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Cryten
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 Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 3:35 am
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Interesting. They held off so long in exploiting the license outside of the book series and the occasional audio novel / manga. Like next to no merch or figurines / models. So its nice it is getting the stage play to celebrate the material, I am sure there will be enough fans out there to turn it into quite the success.
That said I am not sure how you turn a series about family, craft and the power struggles of nobility into a musical. Especially one as well realised as bookworm that gives less room to muck around.
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Fluwm
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 9:33 am
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Yeah, I can't really imagine how this could be adapted for the stage. I'd kind of like to see it, since I do love Bookworm, but it definitely lacks the kind of... vivid theatricality that's made so many other properties feel like a more natural fit for theatre.
Or... maybe I could see it working as a kind of pseudo-parody. Like an entire show where it's just Myne, in a library, reading. With other characters coming and going, talking to each other, and trying -- and failing -- to pull her away.
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Andrew Cunningham
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 10:54 am
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| Cryten wrote: | | Interesting. They held off so long in exploiting the license outside of the book series and the occasional audio novel / manga. Like next to no merch or figurines / models. |
There's been an absolutely insane amount of merch for this series, it's just all sold directly through the publisher's site.
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MFrontier
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 1:27 pm
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Guess you know your franchise has hit it big when you get a stage musical.
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Cryten
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 4:55 pm
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| Andrew Cunningham wrote: |
| Cryten wrote: | | Interesting. They held off so long in exploiting the license outside of the book series and the occasional audio novel / manga. Like next to no merch or figurines / models. |
There's been an absolutely insane amount of merch for this series, it's just all sold directly through the publisher's site. |
Oh? So Japanese only? I just have not seen anything other then the books and manga make it through to Australian shores.
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