Something very sad...

Licenses. They expire. This sucks.

Now I'm not talking about driver's licenses, or bar licenses, they can be renewed. I'm talking about anime licenses.

If an anime license expires, the company may or may not choose to renew their license. This costs money. If they want to renew their license, they better be damn sure that some profits can still be made. Unfortunately, money makes the world go 'round, and as anime ages, so do the fans.

Fans age, tastes age, anime ages...gasp! Companies like Geneon or...actually I can only think of Geneon right now...companies like Geneon, when their licenses are nearing their end and they think they won't renew it, will go for a last ditch effort and release box sets or release "signature series" that offer series at much lower prices. This has been seen for such titles as "Serial Experiments Lain," or "CCS" or "Sailormoon."

Now this is my point. I was surfing the net when I found a review of the Sailormoon R movie, and I'm like..."damn, I haven't seen that movie in years!" So I read the review, and I'm like..."Damn, 'Moon Revenge' was suppose to be the ending theme instead of 'Power of Love'? Damn!"

Then I remember that Geneon's license ended a while back...and thus they would no longer produce DVDs for sale.

Now this is sad. I go on sites that sell anime and they no longer have the series available, pic is still there but usually there's a message that "this item is no longer available for order" or something. I mean if you go on Amazon you can still get the Super S saga for like...60 bucks, but you won't find the S saga for regular, and if you do they'll be expensive.

Which is sad. I mean Sailormoon was like...a cult classic and was one of the fore-mothers that led to the anime boom in the West, and now...now it's gone!

GONE!

OH GAWD I CAN'T HELP IT! I MISS SAILORMOON! Though strangely enough I don't miss DBZ, I think that's because a whole episode would comprise two lines...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Quality show, definately.

So next year at AN, if I see Sailormoon for sale (or that LD of Jurassic Park...) I'll buy it, mark my words I'll buy it.

I miss Sailormoon...I never did watch the entire series in full. And I wonder about Stars...hmm...