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Yuvelir
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Welp, there's doing poorly and then there's this. Ouch.
Ah damn, the way the story was going I thought it would end in a couple episodes. I wonder if the show itself will get cancelled after this cour. Isn't it supposed to be a prequel to the next game?
At this point all I can say is screw Ryza already. |
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mewpudding101
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Anime is made in advance these days, normally. I’m guessing everything’s wrapped up. Seasons can’t be canceled. They’re made for the length they were planned. (Long-running shows are different of course) |
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Spike Terra
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So I checked out twitter and their was a recent tweet saying that they would be changing the release date of the blu-ray or at least releasing the blurays in a different manner than intended. Either way it seems like they still intend to release them to home video.
Can someone with better Japanese skills than I take a look at this: https://twitter.com/BRRAY_anime/status/1404750822605352964 |
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Yuvelir
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What I understand is that the industry is in such a state that overwork and crunch are the norm, with shows being planned and slotted far in advance bt actual production of each episode finishing not too long (weeks, days, hours) before it airs, sometimes missing the deadline which is how we get recaps or animation that just melts. Blue Reflection is pretty rough and some sequences are unfinished (and now that the BDs have been cancelled, that's how it will remain) so I'm pretty sure that, for instance, episode 14 hasn't been finished yet. If the project's profitability has gone up in flames, an option will always be to use the mid-season climax as the series' end and just cancel the rest, saving themselves the costs of producing and airing what remains. However, if this is supposed to be a prequel for a soon to be released game, that isn't a sensible option (although they could always do something like turning the second half of this story into a LN or something, but that would be bad press for the game). |
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mewpudding101
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The tweet says they're currently working to deliver the show [on home video] in a different way. |
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Cardcaptor Takato
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This reminds me how Phantom in the Twilight never got a BD release and I really liked this show. I personally think Blue Reflection Ray has been one of the better post Madoka dark magical girl shows I've seen in recent years and I honestly don't think the animation is that bad and I think it has an interesting art style to it that I like. I guess this news means it probably won't be getting a simiuldub either.
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MagicPolly
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I haven't played Ryza so I'm not sure if it's different, but it honestly seems like Atelier just wouldn't work well as an anime. I mean the entire point (at least from the ones I played) is just get materials, do alchemy, and watch cute cutscenes if you're lucky. Now that works great in game form, but anime is a different story (I haven't seen the Escha and Logy anime but my friend tells me it's very mediocre). |
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Yttrbio
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A lot of the Atelier storytelling formula is "throw a bunch of funny characters together and watch them bump off of each other". There are a bunch of anime subgenres that work this way, so it wouldn't be any harder to do than any other CGDCT anime, or sitcom anime, or relaxation anime. (Which, of course, isn't easy, but the franchise doesn't seem like much of a constraint on what can be done)
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Charou
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It was merely average in a stupidly stacked season. We didn't hate it but when you're up to 20 shows a week something has to go. We didn't notice we'd dropped I for a week or two.
It just felt like a lost, aimless mix of stuff like granbelm, Madoka, wonder egg, assault lily...but with nothing else really going for it. No sakuga. No huge seiyuu. No unusual twists on the genre. Definitely didn't hate it but this season had just too much to love for all sorts of good and bad reasons. |
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Cryssoberyl
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Very sad. I disagree that this show is average. It's actually been the surprise of the season for me. I honestly haven't seen writing and handling of female characters and their relationships this good since Maria-sama ga Miteru. My feelings are best expressed by pasting what I wrote on a discord that I follow:
Turns out I was even more right than I realized about its fate, though. It will hardly be the first good show to fail financially, but not even getting a disc release in Japan seems especially bad. I just hope they can at least finish out the two cours without tanking the quality. |
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#noffa
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That's what I expect when they ruin Kishida Mel's designs so hard, and that's about the only charm point of the game, aside from the OSTs.
One look at the PV and characters, and the majority of the fans ran away for sure. |
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Rederoin
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As long as some torrents are up/fans have it backed up, its going to be hard for it to become 'lost. |
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mangamuscle
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They should have made this a split cour, then they could have had the chance to gauge the popularity of the show and cancel the second cour. IMO with sailor moon crystal and now this, magical girls with a shoujo vibe are now basically DOA. |
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camseyeview140
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There's nothing wrong with liking this show, but some of y'all are saying "well maybe they will make up for it by giving us a US DUB"
This show is a financial failure. Why the hell would they burn money that they need to dub shows people are actually watching and will buy physical versions of. Yes, they are going to release it in a different way, but the fact they had to cancel the first form of release is telling. |
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Urizithar
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Sometimes average is worse than bad. It just means it doesn't invoke any strong emotions in people. Good or otherwise. I have same take on this. It wasn't the worst thing that aired that season but it didn't had anything that would keep me checking after first episode. It's the kind of a show I will not even remember soon. |
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