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Forum - View topicNEWS: Publisher AlphaPolis Acquires Anime Studio White Fox
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ThatGuyWhoLikesThings
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Can't wait for White Fox to be forced to pump out slop after slop to Re:Zero's detriment
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MyMasterMatthew
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Anime production isn't my area of expertise, and I tend to assume the worst, but I just can't picture those two things going hand-in-hand, especially today when more and more shows are coming out each season. Am I wrong to worry? |
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Tanteikingdomkey
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wouldn't this force white fox to stop working on rezero? also no offense to the company but I have never heard good things about any of these besides gate. and I am not sure they can claim credit for gate or it even being that good actually
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Imagine calling ReZero mid tier.
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Glordit
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It could mean that White Fox gets more staff/talent/funding and opportunities to choose projects as opposed to being offered to do something. |
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numberuno
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Counterpoint: hits like ReZero are always going to find great teams to adapt them. But middling fare usually struggles. Could you imagine what Pretty Derby seasons 2 and 3 (PA Works did season 1), Princess Connect: ReDive (2 quality seasons) and Granblue Fantasy would have looked like had CyGames never started their own production house? Also, mid-sized and smaller anime production companies like White Fox fold all the time, often taking the licensing with them. Some of them had niche expertise - like shojo or the ability to consistently make good romcom or slice of life shows that didn't rely on cliches, problematic (for its time) stuff or moe - so when they shut down that niche went with them. White Fox specifically has only done 27 projects - everything else has been recaps, specials or movies tied to those 27 series - in 18 years of existence. Even worse: 10 of those have been sequel seasons to their franchises. Meaning that we only got a Katanagari, Girls Last Tour, The Devil Is A Part Timer, Cautious Hero or Tears to Tiaras from them every now and then. As they have had very few truly bad shows - actually just Super Sonico and Uglymug Epic Fighter to be honest - if this deal increases their output then it is a net positive. |
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TheSleepyMonkey
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The opposite, the article clearly points out how AlphaPolis wants them to almost exclusively work on their own IPs, which going by a quick search, seems to be only run-of-the-mill isekai/tensei fantasy stories. The only possible positive here is that White Fox will have better financial security, but even that is not a given, since this is a small (?) publisher here rather than a big company like TOHO or Aniplex. Frankly, I'm more surprised that Kadokawa didn't get them first. You'd think that with Re:Zero being one of their most successful properties + their own admission of wanting to increase their in-house production capabilites, they'd jump right at the opportunity. |
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Juno016
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Re:Zero is one of those rare shows where people I assume to have a good grasp of media literacy watch it and completely miss the point, grabbing at the most surface-level criticisms and claiming the show is perpetuating toxic tropes it is clearly spotlighting to deconstruct. I've seen plenty of good faith criticism from fans about things the show/novels could have done better, but rarely from outside the dedicated fanbase. Vast majority of the critics are people who either dropped the series at or never recovered from episode 13. I don't know if I'm worried about Re:Zero as an anime dropping from existence, though. I can see it happening if the global economy or anime industry implodes in the next few years, but at that point, we have worse problems. Worst case scenario based on current industry is that the show transfers to another studio. |
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MFrontier
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Honestly I want to support White Fox as a studio but I'd hate for this to lead to no more Re:Zero anime in the future.
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