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To be honest that post was made a while back and my opinions have changed slightly. I'm really not so sure about "Film Z" in theaters. I mean who knows, Aniplex and VIZ still do small theatrical runs, I haven't looked into them as of late though. But I've heard that FUNimation's theatrical runs haven't really made them much money.
I'm guess im just trying to be blindly hopeful because I'm trying to figure out a way how One Piece can expand into the minds from not just the anime community but the general public, its hard since nowadays anime has a stigma in public unlike the 90s and early 2000s, and it'd be nice if a miracle happened to suddenly implant the thoughts, "Hey, One Piece is a show, and its awesome" into peoples minds and not just being judged as that goofy pirate show lol, Toonami is a massive boost but Tv isn't as mainstream as it used to, im glad its still airing though, but im not sure how much of a boom is possible for One Piece with Tv alone, maybe I'm just underestimating the series and Toonami's fame in the states, they are doing well but we'll see what happens in 2014, I do certaintly see Water 7/Enies Lobby having a mini boom possibly this year in 2014 amoung the Toonami fans, but I'm curious on how much of the general public will turn there attention to it, I guess its just speculation until we see the results lol
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It seems like a stretch since OP is only moderately popular in the States and we never aired a movie here at all before yet, but since it was aired in many countries recently and 2013, and its success in Japan wasn't that long ago either and they mentioned there interested in expanding the movie to the West, I figured maybe its not completely out of the park, but we'll see I wont mind either way as long as we get it eventually lol