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Toraman
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 Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject: Are anime fans spoilt? (pointless rant thread!) |
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I don't normally read it but I just had a read through the latest Answerman section from animenewsnetwork:
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2008-02-15
This stood out to me and made me laugh:
| Quote: | Frankly, I'm not sure why this is always the first question when a new license is announced. The exchange always goes like this:
Company A: "We licensed Super Ninja Love Squad!"
Fan A: "BUT DID YOU GET THE 15-MINUTE OVA PREQUEL?!"
Fan B: "DID YOU LICENSE SEASON 1.5 AND THE OMAKE DVD THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO PREORDERS IN JAPAN?!"
Company A: "Well we can't announce anything yet but..."
Fan C: "ARGH! MAKE SURE YOU LICENSE THE ANIMATED OPENINGS TO THE JAPAN-ONLY VIDEOGAME AND INCLUDE THEM ON THE FIRST DVD!"
Fan D: "YOU JERKS, NOW I CAN'T DOWNLOAD THE FANSUBS ANYMORE!"
I remember the 90's, though, when that conversation was a little more like this:
Company A: "We licensed Super Ninja Love Squad!"
Fans: "Hooray!"
Ah, the good ol' days. |
Anyone agree/disagree with this? I think they're bang on the mark to be brutally honest. A lot of fans out there are an ungrateful bunch of sods who can't contribute anything positive to the scene. They leech, whinge, complain and then moan when circumstances aren't 100% in their favour. 
Yeah I'm totally unprovoked in my rant but I just wanted to voice my approval regarding the above observation. Gragh!  |
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Gawyn
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Absolutely. My personal hated response has to be
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You licenced Anime X!? Why the hell didn't you get Anime Y? It's way better.
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despite the fact that both shows are nothing alike. |
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IanC
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I love Answerman. Especially the flakes of the week. Where does he get all those cute bunny pictures from? (i know a couple of weeks ago he posted his own  )
Anyway, totally agree.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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It's not just anime fans, society as a whole is selfish and spoiled.
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Damo
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Where do you think I got the ideas for the "ultimate anime fan list" from of course anime fans are spoilt.
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Toraman
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Damo wrote: | | Where do you think I got the ideas for the "ultimate anime fan list" from of course anime fans are spoilt. |
Well this is a pointless rant thread.  |
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Ixidor
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Fudce wrote: | | It's not just anime fans, society as a whole is selfish and spoiled. |
Absolutely agree with this.
| Gawyn wrote: | Absolutely. My personal hated response has to be
| Anime Y Fanboy wrote: |
You licenced Anime X!? Why the hell didn't you get Anime Y? It's way better.
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despite the fact that both shows are nothing alike. |
You and me both, this response is always one of those that just really irritate me. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Even if I want shows to be licensed, I'll take anything I can get!
Not all anime fans are spoilt.
I just avoid the ones that are! |
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Damo
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| PaleBlack wrote: | | Even if I want shows to be licensed, I'll take anything I can get! |
Completely agree.
Looking at some eastern cinema DVD releases like ring ect, no dub, no translated credits, and IIRC in the case of Avalon - hardsubs. yet our eastern cinema market is thriving.
With Geneon imploding in the US and ADV unconcious in a ditch somewhere perhaps what's killing anime (in the US) is that fans are too darn picky about what they get given. Nothing to do with japanese money pulling the rug from under them, they release a product a good product they've spent a lot of extra money on making and then and fans wont buy it for stupid reasons.
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Cojiro
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I don't know really...
I don't bitch about wanting extras, but say season one of a series comes out but not season two? That's just stupid. (Ehem Gravion. Well it did come out but only in the U.S)
I do feel a little spoilt sometimes, a lot of new things get licensed which is great for the industry, but a huge percentage of it is stuff I really don't want to watch. |
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: |
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ADV have sent out some new dates now (in the US of course)
More Kanon finally.....
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Cojiro wrote: | I don't know really...
I don't bitch about wanting extras, but say season one of a series comes out but not season two? That's just stupid. (Ehem Gravion. Well it did come out but only in the U.S)
I do feel a little spoilt sometimes, a lot of new things get licensed which is great for the industry, but a huge percentage of it is stuff I really don't want to watch. |
The problem there is, if the first series didn't really sell that well then they can only expect to get at most the number of sales of that series on the second one. In most cases the actual number of sales would be less and could be a significant drop. Better, from a corporate point of view, to cut your losses and leave well enough alone. |
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