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NEWS: Anime Limited Launches Mai Mai Miracle Kickstarter for U.S, U.K. Release

If people are willing to pledge money for it, then why shouldn't the licensors put effort and money into something that would earn them money? This is money upfront. And the producers are more beholden to the pledgers because the way Kickstarter works, the pledgers are brought along as the production goes - they're able to dialogue directly with the producers, make suggestions, and sometimes even have a poll on how they want it. If the producers don't do a good job, any future Kickstarter project of theirs would be compromised, as pledgers would let others know.

I've already mentioned the other major reason, production time. Anime Limited themselves have stated that they can have a product shipped, in collectors edition packaging, within 3-4 months after the the initial Japanese release. They also explicitly stated that it would be sub only. A dub takes a lot of time to produce, and when that time has passed chances are that a significant amount of people have lost interest in the title, meaning a higher production cost for licensor, as well as less disc sales.

And that's not very good. Unless your goal is to lose money .

If people are willing to pledge money for it, then why shouldn't the licensors put effort and money into something that would earn them money? This is money upfront - they could take as long as they need; it's already been paid (not like pledgers can take their money back if it's taking too long). And the producers are more beholden to the pledgers because the way Kickstarter works, the pledgers are brought along as the production goes - they're able to dialogue directly with the producers, make suggestions, and sometimes even have a poll on how they want it. If the producers don't do a good job, any future Kickstarter project of theirs would be compromised, as pledgers would let others know.

Blood- wrote:

*yawn* More tedious anti-dubbing soapboxing from SouthPacific. *sets watch*

*sigh* Actually, that was the first post I made specifically to point out some major flaws that dubbing comes with. Soapboxing sure is an overused term around here. If anything, I stole part of the post from many other comments i've seen.

It's actually quite pleasent to see people waking up, and I can only hope that we'll continue to see more sub-only releases because of aformentioned reasons .

Release Mai Mai Miracle in both the UK and the US on blu-ray

Create and add English subtitles for the film

Produce quality packaging to house the blu-ray disc and make it Collector’s Edition worthy

Share some of the truly beautiful artwork, illustrations and behind-the-scenes goodness that comes with the making of such an animated film

enurtsol wrote:

If people are willing to pledge money for it, then why shouldn't the licensors put effort and money into something that would earn them money? This is money upfront - they could take as long as they need; it's already been paid (not like pledgers can take their money back if it's taking too long). And the producers are more beholden to the pledgers because the way Kickstarter works, the pledgers are brought along as the production goes - they're able to dialogue directly with the producers, make suggestions, and sometimes even have a poll on how they want it. If the producers don't do a good job, any future Kickstarter project of theirs would be compromised, as pledgers would let others know.

When people are willing to spend the same amount of money on something regardless of the talent and money gone into the dub - why should a Licensor spend extra money on increasing the quality of the dub for no gain?

With all that said and done, I do still believe adding a dub does increase the overall value of the product. Put it this way - if adding a dub, whether it's shit or not, means more people will be exposed to an anime, more people will buy the anime - then why would you want them to stop producing dubs?

I can agree with having a dub on the disc will add a value, although not the kind of value i'm willing to pay for.