Reply With QuoteOversaturation. You can't keep churning out movie after movie with the same basic plot and expect it to stay successful.
Why are pokemon movies no longer popular in North American cinemas
The Pokemon movies are still shown in Japan and attract many viewers, but not in North America anymore. Pokemon the first movie was very popular, so was Pokemon the movie 2000, but after Pokemon Heroes (which box office bombed in the USA), the movies were dubbed and released direct DVD or TV.
What has made Pokemon movies so unpopular in cinemas outside Japan?
Re: Why are pokemon movies no longer popular in North American cinemas
Oversaturation. You can't keep churning out movie after movie with the same basic plot and expect it to stay successful.
Re: Why are pokemon movies no longer popular in North American cinemas
I agree maybe after movie 2 or 3 they gave up putting in the theaters.
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Re: Why are pokemon movies no longer popular in North American cinemas
Considering that the trend with Anime is that the Anime eventually gets at least 1 movie release during the run. Hell, Inuyasha has what... 3/4 movies? Bleach has 2 I think, Pokemon has like... what? 14? xxxHolicxxx and Tsukasa each have one. Love Hina got two.
The culture is the big difference. In Japan I think it's more common for the Anime to get feature films and do fairly well. It'd be like the Spongebob Squarepants Movie in the states, and then they started making more. Feature films based off of cartoons don't do as well in western countries because cartoons are viewed more as "for children" rather than across all age ranges.
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Re: Why are pokemon movies no longer popular in North American cinemas
That pretty much sums it up. Even with shows that are aimed at a more mature crowd such as Family Guy, South Park and Archer there are still ignorant people that instantly assume that if something is animated that it's for kids.Originally Posted by Mew Master
TV Tropes refers to this as the Animation Age Ghetto.
It's also the main reason why if you manage to find the rare beast that is a Blockbuster Video/local library that actually has anime that you'll usually find the likes of Bleach and Akira right next to Disney films in the kids section :-/
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Re: Why are pokemon movies no longer popular in North American cinemas
That, and Pokemon movies are always shit and the exact same thing.
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