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Dovac's Revenge on us infidels.

Where is the fucking anti-dov... ehm... anti sekai brigade now... edit: automoderating myself (a little...).

edit2: if you take a look at the community section, You'll notice that the nekopara ova kickstarter is mostly funded by gaijins.

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As much as I like Nekopara, I still don't understand why it is so popular. Maybe the E-mote? The catgirls? I dunno, it is really nothing extraordinary imo...

 

But I honestly think they should've asked for funds for a full 1-cour anime. I mean, it is that popular. There are the stretch goals, but it will still continue as an OVA anyway.

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6 minutes ago, *anoyoruniyakusokushita said:

As much as I like Nekopara, I still don't understand why it is so popular. Maybe the E-mote? The catgirls? I dunno, it is really nothing extraordinary imo...

It went viral for various reasons, like the sakura games.

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32 minutes ago, *anoyoruniyakusokushita said:

How much exactly are we talking about? 

According to Masamune Sakaki, a CG creator in the anime industry, an average 13-episode anime season costs around 250 million yen (or $2 million). He also made it clear that most anime can't recoup this expense, and the industry rests on the windfall of a few big hits. In a July interview, Takayuki Nagatani, producer of Shirobako (itself an anime about anime production), claimed that his show cost 500 million yen (or $4 million) for 24 episodes. In order to make it sell, he had to "advertise it, plan events, and make merchandise." Shinji Takamatsu, a veteran animator, cited a figure of 150 to 200 million yen ($1.2 to $1.6 million). "Expecting to make that up through disc sales alone is a hopeless business model, but that's how almost all late night anime are," he writes.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-08-13/anime-insiders-share-how-much-producing-a-season-costs/.91536

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7 hours ago, *anoyoruniyakusokushita said:

How much exactly are we talking about? Also, is Nekopara unpopular in Japan? Because otherwise, I see no reason why an anime studio would choose not to adapt it.

They don't want to risk. Also, the possibility to fund a full fledged anime solely through KS funding is a bit of a stretch. OVA seems more reasonable. If it DOES get popular, we might see a full anime series in the near future.

That said, everything here rests on the premise of "cute cat girls doing cute things" and cute, somewhat memorable character designs. Pure moe fuel, I've yet to bring myself to truly like it. It's that kind of thing I'm often very conflicted about, because it could be so much more, if they'd only want it to be... but they don't. No matter how cute it is, I'm kind of tired seeing the exact same thing over and over again; even cat girls won't help. Gist of the story.

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7 hours ago, *anoyoruniyakusokushita said:

How much exactly are we talking about? Also, is Nekopara unpopular in Japan? Because otherwise, I see no reason why an anime studio would choose not to adapt it.

I've never seen anyone talking about Nekopara on Japanese boards and it has like a 100 votes on egs. I'm pretty sure it's mostly a western phenomenon as Japan has no shortage of moe nukige.

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6 minutes ago, Conjueror said:

I've never seen anyone talking about Nekopara on Japanese boards and it has like a 100 votes on egs. I'm pretty sure it's mostly a western phenomenon as Japan has no shortage of moe nukige.

It definitely is. Also Sekai Project's fault work. For once, they understand really well how to KS this kind of stuff.

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But it reached more than 200k in just two days... Maybe 2,000k isn't that unlikely for Nekopara.

1 hour ago, yorikbad said:

At least, now that the Sekai's financial future is secured, we have a good chance to actually see a release of Baldr Sky.

*nods* Nekopara and Kajitsu are keeping Sekai from bankruptcy. Perhaps Koikuma will be successful and help them as well, though.

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19 hours ago, *anoyoruniyakusokushita said:

As much as I like Nekopara, I still don't understand why it is so popular. Maybe the E-mote? The catgirls? I dunno, it is really nothing extraordinary imo...

Nekopara is in the Triumvirate alongside the Sakura Games and Huniepop of "Anime-tiddies marketed well". Nekopara has a very easy to understand goal, was properly marketed for that goal and has the perfect visual presentation for that goal. 

A lot of steam VNs fail, because the average user has no idea what they're looking at on the steam pages. A cryptic text dropping fifteen names and locations with a vague OP trailer is nowhere near as easy to grasp as "BUY THIS FOR CAT GIRL TIDDIES"

Sometimes, being blunt beats being clever. Especially for the uninitiated. 

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17 minutes ago, TexasDice said:

A lot of steam VNs fail, because the average user has no idea what they're looking at on the steam pages. A cryptic text dropping fifteen names and locations with a vague OP trailer is nowhere near as easy to grasp as "BUY THIS FOR CAT GIRL TIDDIES"

Probably influenced by Japanese anime. Almost every time I watch a trailer for an anime I come away MORE confused about the title.

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1 hour ago, Vorathiel said:

VOL 3 IS COMING!

And as a bonus tweet with some interesting art. 

 

FINALLY.

I have absolutely no idea how this is going to play out (I mean, I do, but that wouldn't be fun..). However, as seen by Nekopara's tendency to subvert a little (the sexy gyaru character turned out to be an imouto ffs), I feel like Cinnamon will turn out to be hard S or something. 

Despite being my favorite design, Maple so far has been really boring. She's sassy, but not as sassy as Vanilla or Azuki. I hope she'll turn out to be interesting in some way (worked for Coconut). Based on that screenshot, it seems as if  Cinnamon and Maple have something going on between each other (although, I personally predict that the two pics of them as kittens are a red herring; I believe these CGs will be flashbacks from the protagonist's POV).

What I'm asking myself, who getting the short stick this time? So far, Nekopara has stuck to one H-scene for each character and a group scene with two of them (Vol1: Chocola -> Vanilla -> Both, Vol2: Chocola+Vanilla -> Coconut -> Azuki).

So if we stick to this format, are we getting a group scene with the four previous catpanions, followed by one Maple scene and one Cinnamon scene? Or will we get three scenes with two cats each? Or simply drop Chocola and Vanilla for this one, because they had the most scenes until now? What about Shigure, how will she fit into the picture, if at all? And if all of them are in bed together, WHO'S DRIVING THE BAKERY?!?!

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35 minutes ago, Freestyle80 said:

This shit garnered 390k? the hell lol

No kidding.  Abandon all hope, for humanity has surrendered to the anime not-even-porn catgirls.  $400,000 dollars.  In three days.  For a now 50 minute all-ages OVA.  It's a good thing they put a limit on the OVA length, or God knows how long it'd end up being.

 

Meanwhile, Dies Irae might not even get funded at all...

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3 hours ago, Toranth said:

No kidding.  Abandon all hope, for humanity has surrendered to the anime not-even-porn catgirls.  $400,000 dollars.  In three days.  For a now 50 minute all-ages OVA.  It's a good thing they put a limit on the OVA length, or God knows how long it'd end up being.

 

Meanwhile, Dies Irae might not even get funded at all...

yeah when i saw Dies Irae and this i though this would be worser off boy i was wrong

Though one thing the guys thats doing Dies Irae should have waited for the anime to come out and their reward structures kinda suck ass

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As someone who never really got into the nekopara franchise I am able to look at this a bit more critically. I find it rather disappointing that most people backing this would rather a 60 minutes ova on cat girls than a 60 hour game like Dies Irae but that's just my opinion. Kickstarter seems to have become a way for Japanese companies to sell crap that normally could be made and sold much cheaper just about anywhere else rather than the product they are trying to kickstart. When did kickstarter become about memorabilia and licensing rather than new ideas? Shame really. Regardless the amount of money put into this is likely more on the Japanese side of things. I also find it quite likely that this would have happened regardless of the kickstarter and that this is just a quick way for them to make a few quick bucks.

That said which studio is even doing this and if they are doing an in home studio what evidence do we have that the quality will be any good?

I also have to say that the stretch goals for this are rather awful. The initial goal of 100,000 will pay for a 20 minute ova (it would seem likely that every 50,000 would be for 10 minutes). However the stretch goals are 100,000 afterward to extend it by 10 minutes. This is double the initial goal per 10 minute increments. Hell even the tiers are pretty much crap when put in perspective. They require an extra 150 (300 dolalrs total) for just two plushies? It doesn't help that after the 300 dollar tier they jump to 800. I don't know why but this just seems badly done especially if they offer any of the kickstarter items after the kickstarter which you will note none of this says kickstarter exclusive. What this means is that it is quite likely they will sell this stuff after the kickstarter. If people also bother to check there isn't even a confirmation that they are getting the same voice actresses for the game. I would be cautious about this especially since Sekai Project has had a poor time of releasing content both in a timely matter and at all. I get this sinking feeling that this is going to be not what people are expecting.

Now taking off the paranoia goggles if you want to back this go right ahead this is also just a few minor things I've been concerned with don't take that as a means of me hating this kickstarter but just I've gotten a lot more cynical of kickstarters. Hopefully to everyone that backs there are no issues and you actually get it within a few years.

Slightly off topic question though should this be in the anime section instead of the visual novel section. I mean sure it's based on a vn but then we have other vn adaptations discussed about in the anime section rather than here. I'm sure the same is likely true the other way around but what area should this be in?

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