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JR-1
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"Another successful example was Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, which involved multiple arms of promotion from various companies such as Funimation, GeeX+, Yen Press, and BookWalker Global."
"'Overseas first' is no longer just a slogan but something we will be actively working towards," I found it hugely ironic that the very title where the production staff says "we don't really think about overseas" met with "thank god, based Japan" comments is used as the example here. Seriously though, great article in showing the difference in views from producers and creators. Anime's explosive growth certainly means it will be in a lot of growing pains, and I wonder how that difference in mindset would develop forward. |
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SilverTalon01
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I hope others jump on board with this. It seems like licensors have to fight tooth and nail a lot of the time for reasonable treatment from the Japan side, and even then we end up with later releases, lol whoops we gave you the broadcast version, etc.
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Electric Wooloo
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All this talk about taking care to cross promote series to make sure they're successful, but we're still gonna have the shotgun approach of 40 Kadokawa series a year with maybe half a dozen getting that treatment once they've shown they're valuable.
I can say I'm burned the hell out by all of the shows every season, and especially by all the same plot Narou fanfiction isekai. I don't think this model is gonna be sustainable on the production side for very much longer at this rate. Last edited by Electric Wooloo on Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:00 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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09jcg
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I'm glad overseas markets are being factored now when determining a success for a show. For example, I think Nagatoro's overseas success helped it get its season 2 (by all accounts it didn't do well in Japan). If Kadokawa REALLY wants to be a player though with LN and manga in the west they have got to do something about the bookwalker app. I use it to read New Normal and it is hands down the most ass backwards, abysmal counter intuitive website I have ever had the horror of using.
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Kusakabe
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Honestly, i still feel like using the term Isekai to describe any story that involves a character traveling to another word incredibly pretentious. These types of stories have always existed and treating it like an anime thing is weird. It' annoys me like people get annoyed when you refer to anime and manga as cartoons and comics lol
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FilthyCasual
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Can't for the hit anime Cowboy in Another World in 2023!
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FireChick
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Yeah, no, this is a bad idea. We've had non-stop bland, generic Narou isekai anime for almost a decade now. It needs to stop. Seriously. It's gone on for way too long!
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RockSplash
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Though I care very little for Isekai, if Overseas performance was important 10 years ago, stuff like Baccano and deadman wonderland would still be getting more anime, since they very much catered towards western styles. Deadmaan wonderland really should have been finished. |
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babajones
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I hope "So I'm a Spider, So What?" get 2nd season !!
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wacclay
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I just poked around a bit - I am not an expert at this by any means - but from what I saw, Nagataro had very good ratings in Japan but few people bought the DVD. Which I can understand. It was a slice of life show. It didn't have anywhere near the ecchi or fanservice as the people who contrived the controversy about it claimed, and what little existed involved females who look and act like high school juniors and seniors instead of moe loli stuff. As for the animation quality and budget there were really like only 4 characters most episodes (Sempai, Nagatoro, Nagatoro's 2 friends) with like half the series taking place in a single room. It may be that the same thing that makes for low DVD sales makes it ideal for streaming overseas. |
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jolygamer
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So, they’re starting make anime for the west.I hope it’s not meaning for the Twitter,woke and,and,and?I am really afraid for anime industry
Last edited by jolygamer on Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:12 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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omnistry
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Have it star Orville Peck, and I'll watch the crap out of that! |
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AmpersandsUnited
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I don't really know the numbers for those two particular shows, but if they were only popular in America, then that wouldn't be as valuable to invest in as shows popular in multiple different markets like Durarara was. Overseas means more than just America, even if people usually conflate the two terms interchangeably. Europe, South America, other East Asian countries, especially China which this article specifies. Something being popular in just America isn't necessarily popular on a global scale, and vice verse. See: Saint Seiya. |
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RockSplash
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I want to be nice and not rude, so all I will say is that stuff that is "woke" has been going on in Japan as well as America. Many different countries are changing. The idea that this is only for the west is just not true. |
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Angel M Cazares
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God no.
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