Things like this take time.Plans for an animated Trigun feature film date back as far as 2005, when MADHOUSE's Masao Maruyama told a U.K. anime magazine that his studio was working on the film. However, the movie did not come to fruition until its spring 2010 release in Japan.
Also I am firm believer that the more anime that is shown via theatrical screenings the better off everyone in the industry will be.
So you're saying, "Let's aim the bar low for ourselves just like MADHOUSE has for Trigun..." Great logic there, McKeever.
ReplyDeleteAnd why would the anime industry be better off having theatrical screenings? It's an extra additional cost for the distributors and makes little sense to invest as those movies would be competing with big Hollywood movies. It would make better sense to use that money and actually MARKET the movie, which was why Shadow Chronicles failed - the general public barely knew it existed at the time of its release in the theatres and especially after it was released due to poor marketing.