Forum - View topicINTEREST: 3, 2, 1... Tell Time! With Cowboy Bebop's Spike-Inspired Watch
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RegSuzaku
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These kinds of things happen constantly, and again, I'm wondering why some get coverage and others don't.
I was told that something like "a new CD release" isn't newsworthy, so I wouldn't send in a link about merchandise. Even nice fashion merchandise, because, between SuperGroupies, Premium Bandai, Movic, and separately arranged things like Kakuriyo's OzzOn collab (or their Samurai 7 collab, or their Namuami collab), if you were to post everything of this sort, you'd have at least one a day, which I recognize is too much. Same with collab cafes. But then, if you just focus on the ones for popular series, then the popular series just get more popular, and the obscure series get more obscure. The reason given was that CDs aren't anime, but... neither is a watch? (A watch based on an anime = anime, but a CD with an anime based on it = peripheral) I'm sorry if I'm making too many posts like "Why is this news for an action series when it wasn't for a music series?"... I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I just want Western fans to recognize music series more because of how important they've become in Japan... |
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TheAnimeRevolutionizer
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I might be stating somethings that will be rather divisive and prodding, but ANN is primarily based in the United States, and I wouldn't be lying that the US has its own tastes they've cultivated. Even into anime news, I'd be lying that them not covering this story is because of how not influential and resonant Cowboy Bebop is with the fans here. Cowboy Bebop also doesn't get traction merely because it's action; when it premiered and its era of entry into the US, as well as its cultural and societal window was all a perfect storm. I'll keep try to keep it short, but for the birthplace of modern animation, Anime was the hidden resistance against the double standard stigma in the States and even the West that animation was merely just a tool for bad storytelling and babysitting, yet was subject to a lot of censorship and moral barking by fundamentalist Christian "morality groups" to keep things "kid safe". Although anime was synonymous with video games because a lot of exposure came through with anime art direction and story aimed video games, when fans got a taste and knew what it was, they really wanted more. Shows like Cowboy Bebop told people "yeah, animation can do this, and those who don't like it can stuff it and get out". On the other side of the coin, the States has to come to terms with their tastes and needs to find other constructive ways of satiating that instead of expecting Japan to fall back into that supposed golden time as spectators, but that's another topic. The main point is that these days nostalgia is at an all time high due to various happenings in the real world, and Cowboy Bebop is one reminder of those passionate and exciting times. I admit too, that watch looks pretty damn cool too. |
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digidragon
ANN Past Staff
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Unlike CDs, occasional pieces of merchandise like this are comparatively easy to cover, and make for visual articles that someone can enjoy even if it's not something they'd get for themselves. As for which merchandise gets covered, I can't speak to what any particular writer or editor decides, but it more or less boils down to "this looks nifty and I bet it would interest a buncha folks." Naturally, that's going to be because it's a well-loved title more often than not. |
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MarshalBanana
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The watch look really good, i like the mechanical ones over the quartz watches. |
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RegSuzaku
Posts: 273 Location: Ikebukuro |
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^^^^^^^^^^^^ ANN knows that it's a popular enough site that publishers pay for advertising on ANN, so it has to realize that every article it does on a series is free advertising. What you're saying is true about America, which is why that kind of choosiness would definitely be appropriate on a different kind of site, like a general SF site exclusively for an American audience, not on a site that claims to be making all of Japanese anime accessible to English speakers around the world. And by CDs, I don't mean anime soundtracks, I mean drama CDs that are the source material for anime, not an adaptation or a peripheral of an anime or manga.
This. And games/CDs where the stage play adaptations are bigger than the anime. They exist, and if you look at popularity rankings of female audiences, they're more popular than any manga except for Conan and HeroAca, and maybe BSD. |
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