Nanoha Movie Premieres
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jan 24, 2010 22:05 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Mahou Shoujo, Movies, Nanoha, Otaku
The premiere of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie 1st, has come and gone, giving otaku a bonanza of character goods, queue-making, and of course the wonderful chance to see yet another big name series receive a new theatrical adaptation.
The following images should bring some comfort to those unable to attend a screening themselves:
This photo above, taken at the Milano theatre in Shunjuku, shows the main cast of Nanoha at a meet-the-seiyuu event that started early Saturday afternoon.
The exterior of the Milano:
Eager otaku waiting in one of their notorious lines.
The otaku shown in line before were specifically waiting for the seiyuu panel; the sign above marks the start of the line.
The photo above is again of otaku waiting, but this time over 200km to the west of Tokyo, outside Nagoya’s Cinema 109.
Unlike the large multiplex cinemas more common in the West, Japan tends towards having a fewer number of screens in its theatres, which often allows a small “movie goods” section in the foyer area.
Anime movies naturally almost always have these sorts of goods booths, and the Milano’s booth is shown below:
Some of the wonderful goodies to be had:
The offerings above are fairly typical for anime movies, ranging from T-shirts to posters and other miscellaneous knickknacks, but the item below is somewhat unusual…
This is a “Repeat Points Card”, another one of the customer loyalty-building bonus cards so loved in Japan.
This specific one offers a small portrait to those who have seen the movie twice, but the real prize comes with 3 repeat viewings; the lucky customer receives a film cel printing made off of film stock from the movie!
The happy owners of these cels are understandably proud – here are just a few of many such pictures upload to 2ch:
Such film cels are obviously quite collectible (not to mention sellable) and a big prize for those otaku able to get their hands on on, although the frames were apparently given out at random by the theatre crew, so fans were not able to specifically pick which frames from the movie they desired.
An ita-truck advertising the movie in Tokyo, a not at all unknown occurrence for otaku marketing.
Some more images of the ita-truck and its little brother spotted in Ikebukuro:
The less than eclectic otaku audience, at the Milano:
This latest anime movie release continues a banner year of sorts for otaku oriented films – starting from Spring 2009 we’ve been treated to the second Gurren Lagann movie, Evangelion 2.0, the first Macross F film, Nanoha the Movie, and next month’s Haruhi movie, all adaptations of top-name series; some have speculated that movies have replaced some of the full series lost in the latest seasons.
It certainly has been a great time to be a cinema-going otaku…
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nanoha is a great franchise. I hope to see the rest of the series continue immediately after A's in some form or another. Personally the age jump from A's to StrikerS was too much, and the show was overall bad. What about junior high and high school man? either way looking forward to more nanoha.
I would watch this only if they release this in 3D!
"It certainly has been a great time to be a cinema-going otaku�"
Indeed it seems to be for those IN Japan, though how lucky would those of us outside of Japan be to even watch this (bar fansubs from rips of Japanese DVD raws) remains to be seen, depending on the mood of the distributors. Most would probably be very happy for even a low-profile local DVD release.
I must say I was very, very lucky to be able to watch the Rebuild of Evangelion movies in my local cinemas. ^^
(BTW, Quen, you left out Eden of the East in that list of anime movies you mentioned. :p )
3rd pic, whale poster.
Isn't that the shame show Yotsuba likes?
You can tell it was Quen who posted this article by the way of writing. I like that.
That's a good thing, I hope? ^^;
It's pretty easy to distinguish between Arte and Quen's writings. Quen is a happy-go-lucky and complimenting type while Arte is more to tsun-tsun one..
Damn i wish they do this kind of stuff in the USA :S Nanoha its a really great show, i always think if anime is so great there, why isnt so great in other places mmmhh...
once "magical girl" is attached, people outside of the Japan instantly think of something like Sailor Moon and snub it off their radar. now if they had Magic Chronicle on it earlier instead, that would've been a different story.
Must watch it at all costs (if I have the cost ofc)
Feito is LOVE!
This is so lame - grown-ups watching cartoons
get a life you psychos
Why are you on this site...
I've posted to get a reaction...Unfortunately I'm an otaku too you know
And not a female patron in sight... I don't think. I think I see one? Maybe?
"...but the real prize comes with 3 repeat viewings; the lucky customer receives a film cel printing made off of film stock from the movie!"
Now THAT is what I call a souvenir. Lame ones such as keychains, T-shirts and such are SO last century. Although needing to watch the movie 3 times would make the movie makers' wallets thicker and fans' thinner, at least everyone has a chance of acquiring the film cells rather than through some lame @$$ contests which only the luckiest would win.
Fans lucky enough to get film cells of scene changes from 1 scene to another must be the happiest people on Earth.
I APPROVE!
i want the film strips! WTF lucky bitches.
Damn its gonna take a while for the DVD to come out :(
makes me wanna fly over to japan right now just to watch the movie 3 times.
Go yugio.... I mean nanoha
No!
This show wasn't even that good in the first place!
WHY DOES IT GET ALL THIS ATTENTION?!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
because naive people like yourself make other people find out for themselves by watching it and then proving you wrong.
And just yesterday the Unlimited Blade Works movie went public. Damn, this is a good winter.
So many trolls on Sankaku.
This movie was great. Far better than my expectations allowed. And quite frankly, it puts shame to UBW, despite being an AU of the first season.
Nanoha really reminds me of Gundam.... But with liquid moe all over it....
In b4 Fate's ass.
I've been following this event and the moments leading up to it for a several weeks now. I'm glad it got an article :3
Cinema-going otaku? I'd thought they'd just hide at home and download the movie.
Most important part seems to be missing from the news: How was it?
I was more focused on the miscellaneous going-ons surrounded the premiere rather than the actual movie itself, sorry for that.
No K-On movie?
Ah, the Tokyo Milano... Now that's one cool old theater... Used to be a stage theater, and it's got a huge capacity, old fashioned curtains and everything.
I saw Speed Racer in there and it was pretty neat. Right in the middle of Kabukicho in Shinjuku so I bet all those otaku were shitting themselves when waiting in line for the late showing...
I thought they weren't going to call her "magical girl" anymore. She is technically older than a good portion of the theater audience now.
bah...most animes movies are just a review of past tv episodes but in high resolution D:
Besides, it's not ALWAYS. The Haruhi movie is completely new content while the Evnagelion, Fate/Stay Night, Nanoha Movie and Macross Frontier movies put new twists on the current series, with completely new animatoin, scenes, dialogue and plot.
Really naive and generalizing comment... Though I won't deny that such movies do exist that are simple reedits of the TV show.
You think that's horrible? Wait till you watched or see Vandread The "Movie"..
ARGH!!!! I bought two Nanoha Movie Tickets in Japan and I have no way to watch the movie... This is exceedingly depressing...
Damn, I don't live in Japan... I don't even get to enjoy all these anime movies... D:
I hate anime movies, its never anything new and always rehashes of the series.
But it's quite a seldom chance that we get to see anime playing inside cinemas
That's only true maybe 10% of the time.
A lot of movies are original storys and quite a lot are continuations (liek the Haruhi one, Naruto, Pokemon, Digimon ect).
Though some of the shit ones like Ghost int eh Shell and Eva are usually just re-hashes, yeah. Most of the movies are just remixes of other movies @_@
To hell with Nanoha!
Give us a Pretty Sammy movie instead!
...Is that you Schrobby?
it's a loli movie
I dont think he'd mind
Nope, wasn't me. Although I'd love to see a Pretty Sammy movie following the original OVAs there's nothing wrong with Nanoha. I like all mahou loli. ^_^
I'm sorry but putting Fate on that box with wheels does not make it any prettier.
Truck is cool though.
damn i wished to be there T-T
The idiot who bought 30 tickets for the Haruhi movie some days ago probably thought he'd get 10 Haruhi cells... ^_^
So, they won't be doing the same merchandising thing for the Haruhi Movie?
Hi Actar - Like I said in the article, anime movies get that sort of merchandising by default, so of course the Haruhi movie will also have lots of goodies on sale, luckily.
I would always try to cover a newly airing anime movie, as long as I'm not on one of my innumerable breaks from writing when one comes up. I just adore this sort of thing.
Try asking me about the limited edition goods I've bought at these theatre booths before...
Haruhi is just around the corner, so that's likely a no-go, but you could try for the second Macross film or Eva 3.0 in the future perhaps? ^^
Hey Quen! 'Luckily' you say? Not for me... Right now, I'm contemplating wasting more money on buying most of these merchandise off Yahoo! Japan Auctions at super-inflated prices. Want that Ribbon set and a cell... I'm a sucker for the limited edition goods.
Another thing, is of course, not knowing of the existence of such event-only exclusives until it's too late. Do post an article on the Haruhi and Macross moveis too okay? (^.^)
I now wish I had gone to Japan now instead of last December... Could have stayed over for WonderFest as well. (^.^;)
...or may be he will get the honour of watching Endless Eight Arc 10 times FOR FREE!