>>6965390>>6965572Except Goodsmile isn’t Hasbro. Japanese companies, Asian companies honestly, function very differently from the way American ones do.
Take the DotA figures for example. As exclusives, the first two Figma sold well as a preliminary run, so they developed two more. The female of the original two sold better than the male, so the next two were female. Those two did not sell as well, so they stopped production. On the next ones. The original run of Nendoroids did not sell well, so no further ones were planned.
With Overwatch, they develop another after a successful pre-order campaign. The flagship character, Tracer, led to what was assumedwould be popular with asians, Genji. Next, Reaper is testing if Genji’ssuccess was also because he was male, or if they should just stick to female characters, hence Widowmaker as well. The nendoroids have sold well, so nowthey are testing males by releasing Hanzo and Genji, which are presumed to be popular in Asian markets.
League got Yasuo, as thereis no flagship character, butthey hopedhe would be popular in the Asian market by virtue of what he was. He did not sell well. League Figma are dead because no one bought it.
That’s how Asian toy industry works. If it doesn’t make money, it’s notworth doing.
