Andy Sze (The Pimpingest) wrote:
> Pioneer will not be releasing OVA 3?
> 
> sorry for being out of the loop.

This apparently came up at the Pioneer panel, and it seems unlikely that 
they'll get it. Based on what tenchiken has previously told us (the 
court battle with AIC over Tenchi, for example), it never seemed too 
likely that Pioneer LDC was going to pay for AIC to create OVA 3, and 
PLDC's involvement in Tenchi was Pioneer USA's main advantage in 
licensing Tenchi from AIC.

When we found out that VAP was paying for Tenchi GXP and OVA 3, Pioneer 
seemed even less likely. When it was announced that Funimation had 
licensed GXP (I wonder if they were the first company AIC approached due 
to their licensing Blue Gender?), Pioneer started to seem like a remote 
possibility at best. At this point, I'm assuming that Funimation's GXP 
license came with an option for OVA 3, and I'd be stunned if they 
decided not to exercise such an option. OTOH...I suppose it might be 
possible for Funimation to license OVA 3, then sublicense it to Pioneer 
for actual localization and DVD production. Still, "possible" and 
"likely" are nowhere near the same thing.

So when Pioneer says at AX that they don't currently hold the rights to 
OVA 3, well...I don't start holding my breath.
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Alan Zabaro