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NEWS: Mai Mai Miracle Kickstarter Meets Goal in Less Than a Day

The Kickstarter has passed the $60000 stretch goal, so the dub is a go.

For the next stretch goal, they're putting up two options - either a feature-length commentary by Jonathan Clements, or a reproduction of the theatrical pamphlet - and having the backers vote on which they'd prefer. The new goal level is set at $75000.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alltheanime/mai-mai-miracle

"First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to message us and for all the lovely things you've said about Mai Mai Miracle! Films like Mai Mai Miracle are a great fit for Kickstarter and we're just amazed at the success we've had so far! Hopefully we can keep it going for another 28 days.

To answer your questions, I've numbered them below for clarity (mostly so I don't ramble too much and lose the plot)!

1- Re: online retailers: not at this moment no. We will release the film to the general world later on, but in terms of numbers, extras, packaging etc we have no details yet. A lot of stuff we do with this release will have content and packaging exclusive to the Kickstarter campaign. If we do release it generally, it'll have less of the oomph that makes this release so special.

2- Re: artbook: there was never a proper artbook release with this film. France's KAZE release came with a small, A5 artbook but was fairly basic - sketches, line art, that sort of thing. Also not the best quality of binding if I'm honest - it doesn't take much to break the spine and make the pages fall out. Whereas we are going to put together a large, A4 hardback coffee table artbook - again, this has never been done for this title at all.

In terms of content, we have TONS of beautiful and high quality content that will be unique to this artbook and this campaign. Katabuchi-san himself is interested in being a big part of the artbook project, so he will have ultimate say in its design, layout and content. Needless to say, I can pretty much guarantee it will be very high quality and just plain beautiful.

We will be posting an update either today or tomorrow with details on the artbook and some photos of the kind of book and quality we're going for. So if you keep an eye out for that over the next couple of days, you'll get a practical idea of what the artbook will be like.

Hope this answered your questions and makes a bit of sense - it's been a long couple of days "