Okay, I'm gona list some interviews with THE guy (Adam Newman), who I think is from Bandai himself, although he often speaks from Bluefin's POV it seems. So I'm the **** confused out my fool head. Point remains however that it's legit ****.
Toyfair 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q4tLpzVIZw
NYCC 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UckStoG4rs
NYCC 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3wLPM7U3TE
(SDCC 14 only thing I could find was this with another guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vla9rdvb7mM)
I don't remember which parts the dbz stuff is (sorry), but I know for sure that in an interview this guy basically stated that they don't want any franchise to grow disproportionately to the next. He might have Bandai on him, but he's an american representative obviously. I don't know if he comes from bluefin or not, ultimately it matters little where the line lies I think. Things can also change along the way as we know the 'web exclusive debate' is on going from this very same dude.
Ultimately there are clear reasons they're not hoarding in cash as fast as they can, be it principally or legally. But from everything I've heard by now, sorry if I can't source all of it back, it's clear that thus far there are no concrete reason to expect DBZ is gonna become here what Kamen Rider is in Japan.
So from that informed POV I say I'm okay if they can keep up the release rate of last year, and I'm very pleased if they can sustain the growth of a extra release as well. Especially if they're gonna pull out lesser priority releases like a Buutenks.
It's too bad we've kinda lost PwnStar, but sadly when you actually get hired by these guys, you get to hear more, but say less. Although I think he still does read this thread occasionally, so all of what we say here could potentially leak over into Bluefin and therefore Tamashii. We don't know, Pwn doesn't post here anymore (for obvious reasons being a bluefin employee).
