Central Park Media Bankruptcy

[Karchan]

Central Park Media the company that licensed the Black Jack OVAs (and other animes - for a full list see there website) has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on April 27th, 2009 according to wiki
"The company owed $1.2 million to it's creditors. Officially they did have plans to re-release some older titles in the future. Currently Central Park Media still licenses its anime for American television and VOD, and many of its shows are available through iTunes. Recently, some anime series and OVA's licensed by Central Park Media have aired on the Sci-Fi Channel. What will happen in the future is not known at this point"

[Kuro]

Not very surprising... the anime industry has dropped a ton the past year. It seems like funimation is the only one that is getting any business since they have 4kids. I keep seeing ads for complete box sets from them, so they must be hurting as well...

The problem is the economy dropped, so then everyone had to start cutting luxuries, which equals our beloved anime...

I wonder how the economy is in the other countries...

[charxelle]

I heard of this in the AWO podcast.
Too bad to see them go.