ADV Screws Up Big

[Black Aeronaut]

I had to do some quick Google-fu to figure out what that Sojitz business was all about and I found this on Wikipedia...

Sojitz Fallout
In June 2006, ADV Films entered in to a partnership with the Japanese Sojitz Corporation. This was done as a means of acquiring more titles in the Japanese market.[8] From this point on, virtually all titles that ADV acquired were with Sojitz's help. However, in January 2008, ADV mysteriously removed a large number of titles from their website.[9] All the titles removed were titles acquired since the Sojitz collaboration including Gurren Lagann, which had test disks sent out with dubbed episodes. As of May 2008, the ownership of these titles has not been confirmed. Gurren Lagann was re-licensed by Bandai Entertainment. ADV Films made booth appearances at the Anime Central 2008 convention, but they canceled their planned panel.[10] In July 2008, FUNimation Entertainment announced the acquisition of thirty of these titles.

Well, that explains a bit.  Doesn't mean that I have to like the results.  This still ticks me off because Newtype was the only magazine that I could count on for an all-in-one package of a highly informative magazine, cool poster, DVD full 'o' goodness, and a new manga title to check out.  When they decided to cutback, they picked the wrong thing to cut back on.
Also, this explains why Funimation has suddenly gained an ass-load of titles that they normally wouldn't have had access to.