How is this possible, /a/? They were even speculating on NHK's morning news that Star Wars TFA will be the first Western film in a while to beat the domestic market and break all sales.
There has been a trend over the past several years of Japanese moviegoers preferring live action adaptations of anime (ex. Rurouni Kenshin) over Western films, even big-shots like MCU capeshit. How did a little kids' show like Yokai Watch beat fucking Star Wars? I'm not even mad, just surprised.
>Yokai Milking
When will this franchise die off already?
>>135080540
Anime is simply superior in every way. Good to see nips not being cuckolds and not falling for >le star wars hype.
Because 2 had more semen demons than 1 and everyone loves Jibanyan
>muh Star Wars has to be #1 world wide
I hope you choke to death on Lucas's dried up cock.
>>135080725
But Lucas didn't direct this one.
>>135080540
I'm very surprised people are hyped by the new star wars at all.
>>135080786
The direction wasn't the only thing bad about the prequels.
>>135080540
Because it's based on Japan Mythos and they love Japanese Mythos..
>>135080629
>Yokai Milking
Japan Mythos
The Grudge
Teke Teke
Bakemonogatari
Mononoke
Bakeneko
Ringu
Doubt it will die when Yokai is a feature of so many films in Nippon..
>>135080989
Lucas didn't write this one either.
>>135080540
>black male lead
>>135081051
So? "Maybe this time it won't be total ass" isn't the greatest slogan.
And Space Battleship Yamato sold more tickets than Star Wars the first time around.
Literally no one cares but Japan.
That said Star Wars losing to another toy commercial makes me smile.
>>135081091
I actually heard he was more of a comedic sidekick like Jar Jar Blinks.
>nips would rather watch a shitty anime than based Star Wars
>>135080540
Because they are a bunch of fucking isolationists who only like themselves the best as a "master race" over the stupid foreign cultures which they only see as "quaint" or "interesting".
>>135081208
It's not a surprise, TFA was a fucking disappointment. Worse than the prequels.
>>135081232
>TFA was a fucking disappointment. Worse than the prequels.
They weren't thrilled about a black guy in the main cast as I recall. Though that might have just been 2ch being 2ch.
>>135081185
I'm pretty sure Japan loves Star Wars though. It has been a big influence on Japanese pop culture, despite SW is strongly influenced by Japan. The new movie is a by-the-number capeshit so I guess kids prefer to watch their favorite yokais on the big screen
>>135081208
The movie was fucking garbage. Even the prequels felt less like soulless cash grabs.
>>135081208
>>135081231
Here comes the salt.
>>135081091
I actually liked the black guy, and he's not the lead. The lead is that fucking mary sue girl.
Star wars first movie came out in the 70s. It was not widely pushed in Japan. The fanbase just isn't there. Its would have had to of been sub'd and nobody likes subs
Just tell Japan they have a Mary Sue protagonist who makes the guy from Magic Academy look grounded and relatable
Those slanty eyed bastards will buy tickets in droves
>>135081341
Japan loves Gary Stus, not Mary Sues. Besides, she'll fuck a nigger so the female audience will refuse to project into her.
>>135081161
Just saying that jewcas had nothing to do with the movie, which is completely unrelated to the quality of the movie.
>>135081341
>the guy from Magic Academy
Which one?
>>135081424
>jewcas
I'm not a jew
>>>/tv/
Sage and report.
>>135081232
>>135081321
Weak bait. Try again.
Star Wars released Friday. Yokai Watch released Saturday. These numbers do not include Friday's sales. Mystery solved.
>>135081527
Isn't YW anime related? /tv/ wouldn't even know what it is. They would think it's Pokemon.
I've never watched any Star Wars ever nor do I know about any of the plot if it has any. What's the appeal recently? To me it just seems like the next hyped fad like how Frozen was and I'm not going to bother getting into any of these films just because everyone else is and I see no appeal whatsoever.
I suppose the Japs feel the same way, only clinging to their cultural fad which is now Yokai.
>While Yo-kai Watch attracted more people than Star Wars, the latter brought in more money thanks to higher-priced tickets, including for IMAX showings. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” earned ¥1.25 billion ($10.3 million) in two days, compared with ¥1.06 billion for Yo-kai Watch.
TFA reminds me a lot to Saint Seiya Omega
>Remake barely disguise as a sequel
>Awkward attempts at nostalgia pandering
>The original cast have miserable lives to make room for the new kids no one likes
>>135081571
Ticket sales are not /a/ related, also the entire thread is about star wars, just read it.
Are you really this new or OP trying to defend his shitty off-topic thread?
>>135081573
Japan loved Frozen though.
>>135081611
>sales aren't /a/ related
Funny, those Amazon Stalker bait threads we're plagued with every season must be hallucinations then.
>the YW game bombed in NA
Pokemon killer they said.
>>135081611
>ticket sales are not /a/ related
Yet DVD and bluray sales are?
>>135081703
It's a shitty game. Pokemon, while getting long in the tooth, is still relatively polished and well designed. YW is too buggy and feels like a budget title.
>>135081703
After the 90s, Japan became too autistic for its own culture and forgot about the rest of the world, therefore they haven't been able to create new international hits. They're living from the past now
Get fucked Star faggots, your franchise is shitExcept KOTOR 2
>>135081820
Did someone say kotor 2?
>>135080540
Capitalism doesn't have full control yet especially in oriental nations.
>>135081750
>two of those were shit
>one was very badly done
>the other hasn't aired yet but could very well be shit too
When will they stop ruining successful old franchises?
This thread is juts a shitty excuse to talk about Star Wars here.
Why can't you dense faggots and the mods see that?
>>135081208
>Japanese children would rather see an animated movie based on a cartoon series they like than a western live action movie based on a franchise from that's been around since the 70s
Anon it's not rocket science.
>>135081741
Holy shit, did you even play the game beyond the demo?
The game is great, the japanese audience love it. Westerners are to dumb to understand what is good about it.
>>135081981
>the japanese audience love it
Japs gave FF13 a perfect score.
>>135081981
Hey I loved it. Don't group us all together.Yokai watch 2 never ;_;
>>135082068
Famitsu give 40/40 to almost everything.
You can say Westerners are dumb to, for giving 10/10 to Undertale and shit AAA titles.
>>135081981
You have to be a love of mythos to actually love the game as most are based off of Japanese folklore.
I don't see how it would of been a success unless they remove all the Japanese monsters and replace them with ugly Latin-American ones.
>>135082225
They didn't really rape Star Wars in TFA like they did with Indiana Jones (not to mention Lucas isn't involved in TFA). Unless you count casting a black guy as a co-protagonist as raping the series.
It was just a shameless copy of A New Hope with original donutsteel characters and planets.
>>135080989
>>135081161
Shut the fuck up you retard. Lucas had virtually nothing to do with the new film, and it was actually pretty competently written. How about you stop sucking on tiny nip cock?
I say this as a fan of Yo-Kai Watch. You're a massive fucking idiot.
>>135082225
People are still whining about the crystal skull?
>>135081855
>The Japanese aren't uber-capitalists
Are you for real?
You're conflating capitalism with Fabianism's total cultural control of the West. The Frankfurt School's acolytes and the Fabians use capitalism in the West, but it's just one of their many tools.
>>135082358
I have not watched nor care about either SW or YW, however I find it hilarious you think "well the creator isn't involved this time" is some kind of seal of quality. All that means is it MIGHT not be total shit.
>>135082474
Lucas DID single-handedly ruin it pretty hard.
>>135081196
He had the most screen time out of all the male characters in the movie, but he's not the main character, that would be the girl.
Which is actually a shame because he's actually a fun and enjoyable character while she's pretty damn unlikable.
>>135080540
Is that yokai movie actually good?
>>135082531
>Lucas DID single-handedly ruin it pretty hard.
The irony being that Lucas is the one who saved the series from Spielberg's idiotic ideas back in the eighties.
>>135080540
Only burgers like star wars.
>>135082660
Well yeah, it's what happens when you a brilliant visionary and creator gets taken over by parasitic mind-controlling goiter.
>>135082504
Explain.
>>135081981
>japanese audience love it
Are you fucking retarded?
The love the current game, the first YW had issues out the ass.
>>135081161
Nice moving goal posts.
>>135082504
>The Japanese aren't uber-capitalists
Yes, aren't they in perma recession after their stock market crashed in the 80s and since then they've done nothing but Keynesian simulate to keep the illusion going?
Their rail lines and health care are mostly socialized.
>>135081091
>China removed him from all the posters
I think they new in advance that it was going to be shit.They were right, I'm glad I didn't pay for my ticket
>>135081231
>says the guy from the country who wants everything in the world to cater to them
Because Japan already has its own Star wars movie.
https://youtu.be/vC4v979_fQk?t=8s
There's fans of star wars in japan.
They gave up on the franchise after Episodes 1-3.
>>135081091
[panting intensifies]
>female and her black bull as the main characters
>can't even beat youkai watch shit
Aaaahahaha, Japan remains uncucked.
>>135080540
Does Star Wars have Aoi Yuuki, Anon?
No? Well, there you go.
>>135080574
>feels so manufactured.
All the normies I know that never watched star wars to begin with were hyped.
All the normies I know that WATCHED star wars when they were kids hated it.
Seems like pottery.
>>135080540
Because the new Star Wars killed off one of the most popular characters, and have his killer job to some shitty girl
>>135081091
>implying he was the lead and not the strong empowered womyn
Reminder that FeMC will be trained by the nigger's big black lightsaber until she can't go back.
The Dark Side indeed.
>all these anons who actually watched a Western live-action sequel to a franchise that properly ended decades ago
>>135085522
Are there actually people out there who have never watched Star Wars?
Where the hell do you meet these people? Do you live in Uganda or something?
Star Wars is the most overrated series of all time; even the "good" 30 year old movies don't deserve the insane cult that's been built around them. I just really don't get the hype over another generic J.J. Abrams action schlock movie.
>>135085771
>Where the hell do you meet these people?
University. Mostly alternative/""""nerdy"""" chicks who became the biggest STAR WARS FANS EVER OH MAN SPOCK IS SO DREAMY AMIRITE GURLZ and went into class with yoda t-shirts literally tow days after the whole social media hype started.
>>135085640
Stay wrong /tv/
>>135085817
Oh, you're talking about women.
I thought you were talking about real people.
>>135082290
That's what J.J. does, he doesn't make good, original films, he just takes what everyone's familiar with and pumps it full of as much action as possible to hook new viewers while spamming references to its origins to placate fans of the original.
>>135085771
>>135085871I haven't seen Star Wars.
>>135080540
Didn't nips hate the FTA movie? That's probably the reason.
>>135085977Me too.
>>135080540
Cause Star Wars is really only big in pretty much the USA. For the rest of the world it's an old only okay blockbuster series that's only cool for the lightsabers. I've watched all the 6 that came before and I can't for the life of me understand how it caught on so hot with you burgers.
>>135082176
Undertale only got reviewed by shitty small-time outlets that shouldn't even qualify for Metacritic ratings.
>>135080540
This is representative of a cultural shift in Japan. Soon they will be closing their borders and banning any entertainment that isn't made in the motherland.
In the year 20XX not only will your waifu not exist, but she will not exist behind the impenetrable borders of a conservative society of racist cunteyed devils
>>135085977
>>135086004
Not your blog
>>135086294
Would "yes, there are people who haven't seen star wars" sufficed for you?
>>135086002
It's actually rated lower than the Phantom menace. Nips don't seem to care for it.
>>135081584
>The original cast have miserable lives
Except they didn't.
The only problem was giving Aquarius cloth to that faggot Tokisada.
>>135085817
>""""nerdy""""
Where did this """" thing explode from the last month, and why does it piss me off so much?
>>135086340
Or "of course there are", both are better.
>>135085522
>normies
>>>/r9k/
>>135085771
Never watched star wars, star trek or lotr.
I hate fantasy as a genre.
>>>/tv/
Fuck off.
>>135085817I basically did this, except not the t-shirt because merchandise clothing is weird as hell. I just pretended I'd seen them all and loved them.
>heard about yokai over the loudspeaker at my mall in a rural town in Australia before I saw anything about it on /a/
What fresh plague is this? It's just pokemon, right?
>>135086419
Oh yeah, totally forgot I mean "normalfags"
read/watch 80's Anime/Mangan, Star Was was hugely influential of Japanese SciFi and otaku Culture in general.
>>135080540
Let me put it in this way
A
NIGGER
IN
A
PROTAGONIST
ROLE
>>135086573
Cream Lemon is fucking weird.
>>135086619
>Go watch TFA in the theaters
>There's a white guy doing shit in the beginning
>"Oh hey, there IS a white guy protag, 4chan must have probably overreacted
>He goes MIA like 20 minutes in and the rest of the movie is just a nigger fanwank
>>135086666
That guy is about as white as the average /a/non that likes DBZ or Saint Seiya is.
>>135086666
>the rest of the movie is just a nigger fanwank
How to spot someone who hasn't seen it. Finn is the comic relief sidekick. He's literally a joke that exists to highlight how amazing the empowered womyn protagonist is repeatedly. Though to be fair everyone including Han fucking Solo also exists for that purpose.
I actually would rather Fin had been the protagonist. He was more relatable and had more potential for character development than Rey by a country mile. He also somehow managed to be better acted.
>>135080540
Star Wars didn't find a way.
>>135080540
>fucking Star Wars
I really wonder, why everyone love this garbage?
>>135080540
Star Wars is overrated as shit and Youkai watch actually rules
Star Wars is shit.
Actually JJ Abrams needs to stop making movies.
>>135088397
>>135085444
Smart move
>>135084759
>Chinks don't want to see black objects.
>male lead is a negro
found the reason
>>135083407
The economy has a nice growth actually
Reminds me of pokemon the first movie. The theatre was packed for days. I still got my mew card somewhere.
>>135088397
>>135088518
>Yod-Ai
With a Luke Skywalker Yoda falls in love.
To confess unable, gifted by a deus ex machina with the Jedi's phone number, the little green alien is. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls him, and crush on him as well, is overjoyed to find out that he has.
But, the next day, when to Skywalker Yoda recounts the previous day's confessions, with a perplexed expression he only looks at him. After some investigation, the Jedi master finds out that the boy he called is the same boy he fell in love with not. In fact, he exists not in this universe at all. Luke's alternate universe counterpart, he is, fallen in love with the alien's own AU self, who has, blissfully unaware of his crush, who too is.
To give each other their darkest hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal, to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves most private secrets in order. Their respective loved ones while the two chase, to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of JEDI drama ensues as they begin. Hmmmmmmmm.
>>135088704
>>135088397
But Keit-ai certainly did.
>>135080540
Nothing surprised
I've seen Michael Bay's Transformer getting BTFO by 2.22 in Japan
MUH STAR WARS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER
>>135087958
Even calling him comic relief is an exaggeration. He's competent, his only real problem is that by all accounts he doesn't seem to be a Force user, and as such got his ass kicked by the wannabe Sith lord.
>>135087958
His point is that he's in it so much. Hopefully not as much going forward as we see more of her training and shit and he actually does become a side character, but it kept going back to his emotional side story and away from the important character.
Granted she couldn't do much so they needed the black guy as filler but still.
>>135080540
>They aren't on the stupidity bandwagon like the rest of the world.
sasuga nips
>>135088942
>too mainstream for me
>>135088928
No, I think his point was just that a black guy was a major character and that triggered him.
>>135088397
>>135088704Threadly reminder that you should stop posting that because it's a thing.https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/
>>135088397
>Episode VI
>The Force Awakens
>>135089043
Triggered?
>>135088976
He looks like an ape, and was only hired because JJ is a racist jew that literally said there was too many white people in movies made in a white country.
>>135089257
>a white country.
Hello /pol/.
>>135089043
>Episode VI
>the one with the warrior teddy bears
>>135089311
>The US has more white people than every other country combined excluding Russia
>Not white
Fuck off nigger. Be grateful your ancestors were brought here, or you'd be living in glorious Africa.
>>135080540
Not exactly surprising. These people love animation. They even make animated porn.
Just look at Disney's Frozen, it topped the Japanese box office for consecutive weeks and earned $247 million alone there.
Isn't Youkai Watch huge there as well and really popular with kids?. So yeah kids everywhere would want to see it and parents probably have to take them. That'll result in it being a big money maker I guess.
>>135089433
I'm not a nigger. I'm a Native American.
>>135082358
Abrams is just as shitty of a writer and the movie was a copy paste of New Hope anyway.
>>135089455
Then you're welcome for being brought out of your primitive huts and being let into this country founded by whites.
>>135089127
Almost
>>135080540
Jap kids want to watch Jap things, the people in Japan who give the slightest fuck about star wars are probably in their mid 30's and where too busy taking their jap kids too watch not pokemon.
anyway it doesn't matter. they're a dying market and the chinks are what Hollywood jews are focusing on.
>>135089550
>This is what /pol/ believes actually happened
>>135088397
>>135089043
ftfy
>>135081231
There is literally nothing wrong with being more isolationist.
>>135089550
Go back to Europe, whitey.
>>135089720
>There is literally nothing wrong with being more isolationist.
He says on a board for Japanese cartoons.
Do you remember what happened to Japan when it decided to be as isolated as it could possibly be for a few hundred years?
>>135089720
>World full of people and nations
>Fuck em, let's do what we want
Oh yeah, nothing wrong with that. Idiot.
>>135089615
Better
>>135081560
Like what he said.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/japan/?yr=2015&wk=51&p=.htm
>1 N Star Wars: The Force Awakens Disney $10,158,486 - 945 - $10,750 $13,212,692 1
>2 N Yo-Kai Watch: Enma Daio to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! Toho $8,630,948 - 434 - $19,887 $8,630,948 1
And Star Wars is raping Yokai Watch in none weekend.
http://mimorin2014.blog.fc2.com/
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*4 *14263 母と暮せば
*5 *10350 ００７ スペクター
*6 **4805 杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ
*7 **3944 Ｉ ＬＯＶＥ スヌーピー Ｔ…
*8 **3603 映画 ハイ・スピード－Ｆｒｅ…
*9 **3004 仮面ライダー×仮面ライダー …
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[2015/12/22 23:11 更新]
>>135089802
Having isolationist values does not mean mean complete isolation their are mediums. You just sound retarded when talking in extremes.
>>135089813
Yes there is nothing wrong with it. They allow travel and promote trade with other nations that's all they have to do. No country has to accept anothers pop culture or allow droves of subhumans in.
>>135080540
Fuck Star Wars, I hate that franchise so badly.
>>135080540
Huh? I heard SW is extremely popular in Japan.
I just hope there's more fanart.
Tumblr is terrible.
>>135088397
>>135089615
>literally forced keit-ai
>>135082358
>was actually pretty competently written
>The new movie is a copy paste of the 4, with a pandering mary sue as a mc.
You probably liked Sword Art Online.
>>135090179
Nigger MC.
>>135089572
>the magic computer box materialized out of thin air
>>135090458
>muh Aryan race
>>135090517
>muh voodoo
>>135090608
>taking advantage of other cultures and reaping the benefits of their labor while at the same time patting themselves on the back for work they never did
I thought Rey was relatively good, but honestly that just goes to show how garbage the west is at making female characters.
Seriously if you named the best 50 western characters, there would be 49 males and Luna Lovegood.
Though I guess the opposite could be said about anime, the best 50 /a/ characters are 49 girls and Kaiki.
>>135088704
>not Jed-ai
You fucked up
>>135090889
Jed-Ai features yaoi fanfiction between Obi Wan and Darth Maul.
>>135085520
I would watch TFA with the main girl getting dubbed by Y.Aoi. It would be a much more enjoyable experience.
>The Japanese enjoy their own culture more than importing culture from outside
I'm happy for them. Ganbatte, Japan, keep your cultural identity intact instead of eroding it.
Can't say I care.
Disney deserves to die off.
>>135080540
Star wars isn't nearly as cute as Yokai Watch.
>>135086398
>Except they didn't
>Shiryu is a tomato for 13 years
>Shun is a hobo
>Hyoga is still crying for his mama despite he got over it at the beginning of the Hades arc
>Seiya was in coma for 13 years and he never fucked Athena
>Where the hell is Seika and Marin?
>>135085640
Sounds hot
>>135086781
The average anon that likes DBZ or Saint Seiya is cholo. Poe is a mediterranean white guy, like the ones who built the western civilization while germans and nordics were fucking goats
>>135087958
>everyone including Han fucking Solo also exists for that purpose.But HAN SOLO DIES by Kylo Ren's saber.
Not anime or manga.
>>135089813
Allowing trade and some travel is fine but any more is unneeded. Unfettered immigration is killing the US and especially western Europe.
I'm pretty sure TFA is beating Yo-kai watch now though
>>135089902
Yup
OP is a faggot
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-22/star-wars-beats-spirited-away-opening-weekend-record-in-japan/.96802
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-12-21/yo-kai-watch-tops-star-wars-in-attendance-but-not-at-japanese-box-office/.96777
