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mdo7
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So if this LEGO One Piece animated special is successful (and it will be), it could open up to a possibility of LEGO getting involved in adapting anime/manga IP into future LEGO animated stuff. In other word, it could mean My Hero Academia, Dragonball, Naruto, and maybe other Shonen Jump properties being turned into LEGOs in the future. Could this open up to Pokemon being adapted into LEGO following Aardman animation studio doing this. What about Sailor Moon, could that be ripe for a LEGO animated special? Gundam??? Expect LEGO to be jumping into turning anime/manga into LEGO animated stuff again blurring the line and definition of anime.
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FanGamer24
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Pretty sure this is only happening because of Netflix. Most anime just aren’t popular enough to warrant a Lego set. Even this has more to do with the popularity of the LA series than One Piece as a whole. |
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Silver Kirin
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While this is based on the live-action show, I wouldn't mind if they made more LEGO sets/specials based on popular manga series, I'd say that most Shonen Jump series would lend themselves to being adapted in LEGO form, series like Naruto, Bleach, etc.
Something kind of interesting is that in the Latin American Spanish dub of this trailer is the fact that Luffy is not voiced by Iñaki Godoy, because he dubbed himself in the live-action series' dub, but I guess he couldn't record his dialogs for this special's dub, so instead Luffy is voiced by Emilio Treviño, known for voicig characters like Denji in Chainsaw Man, which means this is the first time Luffy is voiced by a male VA in an animated One Piece project in Netural Spanish, I belive in all of OP's anime international dubs Luffy is voiced by female VAs, except for the European Spanish dub if I remember correctly. |
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GoGoGoFalco
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I would only want this if it's based on the actual manga/anime and not a westernized live-action adaption. Zero interest in this because tt's based on Netflix Piece. |
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mdo7
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In this age and era of streaming and internet and influencers, any obscure anime titles can become mainstream with a snap of a finger. I'll use Spy X Family as an example, the anime is very well-known even within the core casual demographic audiences that aren't anime nerd/fans and yet it gets a lot of mainstream merchandise being sold in stores where you don't expect it to be sold. And here's the thing, Spy X Family was never shown on Adult Swim/Toonami in the US, nor it's not on Netflix or any mainstream streaming sites beside Crunchyroll and yet you have merchandise being sold in stores where other mainstream pop culture merchandise were sold in the same store alongside Spy X Family. My point is that what's popular and mainstream is subjective in this day and age of the internet. Case in example: An American cartoon or TV series made a reference or nod to lesser well-known anime titles. Take HBO Max's Bookie referencing D-Gray Man in there, and here's the thing: D-Gray Man is not mainstream-level tier in the US compared to Naruto, One Piece, Dragonball, etc... the show was very obscure in the US and it was never shown on Adult Swim/Toonami and yet this live-action HBO show was able to sneak a reference to that particular anime/manga title. Oh, and I can go much further then that: Disney's Amphibia had an episode referencing/nod to Gunbuster. Gunbuster was not even a mainstream anime title in the US and I don't think it was shown on US TV back then and yet the animator at Disney was able to put a nod/homage to that anime to kids and some older viewers that might not pick up on this (except Gunbusters and anime fans that were probably watching this). Don't forget Steven Universe having bunch of nods and references to Utena (again, Utena was never shown on American TV, so yeah). Please read this Answerman from last year on that. Again, how is mainstream or popular defined when there are American cartoon or live-action TV series making references/nods/homages to obscure non-mainstream anime like the examples I listed above. So can this mean that Namco-Bandai could team up with LEGO to create a LEGO SD Gundam animated special in the near future? That could be possible!!! Could we see a LEGO doing a LEGO Sailor Moon special? I don't rule that out. In this era of anime becoming more mainstream, the impossible can become possible. |
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FanGamer24
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These things are never as popular as they seem in a bubble. The other issue is that the Japanese just don’t want to give their licenses out to LEGO for whatever reason. In this case Netflix has the rights to the LA version so they can do what ever they want with it.
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mdo7
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Here's the thing: Netflix would needed Shueisha's approval to allow LEGO to adapt One Piece into a LEGO animated special. If Shueisha was the one that gave the master green light approval to LEGO, then that means there is a possibility that Shueisha in the future may allow LEGO to adapt other Shonen Jump properties like Dragonball, Naruto, Yu Yu Hakusho, My Hero Academia, and others (assuming they could fit for LEGO in term of marketability and demographic familiarities with these Shonen Jump titles). It starts with One Piece, then it could end up with Dragonball, Naruto, My Hero Academia getting LEGO animated adaptation in the near future. If Shonen Jump properties ended up getting LEGO adaptation due to the success of One Piece, and those subsequent LEGO animated adaptation of other Shonen Jump properties did so well. Then it could open up for other Japanese publishers to negotiate with LEGO to adapt their anime/manga IPs to get LEGO treatment too. I can see Kodansha doing this for Sailor Moon, Namco-Bandai for Gundam. I know this will happen at some point, the LEGO One Piece maybe based on the Netflix LA version, but Shueisha is the one that would give the green light to both Netflix and LEGO to allow this animated special. So that's why I suspect the LEGO One Piece could be a testing ground to see how audiences including anime fans would accept this, if this does well then expect more Shonen Jump properties to be given the same LEGO treatment. |
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tinyirnfist0
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Revolutionary Girl Utena aired on FUNimation Channel in 2006. |
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Damn, well if I'd had cable(? do not know how Funi broadcast) that would've made certain revelations happen sooner lmao. |
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mdo7
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Oops, and yeah that's my mistake. Yeah it turns out that Funimation Channel did broadcast the show and the film in 2007. The problem was Funimation Channel doesn't have the same mainstream reach like Cartoon Network's Toonami/Adult Swim had so that's why Utena wasn't a mainstream-tier level anime well not until Steven Universe (which the cartoon itself was heavily influenced by Utena) helped brought Utena to people that never watch anime or had limited knowledge on anime when Steven Universe run on Cartoon Network. Speaking of Cartoon Network, I found out that network wanted to license and broadcast Utena even before Funimation Channel broadcast it but the problem was at that time was Utena's LGBTQ theme, it would have to be censored and I believed Jason DeMarco who was the head of Toonami at that time didn't want to censor the anime, and probably knew this anime wouldn't fly on American mainstream television hence allowing Funimation Channel to broadcast it. It took many years until Steven Universe helped broke that LGBTQ stigma on Cartoon Network. There were anime that Toonami wanted to broadcast but couldn't due to reasons.
Actually that would depend on which area you lived in and what kind of cable TV subscription you had at that time. I don't think Funimation TV was available to all of the United States, so that's why it didn't have the same reach and national influence like Cartoon Network did. That's why most anime on CN are remembered fondly many years later amongst older millennial demographics. |
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