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!sBPA/ggN3A 04/14/11(Thu)16:47 No.48206826
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 Protip:
P&S aired in Japan at like 3am, and had no advertising. It was made
with a very low budget (Gainax are very enthusiastic about their works
and can do great animation on comparitively low budgets when they want,
as P&S shows). It's sales in Japan weren't anything to write home
about, but they expected that.
On the other hand, the western
anime fandom is quite different. Since anything that isn't GitS, Bebop,
Bleach, Naruto, One Piece or Pokemon isn't aired on TV, most people who
watch the stuff have to download or stream and are more easily exposed
to information like studios and voice actors. Gainax is a studio with a
lot of weight over here in the west, at least as far as how well it's
known goes, with Evangelion, FLCL and TTGL all being relatively popular
here - PSG will do decently here for that alone, but then of course
there's the fact it's low brow humour and how easy it is to sit back and
watch means it will probably become wildly popular, at least among
those who the licensors will see most - the kind of people who go to
cons.
I don't expect PSG to bomb in the west. It's not gonna be
the Eva, nobody is pretending it will do, but it's not gonna bomb here.
It's
one of those shows that the kind of people who watch anime so they can
go to cons with friends would like. You know, the ones who consider the
anime cons more important than the stuff they watch? Those kinds of
people will easily like it. |
