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A.D. Vision
A.D. Vision (simply known as ADV and also referred to as ADV Films) is an American multimedia entertainment studio that served as the largest American and British anime distributor in the late 20th to early 21st centuries. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, ADV Films was formed in 1992 by video game fan John Ledford and anime fans Matt Greenfield and David Williams. The company spent the next 17 years in the fields of home video production and distribution, broadcast television, theatrical film distribution, merchandising, original productions, magazine and comic book publishing. In 2002, most of ADV Films' back catalog were used to program its new channel, the Anime Network.
For over 15 years, ADV released successful anime series, such as ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', ''Robotech'', ''RahXephon'', ''Full Metal Panic'', ''Azumanga Daioh'', ''Elfen Lied'', ''Gantz'', ''Red Garden'' and ''Le Chevalier D'Eon''.〔〔Svenge's Neon Genesis Evangelion Home Video Compendium〕 The company maintained offices in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition to North America, ADV Films distributed their home media releases in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany. The company's fortunes declined in the mid-2000s due to low sales. With ADV's fire sale of its assets in 2009, they were spun off into five different companies:〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=A.D.Vision, Inc. Concludes Series of Asset Transactions )〕 Section23 Films, Sentai Filmworks, Aesir Holdings, Valkyrie Media Partners and Seraphim Digital; which became subsidiaries of AEsir Media. Ledford, Greenfield and Williams continue to work for these companies as mentors and creative consultants and most of ADV's back catalog were relicensed by Section23, Sentai, Maiden Japan and Funimation. In 2013, ADV Films was revived to re-release ''Elfen Lied'' on Blu-ray with Section23 and Sentai Filmworks.
== History ==
Houston-born John Ledford started a Japanese video game and video console import business in 1990. He was introduced to anime when he watched ''My Neighbor Totoro'' at his friend's suggestion.〔 At the time, San Francisco native Matt Greenfield ran a local anime club called Anime NASA, which also included classmate David Williams. After consulting with Ledford, Greenfield teamed with him and Williams to found A.D. Vision, which opened for business on August 17, 1992.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】Anime Boston 2006: Guests: Industry )〕 Ledford contacted Toho about optioning the rights to license ''Devil Hunter Yohko''. Shozo Watanabe, the general manager of Toho's Los Angeles office, expressed concern that A.D. Vision would not be able to handle the distribution of the film. Unable to find another distributor, Toho convinced A.D. Vision to license the series.〔 That December, ''Devil Hunter Yohko'' became the first title to be released by A.D. Vision.
In 2007, Japan's Sojitz announced that Japan Content Investments (JCI), an investment group run by Sojitz, Development Bank of Japan, and film distribution company KlockWorx, planned to contribute money to A.D. Vision, in return for equity in the company. Ledford was to remain the majority shareholder and CEO. JCI subsidiary ARM also planned to contribute money for ADV to use in acquiring new distribution licenses. The investment was to ADV Films to raise its output of new anime titles, which had dropped in 2006, back to previous levels or above. In return, ADV planned to assist Sojitz with the acquisition of North American and European content for importation into Japan. According to ADV, they also reportedly had "big plans" for its manga line.
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