I has your RSS in my phone though…

By now, I think we all realise that Haruhi S2 will come about when we’re all dead and buried. And have become ashes.

I worry for them that S2 will come about around the time no one gives half a shit anymore.

@ghostlightning
Thanks for the sound bite. I didn’t really know that it went down like that. Sorta like punk rock and America: we didn’t buy a lot of punk records until it went to England, where the Clash and the Sex Pistols facilitated its popularity and sold it back to us. Not quite a parallel, but close enough.

It’s definitely a solid thought at a time when neither the Japanese economy nor the anime producers are doing particularly well. But the side effect of getting the R1 market interested in real-time is still a useful one, especially if somewhere deep in the Kadokawa Kave they have any plans to pull a Bandai and start selling their own stuff over here.

Kadokawa/Kyoto Animation produced a big dud in Japan, then through massive popularity on youtube in America first, Japan caught on and it became a mega-hit over there.

The anime: Lucky Star

This is from my interview with TOEI Philippines’ Soya Satoshi Sachou. Targeting America via youtube is a very inexpensive gambit to stir the Japanese market up.

Interesting prospect, though I was more surprised that they had subbed versions (OFFICIAL and all) out alongside the Japanese versions. Shows that Kadokawa do care enough to troll both their primary audience and the rest of the world.