According to Chunichi Newspaper, the first movie of Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica will be premiered in autumn. In the article, director Shinbo Akiyuki said he was worried that anime has been out of mainstream entertainment and hoped Madoka will attract the attention of the general public.
Update Apr 2nd
Aniplex has announced at Anime Contents Expo 2012 that the first two parts of Madoka Magica Trilogy movie will be shown in tandem. The tiles of the two parts are "Hajimari no Monogatari" and "Eien no Monogatari".
Sounds good to me. The sooner the first movie is out, the shorter the wait for the other two movies. Especially the third one with supposedly new material.
chidori3souske said: So that will probably comeout in Blu-rays and DVD on Jan or Feb 2013 and gotta wait for subs to come out too. Sigh...that's a long wait o( ><)o
PEOPLE LETS DO OUR PART AND HYPE IT UP! SHAFT NEEDS THEIR MONEY!
Seriously someone needs to start making an abundance of threads on a place where Japanese normalfags hang out on the internet. Can't do it myself because I don't speak Japanese.
VioLink said: Magical girl animu? Attracting general public? Hahahahhaha this guy.
I don't think the anime attracted anyone new to anime mostly those who watch anime anyway so of course he should be concerned if the general public go see the film.
dtshyk In the article, director Shinbo Akiyuki said he was worried that anime has been out of mainstream entertainment and hoped Madoka will attract the attention of the general public. [/quote said:
So Madoka hasn't generated enough money for this guy, yeah? Haha...
Shinbo's a good director and this should be a great watch per usual.
He never said he was going to change the anime so it's for the general public; he just said he hopes they notice the anime. You guys should really decrease the amount of things you inject into your bodies. It's unhealthy.
VioLink said: Magical girl animu? Attracting general public? Hahahahhaha this guy.
one word: Precure
they not only make money in cinema (like 10 million dolars from Pretty Cure All Stars DX3)
but also gives loads of cash from toys and whatnot (here we have nice sum of 160 milion dolars)
so yeah it may work
problem is that it's easy to use child as an excuse to go for Precure movie... but doing it the same with Madoka, it may be a bit difficult plus attracting some non-interested people to go for it (K-On! didn't seem to have such problems)
Good, at least we've got a date now. I just hope it'll do justice to the series and is not just a bunch of anime scenes put together. Re-animating and even adding new scenes would be awesome, though.