Kenryoku_Maxis said:
They didn't can Hajime no Ippo. It got a second season and they're preparing more currently to be aired in the future (as stated by Takamura's seiyuu). The very reason Hajime no Ippo isn't airing continuously is because its such high quality and they need to do it in spurts. And 'cutting Anime influences' is not the problem. But since no one read my post about improving marketing and localizations, you don't know what the real problem is. If you don't like Anime influences, then you don't like Japanese games, period. The vast majority of Japanese games have some kind of Anime influence, either a soft reference such as a nod to a popular show or an in-joke to something like crayon Shin-chan or a direct reference such as using the same character designer or even director as a popular Anime series. The Anime and Gaming series are very closely tied together in Japan and to say 'take anime crap out' is like saying take Samurai and buck rodger influences out of Star Wars. |
That's an interesting analogy. I agree that Lucas may have been influenced by Samurai and Buck Rogers, but the difference is American audiences didn't flock to Star Wars in 1977 because there were Samurai and Buck Rogers references in the movie. I know... I was 17 and went to see the original Star Wars 6 times at the theater because it represented every teenage boy's dream of going on a high adventure, rescuing the princess, etc. I'm starting to wonder if the Japanese aren't getting burned out on Anime and having every game tightly tied into it, hence the softer gaming market in Japan for Japanese-oriented titles.
