so now i want to revisit an older anime that got lost in the shuffle of all these new and
more exciting animes but it wasn't forgotten i hosted a poll asking my audience what video they
would want to see and you guys responded with my little monster now this is the anime that
a lot of people have had questions about over the years so what exactly happened to the show
so i did some google searches and i found out it was in the top 200 of all time popular animes
it's a popular anime that is considered a gem in its era but at the time
it was not so popular in a lot of ways it's a very underrated anime but let's pause it here if you're
new to the channel my name is barry and this is my why little monster isn't getting a season two
i talk about all the things that go behind your favorite anime now if you like that kind of
content do make sure to leave me a like because that sends the message to youtube to push out the
video to more people and i would really like to get to 500 likes on this particular video
also let me know down in the comment section do you want a season 2 comment yes or no and lastly
a staggering amount of people like the video but don't subscribe i can't begin to think about
how much this would actually help my channel so please do consider it if you do comment i
subscribed and i will make sure to come back to you now let's talk about the show just in case
you've forgotten to talk about the show we need to discuss the main characters first is shuzuku
shizuku is a straightforward and hard-working high school student the stereotypical study addict who
stays away from trouble and minds are business at her core she's pretty selfish now what starts off
the story is she goes to deliver some handouts because her teacher asked her to do so now the
handouts she's delivering are to a classmate who's recently been suspended for starting a fight okay
pause here so how do i explain the cluster that is haru from their first interaction with each other
you knew this guy has some serious emotional baggage setting up the stage for past experiences
that have not yet been resolved so first he jumps out the window hides in the bushes
does a reverse takedown on this girl hears her explanation and then forms the conclusion that
he's in an anime and this is what friends do gets her name and assumes they're now friends so she's
obviously very confused by this point disgusted and wants nothing more to do with this guy
wait did he just pull her into the shadow realm and was no one even
slightly concerned about her safety well all right then i guess so after he kidnaps her
they wind up eating burgers with haru's friends friends who always ask him for money and after
she's done calling him out on wanting to actually go to school and his sketchy friends this happens
and he walks off but no no no no no shizuku is like you might scare me but i ain't no [ __ ] and
chuck's food back at him the next day he took her advice and actually stopped giving those guys
money she then hears these guys talking about the incident and instinctively reacts and tells them
off she's about to get jumped and then haru steps in and is like from around here and they become a
couple but if you've seen this show you know that is not how any of this is gonna go he comes to the
school the next day and she's trying to keep her distance in her normal routine of studying
and not being involved in any of his shenanigans right haru though is haru and has no understanding
of social norms or etiquette in comes this mess of a character called asuka asuko being the cute
girl that has no friends because of how the boys give her all their attention making the girls want
to bully her making her gravitate towards mickey and shohei rounds out their group oh but things
start to change once you see yuuzon yuzon being haru's older brother and when he starts to mention
his past and his parents and then we can't forget about kenji and me to yoshi the show felt like it
ended way too soon hitting a bit abruptly with 13 episodes meaning they assumed they would get
another season what i really like about this show is it feels like a real show full of different
personalities backstories multi-layered characters and with a little bit of depth to them but it's
not perfect also suzuki gets pulled to the shadow realm a lot without a doubt this show is a three
out of five every character stands out a little bit and has a little bit of unique personality and
characteristics about them even though some feel like a trope they do make it their own from the
outside the artwork and illustration don't seem to really be too impressive but over time the darker
oranger colors and the brown colors really do give it a warm but very grounded feeling to the show
also if you're wondering do shizuku and haru end up together then yes and if you're wondering about
who ends up with who by the end of the series yes so now it's time to give the people what they want
this is the part of the video where i talk about the blu-ray sales and other revenue sources for
these animes and at this point i have a number of videos where i go in depth in explaining
why this is important but in summary this is how companies you know that own your
favorite animes make a profit yes anime is a business that needs money to operate crazy
now there's a lot of different scenarios and how and why certain shows shouldn't receive
season two and some should receive a season two my little monster was written by robica
and it was published by kodansha the anime came out in the fall of 2012 as a comedy romance slice
live anime streaming on crunchyroll the anime was licensed in north america by nis america my
little monster sold 1785 copies well actually not exactly i've done this topic on my channel
quite a bit and i would have the numbers they sold here as the total but i was wrong for about six of
my videos you see this number is not the total it's the average luckily i'm not 30 videos in on
these playlist videos i can simply just improve the videos moving forward this number is still
bad and means something but the average needs to be higher you see here is the real total 12 497
copies so let me explain the averages it's like this 0 to 1k you're a bit low buddy 1k
plus to 5k is about average good you're making a profit now 5k to 10k is more than the average hey
nice job and then you have 10k plus 250k that's when you consider these animes a big dog you are
for sure getting more of this anything over 50k is them just wiping their butts with a hundred
dollar bills at this point my little monster has a total revenue for blu-ray sales and dvd sales
of about 67 million 750 000 yen which in usd dollars is 597
with 82 cents this number changes based on how much the us dollar is worth at the time
but it's roughly around this number which is accurate if you multiply the blu-ray sales total
to fit the usd dollars which is usually around how much the complete edition is worth
with the number being 624 850 usd which is close the manga sold 6.1 million copies now if you're
this far you'd haven't liked the video like what are you doing like stop playing it's free the
manga is the only notable source of revenue besides you know the licensing of the anime
but as far as like a merch this anime and usually didn't have merch there's now t-shirts and mugs
but that's for somebody outside the anime selling it my final thoughts so with all the information
let's make a conclusion my little monster came out at a time when blu-ray sales were everything for
having a season 2 or really having a chance they sold below the 4 000 blu-rays copies threshold and
they came at a time where selling toys t-shirts and other merchandise was heavily underutilized
with them not really having any form of a merch line people to this day like to highlight brain
base's involvement with the project when they really where they hired help that you know
drew the anime but they don't actually own it the owners being tv tokyo aniplex nihon ad systems
kadancha all these companies are known for not releasing a second season and would rather just
wait as well as buy other animes to sell novels kodansha being the owner of the manga wanted to
sell more manga so the more manga they sold the more they would have wanted to push a second
season but i can't purely say this anime was used to sell manga based on how many people were used
or were on the production company side so they were pretty much willing to make a second season
they just didn't meet their expectations as an anime meaning they really did need the blu-ray
sales to get another season a bright side for this anime was in 2018 they had a live action film that
was released in china and japan making 4 million 280 227 placing it in the 201 to 304 graphic
novels and slash comics which is where they place live action films at which at first doesn't sound
so impressive but keep in mind marvel movies are considered live actions in this category
so this is actually a very successful live action as well as beating out a more popular franchise in
the jojo movie i say all this to say there is a good chance we get a season 2 at some point
pause so this is post recording barry i forgot to mention this in the video but
the anime ended on volume 4 chapter 14 but the manga officially ending with 51 chapters
so that means there are 37 chapters not used meaning there's three additional seasons of
content left in limbo if they're deciding to go off of 14 chapters for each season which
is a bigger commitment than what i thought but it does not change my answer it's in between dead men
wonderland season 2 and world trigger at whatever season they're at at this point but if it does
it's going to need a merch line like how is it that a random guy on the internet can sell
their merch better than the million dollar companies they can't depend on blu-ray sales right
that's what i'm trying to say luckily streaming looks to be better and better each year but merch
has shown to be hand and foot above streaming but with the haramiya remake not doing as well as it
should have and yes i do mean a remake this is remake romance anime is not named fruit basket
need to wait for the perfect time and perfect opportunity to launch but that's gonna do for this
video make sure to subscribe because i don't know who else is going to give you content like this
i just don't i'ma keep it real i'm lowkey the best at this but yeah make sure to also give this video
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