>No Figma>No SHFiguartsWhy? Is Tenchi Muyo just too old?
>>11818119More like one of these thinks Murricans care more than Japs, like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Stars and Akira
>>11818178We can get Luffy in NBA outfits, but no Tenchi. No taste, I tells ya
>>11818119Largely, yes. They sometimes float old properties like TM! or Dirty Pair to get something and it always falls through. Eva is the only constant no matter how much merch is produced. Look at how little Cowboy Bebop has or FLCL which were as big in the US for so long.I don't count DragonBall since that has never really stopped. Breaks, but not really dead for decades. Same with One Piece.
>>11818119It’s weird. We’ve had modern figures of older franchises like Ranma and Urasei Yatsura (mind you both had reboots not too long ago) as well as the short-lived Robotech figures of Lynn Minmay and Lisa Hayes.I hear though that Tenchi’s creator is a complete pain to work with, worse than Miyazaki, maybe licensing is the real issue?
>>11818119There's nothing sadder than the realization that toys only started to get good long after everything you cared about stopped being relevant.
>>11818332Aren't the rights to Tenchi kind of screwy anyways because of all the versions of it? Like the OVA and Universe and Tokyo are all different guys projects. And then there's the manga and movies and books.
>>11818119Hasn't really been relevant at all for twenty years and has destroyed its continuity and reputation with all the mediocre spin-offs and reboots.
>>11818119Old, borin designs, has never been that popuar, literally only a few americans still care.
>>11818119in a way I'm glad. I love all the girls so much I'd need to buy all of them.
>>11818179Basketball is more popular in Japan than Tenchi. That said im still waiting on my slam dunk figures.
>>11818415This is why I love Max Watanabe for keeping Guyver alive.
>>11818119uncslop series
>>11818178It's not that Japan doesn't care about them, it's more like Japan aren't nostalgic about old shit like Americans are.And tis isn't to say Japanese don't dwell on shit forever, because they will if they make enough money off of it (EVA, Ghibli shit, Lupin, etc), but instead they do more spin offs and sequels to the point they become shit. Techni Muyo got a ton of spin offs and the latest one was like 10 years ago. It looks nothing like old Tenchi Muyo, btw, just like some of the other spin offs.And lately, they've been doing remakes, because they got influenced and convinced by Americans of how much cheaper it is to readapt an old property.
>>11818493>hwn experience peak Ryoko
>>11818498I think Tenchi TV was also sharing a time slot with some anime that was more popular at the time. Samurai Pizza Cats had the same thing happen.
>>11818119Kajishima's modern designs look like shit. We'll never get merch of the originals again.
>>11818498>it's more like Japan aren't nostalgic about old shit like Americans are.Dragon Quest thrives on nostalgia. The Japanese are FAR worse about nostalgia. Their culture is nostalgia.
>>11818493Uncslop is ideal for cashing out with collectibles. Perfect age demographic for nostalgia with the right kind of disposable income.
>>11818498>Japan aren't nostalgic about old shit like Americans are.I know it's slowing down cause the original fans are literally dying off, but did you not know about Soul of Chogokin and competing gokin lines?
>>11818415The good news is that toys sucked back then, so there was nothing to miss out on. As for needing toys of them now, I don't think there's anything we truly need to have physically until then
>>11818753 >>11818763you guys need to continue reading, because i said this>because they will if they make enough money off of it (EVA, Ghibli shit, Lupin, etc), but instead they do more spin offs and sequels to the point they become shit.and there's there's always exceptionsAmerica is much more wanting to do nostalgia, where they just take an old property and never let it go. Even when milked dry, like He Man, they'll keep squeezing despite squirting out dust.>>11818598was it? I mean, the fact that you don't know, and the fact that tenchi muyo has had like a dozen spin offs says something about Tenchi Muyo's popularity than that other anime.
>>11818498>Japan aren't nostalgic about old shit like Americans are.Japan uses Yahoo instead of ebay.
>>11818843okay? I'm not saying that Japan throws out its junk instead of reselling it or that they don't like old shit, I'm saying that they focus on new shit more than America does, hence the dozen or so spin offs for Tenchi Muyo.someone mentioned Outlaw Star earlier and even that had a spin off.The fact that Americans dont know how popular these series actually are or that these spinoffs exist is just how foreign Japan's culture is and how we don't really understand them.... or are you saying that they're nostalgic for an ancient website? Because that's not really nostalgia, that's them just using what works instead of switching to the latest buyout of the latest buyout because everyone wants to become the newest meme.
>>11818119That's one of those cartoons that (((MODERN AUDIENCES))) would take offense to.
>>11818119don't forget no good videogamesit's sad.. by the time game graphics got good, anime stopped being so good.Including Tenchi, come to think of it. All the newer stuff has been disappointing at best. None of the energy of the original or the 2 TV series.
I think it's not even "Japan has less nostalgia for old shit" and more that the the entire reason we latched on so much is *because* they were Japanese cartoons when that kind of thing was rare. Meanwhile in Japan it's just another show in a sea of them. You'll frequently see Japanese Twitter posts that are like "the Americans are obsessed with THAT?" because it's all we got.
>>11818892yeah, nothing will ever be as special again as anime was back then>wait, cartoons can have ongoing stories?>wait, cartoons can have HOT CHICKS in conspicuously painted-on-looking bikinis? Shit, now they're in towels.>wait, cartoons can have creative scifi concepts mixed with fantasy, and not look like they were animated on the back of leftover cardboard?
>>11818892Tenchi Muyo also hit at that time when anime was really on the rise in the US. Wanna know what shows like DBZ, Sailor Moon, Tenshi Muyo, Outlaw Star, Cowboy Bebop and the like all had in common? They all ran on Toonami. So it was a block of shows that really introduced people here to anime, which is why so many people tend to hold those (and a few others) in such high regard.
>>11818485For real, the guy is a saint, making a shitty manlet Guyver just to make a 2.0 barely better a few years later with inflated price, why Max doesn't have a statue in Tokyo?
>>11818119The western ryoko is hotter
>>11818119>>11818415Never ever thread? NEVER EVER THREAD>>11818905For some of us Locomotion took that place
>>11818983What casting middle-aged wine aunts in your dub does to a motherfucker
This is my kind of thread.
>>11818119Shocked it doesn't have Figmas of at least Ryoko and Aeka. They went back and made '80s Lum.
>>11818999I like that she did the ad for the .. baffling revival and continuation of the even more baffling perfectly-manga-styled-despite-being-western-in-origin Tenchi Universe comics. And she hasn't missed a beat. makes me wonder why she didn't do some of the newer dubs, maybe she's too tired and has plenty of money?anyway I'd buy the shit out of a couple Tenchi figures if they were good, but I can't afford Figma/Figuarts prices. The only thing I'd buy at that price would be like... if they made a Radical Edward figure. or a new Mizuno Ami, especially in her jimjams.
If they do, I hope the Tenchi-ken, or Ryouko's beam saber, are done in NEON clear plastic, not just regular clear plastic like a lot of lazy lightsabers or lightpiped eyes.it's not hard. neon plastic. use it. it fluoresces all on its own.and since Ryouko's saber has parts floating, those parts would have to just be regular clear plastic I guess. not sure how you'd pull that off.
>>11818756it helps new mech anime is nearly nonexistant and dogshit when it does, these studios have no choice but to make the uncslop
Meet up at Ryoko's Cave?
>>11818892This is very true. Japan certainly has strong nostalgia for many shows, they're just not really the ones that made it big over here. A classic example is voltron; its was a pretty crappy, forgettable super robot show as golion, but in america it became this cultural icon and its probably still one of the top 5 most recognizable robots even decades later.
>>11819052should have known that was real. So many of the best manga guys are just drawing their neighborhood or their childhood. no wonder we can't compete. And also no wonder newer japaneses also can't really, because all those places got paved over.
>>11819079When I went there, there was a life size accrilic standee of Ryoko and a TON of unopen sake bottles.
>this is as good as it got
>>11819079Tenchi guys weren't just drawing backgrounds, they even had floor plans laid out so they didn't live in a Simpsons house where layouts change at random.
>>11819142The fucking amount of work and detail on the house alone convinced me they where horny for architecture.
>>11819135>tenchi's fucking face
>>11818983RIP Disney Heroes. Best damn mobile game
>>11818119>Yaiba rebooted finally>No merch stillI just want a sword to put balls in
>>11819038They’d probably do a clear plastic entire piece and then paint translucent colors for the beam parts. Not perfect, but it’s the best they could pull off in production.
>>11818498Japan is pretty nostalgic about tons of stuff, tenchi isn't just that hughly regarded over there.
>>11819197wasnt the ending like some super crazy incest love story? or was that not canon? either way youd think the japanese would be into that type of stuff
