private_eye said:bigivelfhq said:
Toei is for a good 5 years the biggest producer of anime Movies in Japan, before that it was already one of the biggest. From 4-5 movies they produce per year I don't know why you're complaining of this. Specially when One Piece is getting a movie this year. I didn't see you complaining that they shouldn't make that movie.
Yeah, except DB and OP(which are indeed so popular that they can afford trips like latest Saint Seiya) which films covers at least the production cost.
I don't know if I really understood what you said. Are you saying that other movies don't cover the production costs?
. All Precure Movies do cover, they do 1 Billion Yen in the Box Office or close to that every year, and there are 2 of them every year
. Digimon Tri 1st movie certainly covered and they will make 5 more of those
. Expelled from Paradise certainly covered and due the huge success they will make another movie in that line: Kado - Correct answer for. Possible that movie will be released even this year.
. We don't know about Buddha movie 1 and 2, though they will make a 3rd one
. We don't know about Rainbow Fireflies
. We don't know about Asura
. We don't know about Saint Seiya Legend of the Sanctuary nor Captain Harlock Movies. Note that we only get an estimate for this movies cost, estimates that don't even have a source. From the Financial Reports Toei have, they were popular movies, especially Captain Harlock. Were they mega popular? probably not(Harlock was the most popular Japanese movie ever in France and Italy), but did they cover the production costs? We don't know, but by looking at Toei Animation financial numbers it seems they did.
This year we will get
- Digimon Movies(2 already confirmed, probably 3 or 4)
- One Piece Film Gold
- Precure Movies(2 of them)
- File(N): Project(PQ)(Being Released this year is just a maybe for now)
- Kado - Correct answer for(Like File(N) is just a maybe for now)
- Buddha 3rd Movie(Like Kado, just a maybe)
So they will release around 5-10 movies this year. From all this movies why complain about an original movie that there is no way to know what kind of popularity will have?
The budget for movies has nothing to do with TV series budget, so there is no relevance at all how much Toei spends in each Movie. Toei Animation has 5 anime running right now, and will have at least 6 running at some point this year with the return of Sailor Moon Crystal. And they have a series planned for the future(Temple) that can possible also start this year. So, it would be better to complain about the number of TV series, instead of movies.
They in 2014 ran 8 series at the same time(Matsutarou, Precure, Dragon Ball kai, One Piece, Majin Bone, Marvel Disk Wars, Sailor Moon Crystal, Robot Girls Z) and had 5 movies(Precure All Star, Precure Movie, Buddha 2, Saint Seiya Legend of Sanctuary, Expelled from Paradise). This year will certainly not be as busy as 2014.
The main problem of a continuing long running TV anime isn't even the budget, but the time given to each episode, and the management of that time, that is also related with the efficiency and quality of the Human resources(workers).
Also the budget they spend in a series is related with the money the investors provide(Sponsors, advertisement and the Television Station) , the return money and when that return comes. They don't just spend tons of money(100k to 300k dollars per episode), without knowing when and if they will ever get back the money, and if from that they will get profit. |