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Progeusz
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mangamuscle
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Any sources for said comparison? |
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Progeusz
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What I can say right now is: Think about it this way - it is streamers who want the rights to anime and have to negotiate with Japanese. Whole initiative comes from outside of Japan and Japanese don't really make things easy. They don't really treat foreign streaming as source of income they can count on so it's bound to be insignificant. If it's there, nice, always something - if not, no big deal. Other thing. Notice how Westerners have very different tastes from Japanese. Yet, anime popular here which weren't popular in Japan are never successful. There are a lot of fans in the West but they spend very little money. Next. The biggest streamer is CrunchyRoll and it's subscriptions are extremely cheap compared to price of BDs. Japanese can't get that much money from them if CrunchyRoll itself isn't getting huge amounts. You can read more about CrunchyRoll here: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2b26ou/im_kun_gao_the_cofounder_and_ceo_of_crunchyroll/ Sorry but I despise reddit's layout so I can't be bothered to look for specific parts, but there should be some way to sort posts by author to find what their CEO said. Some other threads/interviews are also googleable. Edit: http://seventhstyle.com/2013/09/30/crunchyroll-is-it-worth-subscribing/ This blog usually isn't the one to be trusted because it's by typical Westerner with many of the standard biases and he himself admits the maths is off in some places BUT, what's important, the point he's making there is pretty well explained or at least gives a good idea. And quite a lot of stuff is actually documented giving it credibility. I only encountered this article now, didn't know about it before and only skimmed through it but it's another thing to keep in mind. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Well, there's Space Dandy, which ran to its intended conclusion thanks to the western audiences.
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Progeusz
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I feel bad for Madhouse. They are a great studio, they deserve better.
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Progeusz
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Above all else, studio rarely invest their own money in creating an anime so they don't lose/gain much if it sells badly/well. What's important is how studio are viewed by publishers and sponsors. If studio does good job in their opinion, it will get more work in the future. |
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leafy sea dragon
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Say, is The Boondocks counted among Madhouse's series? Then again, I don't think it ever got a Japanese home video release.
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yu3lora
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Thats K-On! for you.. And I still need to buy their CD's.
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walw6pK4Alo
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It was always planned as split cours, so no one's really to thank. Tons of bombs of anime still end up getting that second half because it was already in the works and too late to stop, like Chaika. |
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yuna49
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Madhouse does excellent work, but it is almost always a hired gun. Its prospects depend on the overall performance of the works they adapt. Chihayafuru is especially instructive. The last volume of the manga to be released before the anime sold about 40K copies. The next volume sold nearly 200K. After the anime aired, Chihayafuru moved into the top-twenty by sales for two years' running. The anime itself averaged only 2,100 BDs and a trivial number of DVDs. Was Chihayafuru a "successful" adaptation? Kodansha probably thought so despite the sales of the anime. By the way, the "Manabi line" is actually closer to 2,000 copies if you use the Oricon data as a reference. It averaged just over 2,300 copies per volume. |
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Yause
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They were in serious trouble a few years ago. That's why the Mappa split had to happen with NTV bailing the studio out and reorganizing them under new management. The big movie projects and creative freedom have all but disappeared with NTV (whose business does not depend on anime success on its own but rather how it boosts related segments such as live action film adaptations) now bankrolling them for promotional purposes. |
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mangamuscle
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To be exact, 3394 for v1 and the average is 2435. |
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kokodaioh
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Starting, Hibike! Euphonium wasn't even famous |
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