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Hey, Answerman! - Novel Gazing

Can I ask for spoilers here or for PM? I haven't meet anyone who had an occasion to see what happened.

And when it comes to US licensors attempting anything with a Japanese property via Kickstarter, hoo boy. There's not a lot of good history there. For one thing, most Japanese companies hate it when any information about specifically how much it costs to license a property gets leaked. Now, how the hell can you start a successful Kickstarter or Indiegogo or whatever if you can't divulge specifically how much money you need, so that the Japanese license holders don't get mad? 'Tis a quandary!

With Kickstarter, I think its also a pride thing. When it comes down to it, Kickstarter is basically begging people for money... and pride is a big part of Japanese culture, so they don't want to lower themselves to that level.

Ditto for the big internet shit-flip spoiler on this season's Game of Thrones. I hadn't read the books, but I knew what was coming so my suspense level was through the roof for that entire episode. After all, just because you know something is going to happen doesn't mean you know how it's going to happen, how it's going to look or feel.

Actually, I think light novels could really have a great market because they are books, and even if people don't like anime, they could see the book and want to read it. All light novels would need is really good marketing to reach out to non-anime fans if they put the effort and money into translating and printing.

that episode

pachy_boy wrote:

Quote: Same deal with recap episodes. As my source put it bluntly, "If you see one recap episode you can probably bet that there's chaos behind the scenes; if there's two you can bet it's probably bedlam." Considering the whole entire handful of recap episodes, what word would you possibly use to describe the chaos behind His and Her Circumstances?

Hah! That was particularly bad. Even the episodes that were not entirely recaps got progressively worse: the recap preview at the beginning kept growing longer, and the material grew with more random, nonsensical filler.

But we did find out what happened behind the scenes though. If I recall it blew up about halfway along the production: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kare_Kano

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The anime was cut short because of creative differences; the author was upset and refused to allow another season because she believed Gainax was focusing too much on the comedy and not enough on the romance.[1] The difference in style after director Hideaki Anno quit following this decision is particularly noticeable.

enurtsol wrote:

that episode

OT: Haven't seen the show, but would it be safe to assume they've gotten to the spoiler[Red Wedding]?

As slow as the books come out, though, I'm just wondering what they plan to do when they catch up. Hire away some Naruto staff to write filler?

S'why they tweaked the covers for Spice and Wolf.
Though in general it may be hard for them to imagine all the young girls big boobs or in varied states of undress at one point or another, albeit Fifty Shades having shown a way.

To be fair they only tweaked volumes 1 and 2, and strangely just vol. 6, (or at least that's how they were sent to me ) and besides those tweaks were easily removable book covers with the original cover underneath. The book covers looked more risqué than the original, or maybe that was the point, to try and sell to an older readership?