A couple of quick things going on–

1. I didn’t get a chance to mention this yesterday but long after the ADV panel, I heard from a friend that they said that ADV Manga will probably not license anything for the next twelve months. My response: doesn’t matter, as long as they get out Yotsuba&! 6, which they’ve already got the license for.

2. dot-anime announced today that it’s discontinuing its points program, no doubt in anticipation of being merged with Anime Village. So if you have points, use them by July 31st! Here’s the full text of the e-mail I got:

Dear Georgia,

Dear dot-anime customers,

dot-anime regretfully announces the discontinuation of the Dot-Anime Points program effective August 1, 2008.

We urge our customers to use all of their unredeemed points by July 31, 2008. After July 31, 2008 all unredeemed points shall be forfeited and no point claims shall be honored thereafter. Please note, points are not redeemable for cash. Please see the program rules for complete details at http://www.dot-anime.us.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and ask for our customer’s understanding and cooperation.

Sincerely,

dot-anime.us

Okay, I know Bandai Visual USA’s DVDs are, for many of us, prohibitively expensive. But isn’t it a little over the top to actually treat them licensing a series as a bad thing, as Anime on DVD does (wondering who will “dodge the bullet” this time)?

…Then again, maybe not. Well, anyway, here’s the actual hint that was left in the dot-anime newsletter:

Bandai Visual USA New Title Announcement?! Coming soon?

Along with the special products, we do believe they have something up their sleeves to announce really soon. We see them working, but they’re sooo secretive. We also wonder what it is…

Since it’s not a very hint-tastic hint, I’ve got no guesses this time around.

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Dot Anime just announced that it will be hosting five new blogs from various people within the anime industry:

• Bandai Visual USA pres Tatsunori Konno (so those of you who wanna bitch about BVU prices, here you go)
• “Zaku Bear,” a store manager for dot anime
• An Industry Babble blog written by Shizuki, a Broccoli Books employee who also writes the Broccoli Books Blog
• “Veteran Anime Fan” Loy’s observations on fandom
• And, uh…well, the blog is called Anime Is My Girlfriend, and it’s written by Johnathan Kung, the marketing coordinator for Broccoli

…Should be interesting, no?

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