@MasterKingJC:
Can a mod ban Rome again? Because he's doing the same thing he always does and I'm sick and tired of it.
Oh. are you sick of a vocal person who has a different view on a subject?
TOO BAD.
This isn't a YES MAN chamber where everyone agrees with the same outlook. I'm doing nothing wrong. You just don't like my different outlook on something and that SHOULD NOT be a bannable offence. If i get banned for this, that is bullshit and proves that Arlong Park only wants everyone agreeing or seeing something in the exact same way with no room for discussion or differing opinions.
I have a very strong opinionated view on things. I am blunt. Extremely fucking blunt. That doesn't mean I'm breaking any rules just because you pixies can't handle my views. Get over this and yourself.
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@midod:
Most of the 30 movies above it are of movies that came out when anime was at the height of popularity in the US that are based on popular properties (like the Pokemon movies, Yugioh the Movie and the Digimon: The Movie), movies based on series that are still popular due to nostalgia (like DBZ, Yugioh and Naruto), movies which had gotten widespread acclaim, even outside the typical anime community, prior to American release (like Your Name.) and movies by Ghibli. And itâs apparently a terrible thing that a One Piece film could only get as high as #33 amongst movies like these? You honestly think it makes sense to compare its performance to movies like these?
You complain about how One Piece doesnât have a mainstream presence and seem to think anyone who doesnât want to act as negatively as you all the time must be in denial. However, the majority of us have just accepted its lack of mainstream presence a long time ago. Funimation would also know this and know what to expect from this series; their measurement of what constitutes âsuccessâ for this series probably isnât as overly biased as yours. Not to mention that, at this point, there are too many hurdles to cross for it to ever be a mainstream presence (length, poor history, a smaller anime audience in general, etc.). So, given all this, we instead judge this series based on how well it can feasibly do within its circumstances, not by comparing it to levels of success that it could never hope to match at this point. Comparisons like that are hardly the âlogical conclusionsâ you think they are because âsuccessâ means different things for different properties that should be measured under different circumstances.
Youâre constant, unrelenting posts complaining about it seems to suggest otherwiseâŚ
Do the math. A movie with 375 screens should not be losing to another with less than 100, much less something that wasn't even on fore a week⌠and yet Film Gold still lost to that. That is bad, you cannot twist that around in any which way to prove anything other than that was a poor showing. It'd be one thing if each series has equal showings, but that's obviously not the case. Film Gold should not be lagging behind something with much less showings. It's not a good look.
And again, I am with peace at it's status here. Kinda have to be at this point, because it ain't changing. But when someone says something did great, when it obviously didnt... especially when its coming from the same fans who don't know how box office, ratings or anything like that works (what with their constant denial that OP was doing fine on Toonami, when it obviously wasn't - as I always said) then I have to step in and prove them wrong. And when they argue back, swearing that they know what they're talking about, talking about stuff they have no proof on.... then that kinda stuff gets my blood-boiling and thats when I become critical. I can't stand false information. I can't stand people being so overly optimistic that they just take that at face-value and head-canon they're favorite thing doing better than it actually is... I can't stand that shit. Be logical. Look how things play out. Don't just look at something and automatically think "ITS DOING GREAT!" without comparing other various factors. Some of these people seem so naive and simple it's actually kinda embarrassing listening to them talk about stuff like this. It reeks of them needing to educate themselves on how this business works. I can't stand that shit either - if you don't know, you don't know... don't pretend like you do.
And again, OP is doing fine for itself. Never said it wasn't. But compared to other similar series, it's a far-cry to match any of them here. And I'm just disappointed with that, since it's so successful in Japan. But thats about it. I like to talk about it on these boards, especially since its goes against all the yes-men in this forum. But that doesn't mean it really bothers me. Posting on a forum does not equal real life problems. So thats my take on it, take it or leave it. Don't really care what you do - But I have a right to state my opinion as bluntly and as often as I want.
But yeah, I get it - can't really expect much from One Piece at this point so we gotta settle for otherwise mediocre showings and treat that as the best it'll ever do, because thats about all it can accomplish. Settling for less is all we can do at this point.