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Growth driven by TRANSFORMERS and MARVEL movie-related products

Uh, Howard the Duck was obscure before the movie.

Even as you try to blame one factor, you list several other factors in addition the ones you and I both mentioned.

Shueisha won't face "potential economic disaster" because of one film it didn't even finance.

This is different from your original discredited premise.

In the promo word『"Dragonball" that has not been seen has waited up to now. 』It advances halfway in considerably primitive and rudeness (´Д`) seriously, and amorousness and the gag are none, and, of course, [pa] quite feels neither love to the (T?T) original nor the respect it is ..not seeing then.. ..(´Д`) (wry smile) story it is [mugo] about , [konna].. ..".. ..[pa].. ..referring.. ..referring.. ..there is not" either... "Dragonball" is that neither the supervisor, the scenario writer nor the production staff whether hate or read perhaps.
Feeling of barely keeping "Dragonball" by seven Dragonball and names of character (´Д`)...Nightmare re-[bi] of live-action version "Fist of the Great Bear". ^ ..might become possible if it makes it to photograph taken from life in the place where comic of jump is overseas though "Hunter of city" is also so so why cruel doing.. ..(..;?
Do neither Shueisha, the staff in Japan nor parties concerned say anything by the fabrication process? It might be not actually related to production in a name alone though [toriyamamei] allows one's name to be added to Chow Sing-Chi and the total production command.

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Shueisha won't face "potential economic disaster" because of one film it didn't even finance.

It will, if the readers who've jumped ship from manga to games decide they have one less reason to read the source material-especially if they were too young to even remember the original show. And if Shueisha's willing to publish those Viz book tie-ins, and those flop, it might hurt the company's respect with consumers.

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Growth driven by TRANSFORMERS and MARVEL movie-related products

But not exclusively Transformers.

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Uh, Howard the Duck was obscure before the movie.

So were "Ghost World", "Road to Perdition", and "A History of Violence".

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Even as you try to blame one factor, you list several other factors in addition the ones you and I both mentioned.

Several factors all tied to that movie.

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Shueisha won't face "potential economic disaster" because of one film it didn't even finance.

It will, if the readers who've jumped ship from manga to games decide they have one less reason to read the source material-especially if they were too young to even remember the original show. And if Shueisha's willing to publish those Viz book tie-ins, and those flop, it might hurt the company's respect with consumers.

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This is different from your original discredited premise.

Not really. X-men almost didn't happen because of B+R. That's a fact. And it got made in a climate in which no one actually believed it would do well, because studios thought comic book movies were over. Thus the only reason FOX financed the project was because of the concessions made by the director.

Can you rightfully tell that for sure that people are going to go out there and say that the manga sucks if they watch the movie?

They're running hundreds of other series included in magazines, and non-manga magazines as well, and you're saying that they're going to be hit financially hard?

No one claimed "exclusively" on Transformers.

No one claimed "Ghost World", "Road to Perdition", and "A History of Violence" were not obscure before their movies.

No one claimed there weren't factors with Street Fighter movie ties. (The U.S. cartoon even had Street Fighter Alpha ties.)

But. It. Got. Made. Three. Years. Later. Discrediting your original premise.

No, but would be they as motivated to read the manga if the movie sucked?

Considering DB is one of their key titles, they may or may not have projected potentially unrealistic higher sales from the flick; and if that's the case, it could at least hurt their stock value.

But you said the sales were due to the movie. And yet the articles suggest that sales were higher across the board, thus diminishing TF's direct role in the toy sales. Two can play at your game.

But they were less obscure because of the positive reception for their respective movies, which cannot be said about the Howard the Duck.

Later in the series, probably.

It got made, because there was already money thrown at it. Superman Returns took a decade to get made, though. Spider-Man took five years. Why? Because they were considered risks, due to Batman and Robin.

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This movie is such a disgrace and utterly disgusts me. Why must Hollywood ruin my previous memories of one of my favorite shows of all times? What is worse is that is movie is absolutely nothing like Dragon Ball at all.

First Dragon Ball, then Astro Boy and probably Hollywood will continue to ruin well done and orginal anime. This truly is a utter disgrace, to the fans and to the creator of Dragon Ball.

Malaysian review, and Korean review, courtesy of IMDB.

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The movie line lasted from March 2007 to Fall 2008. IIRC it is the best selling Transformers toyline of all time (besting Armada).

Making more money than Armada isn't saying much, since no one even remembers that show.

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And you keep saying "it didn't create more money for the source", the source for Transformers (2007) was a toyline for the mid 1980's, that many of which wouldn't pass today's toy laws. No G1 toys were re-released durring the first movie's time in North America.

But did DVD sales for the cartoon go up?

The cartoons? All releases of each part of the franchise went out of print long before that movie came out. But interestingly enough, Sony's 20th Anniversary release of the original movie stayed at number 1 at many chain stores (like HMV) prior to Bay's movie release.

the toyline prior to the 2007 movie was the best-selling Transformers toyline of all time.

Also, in 2007, Transformers was one of (if not) the best-selling toy brand. The live action movie totally had nothing to do with that. It was just all those Universe, Titaniums, Alternators and left over Cybertron figures that made it that...

The only thing in print in North America was the G1 movie, and I said, right before 7.4.7 it sold really well.

If you're objecting to the product placement, that's ironic, given that the first cartoon was a fun 30-minute toy commercial.