Real reason why blu ray sales were low

jpstiddy said:
Who buys Blu ray in 2023 anyways?

jpstiddy said:
Who buys Blu ray in 2023 anyways?

deg said:


Japan they still buy CDs for Music too and they also use Fax Machines still

jpstiddy said:
Who buys Blu ray in 2023 anyways?

michael_09 said:
csm director did an interview which happened around ep 4 airing. In that interview, he said he didn't like the usual anime troupes and want to make it realistic, cinematic since fujimoto (csm author) is also a movie buff. His statement about "not liking anime troupes" pissed off japansese otakus. From that day onwards, they started cancelling him on twitter & telling mappa to fire him. He also had to disable the reply section of his twitter account that day coz of the toxicity. This proves that this is more of a personal hatred towards director than the "csm anime is bad". Hence not buying the blu ray as a sign of protest.

Potatobanana said:
Gotta admit, that sounds rough if it’s true.

Out of curiosity op, could you forward any sources that you saw this info from? I’d like to read more about it.

StaleNut said:
The thing is, while Fujimoto constructed the mangas panels to create cinematic appeal, that still doesn't mean he wanted CSM to be as close to western media as possible. I think the director of the anime does not understand what Fujimoto is trying to create, at least that's what his statement in the OP leads me to believe.

CSM is a love letter to cinema and anime both. Fujimoto never prioritizes western influence over anime tropes. So to say that the anime followed the vision of the manga is just plain stupid.

I'm not saying the director deserves hate for that, but it just seems like he dug his own grave with that statement.

michael_09 said:


fujimoto himself said in the jump fest interview( dec 2021) that he would prefer to see anime has a different direction compared to manga. Below is the source

https://sekainootomodachi.com/jump/

Rimusimp said:
That’s horrible bro the guy doesn’t deserve it the show slapped cuz of him

deg said:


Japan they still buy CDs for Music too and they also use Fax Machines still

michael_09 said:


fujimoto himself said in the jump fest interview( dec 2021) that he would prefer to see anime has a different direction compared to manga. Below is the source

https://sekainootomodachi.com/jump/

michael_09 said:
csm director did an interview which happened around ep 4 airing. In that interview, he said he didn't like the usual anime troupes and want to make it realistic, cinematic since fujimoto (csm author) is also a movie buff. His statement about "not liking anime troupes" pissed off japansese otakus. From that day onwards, they started cancelling him on twitter & telling mappa to fire him. He also had to disable the reply section of his twitter account that day coz of the toxicity. This proves that this is more of a personal hatred towards director than the "csm anime is bad". Hence not buying the blu ray as a sign of protest. Source is below in case u dont believe me

https://epicstream.com/article/chainsaw-man-blu-ray-sales-director-controversy

Ajay009 said:

Lol I also dislike Cringe anime tropes He did the right thing

Damebozo said:
The real reason why blu ray sales were/are still low is because there's not even 10000 of these gajillion gorillion overseas superfans of the CSM anime willing to buy the BDs from amazon.co.jp. They ship internationally and sales there count too. It's not "worth" the money but that's literally what it means to be a deranged superfan and what BD sales measure. 

Badguy_oncel said:
people who have money

deg said:


Japan they still buy CDs for Music too and they also use Fax Machines still

jpstiddy said:
Who buys Blu ray in 2023 anyways?

Polvo_Aranha said:
It's weird since Denji is the classic pervert/douche MC troope.

Gawdly said:

This sounds like bullshit. No one is this sensitive that they would just stop enjoying the anime because the director said he doesn’t like anime tropes. What if people just didn’t enjoy the lack of anime tropes? What if people just didn’t like the fact that the anime gave an entirely different feel from the manga? Even the author said he would have liked a different anime adaptation. There are also many other reasons why it flopped. There is no way an entire anime which is adapting one of the best selling mangas would flop just because of a few twitter lackies. Get real.

ShinoAlter said:
While I don’t approve toxicity in the comment sections and other similar stuff, I’m not really surprised this happened. What did the director expect after saying „anime stuff bad, I wanna make animation that is as realistic as possible instead of doing what anime is all about”.

He has all the right to make the adaptation how he likes, but the backlash and low sales aren’t anything shocking. If he wanted to do liveaction, then maybe a better plan would be to direct an actual liveaction instead. Animation is all about making things that aren’t possible to recreate in real life, and to break boundaries of realism. Chainsaw Man would be a great manga to adapt with this in mind.

jpstiddy said:
Who buys Blu ray in 2023 anyways?

jpstiddy said:
Who buys Blu ray in 2023 anyways?

Todday said:

Agree. I love CSM but I’d never buy an out of date medium, to be honest I’ve never bought dvd or blu ray anyway. They just take up space. All the stuff I want is on my PC in digital form.

Just because Japan is stuck in the past doesn’t mean the rest of the world should be measured by their standards

thunderkitten13 said:

Unless you’re in Japan your opinion is literally useless. The Japanese market determines whether an anime is successful or not, and Chainsaw Man was so bad it was beaten in sales by an unknown slice of life…

Cryptcat said:

you act like blu ray sales is what determines how successful something is. if blu ray dvds were normal internationally the sales would be vastly different. manga of csm is selling better than alot of other series. and csm being bad is your opinion it's not objective lil bro 💀💀😭