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On your answer to the first question, when you say "Casting choices are all subject to licensor approval", I am assuming you are referring to the R1 company (Funimation, Sentai, etc) as the licensor, right?
I want to think that the Japanese companies have no input on how an overseas distribution company localizes anime.

angelmcazares wrote:

On your answer to the first question, when you say "Casting choices are all subject to licensor approval", I am assuming you are referring to the R1 company (Funimation, Sentai, etc) as the licensor, right? I want to think that the Japanese companies have no input on how an overseas distribution company localizes anime.

Why in the world would you get that from what I wrote? We are talking about dub production, and the Japanese producer is always the licensor.

Actually, angelmcazares, Justin quite probably means the original Japanese licensor. I have heard that come up several times before, although Justin will have to clarify himself whether that's commonplace or only an occasional occurrence. However, from what I've seen the licensor typically doesn't get too picky.

Dwindling returns may be a risk for long running manga, but, from what Kodansha and Vertical have said on Tumblr, the bigger worry is committing to a long series and have the first volume flop.

Concerning the manga (and this one is directed to Justin): If that's the case then why don't we see omnibus printings/reprintings more often than we do with manga?

I'm surprised on how 'low' limited editions really are nowadays-- really, in the 1,000 to 2,000 range? I wonder how many Aniplex produces, then, since that seems to be their bread and butter. It's only been over the past couple months that counters for the Madoka Magica Limited Edition sets have finally appeared on the Right Stuf website, and it doesn't even carry anymore copies of the 2nd LE. Was a property that big really given that limited a range of numbers, as expensive as those sets may be?

Seeing as I am not an employee of Aniplex this is complete speculation, but I think part of why those moved so slowly might be that a standard BD and DVD release were put out at the same time that the LEs were, so people that really wanted Madoka, but didn't care about the stuff in the collector's sets could instead buy those cheaper, less frills versions. I could certainly see there being only a couple thousand hardcore collector types who also liked Madoka in that case.

As for anime workers starting their own studios, remember that sports agent movie Jerry Maguire ("Show me the money!") where the sports agent leaves his agency company to start his own sports agency and using his old contacts and networks to try to bring clients with him? Just like that.

If there are only a couple thousand hardcore collectors that wanted Madoka...well, they must have been much more patient than TYPE-MOON fans in regards to that $300+ LE import set of Kara no Kyoukai, since I believe that sold out craaaaazy quick. Now how many of those sets were prepared for the North American market? It's hard to imagine both the Kara no Kyoukai and Madoka LE sets being produced in comparable numbers.