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relyat08
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 6:59 pm
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This makes me unbelievably happy. I love seeing massive economic success due to legitimately wonderful products.
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Via_01
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 7:31 pm
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They must be extremely happy about this. That's a large increase in net profit, SPECIALLY if you were expecting the complete opposite.
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Kadmos1
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:29 pm
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It's interesting that, of all things, a radioactive dinosaur and a gender-bending company helped this company out.
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rinkwolf10
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Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2016 11:19 pm
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Wait till "Your Name" becomes available on BD and DVD. There is more money to be made. Wonder if Funimation will experience higher then usual success with Your Name in the US.
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relyat08
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:21 am
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Rinkwolf wrote: | Wait till "Your Name" becomes available on BD and DVD. There is more money to be made. Wonder if Funimation will experience higher then usual success with Your Name in the US. |
I'm pretty curious about that too. It could be one of those things that doesn't really translate as well to the US market, but I would be surprised if they don't see some kind of boost, due to it's popularity.
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KH91
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 1:12 pm
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Congrats to both movies for saving TOHO.
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rinkwolf10
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 6:12 pm
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relyat08 wrote: |
Rinkwolf wrote: | Wait till "Your Name" becomes available on BD and DVD. There is more money to be made. Wonder if Funimation will experience higher then usual success with Your Name in the US. |
I'm pretty curious about that too. It could be one of those things that doesn't really translate as well to the US market, but I would be surprised if they don't see some kind of boost, due to it's popularity. |
If it's the premise then I'm not worried. His works have gorgeous scenery and may take place in Japan but the main focus is the characters and his stories are universal to or at least compatible with that Western audiences might find enticing. However, the problem lies in the median that that story uses (anime) which causal western audiences don't expect that type of story telling to come from an animation.
Case in point, I could see how awkward my brother was when he watched Re:Zero episode 7 where Subaru goes on a compelling rant about how he has been trying to hard and nothing is working out as if the other characters hate him and was asking why they hate him so much. My brothers only response was an awkward "okay". He didn't know how to react, an anime was generating close to the same impact on the viewer as Game of Thrones and he never expected it would do that. It feels to me that most causal westerners are of the same view point.
So, only time will tell, but an interesting though all together.
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relyat08
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 10:13 pm
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^So far, I have talked to a couple of people about it who are much less interested after hearing that the premise had to do with gender-swap, which I guess is somehow contentious. At least outside of anime fandom. I don't know if that is a common sentiment, but I have to find other people to go with now...
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Jose Cruz
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2016 11:24 pm
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Gender swap would never work in a mainstream serious romantic western movie. It's just not acceptable in a serious setting. I remember a Rob Schneider film featuring gender swap, The Hot Chick panned by critics and audiences alike (as with every Rob Schneider movie), but I never watched or read a serious gender swap narrative from a western author(s).
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