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Pants
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 Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 2:39 pm
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| Quote: | | The anime's voice cast will sing the winning songs, and Aniplex will give 100,000 yen (about US$1,100) to each winner. In addition to being used in the television broadcast, the songs will be heard on the Blu-ray/DVD releases, video streams, merchandising, events, promotions, and CDs. |
Aaah the good ol' "we-don't-have-budget-so-lets-ask-the-fans" 
Reminds me of when Crunchyroll tried to get people to subtitle that crappy Tezuka show for old films. 
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Sakura-Alchemist
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 4:24 pm
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| Pants wrote: |
| Quote: | | The anime's voice cast will sing the winning songs, and Aniplex will give 100,000 yen (about US$1,100) to each winner. In addition to being used in the television broadcast, the songs will be heard on the Blu-ray/DVD releases, video streams, merchandising, events, promotions, and CDs. |
Aaah the good ol' "we-don't-have-budget-so-lets-ask-the-fans"
Reminds me of when Crunchyroll tried to get people to subtitle that crappy Tezuka show for old films. |
I have a feeling that it's cheaper to pay out 1,100 to 12 amateurs than hire a composer actually.
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EmperorBrandon
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 6:26 pm
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| Quote: | | Hiroyuki Oda, an illustrator on the original work, is handling the anime character designs |
Being picky here, but that should be "the illustrator of the original work", not "an illustrator on the original work". He uses a different name for his anime staff position, but it's the same person and the wording makes it seems like there's more than one illustrator on the original work.
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configspace
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 6:47 pm
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I think this is a fantastic idea. It's a great way to engage the fans, over the usual producer -> consumer relationship. Plus there is a lot of excellent talent in the fandom (see doujin music groups).
| Sakura-Alchemist wrote: | | I have a feeling that it's cheaper to pay out 1,100 to 12 amateurs than hire a composer actually. |
They could do it in house for less, if not for "free" since they will already have a composer for the soundtrack. They would just need to hire a songwriter and/or singer if needed.
However, $13,200 flat for 12 different songs is certainly orders of magnitude cheaper than licensing commercially published songs (unless they can get a deal from Sony, being Aniplex and all),
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