Third Season Money

[The Ghost Of Ember]

Really, all I want them to do is animate the original ending for one of the DVD releases, so that we can put an end to all this 'wait it was all just an endless cycle with no changes?' bull. Most of the work is already done since they could reuse old footage, as they mostly did.

[Sharpshooter005]

If the writer had such a brilliant idea for a third season then why hasn't he posted this onto the internet, people would love to know.

Actually it's quite common for writers to not divulge plans for seasons or shows that got ended early or just not renewed. There's always that "what if", and if they can still make money off of it why give it away for free?

I can completely understand this. And I'm not blaming him.

But if he SEVERELY NEEDED TO GET this hypothetical idea told in some form of media? Theres options.

(Also, was it Konaka who said this? He's fucking insane. I loved Serial Experiments Lain, and big o was okay, but he's insane. I remember seeing some interview with him where he was all "I dont want lain appreciated by americans" or something. He's either a brilliant troll or a typical xenophobic jap freakjob)

So yeah if I'm remembering right, and he was the writer? He's off doing something else probably cause he seems kinda bizarre.

[EyeOfPain]

I do recall recently reading an article that Lain contained some blatant anti-American dialog, which got written out of the English dub. I don't typically browse ANN, but it comes up in this thread.

[Professor Vogler]

But if he SEVERELY NEEDED TO GET this hypothetical idea told in some form of media? Theres options.

(Also, was it Konaka who said this? He's fucking insane. I loved Serial Experiments Lain, and big o was okay, but he's insane. I remember seeing some interview with him where he was all "I dont want lain appreciated by americans" or something. He's either a brilliant troll or a typical xenophobic jap freakjob)

I thought it was a team of writers. Konaka has gone on to work on Eureka7 and some other anime. But anywho, not sure if I understand that first sentence in the quote there, Sharp. Are you still asking why he hasn't divulged old plot plans yet?

And yeah, I heard the same rumors about Lain as well... don't really know how to take them, but meh I haven't even gotten around to watching that series yet (I should).

It wasn't Konaka who said that, it was actually people from the original "ReBoot" staff (specifically when asked what was to be planned for "The Hunt" after the cliffhanger the series ended on). It seems like a logical professional decision to make. If you can make thousand or millions of dollars of a media idea, why give it away for free? Even after 6-7 years of no Big O, if they reintroduced the series there'd still be some revenue to its name, even with such diminished interest. Now of course ReBoot is in production again (woot!) but the original writing team is not on it... so will they stick with what they said, or just hold out more I dunno.

Right now I think the money is in the action figures (for Big O). Afterall the series was made to sell a toy, and this new toy is sellin' like hotcakes.

*EDIT* (My bad, I was thinking of Hajime Yatate, which was the collective pseudonym for the Sunrise team)

[Brooklyn Luckfield]

I didn't find Lain to being so much Anti-American, as it is the typical Japanese butthurt. It was Yasuyuki Ueda that mentioned how he wanted to create the show with Japanese values and hoped American's wouldn't get it or understand it's values, but of course the American fans did, and much butthurt followed.  

[paul1290]

I always thought that bit regarding Lain was a tad exaggerated. I usually take anything from translated interviews with a grain of salt.

[Sharpshooter005]

Sharp. Are you still asking why he hasn't divulged old plot plans yet?

I was never really asking.

Until an outline is provided from one of the writers, I'm not even gonna believe there was a plan

edit: I can't find a screencap/youtube of that part in Lain where the sweater alien just kinda appears out of nowhere and grins. But damn did I get freaked out when I first saw that.

(Then again, when you grow up watching stuff like "Sightings", grey aliens become sorta a phobia)

[Jim_Dandy]

Episodes cost $100,000-$220,000 for high quality stuff plus a large sum for a good time slot on the air last time I checked. It's very expensive. An OVA would be much cheaper and wouldn't have all the sponsor fees and whatnot. Someone could email Konaka and see how much it would cost and who's @$$ he/we the Big O fans have to kiss to make something happen with the series. If there's a badass redesign of Big O himself for absolutely no reason that makes mecha fans shrill with delight and will sell well then it could be a not so far fetched possibilty.

And by the way is their some legal reason CN won't air season 1 of Big O again?

[EyeOfPain]

Yes, the rights expired and they didn't pay to renew.

[Sharpshooter005]

I thought they periodically aired it at 3:30 am or something

[Professor Vogler]

Apparently it's only the rights to Season 1 that expired. I suppose since CN is co-creator of season 2 they can replay season 2 as much as they want.

[Char Aznable]

Yay for DVD's. I can watch Big-O whenever I want.

And I do.

[Yuko-san]

^ Yup.

You think they will put Big O on Blu-Ray? I own the DvD's, but seeing as Blu-Ray is becoming popular then maybe they will make Blu-Ray box sets.
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Another thing. Lot's of people want a season 3, not just Americans but also Koreans, French, Germen and Spanish speaking people want a third season. I've even found a Chinese blog (Or at least before my computer went kaput I had a link too it), mentioning how some Chinese people have an interest in seeing the show continue. So why doesn't Bandai just buy the right's to ACT's season 3 and 3.5? Admittedly they needed a lot of text clean-up (I saved them to word documents to read in case my internet goes out/ his site goes down), but at least one more seasons worth of stuff is there.

For those not familiar with ACT go to www.r-dorothy.com, you can find his season 3 and 3.1 on his site.

[ianfeller]

I don't wish to sound dumb, but who exactly is this that wrote the extra season(s) (including 3.1). I took a look at the site you linked to and there are lots of interesting things there, but the author does not talk about him/herself at all. Is this just someone who decided to write their own fanfiction, or is it actually someone who was involved with the show. Also I haven't begun to read them so if anyone has. How good is it? Does it stay true to the 'original' material?

[Professor Vogler]

He was an elder member of the original Paradigm City Forums. Not at all connected to the show, just a fan... with a weird writing style.