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<blockquote data-quote="Lutga" data-source="post: 436453" data-attributes="member: 291">They're clearly thinking in a pretty old fashioned way (albeit, with good, but misguided intentions) - the way I see it, their ideal plan is like this:Show airs on TV - gets brand-recognition and general 'mass market' awareness (like Sailor Moon has in the US, and how DBZ does pretty much worldwide)Disc release is then allowed, and sales are naturally higher, due to the kind of mass market appeal most anime titles (even something big like AOT) can rarely ever reach.Of course, times have changed, as well as the fact UK TV is a totally different beast from US TV. Sailor Moon was never as big here anyway, and the best Dragon Ball Super could probably ever hope for is getting shown on Kix or CITV, two or three years after it originally airs in Japan.But of course, in an old fashioned way of looking, look at the fact DBZ is probably the only anime you'll ever see stocked in an ASDA or Sainsbury's, or getting over 10,000 disc sales these days, and in that line of thinking, it follows 'Well, it's gotta be a TV run first to prime the market or sales will be rubbish...'*sigh*</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lutga, post: 436453, member: 291"] They're clearly thinking in a pretty old fashioned way (albeit, with good, but misguided intentions) - the way I see it, their ideal plan is like this: Show airs on TV - gets brand-recognition and general 'mass market' awareness (like Sailor Moon has in the US, and how DBZ does pretty much worldwide) Disc release is then allowed, and sales are naturally higher, due to the kind of mass market appeal most anime titles (even something big like AOT) can rarely ever reach. Of course, times have changed, as well as the fact UK TV is a totally different beast from US TV. Sailor Moon was never as big here anyway, and the best Dragon Ball Super could probably ever hope for is getting shown on Kix or CITV, two or three years after it originally airs in Japan. But of course, in an old fashioned way of looking, look at the fact DBZ is probably the only anime you'll ever see stocked in an ASDA or Sainsbury's, or getting over 10,000 disc sales these days, and in that line of thinking, it follows 'Well, it's gotta be a TV run first to prime the market or sales will be rubbish...' *sigh* [/QUOTE]

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