http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-08-12/little-witch-academia-tokyo-event-cancelled-due-to-low-ticket-sales
Where do I start? Little Witch Academia was a small OVA by some young animators trying to come up in the business. It aired and westerners loved and wanted to see it animated again. So the Trigger team decided to raise money from a Kickstarter program and it raised $600k+ (Not sure of the exact numbers but it was over $600 thousand dollars.) It succeeded and apparently we're suppose to expect it to air sometimes in the next year. Got a lot of hype as it was stickied on /a/ by some retard mod named kinomod. Lots of people claiming it will be the "anime saving show and anime will never be the same!". The fanbase got obnoxious about it, even /a/ tried to claim it HELPED funded LWA and shit. Trigger tried ride the hype train by hosting an event where it show screenings and stuff. It just needed to sell 200 tickets out of 400... but it only sold 94 so it was canceled.
94 tickets sold? Really? Couldn't they just do a web event like KyoAni did with Free? Why are they trying to profit out of this? To the people trying to say the person that planned the event schedule it at a time where people won't show up is just excuses. Japan doesn't like our tastes and they sure hate us gaijins. I find it hilarious that these obnoxious Trigger fans will make up any kind of excuses. I guess it shows that Japan really doesn't care about what Westerners think.
Sure it was successful in grabbing funds to make the anime, but will it succeed in the market? I highly doubt it but the future will never know.
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