Spot the glaring omission in the list of Candidates for License:

UPDATE: Why isn't anyone talking to J.C. Staff? Think of all the wonderful shows they've produced which no one has licensed for R1?

Mahoraba
Potemayo
Nodame Cantabile
Hayate

And in the second tier:

Sky Girls
To Aru Majutsu no Index

Someone licensed Karin, so why not these shows?

Sixten knows the answer (to the question of omission, not the question why R1 is so screwy).

BTW, Mahoraba is crazily expensive in R2. I get it in batches of two volumes, to spread the money flow. Every pair is $140. If there were any series worth buying in R1, I would've cried at the thought of how many boxed sets that equals. Fortunately, there aren't.