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Originally Posted by 0utf0xZer0
Evangelion 2.0's combined DVD and Bluray sales are over 800,000 now, which makes me suspect there's a significantly higher number of casual anime fans than hardcore collectors. Hence why you get the recent trend towards theatrical releases of major franchises: movies are a better way to tap the pocketbooks of the casual fans than TV series.
I do wonder if companies making theatrical anime of said franchises realize that the casual fan probably isn't a bottomless money supply though. We might get another saturated market like we did in TV anime a few years back, with lots of stuff being made but very little getting good sales.
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theatrical films cost more to make then a 26eps series. So you can't just slap together some moe crap and hope it sells. If the anime industry does produce more theatrical films, even if not every film is good, the overall qualify should be higher then tv.