>>7143455>Bringing up Bandai with DB isn't supporting any argument. The biggest company made toys from the most popular anime and some made it to the States. Hey therefor demand exists for all characters for all properties!Not really the point, which was that they were doing nothing but redecos and shit if it weren't for the US asking for more villains.
It's the same with PAK, where we got characters like Ocelot, Liquid and others because of their popularity.
Again, i point toward Revoltech, Figma, and Figuarts figures from series who don't have a massive US/European fanbase to see what happens when they only look inward. Mostly main characters and females.
Do you think a creator of manga/anime wants to see their creations be so limited in scope? That toys are only meant for hot gluing and flavors of the month? Not every creator wants to be Shirow Masamune.
>While I'm pointing out there are easier ways besides building a company ground up to get some toys out there, you jump to doing business overseas? That's not a jump that's reaching the orbit. >Al I'm hearing is why can't manga artist risk all of their earnings and time There's barely any risk with Kickstarter and there's quite a few of these companies who will ship their toys overseas. It's relatively simple and the hardest part is usually the Chinese factories. Laws are relegated mostly toward taxes/tariffs, and as long as the toys are meant and sold to adult collectors, there's no need to do any safety tests.
I doubt only creators like Nightow and McFarlane want take enough initative to try and get all their characters made into toys.
And it isn't one and done characters like you're saying, because there's a lot of series out there that never get much.
As mentioned, small companies don't have to make a hundred thousand figures to be profitable and can actually make enough money to produce stuff on their own without doing kickstarter after kickstarter.
