>>51145829>>51145858>Source?It’s common knowledge that big franchises that have a lot of stakeholders (in PM’s case, Nintendo, TPC, and TV Tokyo who has the chief distribution and management rights) end up giving the actual studio a much smaller piece of the pie than series like Komi, which is just really negotiations with the manga publisher and the distributor
Of course I don’t have the fucking contract pdf sitting in front of me, but even if we assume each stakeholder takes an equal percentage cut (which they definitely don’t), then they still have less of a CHANCE of making money
Now obviously this doesn’t necessarily mean that they make less on Pokemon than other series as the total should outweigh the lower percentage, but it DOES mean that if OLM DOES put more effort into their seasonal shows, they have a good chance of earning more
Also, it’s pretty clear from JN’s popularity that they don’t even need to put that much effort into the series to make it something viewers would like; lots of people will watch it regardless of whether the production is actually good
>Lots of staff goneWhile this is definitely true, it’s fairly irrelevant to my point; which is that OF THE STAFF THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON HAND AT THE STUDIO, FREELANCERS OR OTHERWISE, most of their talented staff are simply not working on this series and are working on OLM’s other projects
