I don't really know if this really affects me that much. With what I learned about Carl Macek and others, the same people and resources who have been working in the industry for a very long time are bound to pop up again somewhere, sometimes under different banners. Anime shows are traded around between companies when the current legalities end, or when a ship sinks like ADV here, and depending on the popularity of the show get re-released eventually. So all the anime community is grieving over the end of a company brand/name, but it's still significant. I'll miss the moniker too, but hopefully the industry just goes on with everything associated with ADV in, or will be in, other people's hands.