@rocci Dude you completely missed the point. Again you're just looking at one side without knowing what's on the other side and not even trying to find out. It made 20 million in Japan. Yeah so what? Do you know how much they spend on it?
Let me give you the same example I gave you before. Let's say I make phones, I make 100 million of them and sell each one for 100$. Now I made 10.000.000.000$. That sounds amazing right? It's absolutely fantastic for me, I'm rich. But what if I tell you that the cost to produce each phone for me was 200$.
Now that 10 billion dollar mark doesn't sound so good anymore, now does it?
This is what I'm trying to teach you. Those numbers that you keep mention don't mean a thing unless you look at the other numbers which for some reason you fail to look at or don't want or just simply don't understand how it works.
Yes it made 20 million $. But how much did they spend on animation, voice actors, Kishi's cut, ads, the sound guys, interviews etc. etc. etc.
Do you live under the impression that those things are cheap? That they don't cost that much or what?
What if they spend 40 million $ on it, do you consider those 20 million a success in this case?
Or they spend 18 million, do you still consider those 20 million a success?
Yes, we don't know exactly 100% how much they actually spend on everything and that's simply because they refuse to give us that information. Interesting isn't? That they refuse to tell us if it's profitable for them or not. We just get these click bait articles like "the best selling movie in the world" or "Kishi's masterpiece is a must see" or whatever nonsense they use to attract people in reading those articles.
You can live in your bubble of "Naruto is profitable" and "Naruto is popular" if you want or you can get out of that bubble and do some research about how things really work, how much they actually cost and perhaps you'll understand.
Edited by Nostradamus, 04 December 2015 - 05:33 AM.