Toei could also assume no one wants animated Dragon Ball content anymore and just take an even longer hiatus.SupremeKai25 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 6:14 amNo. The movie will make profit because it's Dragon Ball, but if it's the least successful movie of the new era (less successful than BoG which set off the revival and movies centred around Frieza and Broly) then it will be proof that interest can't be kept without any animated content for years.PurestEvil wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:47 amThat is such a stupid bet to make...SupremeKai25 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:35 am
No I said I hope this movie fails so that Toei can maybe bring back the weekly anime and we can go back to having weekly animated content instead of 4 yearly animated content. Frankly I couldn't care any less about the visual style.
As it stands now, this movie is guaranteed to make a profit. Not just because of the teasers of CGI, but because it is literally the first DB film in four years, like you said. The only condition they need to fulfill is to not fuck up the visuals.
If this movie does fail and we get your desired weekly TV show that ends up being worse, then you will know who told you so.
And Super's first 3 arcs had a botched production because Toei looked at the success of RoF (came up in april) and decided to bank on that success and make a new animated series (which would come out in july, 3 months is an insignificant amount of time to make a new series).
Meanwhile if this movie flopped (and by flop obviously no one means that no one will buy it, it just means it will underperform for a DRAGON BALL movie, because reminder that it's not a "Generic anime no one cares about" movie), then Toei would get the memo that they can't keep interest up in the franchise by not releasing anything for years. And consequently they wouldn't want to rush the new series like the first time because they wouldn't have any success to bank on.
It’s actually quite bold of you to assume Toei’s primary goal is to keep the fans’ interests in mind rather than profit.
That’s why they are making this movie in the first fuckin place, though? To rekindle interest?And No the movie isn't guaranteed to make success just because it's the first animated content in 4 years, that's not how it works, in fact it's the opposite. Otherwise all shonen would just drop anime series to focus just on yearly movies. If you don't give people content for 4 years aside from a monthly manga and a monthly promotional anime for a stupid videogame, you're not going to keep interest up.
If you think this film will fail, then why didn’t BoG or Yo Son Goku Returns fail?
Also, have you ever heard of Lupin III? Most of its content is produced with yearly movies, and it survived the turn of the millennium.