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7/16/2025, 1:33:01 PM
>>280615959
See picrel. Superman made $2.65M in just 2 days in Japan, for a Western cape flick with zero local cultural relevance, against heavy competition, in a notoriously tough foreign IP market. That's great performance by Japanese standards. WOM is also solid ,Japanese Twitter feedbacks were positive. It's just not anime-tier viral, because again, this is Japan. They don't hand out billion-yen weekends to Superman like it's the 1970s.
Capeshit fatigue =/= poor film. It means lower ceilings, not bomb. You're just using "bombing" to move goalposts.
>>280617638
Says who? Aniplex PR? This is marketing parroting, not actual analysis. I'm 100% right that it's not a cultural event. It's a scheduled rollout loaded with marketing steroids. Mugen Train was a cultural event: pandemic, zero competition, theater-starved fans, no other global films, and multi-generational interest. Infinity Castle is an arc adaptation with no final battle, overbooked showings, IMAX monopoly, and overhyped "event" branding. This is fan-fueled box office engineering, not organic demand.
Also, multiple Japanese outlets and box office insiders are already predicting 15-20B yen. That's HALF of Mugen Train. If it's such an unstoppable event, why are local predictors capping it?
>>280617815
Yeah, duh. Because it's a guaranteed return in a down cycle. That's a business dependency, not a merit badge. It proves my point even more: Aniplex/Sony strong-armed IMAX not because of "deservedness" but because they NEED to frontload revenue before competition hits (Jurassic World, Fantastic Four, etc.).
See picrel. Superman made $2.65M in just 2 days in Japan, for a Western cape flick with zero local cultural relevance, against heavy competition, in a notoriously tough foreign IP market. That's great performance by Japanese standards. WOM is also solid ,Japanese Twitter feedbacks were positive. It's just not anime-tier viral, because again, this is Japan. They don't hand out billion-yen weekends to Superman like it's the 1970s.
Capeshit fatigue =/= poor film. It means lower ceilings, not bomb. You're just using "bombing" to move goalposts.
>>280617638
Says who? Aniplex PR? This is marketing parroting, not actual analysis. I'm 100% right that it's not a cultural event. It's a scheduled rollout loaded with marketing steroids. Mugen Train was a cultural event: pandemic, zero competition, theater-starved fans, no other global films, and multi-generational interest. Infinity Castle is an arc adaptation with no final battle, overbooked showings, IMAX monopoly, and overhyped "event" branding. This is fan-fueled box office engineering, not organic demand.
Also, multiple Japanese outlets and box office insiders are already predicting 15-20B yen. That's HALF of Mugen Train. If it's such an unstoppable event, why are local predictors capping it?
>>280617815
Yeah, duh. Because it's a guaranteed return in a down cycle. That's a business dependency, not a merit badge. It proves my point even more: Aniplex/Sony strong-armed IMAX not because of "deservedness" but because they NEED to frontload revenue before competition hits (Jurassic World, Fantastic Four, etc.).
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