Anime gets its own Veronica Mars Kickstarter: overseas fans raise $150.000 in 5 hours

[unjapanologist]

(One day I will make a post that is actually about what I've been up to and not just a crosspost of something I blathered about elsewhere, but today is not this day. Crossposted from Fanhackers.)

As reported by Anime News Network and others, Japanese animation studio TRIGGER's Kickstarter campaign to make a sequel episode to their Little Witch Academia OAV met its goal of $150.000 in less than five hours. The Kickstarter is at $285.000 right now, with a whopping 28 days still left to go.

In the Kickstarter video, TRIGGER co-founder Masahiko Otsuka explains that after the studio uploaded the single-episode anime on YouTube, they got an unexpected flood of comments from overseas fans, many urging them to hold a Kickstarter campaign so they could make more episodes. TRIGGER looked into this Kickstarter thing and decided to give it a go.

 

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