{"id":1299,"date":"2006-04-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/ask-john-will-the-aishiteruze-baby-and-karin-anime-be-licensed\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-will-the-aishiteruze-baby-and-karin-anime-be-licensed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-will-the-aishiteruze-baby-and-karin-anime-be-licensed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Will the Aishiteruze Baby and Karin Anime Be Licensed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWill Aishiteruze Baby and Karin ever come to America? I must know!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nPredicting the potential American release of any particular anime is always difficult because there are so many different factors that influence which titles do and don&#8217;t get an official American release. To set facts straight from the outset, I personally haven&#8217;t heard any rumors of either Aishiteruze Baby or Karin being licensed for American release. If we discuss possibilities and odds, I&#8217;d say that Karin has a fair chance of seeing an eventual American release, but Aishiteruze Baby is probably a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>Karin is a romantic comedy that features bright, stylized art design and energetic energy. It&#8217;s an accessible, appealing show that can attract male and female viewers, both mainstream and hardcore anime fan. Considering that other similar quirky romantic comedy anime like Midori&#8217;s Days, Love Hina, and Happy Lesson have been released in America, I can easily envision Karin following suit.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Aishiteruze Baby is more of a shoujo domestic comedy. It&#8217;s basically a revision of the 1992 anime series Mama is a Fourth Grader. Instead of a small schoolgirl raising a child, Aishiteruze Baby features an equally unsuited teenage boy raising a child. This sweet and heartwarming show appeals to hardcore anime fans who are willing to watch it, but its potential audience isn&#8217;t much larger than that, which may limit its American potential.<\/p>\n<p>Karin is currently still ongoing, so it&#8217;s still a very contemporary series. On the other hand, Aishiteruze Baby ended in 2004, so it&#8217;s been available to potential American licensors for two years, yet no distributor has picked it up. Circumstances may change in the future, but I think Aishiteruze Baby has remained unlicensed in America for this long because American distributors know that it&#8217;s a title that&#8217;s unlikely to sell well in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Will Aishiteruze Baby and Karin ever come to America? I must know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}