Well I received an email from CDjapan about all this but this is only speculation and not totally true but seems to make sense. I'll copy and paste it and leave the names out.
Anyway, what I wrote and told you on the phone are just speculations or just my own personal guesses, and it will be best not to post them my response anywhere, because nobody verified that any of them to be true.
However, followings are true, according to what Avex Pictures said in response to comments we sent to them.
1. Production committee owns the show
2. Avex Trax is just a record company that obtained the rights from the committee to market Blu-rays and CDs only within Japan
I made my own guesses (once again not verified) based on these two facts, and I don't want to be held responsible for my guesses.
Apparently, they (not Avex Pictures but the production committee) have sold
all rights to some company in the United States as well as to companies in a
few Asian countries to allow them to market "Yuri!!! on Ice" and other anime
in their countries.
They were unable to and refused to share a lot of details with us, but it
might be that their request to discontinue selling them to customers
overseas came from some legal concerns arising from those companies having
bought all rights (once again, not from Avex Pictures, but the production
committee).
This is all speculation and I don't have any responsibility in this and please do not spread this with other sites or forums I know the people here won't but I'm taking a precaution since this is something relatively big.
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