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relyat08
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The article notes that:
So I imagine all of us can contribute as well. |
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Zin5ki
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Atypical visual styles can be taken in their stride by anyone, but how is the writing? Is a conventional story told eventually, or must the viewer piece together a conclusive narrative from another assortment of fragments? While it admittedly tried to warn me by the means of its own name, Mind Game's approach to arranging a screenplay could bewilder the keenest of eyes. |
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kuzronk
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Anime Limited confirmed with ANN that it is handling the Kickstarter campaign for Studio 4°C for the rest of the world outside of Japan, and not just for the United Kingdom and Ireland. |
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One-Eye
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1. they are treating it like a pre-order to gauge interest (they can always cancel if it doesn't even reach the low goal) and get some quick financing. 2. its a way of having fans promote the product. If people get excited about it they will jump on social media and share it. 3. if the Kickstarter turns out successful at raising money like Time of Eve, Skip Beat!, and Mai Mai Miracle then it may self-fund a dub (like those anime did) which is always an expensive addition, but if the fans raise the money for you why not?
The story is a little more straight forward (but probably not as easily consumable as his Ping-Pong) and has many themes: Relationships between men and women, fathers and sons, brothers, tradition vs modernity, and purity vs ambition. Its not a perfect show--there are some parts where it felt there were cuts made to make it fit in an episode--but I enjoyed it immensely and it definitely deserves a release. I could see Discotek doing it as I believe it was only released on DVD in Japan and therefore there would be less reverse import fears. |
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leafy sea dragon
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That's an interesting way of seeing it. I saw that this number was very low, even for crowdfunding, and it either meant Studio 4 Degrees C is in a near-bankrupt state or it's more to see how potential buyers would react to it before they released it. That it's so low means they don't need a lot of people or expect a lot of people in the first place.
It'd be funny if a single contributor threw in that much. I remember a Kickstarter campaign for a video game that received US$10,000 pledges from one or two people. They put one of their goals that high (a special "Gold" edition of the game, distributed only through this method), far, far above anything else, to see if people would actually give that amount just to have an extremely rare edition, and at least one person actually gave them ten grand. The highest amount I've seen pledged was around US$80,000, but there was some shady business surrounding that one including the guy who started it getting convicted of selling narcotics, and the project dissipated after that. |
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relyat08
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I was briefly considering giving multiple hundreds because I just happen to have the money at the moment, but that would probably not be wise spending. Maybe it'll depend on what the pledges are. I'll be going in for a very nice release, that's for sure. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some fairly high pledges though. I have seen a few of those super high ones on other anime projects as well. If I remember right, someone did pledge $5k, or around that, to go to Texas to party with the Escaflowne people and get a role in the new dub. A film like this though, especially, I would expect to have a lot of very passionate fans willing to give quite a lot. |
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relyat08
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alltheanime/mind-game?ref=user_menu
The Kickstarter is up. |
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Megiddo
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Already 100% funded which shouldn't really be a surprise with such a low goal. Still, I'm elated that I'll eventually be getting Mind Game on Blu-Ray.
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relyat08
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Yatta!
Yeah, this is exciting. I would be happy to see more stretch goals come about now. |
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