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MarshalBanana
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It would be interesting if at one point they did part set in the past, say 1970s maybe.
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Yuki_Kun45
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Oh I so would love to see a sequel to Shirobako, I feel there's so many more stories to tell here!
Just a few ideas I could hope to see explored -Producing a movie, bigger budget bigger stakes yet more time but I can imagine still plenty of pressure -Producing a new high profile series having to deal with potential backlash if it doesn't meet fan expectations -Aoi become an episode director! Or an animation producer or producer for a series. -The gang finally makes their little student film into a fully realized professional production Well whatever they choose would be interesting I'm sure. Also would hope they can spread out the tasks a little. It was good we got plenty of focus on the Production Desk team but I think we still ended up spending a lot of time with the sound team and the art director. |
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nx6
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Well the show was originally planned to be 4 cors. The material for the second half already exists, it just wasn't done. Hey Sentai, if you want to know why I haven't bought this it's because your release is crap. 12 episodes on one disc doesn't leave enough room for decent bitrates, regardless of the lack of an English dub. |
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LetsEatRamen
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Shirobako was an absolute delight, and there's surely enough potential for a sequel.
That being said, I will die if there isn't a sequel. But if there is one, I just hope it'll be able to live up to the first season and offer more insight into the industry without going overboard. I believe in the power of donuts! 
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Sakagami Tomoyo
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There's no way it'd be the basis of a full series. An episode, maybe, but even as an episode it would work best as a framing device, rather than being the main focus.
They kind of did already, with a part of one episode being imagine spot/flashback of the old Musashino Pictures animating Andes Chucky. There's possibly a whole episode in more of that, but not much more than that. |
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yuna49
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They could do a couple of episodes with the younger versions of Sugie and the President working on Andes Chucky, but most viewers are going to want to see Aoi and friends. I wouldn't want to see a sequel become that episodic though. I enjoyed watching the entire production process for a single show over the course of twelve episodes. Of all the options mentioned here, a sequel that follows Musashino making a movie seems the most interesting. It might be a way to produce a full-length version of Third Girls, too, though this time they wouldn't be stuck dealing with the editor at the publishing house.
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reanimator
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It's easier to wish than done. Someone in the toy industry have to tell their story in prose or collaborate with other artists first. Even before Shirobako was created, anime industry already told their story from shows like "Animation Runner Kuromi" and various TV anime episodes.
Maybe copyright doesn't want to license Exodus anime or charged more for extras. Either way, what you pay is what you get considering the price.
Your use of the words, "American Animation Studio", made me both laugh and confused. I didn't know that localization company is now an "animation studio". I don't think Japanese staff care much about localization process happening in foreign countries as they have their own stories to tell |
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yuna49
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As someone who repeatedly argues in forums like these that the Japanese rights owners hold all the cards when it comes to licensing foreign distribution, I agree with you in general. Still how much would acquiring the additional rights to a single episode of Exodus actually cost? The first half of Shirobako sells for about $3 per episode after discounting. So how much would the price have gone up to include Exodus? Five dollars perhaps, ten at most. In a market like anime with relatively inelastic demand I doubt another $5-10 would have radically reduced overall revenues so much that it would not have been profitable to include Exodus. |
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Sakagami Tomoyo
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Really, it would take someone at the publisher or producer level, maybe director or series composition level, to decide they want to make a show about that. Everything else flows on from that. And as interesting as it is to get an insight into how things are made, that tends to be better done in a documentary, rather than as the setting for a work of fiction. It could work, I guess, but probably only as a single OVA or something. And if we're talking workplaces/industries as settings for an anime series, as much as I love Animation Runner Kuromi and Shirobako (and Sore ga Seiyuu, and Bakuman, etc...), it would be good to see something that's not directly related to the animation industry, rather than being so inward-facing a lot of the time. |
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reanimator
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It could be anything from publisher just getting TV version from understaffed oversea license staff to publisher had no idea about existence of bonus materials. Or, Japanese side just don't want to license bonus materials because they're not expecting much higher profit by adding bonus materials. Either way, it takes a lot to convince Japanese side for "nice stuffs". |
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omiya
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It would be good to have definitive answers rather than just speculation on the lack of release of the Shirobako OVA's in the west.
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