2009-03-20, 21:43 | Link #42 |
Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 37
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I'm not sure it's the fanservice, actually. Funimation seems to have a thing about licensing generally forgettable Gonzo works, which means that against all logic someone is actually buying them.
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2009-03-21, 01:42 | Link #46 |
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 41
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Okay, folks... annoyance at the mass-market aside, let's refocus a bit on how we can do our part to prove that there are some out there with taste by talking about the Toradora! merchandise we're buying (or at least would like to...).
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2009-03-21, 02:14 | Link #47 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
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Well.. so far I've purchased a figurine and the two manga volumes out so far. I'll buy the novels in one-fell-swoop to minimize shipping pain.
Not really counting on a Region 1 release of the series ....
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2009-04-06, 02:36 | Link #53 |
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lion City, Singapore!
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Well other than pictures .. any other info? Like will the psp be in psp3000 ( though i think it'll be in psp3000, there goes cfw :P ) or psp2000, is it a custom designed psp? Price? Im thinking of getting this for someone, and that Taiga figure is only available on the limited edition i guess?
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2009-04-14, 22:36 | Link #56 | |
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Think about it. Toradora could probably be done in live-action with relative ease, given the lack of anything particularly supernatural or outlandish (beyond, perhaps, Taiga's height). And I think that a well-done live-action series could actually sell well in the States, especially if somebody competent dubs it (or alternatively if it's actually made here). Furthermore, I think that it would actually do better if they didn't try to readapt it; leaving it as is would give it enough exoticness to stand out from other live-action adaptations (as well as it being a limited series, of course) while not having too much of a barrier to entry for people who may know precisely jack squat about Japanese culture. And for those viewers that do care, that's what the online community is for. If you can get people to devote time to figuring out how to make sense of the latest asspull on Lost, then I think you could get people to visit a website for (in essence) translation notes. If you wanted to really go nuts, sell it as an initial offering in a bloc of similar adaptations (to get over the issues that studio execs might have with commissioning something that can't be dragged out until it sucks). Go with Honey and Clover next, for example. Or Nana. Or Maison Ikkoku. Or even something like Beck, if you want to go further afield. Anything that isn't too utterly weird would be fair game. And if you could get that, then there might just be a market for the original source material... |
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2009-05-13, 17:51 | Link #57 |
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Does anyone know how many episodes are in the DVD they sell on Yesasia, etc.?
The price seems a bit high for just a few episodes. I've seen a set on ebay for $30 but I'm guessing that is the pirated version. Well, if they ever release all the episodes on blu-ray I'd preorder that in a heartbeat. |
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