If you ever wanted to know that why Japanese productions have to use locally made IPs, here is your answer as Scott wasn't the only thing that bombed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginary_(film)
This is a western book, it's as Cinemaphile as Scott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginary_(novel)
>Cost $30 million to make.
>Only made back less then $500,000 because the IP isn't Japanese.
Then why do Disney movies make a lot of money over there?
Lack of locally made kids content, if the anime industry told otaku/China to frick off they will revert back to just kids/family movies.
>In before The Imaginary was designed for streaming and DVD/Blu-Ray sales, not theatrical release.
Because Japan has always been Disney's biggest Asian market. Copying Disney aesthetics is a key part of anime's DNA, Emperor Hirohito was buried with his Mickey Mouse watch, and Tokyo Disney is the most successful of the overseas theme park complexes.
No, it's
They don't anymore.
Disney movies used to make gangbusters, and Frozen is still one of the biggest movies ever in Japan, but nowadays Disney movies struggle to break $15 million.
Even Wish, which people tried to paint as a standout success, only made $23 million in its run in Japan.
>Cost $30 million to make
I can't find a source for this. Also Netflix got the rights of the film, so it won't be a complete loss.
Thanks for the rec btw.
>Netflix got the rights of the film, so it won't be a complete loss.
Thats good, and you're welcome.
>i will prove that (quote) "Japanese productions have to use locally made IPs" by posting something that directly refutes this
Most-cognizant thread of the day.
>Scott bombed.
>Imaginary bombed.
It's proof that you can't do something like The World Masterpiece Theater anymore.
That's not proof, that's evidence.
>implying Miyazaki movies flops
Ghibli had nothing to do with this, Imaginary is a Ponoc film.
homie, Japan has an entire series of anime based on western IPs made by Nippon Animation Studios.
That died in 1997 because the source material wasn't Japanese and got replaced with Corrector Yui and Hunter X Hunter (before Madhouse took over the HXH IP).
Now of day all Nippon Animation does otaku crap like everyone else, with the only exception being Chibi Maruko-Chan.
Howl's Moving Castle is an anime movie with exclusively Japanese characters voices by Japanese people. Novels aren't Cinemaphile , it has no images so the anime movie has to make it up by using anime elements, anime philosophies, anime art design, anime animation, anime , everything.
Different time.
Howl's Moving Castle is a British fantasy novel, with Howl himself being a Welshman.
It's also an Cinemaphilenime movie. All the author did is eat dinner with the japanese animator
Not the case, he watched Ponoc like a hawk.
Now stop saying anti-Japanese lies.
You're making shit up to post anime
>Board rules are muh racism
Seethe somewhere else, dumbass. What's next, it's transphobic that you can't use the women's room?
No, you are.
Different time.
You don't give a shit. You just wanted to post animeovie op pics when anime isn't allowed
Source material is western and falls under Cinemaphile
The image is of east origin. The movie is written by someone living in the east.
But the source is western, just like Scott.
Scott Pilgrim's character designer and writer are both white guys. Imaginary movie has character designer and writer from Japanese anime people. Can you compare the official Cinemaphilemic character design of Imaginary novelty hat doesn't exist?
And you're constantly talking about Japan which is of east origin while Scott Pilgrimgaya talks about the actual story and characters
Those "white guys" live in Japan and have done so for years, thats a loop hole within Japanese law when it comes to anime.
Stop making shit up to post anime. Bryan O Malley and BenDavid Grabinski loves in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile the director of Imaginary , Yoshiyuki Momose, and the writer and producer of the anime, Yoshiaki Nishimura, loves in Tokyo
They had no say in the anime, the white people who did have say live in Japan (gaijin), don't post anti-Japanese lies.
Yes, that's why The Imaginary anime is strictly not Cinemaphile.
Source is Cinemaphile, Cinemaphile = eastern source.
Yoshiaki Nishimura is the source of the anime.
And Japan =/= Cinemaphile.
So don't talk about Japan then
A. F. Harrold is the source of the movie.
Now frick off.
A. F. Harold didn't write it or direct it or produce it and especially didn't DRAW it. The image is exclusively Japanese. A.F. Harold did not storyboard or design the character or colored it, it's completely an anime image
He kept Ponoc on a very tight leash, which is alot more then what Bryan O Malley and BenDavid Grabinski did with Science Saru, witch was hands off.
>I'm just pulling more shit out of my ass
Your source doesn't even mention this.
Yes it does, now continue making up more lies about Nanjing and comfort women.
You're the one pulling more shit out of your ass.
>You're right. I am posting japanese anime
No, you're lying.
Yes it is.
>Scott Pilgrim bombed in Japan
I don't think a single person involved in Scott Pilgrim was expecting it to do well in Japan, it was made for an American audience familiar with the movie and any westaboos who saw it were just a bonus
No, worldwide, and by Japanese law there has to be enough Japanese demand to allow for it.
>arguing with the tmsgay
Just report and move on.
TMSgay has nothing to do with this, you're just looking for clout.