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Youkai Watch Film Scores 2nd Highest Debut of All-Time in Japan
- Thread starter vinnygambini
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perfectchaos007
Member
Did they have an exclusive give away at the movies to attract their audience like pokemon movies did?
Hot Coldman
Banned
So... it finally happened. We have another Pokemon on our hands. Or Japan does at any rate. Wonder how well it'll cross over when it inevitable comes out here.
slaughterking
Member
This is completely out of control.
HyperZone<3
Member
glad to know I can stop worrying about Level 5's continued existence.
sad to know that I can now worry that they'll only exclusively work on Youkai Watch stuff.
sad to know that I can now worry that they'll only exclusively work on Youkai Watch stuff.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
The rapid growth in the franchise is impressive to say the least.
For comparison, the Youkai Watch franchise has already outsold the Ace Attorney series entirely (5 million) in a years time.
Kagoshima_Luke
Gold Member
lol
The Matrix Reloaded at #1.
The Matrix Reloaded at #1.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Leaked image of Hino and Iwata discussing world domination:
TimeEffect
Member
Wow so this is legitimately a new Pokemon?
Or is it more like the next Digimon..
Or is it more like the next Digimon..
Iva Demilcol
Member
I wonder what will they do once they've saturated the market as they always do.
Go for the next big thing I guess. I mean they need to milk the series while is absurdly popular since this could provide cash in the future for other more risky ventures and, hopefully for them, the next big thing...
People saying that they will saturate the market and they should space the releases of new games unless they became a fad must remember that from 1996 - 2000 Pokemon released yearly installment and spin-offs in between and is still very popular.
Now let me see a western release =D
That's the first thing I thought of as well. Still, happy to have something new to be so successful.
Hino signing his one billion check to himself
Hino always looks absolutely shattered. Hopefully he can get some sleep now.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Is the show/game actually good? The first season of Pokemon I can confidently remove the nostalgia goggles and still find entertainment value in it. And of course the games hold up (or did at the time). Is there legitimate substance here?
Werewolf Jones
Member
Probably not if it's like most Pokemon movies.
KillerMan91
Member
Didn't couple of Harry Potters and Star Wars III open also with over 2 billion yen? Still of course amazing result and biggest animation opening ever yen wise (dollar wise One Piece Film Z had bigger opening as yen was a lot stronger back then)
Back then, the Matrix was very popular in Japan. You would not believe.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I wonder if Level 5 will know how to manage the series, or just do as they usually do and milk it to death for 6 years.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Werewolf Jones
Member
KillerMan91
Member
Yup. But Youkai Watch's record is in regards to ticket admissions as per the OP
Oh. I have several times blamed people not reading whole op and then I make the same mistake. Shame on me.
TheSlySoul
Member
That is a pretty sad record.
I would take Avatar over that film.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
I haven't played the games, but the TV show is quite good. It doesn't take itself seriously at all, and I find its sense of wry humor engaging. Well produced as well. I haven't watched Pokemon in ages, but it's better than what I remember of that show.
Well, at least most pokemon movies are serviceable, only one I remember falling asleep to is the latias/latios one.
You what? Pokemon Heroes? that's like by far one of the best movies! The one in the Venice looking city? Yo crazy man.
Looking at the creatures, I don't think it'll make as much a splash here in the west as Pokemon did. I think it'll be more like digimon where it was still quite popular but not as huge as Pokemno by a long shot. Just a hunch, could be entirely wrong.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Woo, yeah I love the Venice one. Fantastic music too.
Interesting, I wonder who will end up producing the dub now that 4kids is dead.
lazybones18
Banned
Couldn't even top Matrix Reloaded. What a flop
meltingparappa
Member
There was a period of time when they were no longer doing Dragon Quest, Layton vs Pheonix (despite it being good) didn't move a lot of units and was only leisurely being localized as hype was dying down, their NA branch seemingly wasn't doing a thing, Layton's series decay was at its lowest and only had a slew of bad mobile games to look forward to, their Gundam stuff didn't seem interesting, Time Travelers super bombed, and their upcoming release schedule had nothing except some weird game called Yokai Watch.
WOW Hino, way to move deeper into the mine and strike absolute gold. I hope he snuck a trademark bara Boston Terrier in there for himself.