{"id":1303,"date":"2006-04-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/24\/ask-john-could-rizelmine-come-to-america\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-could-rizelmine-come-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-could-rizelmine-come-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Could Rizelmine Come to America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat do you think about having Rizelmine coming to US?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nWith the particular way you&#8217;ve phrased your question I can&#8217;t tell if you&#8217;re inquiring about the likelihood of the Rizelmine anime being licensed for American release, or if you&#8217;re asking for my prediction of how the show would be received by the American market. So I&#8217;ll answer both questions.<\/p>\n<p>TOKYOPOP has released the Rizelmine manga in English, where it&#8217;s been almost entirely overlooked. In the fansub community, the Rizelmine anime television series has likewise been virtually forgotten. Both of these conditions are excellent predictors of the show&#8217;s American potential. Rizelmine is a saccharine sweet, exceptionally superficial romantic comedy. A lot of America&#8217;s fan community has developed a vehement distaste for this variety of anime because it&#8217;s exceptionally clich\u00e9 and virtually condescending. Since the series is short, it may be relatively inexpensive to license.  Since it&#8217;s cute, it may be easy to market. So I can envision a domestic distributor choosing to license the series just because it&#8217;s available. However, I can&#8217;t envision the show selling well in America.  It&#8217;s too cute to appeal to mainstream consumers, and too clich\u00e9 and sappy to attract a significant audience of hardcore American anime fans. Rizelmine may be moderately successful in Japan where the fan community is more receptive to bubbly cute &#8220;moe&#8221; anime than America&#8217;s fan community is, but I perceive the show having virtually no market potential in America, which may be why it remains unlicensed for American release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: What do you think about having Rizelmine coming to US?<\/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-1303","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\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}