Wiki English 2024
EnglishJapaneseVietnamese

Déclic Images

Déclic Images is a French company specialized in the translation and sale of Japanese-style comics for the French-speaking world.

Déclic Images
Parent companyManga Distribution
Founded1999
Defunct14 August 2012 Edit this on Wikidata
Country of originFrance
Fiction genresAnime
Official websitedeclic-images.com

The Déclic Images trademark was born in 1999. As early as 2002, the company produced nearly half of all new Japanese anime published in France. The newly published series are often rich in episodes and their release dates come in quick succession.

The company's mission is to offer popular series that are accessible to all, containing at a minimum, 26 episodes. In order to ensure good sales volume, Déclic Images produces both recent titles (Love Hina, Fruits Basket, etc.) as well as anime classics such as: Heidi, or Masters of the Universe.

History

edit

A commercial war began in 2002 against Kaze animation and Dybex, Déclic Images' competitors in the anime market. This was despite the fact that both of the companies' products were distributed by Déclic Images' parent company, Manga Distribution. In order to guarantee its preeminence in the market, Déclic Images decided to offer Japanese copyright holders unprecedented license-acquisition offers. Other publishers were left with the choice between offering equally compelling prices, falling back on less prestigious titles, or hoping to find undiscovered talent.

At the height of Japanese anime sales in 2005, Déclic Images's sales reached 5.24 million euro. It sold its products in supermarkets, over the Internet and in specialized shops, and in 2004 launched a large marketing campaign that included TV ads. Despite its presence in the market, Déclic Images was in need of a change of management, as each product generated only a small profit and Manga Distribution handled its supermarket presence in an unprofitable manner. In 2005 everything changed for the young company.

After solid growth between 2002 and 2005, with a dozen titles being released per year, the company released Goldorak in August 2005. It was later revealed that Déclic Images did not hold the rights to the title. After extensive judicial travails, a French appeals court confirmed in 2009 a judgment of 4.8 million euro in damages against the company. Several matters remain in the courts, including a 2006 release of Captain Future, about improper licensing rights.[1]

Déclic Images has since gone through a number of restructurings and recovery proceedings, and is now struggling to find new licensing opportunities, nowadays only relying on re-releases of their current library of titles. This is exacerbated by Déclic having lost the confidence of Japanese distributors and producers,[2] leaving sequels and remakes of anime series that they have licensed (such as Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid and Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing) unlicensed. Their last license before they stopped licensing new anime titles was Gakuen Alice. The titles Black Lagoon, Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage, and X were re-licensed by Kazé in 2012, and the company also licensed Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail. The titles Full Metal Panic! and Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu were re-licensed by Dybex in 2014, and the company also licensed Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid.

Anime

edit

Over the years Déclic Images has distributed a number of popular anime series, movies, and OVAs in their network. Déclic Images would either distribute the series through TV or at times become the publisher of the series in France.

References

edit
  1. ^ "Capitaine Flam (in French)". Retrieved 9 March 2010.
  2. ^ "Goldorak-gate (in French)". Archived from the original on 24 September 2008. Retrieved 9 March 2010.
edit
Retrieved from "https:https://www.how.com.vn/wiki/index.php?lang=en&q=Déclic_Images&oldid=1230020296"
🔥 Top keywords: Akademia e Shkencave e RPS te ShqiperiseAlexandria Ocasio-CortezBilderberg GroupCristiano RonaldoDong XiaowanMinecraftOperation GladioPrimal cutRiot FestStrictly Come Dancing (series 7)Main PageSpecial:SearchDonald SutherlandWikipedia:Featured picturesUEFA Euro 2024Kiefer Sutherland2024 Copa AméricaCleopatraTimothy MellonDeaths in 2024Copa AméricaDonald Sutherland filmographyUEFA European ChampionshipReggie JacksonJJ RedickChappell RoanRumpelstiltskinShirley DouglasRickwood FieldRossif SutherlandInside Out 2Taylor WilyFrancine RacetteHouse of the DragonSherri Papini kidnapping hoaxYouTubeWillie MaysThe Boys season 4The Boys (TV series)Sarah SutherlandAngus Sutherland (actor)Sabrina CarpenterNico WilliamsAntoine GriezmannThe Bikeriders2024 ICC Men's T20 World CupChristine ChubbuckOpinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general electionProject 2025