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Saturn
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This article kinda makes it sound like T&B isn't earning much money for the company, but I thought the opposite was true? Aren't the many merch tie-ins selling well, for instance? And I know the Blu-rays did well. Anyway, more T&B is always good, though I've never watched a live-action version of an anime I liked (did watch HanaKimi without watching the anime though...). They're soooo cheesy!
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enurtsol
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What's with the live-action, musicals lately? It's like the old days of Sera Myu!
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GhostShell
Posts: 1009 Location: Richmond, B.C., Canada |
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My thoughts exactly. Do some of these even transform into musicals well? One would think it would be fairly costly to produce a live action play and/or musical version of a franchise. |
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vashfanatic
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There's no way this is going to look good as a live action film. I'm not saying it's impossible, but i don't see Tiger & Bunny getting the budget to pull off the special effects; this isn't Battlship Yamato.
As for a stage musical, hellooo fujoshi cash-in. Oh fine, gross overstatement, but musicals tend to be way more popular with female audiences than with male. Still, you might as well please all your fans. I also don't entirely buy that they didn't have fujoshi as their back-up plan. I don't think they wrote the story to be fangirl bait, but they knew they were taking a risk and included the blatant end credits ("see? you can slash this! watch our action superhero show!") with the hope of getting a fujoshi fanbase in case their plans for broad-audience appeal failed. They wound up getting both, so good for them. In the meantime, Viz, where the heck are my DVDs?! |
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Joe Mello
 Posts: 2316 Location: Online Terminal |
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I got the same vibe, but hopefully, there's something lost in translation. I could buy that the original intent was to market to a broad audience and that the fujoshi thing just sort of happened, and I can see how Live-action Tiger & Bunny could be executed. However, I don't think this is going to be the cross-platform darling that the producer expects it to be.. |
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Sariachan
 Posts: 1507 Location: Italy |
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Am I the only one disappointed by the second half of the anime, and especially with the ending? Too bad, I really liked Kotetsu, as a character... but the screenplay felt not well-planned to me, and I read somewhere that they didn't expect the series becoming so popular and then they expanded/changed the storyline at the last minute, or something like that... °_°
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Mizuki-Takashima
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...Why did this make me think about a complete reversal of the Brony fanbase and what Lauren Faust was trying to do with MLP? 
Either way, I'd be super excited if there were a musical! I'm a fan of the series, but also a fan of musicals! (Though how it'd work out for THIS series, I'm not entirely sure...) |
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Tamaria
 Posts: 1512 Location: De Achterhoek |
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Seriously. Although, when I saw how the two first met and later found out they're partners, the first reaction from my shoujo-wired brain was: "Where's the toast?!" |
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