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SharinganEyes92
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It's always good to see manga doing so well! I can't believe it topped Naruto, but I'll get over it. Volume 14, too. Didn't that come out recently? I was over my cousin's house two days ago and she was showing it off, saying she had just bought it.
I think that there are definitely a fair amount of male readers of the series out there. I didn't really enjoy it all too much. I read most of the first volume the other day, and I thought it was kinda' corny. It's not really my style, seeing as how I'm a Shonen fan. I bet I do know a book which mostly women would buy, though.......Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?! It's number 16 on the booklist. I bet it's probably just one of those books that examines the differences between men and women, and how they react in certain situations. Such pointless crap. It probably just sells because of the name and how it somehow appeals to some horny, 40 year-old women, who sit on their couches all day, while eating Bon-Bons and watching Oprah. Well, either way, it's good to see manga doing well, and I look forward to more success to the series. Number 24 is high, but it can get even higher, and let's hope for that. |
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Deltakiral
 Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Damn take a chill pill....it's good to see people are reading at least while their watching Oprah...... |
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The Naked Beast
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It is great to Fruits Basket doing very well. I still have not picked up my copy. After Fruits Basket finishes its run, what will be Tokyopop's next great hit? |
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Malintex Terek
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Shoujo anime tends to be poorly dubbed and very expensive; specifically, Hana Yori Dango comes to mind. FUNimation was the first company to produce a high quality shoujo title at a fair price; sure, Fruits Basket the anime cannot compare to its manga counterpart, but for an anime it sold extraordinarily well, especially as a shoujo title. Not five months past I was a harsh critic of shoujo titles; I still am, but I've softened considerably to shoujo romances (I cannot understand, for the very life of me, how anyone could enjoy Fruits Basket). Ouran is a title that can appeal to both boys and girls, even moreso than Fruits Basket. Heck, I'd even recommend it for [adult swim] to replace Inu-Yasa, because how many boys watch that show anymore, anyway? |
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hagakure|returns
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From what I remember, Fruit Basket was first release as 40 MSRP because it contain more episode back in 02. It didn't even sell well and the idea flop (you don't see funimation doing it again), they took the lost and sold lower the retail price to 30, to make back some profit. It did sell well then, but probably not as good as Funimation hope to do. Manga does well with female audience than anime. Shoujo success in manga doesn't translate to anime.
There are thousand of new baby born in the US every day, thus there are new anime fan every year that discover anime through InuYasha. Don't limit yourself to just current fan/customer, or else you won't make it in the business world. |
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GoodLuckSaturday
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Where is Ouran on Booklist? Until it actually TOPS Fruits Basket, I'll forever doubt Ouran's ability to have wider audience potential than Fruits Basket. |
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Zalis116
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 Posts: 6874 Location: Kazune City |
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I'm a male fan of Fruits Basket, and I've been buying those manga volumes every four months. It's great to see it doing so well, and maybe we'll have a repeat with holiday buying when Vol. 15 comes out in December.
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IvoryBirch
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Precisely; also, female readers often read shounen regularly as well. I would think that many more females bought Naruto than males did Fruits Basket. Female readers are immensely important to the manga market, so it's no wonder that companies have been (wisely) tapping into this demographic. I also agree with the point about shounen being more popular in anime form, whereas shoujo often excels as manga. I think this is partly due to the fact that many shounen contain quite a bit of action, which usually translates better on the screen. Shoujo, on the other hand, can often seem, er, overly melodramatic in anime, when it doesn't in manga. (This is, of course, drawn from my own opinion about the genres.) And again, most manga fans are female, and anime fans male. |
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Kagemusha
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I think it depends. I find that plenty of shojo manga are just as melodramatic as the animes; I liked the quirky humor on the Fruits Basket anime and the manga in the beginning, but the unbelievably sappy character interaction and the melodrama have turned me off in a major way (admittingly I'm not the target audience and am quite jaded). The very tongue-in-cheek Ouran Host Club anime was another huge improvement over the manga. I'm not exactly an expert on this subject of "shojo dramas turning into animes" though, as the shojo titles I most enjoy of late are more comedy geared (Koukou Debut, Lovely Complex), and I'd rather read josei or seinen for serious drama. |
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Malintex Terek
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What is "MSRP"? |
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HitokiriShadow
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MSRP = Manufacturer's (sp?) Suggested Retail Price
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Dargonxtc
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I don't know if you are serious or not, I am assuming you are not. But just in case.
Manufactures Suggested Retail Price. we need sarcasm tags |
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AstroNerdBoy
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If it didn't sell well for FUNimation, I doubt they'd be pushing to have a sequel series created. Also, when I needed to raise some capital a year ago, I purchased a large number of the Furuba DVD sets from FUNimation for dirt cheap. I was able to then sell every one of them for a nice profit on eBay without breaking a sweat, which was still under the normal $100 retail price. Granted, that's just anecdotal evidence, but there you are.
Manufacture's Suggested Retail Price |
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fighterholic
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I didn't know that myself. Like Zalis, whenever I get wind of a Fruits Basket manga coming out, I make sure to pre-order it 
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Zalis116
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And by the way, it's not "Manufactures"; I could say, "Toyota manufactures cars," but if I wanted to say what MSRP means, it would be Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. to manufacture = to build/create something (present tense conjugations = I/you/we/they manufacture, he/she/it manufactures) manufacturer = someone who builds or creates manufacturer's *** = *** belonging to a manufacturer (yes, there does need to be an apostrophe ' in there). HitokiriShadow was correct. manufacture's =/= a word, probably. |
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