registration), and of course he isn’t employed by ADV anymore, he left Newtype USA back in late November ‘07 to work for Adult Swim, so his information may not be current– especially since ADV just told me that ADV Manga is still going.
So, take it with a jar of salt, but there’s your heads up.
Tags: adv media
May 19th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Ah, sorry about not backing it up a bit more (forgot NeoGAF requires registration nowadays). His profile links to http://homepage.mac.com/chris_johnston/ Pretty sure it’s him. But yeah, as far as his knowledge of current ADV internal status, your guess is as good as mine.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:10 am
Sadness.
May 21st, 2008 at 9:27 am
[...] know some of you didn’t go for that last ADV Manga post, but Chris Johnston e-mailed me himself to say this: Yes it was me who made that post on that other [...]
May 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Gunslinger girl vol 6 was released back in Dec 07 (according to amazon.com which can be a little off on dates of course) but that still means no 2008 manga releases from ADV as far as I can tell
May 29th, 2008 at 8:29 am
[...] an interview with Ain’t It Cool Anime, who discusses the status of ADV Manga. In spite of comments from Chris Johnston, Oarr assures the world that ADV Manga still exists, and then completely [...]
June 15th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Just for the record, I’m not a comic shop owner, just a comic reader.