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Crunchyroll's Ellation Plans to Expand Original IP Beyond Video

Is it really that unreasonable to wish that their first IP would be more similar to the shows they've been licensing for years?

I mean Netflix can do Castlevania what was stopping CR from doing something that doesn't look like it belongs on Cartoon Network?

Please. One look at the promotional art and it's pretty obvious that we'll all forget about this show after it finishes and hope CR learns from its mistakes.

to build hype for something Nickelodeon rightfully rejected.

I love when animation media, anime and cartoon, were all about art and story.

Avatar and Oban helped established something than.... well, this. And we all thought those series were bad. An example of two steps back.

teferi wrote:

Is it really that unreasonable to wish that their first IP would be more similar to the shows they've been licensing for years?

Yes considering the same people who say things like this are the same people who kept complaining about how Netflix's Death Note adaptation wasn't set in Japan or featured a mostly Asian cast....just like the live action japanese films

See the redundancy?

I can guarantee you that should the show succeed or fail people will still complain and talk negatively about it because no one forgets things especially things they don't like for arbitrary or picky reasons.

Castlevania doesn't remotely look like anything that wouldn't itself be on Cartoon Network specifically it's Adult Swim block.

Yes considering the same people who say things like this are the same people who kept complaining about how Netflix's Death Note adaptation wasn't set in Japan or featured a mostly Asian cast....just like the live action japanese films

See the redundancy?

Devilman Crybaby, B: The Beginning, A.I.C.O. -Incarnation-, Sword Gai, are made because Netflix pay the bills. If not, they probably would never be made because the Japanese producers wouldn't get enough support been financial backing or audience support.

But yeah, it's pretty clear that's what Crunchyroll is doing with this. They recently sent out a casting call people for a documentary on representation in the anime community, and specifically asked for people who feel they are "not represented in anime made by Japan" except white people, of course. I also assume that also means Asians need not apply as well, so I'm out of luck there I guess. They're certainly doubling down on their diversity angle with stuff like that. Maybe it'll be launched along side HGS.

Frankly most of what airs on Adult Swim that's in remotely the same vein as Castlevania is anime and we all know HGS is nothing like Castlevania. You knew that when you made that post and you knew what I was getting at given that the vast majority of CN's programming is nothing like Castlevania but you still made that post.

I don't care about how Japanese it is. The problem I have with it is that CR has decided that after years of being supported by their subscribers that the first thing that they're producing is a show they have years of statistics showing that most of their subscribers don't watch on their platform.

I think this is at the core of what rubs people the wrong way about not just this Crunchyroll show, but a lot of diversity marketing in general. But it's the internet, so everyone has trouble expressing themselves properly.

And what happens if it in spite of those supposed statistics some of those subscribers along with those who aren't regular subscribers to CR ultimately watch HGS giving it the exposure they want it to get?

Do you have screenshots of this maybe? I didn't hear about it when it happened.

They post their most popular shows by state/province every season. CGDCT shows don't rank and even then they've got to exclude shows like MHA and Attack on Titan to not have every map covered in two shows. Not sure why you're pretending you don't know what their more popular shows are either.

In the first place CR has grown into what it is now because of big licenses like Naruto.

The idea that a show like HGS is going to somehow result in a massive increase in the number of subs is ridiculous.

Unless they do a complete 180 and that promo art is as deceptive as Asobi Asobase's OP then there is no way this is going to work out for them.