Forum - View topicI Have A Question About OAVs
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Empyrical
 Posts: 84 Location: Everywhere you're not |
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Why do OAVs—like Macross Zero—take so long between episodes? The OAVs started in Nov' of '02, and the 4th episode is going to come out on the 28th of this month. Why is it taking 6 months in between episodes? The graphics were good, but it really shouldn't take that long to animate it. I am confused as to why Bandai Visual is tormenting me by prolonging my Macross Zero experience (and it is quite good, too). Any help?
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Meson
Posts: 219 Location: Buffalo, NY |
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THey have to see if each release will sell before they can start making more. That research takes time. It's all about money.
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spewmuffin
Posts: 45 Location: Phoenix, Arizona |
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Not to mention that OAVs have bigger budgets than typical, the cost to produce an episode maintaining the quality of the first episode (uses lots of money to get a good selling point) can be rather expensive.
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Nagisa
Moderator
 Posts: 6128 Location: Atlanta-ish, Jawjuh |
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If I remember correctly, OVAs also have looser production deadlines, meaning a studio can take a bit more time and put a bit more care into an OVA production than a TV series. If Macross Zero is as big as I keep hearing, then that's probably what's happening...little bit of TLC over a speedy release. And really, that's a good thing. |
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Aki001
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THey have to see if each release will sell before they can start making more. That research takes time. It's all about money.
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lianncoop
Past ANN Contributor
 Posts: 1705 Location: Indiana |
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So...were you trying to quote Meson because you agreed with him (hence the happy face)?
If you want to "quote" someone, use the [quote] tags. |
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4660 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Also, since the people paying for the DVDs are pretty much paying for the full cost of production, since there aren't any sponsors to offset the cost, the cost of a single half-hour OVA episode is usually between 4800 and 9600 yen (divide by 100 for the approximate cost in American dollars), so you usually have to space out the release dates between episodes by a couple of months each, otherwise, they'll be coming out at a rate that would be too expensive for much of the audience.
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