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NEWS: Frontwing Launches Kickstarter for ISLAND Game/Anime Physical Copies




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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:35 pm Reply with quote
I know that Funimation is dubbing the anime version. Typically, an anime gets a boxset release here within 12-15 months of the Japanese premiere. So, the "Island" anime boxset might be released here between July and October 2019. So, unless Funi will have only streaming rights even through those dates, I don't understand why this campaign is offering a boxset. The only advantage I see of doing this is offering a native Japanese boxset (whether or not its subtitled is to be determined) available to any foreign territory that is compliant with import laws. Someone want to clue me in why Frontwing is doing this with the anime?

Being unemployed at the moment, I will doing the lowest-tier backing ($1-$5). I did this with the "Let's Dub ALL of the ARIA Anime for Blu-ray!" campaign.
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jenthehen



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:19 pm Reply with quote
Let’s just say the anime has NOT been a good advertisement for the game Confused
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BlueAlf



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 8:27 pm Reply with quote
This is for the anime release too? Now that's unusual.
I have to agree that this is one of those VNs that has a slightly problematic premise.
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Hiroki not Takuya



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:46 pm Reply with quote
jenthehen wrote:
Let’s just say the anime has NOT been a good advertisement for the game Confused
You, sir are a gentlemen and are putting it mildly. This announcement says to me that the company doesn't anticipate anyone wanting a hard-copy after the anime concludes, so they are hoping to get people signed up early. In case anyone says I'm bashing, I've been watching from the beginning and will continue but the series structure so far is puzzling. As of Ep9, what was a weird little mystery trip for fetishists has turned into a spoiler[dystopian time-travel end of the world (??can't even classify)]. I am definitely NOT enticed to put any money toward this. If anyone else is watching they will likely forget it after it's over quicker then you can say Darling in the Franxx.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:48 am Reply with quote
Having raised $40K of their $50K goal in a little over a day, this campaign should have little trouble meeting its goal, especially since the campaign runs 45 days instead of the usual 30. In fact, Kicktraq currently shows it trending towards a total of $625K, which would make it the #2 English-language VN campaign of all time, ahead of Grisaia and Clannad, and behind only Muv-Luv. Of course, that’s highly unlikely and probably just an over-projection of early interest in the campaign; KIcktraq doesn’t yet have enough data to do a proper projection, which would account for the typical lull that sets into the middle of most campaigns’ run.

BTW, I’m doing a panel at AWA called “Whatever Happened to Visual Novel Anime”, and I’m going to need to add a slide for Island (I’ve already got a few for the rather disappointing Steins;Gate 0).
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Selipse



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:59 pm Reply with quote
Just another case of a great VN ruined by a terrible adaptation.
I think the last good VN adaptation was OG Steins;Gate, 7 long years ago. Damn.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:33 pm Reply with quote
Selipse wrote:
Just another case of a great VN ruined by a terrible adaptation.
I think the last good VN adaptation was OG Steins;Gate, 7 long years ago. Damn.

Fate fans would disagree. The “Heaven’s Feel” stuff is a VN adaptation and is coming out now. But for the most part, yes, the heyday of VN anime adaptations is long over.
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Selipse



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invalidname wrote:
Fate fans would disagree. The “Heaven’s Feel” stuff is a VN adaptation and is coming out now. But for the most part, yes, the heyday of VN anime adaptations is long over.


You're right, I forgot about that for a minute. Still, it's the only good adaptation that's come out since S;G. It's as if you have to be one of the biggest media franchises in Japan in order to get a decent adaptation nowadays.
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Megiddo



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:24 pm Reply with quote
The Planetarian anime was only a couple years ago and I'd say it was a phenomenal adaptation of the VN.
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Selipse



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:31 pm Reply with quote
Megiddo wrote:
The Planetarian anime was only a couple years ago and I'd say it was a phenomenal adaptation of the VN.


I want to say there are some special circumstances with that one and that /now/ it really is the last good adaptation, but I'll just stop fighting it lol, throw more good VN adaptations at me.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:32 am Reply with quote
For my panel, I loaded the http://someanithing.com TV series sales data into a database and started cranking out graphs visualizing the data. One pain point is for 2017 (last year), all VN anime combined were outsold by Frame Arms Girl:

In fact, the genre has really been held up through the mid-2010s by just two franchises: Fate and Uta no Prince-sama. So 2017, with no UtaPri anime and no more Unlimited Blade Works (since Fate switched to movies for the Heaven's Feel arc), it laid bare in just how bad of shape VN anime are in.
Selipse wrote:
but I'll just stop fighting it lol, throw more good VN adaptations at me.

My all-time favorites are older: ef, White Album 2, and of course Rumbling Hearts. I did like Planetarian, and look forward to seeing the movie.

Actually, at Otakon, I picked up the Blu-Ray of Yosuga no Sora and it's fascinating: it's the only example I've found that fully and completely commits to the branching narrative concept of VNs. To wit, if you want to watch shrine maiden Akira's arc, you watch episodes 1-2, then 5-6, whereas if you want to see imouto Sora's arc (viewer discretion advised!), you do 1, then 7, then 10-12. Media Blasters' Blu-Ray is formatted so that you can only watch it by arc, whereas if you got all the episodes in serial (like on Crunchyroll or iTunes), you'd basically need a map to the arcs.

Guess I should also mention/warn that Yosuga no Sora is also by far the most sexually explicit of all the VN adaptations I've seen, not counting those that are just full-on hentai.
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