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penguintruth
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Yeah, there's nothing worse than when a company put effort into marketing their product towards the fans! Why, it's almost as if they're fans of it themselves! The bastards! Last edited by penguintruth on Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:01 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Togame
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Even Bandai?
2009 production wasn't the second season and that's an important part of how you view those new episodes - either as additional content filling in the gaps before Disappearance (in which case it succeds with a bit of creativity) or a stand alone season (in which case it's a horrible failure). |
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AJtheFourth
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Seriously, is there any word on how they're going to release it yet? Then again, it's Bandai, so they'll probably do it in singles with 3-4 episodes per disc. Then you could buy the first disc for 'Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody,' skip over the next disc with three to four straight 'Endless Eight' episodes and then pick up the disc with the first 'Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya' episode on it. I'm assuming Bandai is going to do singles anyway because, a: that's what they did for the first season, b: the franchise is so huge they know they can get more money out of it that way, and c: the 'Endless Eight' DVDs still sold really well in Japan.
A musical dub? Gotta throw one musical-style episode in there since they're always the rage. This would make all of those episodes a bit more worth buying. |
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chrisb
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I had a feeling this wasn't going to do as well, most of the fanbase seems to be rather "passionate" and every little flaw in a dub would turn them away, so they stuck with fansubs. Not to mention some people are just cheap. Ms Cristina Vee seems like a nice girl but I really think she needs to work on her acting skills, she's passionate but that's it... so I hope she doesn't replace any of the original dub actresses. I haven't seen the 2nd season yet and liked the 1st when I rented it so I hope this comes out quickly. Anyway I am curious about this Endless 8 thing and if Bandai will leave only one episode in, it seems rather costly to dub the entire thing when it's the same script for 8 episodes straight (who's idea was that anyway?!)
I bet money helped 
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Emma Iveli
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I think I have more ideas: An episode that's just like Family Guy (with someone complaining where the hell are the cut away), an episode filled with references to other anime... or maybe an episode filled with just Bleach references (with Kyon wondering what everyone is talking about) or Lucky Star (of course) and the real topper: All references to the "S.O.S. Brigade" become the "Evil Cookies Club) |
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Shale
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I think you're forgetting that the first series kinda tanked. What makes anybody thing the season that wasn't a big hit with the fansub crowd is going to sell better? |
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KanjiiZ
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If Bandai takes out the Endless Eight, fans will complain. If they keep the Endless EIght, fans will complain.
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sukisho
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104 actually. |
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rinkwolf10
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Here we go again, didn't Full Metal Panic tank as well at first, but it became a pretty big hit a little while later. Also, it only did bad in the initial release, I'm pretty sure it did well enough to warrant the second season to be dubbed and as for the time between the two seasons, there a lot more people "aware" of the shows existence, thus there are more fans of the show now then when the first season was released. |
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Tuor_of_Gondolin
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Then they should keep it. It's a lot easier to skip over something that's there than to see something that isn't. |
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Shale
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Except FMP! was followed by Fumoffu, which was very different from the original series in a way that's pretty much designed to hook people who didn't like or didn't watch the original. Meanwhile, Haruhi season 2 is, from what I know, at best more of Haruhi season 1, and at worst a gigantic insult to everybody paying money for it.
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rinkwolf10
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It does for me  and I don't really care about that, I mean they will be released in one box set sooner or later, then that means that they are one and that is how it will be viewed by the consumer. So just chill. If I didn't know any better, it seems like you want season 2 to do poorly.
Just let me remind you all haters of the second season (endless eight). If the second season does less then expected or poorly then that will not warrant a quick or a definite release of the movie. So just think about what you are complaining about hear and then talk. I don't think I will like the Endless Eight either but it's something I'm willing to sit through knowing something really good will happen in just of it. I see the Endless Eight as a necessary evil in order to get the Movie here as well. So you can b*tch and mone if you want, as long as you buy it, I don't care what you think of the series. Just know that if you don't by it then the movie will not make it's way here. |
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penguintruth
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It did? |
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GWOtaku
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Yeah, but Bandai's expectations were extremely high. If I understand this right from past discussions, it still sold relatively well and made them money.
A good question. Personally, I might be able to swallow the whole thing if they released it as a boxed set right off the bat. Singles? Not likely. I'd be extremely impressed if they actually isolated the superfluous Endless Eight material as some kind of special extra material for the dedicated completionists, although I'm not under any illusions that this is a likely scenario. Last edited by GWOtaku on Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:53 am; edited 2 times in total |
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Shale
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Yes, for the same reason Dragonball Evolution should do poorly. You're catching on! |
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