Let's say licensing and usage wasn't an issue, would Megas XLR be able to fit into a Super Robot Wars game?
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Let's say licensing and usage wasn't an issue, would Megas XLR be able to fit into a Super Robot Wars game?
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probably never gonna happen because american companies zealously guard their brands and charge out the ass for even tiny usage. You wanna display Mickey mouse on screen for 10 seconds as part of a 3 hour movie? Disney wants a 60% cut on your total profits.
Just look at the Go Lion/Voltron situation. American greed ruins 99% of imported content. The sole exception for mecha in this regard would be Big O.
That all said, I don't see Megas XLR getting a cameo in SRW.
>do you think Megas XLR would fit in if it could be in a SRW game?
>Megas XLR can't be in a SRW game
How would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning, Anon?
I had alcohol for breakfast. Make of that what you will
It's not going to happen because Megas was written off for tax purposes and legally they can't do anything with the IP, IIUC.
Read the rest of the thread. This was already discussed
Well, I discussed it again.
Did you actually read the OP's statement before pasting this copy pasta?
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this always reminds me of Starseeker for some reason
/m/'s best girl
Having them fighting Char in the Sazabi would be pretty damn funny.
between that and the white zakus, how the frick they got away with it copyrightwise?
theyre clearly not 1:1 zakus and sazabis, jfc
Because Japan isn't anal about parodies and homages in animation. Especially for stuff that has no merch. Now if they tried to make model kits of Sazabi-Megas, then there would be a problem.
Unless you're Houbunsha
What kind of verbal beatdown do you think Coop would give in a SRW enemies?
Same as in the cartoon:
Just simple Coop shit.
They would fit in great. Shenanigans based casts work really well in SRW. Megas itself would be up there with Mazinkaiser/Zeorymer in terms of bustedness.
Unfortunately beyond unlikely. CN wrote Megas and a bunch of other shows off as a "total loss" for tax reasons. Which means they scrapped or threw all of it's assets into storage, and it can't be exploited or anything new developed at least in the USA for something silly like 25-30 years. Which means if CN were to ever do anything cool and allow it to be used, Megas's SRW wouldn't be able to be sold in the USA if it still contained the Megas cast.
what the frick is this kind of law??? why even making this?
In the simplest of terms:
company: "we made X, X was a total fricking flop, complete waste of time and money so we pulled the plug before it could lose us more money"
fed: "Ok, since we don't want your business to fail because you're important to the economy we'll lower the amount you owe us at the end of the fiscal. But, since you said the property was a complete and total failure and only lost you money, the property as it existed cannot be re-started, rebooted, resold, or otherwise exploited for money for X amount of time"
Didn't Gendhi confirmed he want to revive Symbionic Titan on Adult Swim Samurai Jack style?
OK KO also has a game on Steam so it can't be fully fricked.
I'm guessing there's all sorts of finer points on how they can and can't be exploited. Like Final Space can't be animated anymore, but it can be licensed as a graphic novel. Megas is fricked because it appeared in animation, merchandise, video games and "print" so the creators can't do dick all with it really.
No. Someone probably asked him about it and he's not gonna tell them to frick off. Any time a creator says they would LIKE to do something it's just a more polite way of say FRICK OFF. Because any idiot with an ounce of common sense knows that the answer to these questions can never be NO because that scares off potential capital and audiences even for something that doesn't or won't exist because they still want your eyes glued on them. Corpos will NEVER say no. They will always dance around the issue. And the Samurai Jack revival sucked.
>And the Samurai Jack revival sucked.
It wasn't spectacular, but it was good closure. Just like Big O season 2
Samurai Jack was also a huge hit for CN when it aired, and they continued to air reruns and sell merch for years after it was cancelled. Symbionic Titan was nowhere near as popular and didn't make them anywhere near the amount of dosh Jack did. That's why it's in the IRS gay baby jail.
Where can I find more information about this kind of ownership/rights usage limitation specific to anime/cartoons…?
Yankee tax regulations are schizo tier. Pic rel if you want a basic snapshot of how it pertains to this.
Ohh, so it's a depreciation method to limit liability for income taxes by using the income statement. The question I have now then is this strictly limited to the standards outlined in the GAAP, or does this depreciation of the animation also apply to the IFRS? particularly because cartoon network operates in both Japan and the US, and if it does apply to both standards (even if differently) then if they aired Megas XLR in Japan and wrote it off in a similar fashion then that too could impact the ability for it to be used in SRW without taking a loss. Also, can you provide a link to where this screenshot was obtained?
nta, but as an American I think I can answer. After looking up the situation and what all those acronyms mean, I can genuinely say that Megas XLR is fricked. A e-girl in a guro & bestiality manga involving twenty pit bulls and a giant meat-grinder at the end has a better chance of survival than this damned show has of revival, in any form.
Even if Japan said SRW had the OK, Cartoon Network still would be able to make enough fuss to make the Japanese back down. Japan is fussy about copyright, Disney operates over there and is fairly popular, that's a giant hint. If it were a Medabots situation where a single butthole or company of buttholes had the IP, it'd be easy, just buy off the IP or the rights to get it into the game. But the IRS is now involved, it was a tax write-off. CN effectively sold it to them and the IRS paid for it.
CN said it was a loss -- they wrote it off, and the IRS gave them money for it. If somebody bought it from Cartoon Network and that price was less than what the IRS paid CN for the write-off, the new owner would have to pay off the IRS that amount in order to actually use the IP without getting in trouble. If SRW tried to put Megas in their game with CN's permission, the IRS would be kicking down CN's door asking "Fricker, you said it was a loss, why are you making money off of this? Where is our fricking money?" If SRW tried to do international law frickery to get Megas in the game, it'd be CN starting shit by throwing lawers at every single problem they got in order to shut that shit down, because they said that IP was a loss and any cent that somebody gains from the IP implies that CN lied to the IRS.
Thanks for the elaboration. This is basically /thread
>If it were a Medabots situation
The buttholes only own the trademark, not ip. Trademark is a right to use a word in commerce, not to steal/copy/ripoff ip or copyrights. Your dangerous rhetoric is detrimental in fooling oblivious people to the topic at hand. Please correct yourself and do research before making comparisons like this
1. Medabots and Megas XLR both have ownership issues which are harmfully restrictive to their respective fanbases. The comparison was apt, regardless of the actual legal bullshit involved.
2. ESL, please. You could have made a constructive post on what the actual differences were, expanding on the topic, but instead you made a post with big words that bear a accusatory tone akin to a cartoon villain. Your argument would make more sense if you didn't accidentally sound like an butthole.
3.
>Please correct yourself
No. What will you do? Send me to the Shadow Realm?
What do you mean?
He means that the anon above is wrongfully implying that the con artists that claim to own the intellectual property to medarot, don't actually own the intellectual property. They simply nabbed the name (trademark), which doesn’t give you the right to the property or it’s likeness. Imagine you’re chinese and you nabbed the super Mario name. While you can market your product super Mario (whatever it might be), it cannot under any circumstance be in any way similar to Mario in any way whatsoever. Doing so is complete fraud and impersonation on top of ill intent.
Megas is in a different scenario, they’re still owned by WBD but wrote off the rights to air the cartoon in the USA. No one else can be allowed to claim ownership to megas or be allowed to air their content.
No, that anon was correct, language issues aside. It is legally a different scenario and I can vouch for that via experience. There’s no need to be racist against other anons just because of his grammar, he just doesn’t want you to spread misinformation. And the meda community doesn’t need any more misinfo being perpetuated on the Internet
>There’s no need to be racist against other anons just because of his grammar,
I reread his post twice and can't find anything racist about it. If anything, your post is actually more racist than his.
>actually you calling about the racism makes you a racist
You know who says this? Racists.
>Imagine you’re chinese and you nabbed the super Mario name.
Why do you need to be chinese specifically to wrongfully seize another company's trademark? You could have omitted that part and just said "Imagine if you nabbed the Mario name" instead of including your (rightful) disdain towards the Chinese, and then you had the audacity to police others on racism like a higher authority because he said you didn't speak English well which doesn't target any racial group in particular. Yes, your post is more racist than his, but this is Cinemaphile and nobody (should) gives a shit about racism.
(me)
Can you give me credible sources with amplifying information on this matter?
The megas one or the meda one?
The Megas one please
>Symbionic Titan was nowhere near as popular and didn't make them anywhere near the amount of dosh Jack did
ST was airing during the CNREAL era and was purposely mismanaged by the network because they wanted to turn CN into a Disney Channel-like. Reiterating the history, because I don't want it to get lost:
CNREAL et al. happened because a bunch of the execs that made 2000s CN so well-received were booted following the Mooninite bomb scare, which was not an actual bomb scare but simply Boston PD/first responders/city officials being absolute dumbshit incompetent wankers about a guerilla marketing campaign that employed modified LiteBrites. A few years later, said PD and officials went on to completely miss a REAL bomb, which was dumped in a trashcan in broad daylight at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and subsequently detonated, killing 3 people and grievously injuring dozens more.
Boston sucks.
But can't you buy Megas XLR episodes on itunes?
That's gay
You have to go through the israeli robot mafia to sell your own intellectual property.
Maybe, but does that really ruin any chance of Megas XLR getting into SRW?
Yes. Now frick off Cinemaphile
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I don't know~
>Megas should frick off to Wrong board
>SRW should frick off to Wrong board
>Mecha anime should frick off to Wrong board
>Kaiju should frick off to Wrong board
>Anything that isn't specifically a Gundam model kit being showcased doesn't belong on /m/. There is no overlap in any subject ever. It must all be distilled into black and white.
Megas XLR is a mecha and belongs on /m/ despite your poor logic and objections. Furthermore, the topic is about Megas in SRW so it's not like this is off topic or ruining the board. You came into this thread of your own volition and started screeching.
In the meantime, I'm curious how Megas XLR would behave during the 4th impact in SRW.
Not talking about XLR but telling (you) the poster to go back.
Go back to the woods where your children are waiting.
All I can imagine how how many people would Coop piss off.
Wrong board
This isn't strictly an anime board. Megas XLR is a mecha topic
it's Wrong board
you're welcome to believe what you want, but the fact is that Megas XLR is a mecha, and the topic is about Mecha. If we went by your logic SRW threads should all belong in Cinemaphile, but because you're wrong and not everything can be distilled into exactly one subject or another there is no reason to post this question in Cinemaphile.
Way more /m/ than Godzilla, the kaiju threads, every single fricking meta thread, etc.
'aliens show up to attack Earth and need to be stopped with a Super Robot' summarizes over a dozen shows in the series, it'd be pretty easy
Megas fought real robots, super robots, monsters throughout the show, so would be a pretty good fit.
The catch is Coop, and Jamie would not get along with ANY of the SRW cast. Most of them would hate Coop for all the colateral damage, (except maybe the Getter Team), and Jamie is just Jamie. Kiva would fit right in though.
maybe the Getter Team
>Ryoma in Armageddon is mildly inconvenienced
>solution is to blow up a reactor every time
I love that man.
I feel like Coop would get along with boss borot
Oh absolutely. And Jiron too. They could bond over mechs with steering wheels, and honestly I think Jiron is just used to chaos, and wouldn't mind Coop's piloting style at all. Same with Boss.
that is kind of the thing.
jamie sure, but coop is also kind of an butthole.
I'm pretty sure if you can fit dysfunctional personalities like Shinji and Asuka into super robot wars then it wouldn't be too hard to fit Jamie in there. I mean SRW took in Captain Harlock and Shin Chan ffs. I wouldn't be surprised if they took in One Piece at this point, so I think Megas XLR would be fine.
Megas and some Gun x Sword characters would be interesting
What would his attacks even be?
Anything and everything.
Coop (and by extension, Megas), is basically Popeye & Droopy in /m/ form
This, and probably whatever attack he used to destroy the DMV
Melee, The Jammer, the blazing sword, Missiles, More Missile, All The Missiles (Map Attack), and his best attack has like twelve completely different animations that all start with Coop hitting the same big red button.
Too out of place and too insane.
On the other hand Coop's banter would've been ridiculous with bosses.
No, and I'll tell you why.
Pick Megas's ultimate attack.
Easy, make it a random flashy when he presses a big red button labelled "End the Episode" or something along those lines.
Megas XLR gives off major will only ever be Post plot with only the main mech showing up energy same as what Daitarn is currently really a random filler unit that's the rights to use are cheap as frick, so they just use him as filler constantly.
Now I want to see something like this done with the GoLion crew or the Dancouga crew
Wild
Damn Megas XLR and Symbionic Titan are really the only American mecha shows of worth made in roughly two decades. And both are in forever limbo due to greed. Sad.
I'm assuming if they were in SRW they'd look like pic related and the instrumental of their op as their BGM
That art style kinda makes Megas look like Mic Sounders' Cosmo Robo Mode.
Speaking of which I wonder if The Jammer could beat out a solitary wave.
Maybe?
>would Megas XLR be able to fit into a Super Robot Wars game?
Unironically yes. It's basically your standard Super Robot show but fully Westernized. Coop would get along well with a majority of the pilots since he's a friendly dude by nature. I could even see him, Amuro, and Ernie coming up with some upgrades for the mechs together. Some people forget or may not know this but Coop is a great engineer. He essentially had to rebuild a majority of Megas' systems by himself in order to make it compatible with his tech and even added some personal upgrades on top of it.