Budogenkai wrote:True, but aren't the DVD's expensive as hell in Japan?
I really hate this argument because it's all based on perspective. To you they're expensive because they don't cost that much wherever you live, but in Japan, that's just normal. CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays, they're all expensive. They always have been and they always will be.
Budogenkai wrote:And before Toei says "Well, they cost a lot in order to fund the producing of the show.."
Do you have a source for Toei saying their products are expensive just to fund the show's production?
Budogenkai wrote:The show was already produced, all you did was traced the lines and added in music.
You're simply speculating that the show was cheap. We've had bits of information to suggest the series was much more expensive than most of us thought, as they didn't have the budget to hire many of the voice actors. They also had to pay for "remastering" the series, pay animators to trace scenes, pay Yamamoto for scoring the series, pay the voice actors, and etc. All that isn't cheap. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were allotted a smaller budget since they weren't fully re-animating the whole thing. So it may have been cheaper than most anime today, but those anime series probably have much higher budgets.
Chuquita wrote:I think it's because not enough people in Japan were buying the DVD's for Toei to think it was worth it to continue. Lots of people watched Kai in Japan, but very few of those who watched went on to buy the DVD's.
Yeah, that's all basically been confirmed with Toei Animation and Bandai's fiscal reports. Everybody watched, but nobody wanted to pay for it.
Anyway, to the topic at hand, there's no reason to blame Toei for not finishing the series. Really, it's the fans fault. It just wasn't selling, so they had to cut ties. Since
Cootie likes to use the
Star Wars and
Lord of the Rings analogies, I'll stick with that. You can't honestly tell me that you think New Line Cinema would have kept making
Lord of the Rings movies if they weren't making them any money. American studios are the exact same way. I remember when the Spider-man cartoon abruptly ended. It's just hard as a fan of any series to hear what you love is going to end. Anime is a business, and many fans often forget that, or at least are blind to seeing something as merely a business decision. I'm not saying you can't complain, you certainly can't blame Toei for
Kai ending.
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