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Since the article I did on the School Days Kotonoha figure got a bit of attention I decided to add a new topic showing some of the new anime figures that are coming out.

Due out in February 2010 is The Phantom Requiem For The Phantom Ein 1/8 scale PVC figure by Gift.

The figure itself looks nice, and the pose is good, but I think they got the face wrong… Well… Not wrong actually, but they seem to have modeled the face after the visual novel version of Ein rather than the anime. MSRP is around $95.oo US$

So, I was reading a blog post in one of my feeds today from AnimeNation answering  someone who asked whether Anime Studios accepted donations in order to keep an Anime running.

“When an average single anime episode costs $100,000 to produce, I simply can’t envision private individuals donating enough money to a production studio to significantly improve production quality over a span of episodes or even produce additional episodes. Maintaining a professional reputation and appearance is undoubtedly more valuable than the few thousand dollars, at most, that could be brought in from private donations.” (Read the full article here: http://www.animenation.net/blog/2009/09/24/ask-john-can-fans-donate-to-anime-studios/)

To add to the confusion of canceled anime shows there are a lot of misconceptions by fans… Especially those outside of Japan. Yes it’s easy to just say “Hey give them some money to keep making the show I like.” but aside from the sheer cost we are talking about  is the fact that the show was most likely canceled due to lack of interest. Let’s face it… If there were enough of a fan base demanding a show then some production company (like Kadokawa or Toei) would step in and either fund the studio, buy out the studio, or buy the show’s license and farm it out to one of their studios. Facts are facts… If a show got canceled it did so because there wasn’t enough interest it it in the first place.

The rest of the story after the jump.

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