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The Mike Toole Show - Strike Up The Dandy

Remember when ADV (and others) would help fund series (albeit those ventures met with varying success)? If Space Dandy does well enough stateside, I think it'd be worth looking into to try and co-fund movies/long-OVAs for it (That'd probably be on FUNimation's side, since I don't think the William-Street boys have the funding yet/anymore to try and finance a project like that). There's obviously no need to worry about continuity, and as long as Watanabe's at the helm with a crew he's picked, it's almost guaranteed to be dandy. spoiler[We can finally get that Steve Blum cameo, too.]

What's the worst that can happen? A handful of small theaters get sold out for a night (or two) every couple of years if a new one gets made and Toonami gets something to show when movie-nights roll around?

EDIT: Assuming it does well enough sales-wise to warrant such a venture, that is.

Remember when ADV (and others) would help fund series (albeit those ventures met with varying success)?

(That'd probably be on FUNimation's side, since I don't think the William-Street boys have the funding yet/anymore to try and finance a project like that).

Another episode I really loved was "Lovers are Dandy, Baby" because it thematically reminded me very much of one of my favourite Patlabor episodes, "Our Karuizawa" (the one where section chiefs Gotoh and Nagumo were stuck together in a love hotel during a storm).

Narratively, the episodes weren't that similar, since Dandy and Scarlet went to all sorts of different places, but the discomfort and tension between a man and a woman who know each other very well professionally but not really all that much socially forced to be intimate (in the literal, not-an-euphenism-for-sex sense) with one another because of circumstances was palpable in a very similar way.

That's during the boom (can't believe that's a decade ago already). There's not as much money nowadays.

Space Dandy isn't a late-night show, but there's where it was anyway, a victim of circumstance.

Good article, but you are giving way too much credit to episode directors and you seem to ignore the fellows who did the storyboarding.

Engineering Nerd wrote:

It is always depressing to find out that Space Dandy is a giant commercial flop in Japan, in terms of disc sales and merchandising. Yes, some may argue this show is aimed towards Western fans and never deemed to excel in Japanese market to begin with, but consider great sales number of Cowboy Bebop's recent BD boxes, I really think this show would done well, but unfortunately, not only this show ranks really low in any kind of official or unofficial Japanese poll, the disc sales...ughhhh... Space dandy is certainly a great anime experiment. Did it succeed? Artistically, yes! Commercially, not sure...

Well, Space Dandy is almost nothing like Cowboy Bebop, both visually and narratively. Bebop's visuals are dingy and gritty, and Dandy's are garish and bombastic. Narratively, Bebop is mostly a serious story, while Dandy is a comedy with extremely dumb humor.