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Rahxephon91
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The big American Popcorn flick is the one that sells in Japan. No, the world. So why would that be a common complaint. Please link to these common complaints that PR was just another American Popcorn flick which has never seemingly stopped something like Transformers from hitting it big. Also what else was PR trying to be other than a fun action movie? |
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SynergyMan
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Almost all anime is contract work. There are these things called production committees. Note how Madoka is synonymous with Shaft, yet Shaft holds no copyright for Madoka or anything they do. It's because Aniplex contracted them(no pun intended) to create the animation. Sunrise, Ghibli, Bones and Production IG are exceptions, in that they hold copyrights, produce and animate certain anime, but when are you going to see a Gundam show without Bandai's name on it? Even before the takeover, if you watch Gundam 0083, it clearly shows Bandai Co on the production committee. Ghibli didn't even own the copyright for Grave. IG didn't hold the copyright for the original GITS, because they didn't produce the original GITS, though they produced SAC. It's because Manga, Bandai Visual and Kodansha contracted IG. Your logic is messed up |
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Guile
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That seems likely. It's worth keeping in mind these kinds of products are not aimed at anime fans, but fans of the IP. In Mass Effect's case nobody in Japan is interested in the franchise, so most anime fans had no desire to watch it. However, the gamers in America who are fans of Mass Effect might have been interested in it and watched it. And given a lot of them being direct to video film, it can probably sell enough on name alone to justify the production cost, even if they're never super popular enough to justify making sequels. A key thing to remember is just because a Japanese studio is involved does not mean the co-production is aimed at anime fans, it just means it's more than likely the only studio they could find to animate their work given the subject matter is not inline with most of what western networks and studios air and produce. Most co-productions listed in this thread have been completely ignored in Japan, so it's safe to say these are more aimed at westerners. |
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Anti_Nadalista
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Animatrix was made because the Wachowski are big anime fans, some of it was even written by the japanese and the staff was amazing, top animators all around. Animatrix is actually much better than those stupid sequels and after their success WB tried with Batman.
The Kill Bill anime segment was animated by some of the best animators in Japan, some of them are legends. The Marvel fiasco is a diffrerent story, very tiny budgets and a crappy schedule to animate 4 shows, no wonder they were bad  .
Bones and Sunrise have the best mecha animators in Japan right now and IMO the only good choices for this project. TRIGGER has amazing animators but they are a very small studio and they have too many projects already. |
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enurtsol
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Marvel has their fans in Japan (though not necessarily those who would watch it animated/anime), as exemplified in the controversy a couple years ago: "Japanese 'Avengers' fans up in arms over shoddy voice acting on Blu-ray release" |
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Shiroi Hane
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With Gonzo's heyday over, Madman seem to be the main go-to company for western co-productions, but then there's FUNimation's co-pros with Oxybot and IG and 4°C's Thundercats.
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