Kadokawa Admits Impending Endless Eight Sales Disaster
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Sep 9, 2009 05:25 JST
- Tags: Haruhi, Kadokawa, Kyoto Animation, Marketing, Production Controversy
When confronted about its mockery of the remaining Haruhi fanbase with the four disc Endless Eight DVD release, even Kadokawa itself can only say “it would be nice if they sell.”
Their animation department responds to enquiries thus:
“Even in the company hardly anyone knows why it took eight repeated episodes spread across 4 DVDs with two episodes each in order to unravel the mystery thoroughly. We are aware of the fan reaction, but…”
When asked directly about whether they think these tactics will result in sales at the level of the first season, even Kadokawa is less than enthusiastic:
“Well… All that can be said is that it would be nice if they sell, wouldn’t it?”
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I'll buy 40 sets of each.
LOL wut??
*sings "Crawling", from Linkin Park*
TROOOOOLLING IIIIIN MY SKIIIIIN~!! XD
I c wat you did thar.
I'll buy 88..each.
It would be epic if they are waiting endlessly for one to sell.
wouldn't it be more epic if they are sold out instead?
lolz you are a noob xD
who would buy 88 is a GTFO
but 30 are ok after all
I would too
DIE 40x on each DVD !
What a fucking fail. What the hell was going through the minds of the people are Kyo-Ani when this was approved.
I didn't find Endless Eight that bad or annoying, but from a business perspective it was a horrible mistake.
Same for me. I myself would be fine with like a box set of the Endless Eight episodes, but making me buy them almost all separately is too much. Glad that when/if it gets licensed here, it will be a box set or 2 part set like most anime now.
They really should have just done what someone on Nico did- combine all 8 episodes of Endless Eight and have 8 splitscreen playing simutanously on screen or spread them over two episodes with 4 splitscreen...
They needed to release Episodes 1,2, and 8 on one DVD. That's all anyone should ever have to watch.
There's always those dumb otakus who are going to buy 50 of each set.
Im probably buying them too, because I NEED them all. But its suh a pain in the ass paying around 200 bucks for the same episode -.- *sigh* Its like masochism or something... Only some wierd otakus are stupid enough to buy this. -.-
So you're admitting that you're stupid enough urself? /gg
Haha, even they can't believe how bad they are ripping pathetic haruhi fans off. It's amazing
I think the point was they know no one is going to buy it, not that they're incredulous as to how many people are going to waste money on it.
And that's actually the point, IF THEY ALREADY KNEW that it's not gonna sell, the question would be now is - Why did they still bothered to go through w/ it ?! Isn't fucking amazing how KyoAni is totally failing right now. Hahaha!
No, the smart people in the company knew. They are, unfortunately, probably not the ones running the company.
lmao, freakin' kadokawa trolls, hope it won't sell a bit. ^_^
kadokawa????
fap fap fap fap fap......
It would be NICE if Haruhi & Mikuru were 'Real' and sucked my dick...but...Geez, that guy has no clue about "The Impossible".
wtf r u saying? Mikuru is sucking my dick right now.
That skank!
Thank God Yuki is pure!
Yuki pure? Little do you know Anon...little do you know...
In the future, Mikuru has sucked everyone's dick. Even Mikuru's dick that one time- it's a long story.
She is also a galactic overlord... coincidentally, of course.
Yuki is pure. Muahaha. But you'd never fuck an alien, wouldn't you?
Yuki's vagina has lasers that'll melt your dick
YUKI'Z A FIRIN HER LAZOR!
Yes more Kyonko for me
i'll buy the english dub releases. WHATEVER GETS ME MORE HARUHI
no one will want to dub endless eight. NO ONE.
I will dub endless eight!
Why not? Easiest job ever.
Except for whoever has to edit the sound. He'll end up confused as fuck.
Wendy Lee in E8?
Do want.
Pink Ranger FTW.
That's Amy Jo Johnson. What you kids know bout them Power Rangers?
Who wouldn't want to buy and archive the greatest troll in anime history?
Tis true! I want to own the greatest troll in anime history ^_^. It is awesome, the episodes weren't fun for me, but I have to respect the balls it took to do it.
Wants ^_^
And I want to show it to my kids, so that they can watch through it as I say, "Watch it, It builds character" lol :-P
You Sir are made of win.
Only for that would reason alone would I EVER buy an endless 8 dvd.
Personally, I think the anime industry needs a major downsizing - a culling or purge, if you will. With a more selective, discerning audience and budget/sponsorship levels that are more of an ultimatum for you to "not fuck up" and produce some quality instead of delving into the latest moe blob trend, Kadokawa wouldn't be able to pull off shit like this.
The DVDs will probably sell. Anime fanatics are godless, philistine spendthrifts who are also obsessive/compulsive completists, and our numbers are legion.
Actually, that would make things go even more towards trends. Trend-exploiting equals sales a lot more often than not doing it does. Trends are trends for a reason. You might ask for people to be more "discerning" but at the core of things the lowest common denominator likes things that are very base. Same reason that everything else that goes towards the interests of the common folk works better and sells better than that aimed toward a boutique crowd.
I don't know. They churn out anime these days like Nintendo shovelware. I'm really talking about just annihilating half of every animation studio which in may effect a change in an audience's tastes. We've seen instances where changing what is provided to a group can affect its preferences (see westernization and the history of television broadcasting). You know, supply-side theory. It may not work well in economics, but it has its applications.
but what the above anon is referring to is that doesn't get rid of "delving into the latest moe blob trend".
in the sense of tastes may change, but replace "moe blob" with any other subject and the trend behavior will still exist.
and the problem with your idea is culling the herd usually results in the opposite. It doesn't spur range and innovation, instead it tends to spur digging of heels and product focus on what is commercially viable. thus further, even more focused, delving into the latest [insert] trend
Hardly. A larger pool means that competitors will focus on the latest trends in a sort of moe race to gain more profits than the next guy. An environment without too much promise for wealth, but respected as a form of expression may get better quality. Let's say anime was viewed with as much mysticism and respect as oil painting. You won't get nearly as many anime out as we have now, but I'm pretty sure you'd get better percentage of thoughtfully crafted shows. Animators are making slave wages right now, so it won't be any big deal for them if they want to continue in the business. The fat cats in places like Kadokawa are what's stifling creativity in the industry. Get the cutthroat moneymaking potential out of the market and you may see more Shinkai Makotos in a small-scale environment than a few Sunrises.
We're both discussing in theories, so we can't be certain which is better. But the scenario you're describing is the one going on right now, with K-On! making record sales and TV anime riding the censorship line. The term "tsundere" didn't exist when the industry was smaller. Twintails weren't a staple that plagued half of every female character. Vanguard Princess would not have existed just ten years ago. I firmly believe in a golden age of anime, and it happened prior to this millennium.
Experimentation in the anime medium is good, but experiments will not always be successful, especially if they're ridiculously stupid.
Let Endless Eight be the flag that warns the industry never to do this again, since apparently common sense is less common than I would like to have believed.