Troubled Production: Difference between revisions

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As mentioned, a lot of the examples here tend to be famous for their quality, good or bad.

== Real Life ==

* [[Troubled Production/Film|Film]]

=== Anime & Manga ===

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** Of course, the very first ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' show's production was no picnic, either (as is chronicled in the tongue-in-cheek "Making Of" series ''[[Gundam Sousei]]''). Then came ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', which suffered fewer financial hardships than the original, but both the TV series and the [[Compilation Movie]]s rather infamously suffered complications as a result of the romantic blunders of various men involved in production with at least three voice actresses.

*** Most (in)famous of which was the legendary feud between the [[Prima Donna Director]] and scriptwriter [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] and equally self-important mecha designer Mamoru Nagano. It became doubly notorious because not only both men were feuding over the Beltorchika Irma's [[Seiyuu]] [[Maria Kawamura]],<ref>Nagano won and they still seem to be [[Happily Married]].</ref> but over [[Creative Differences]] as well.<ref>Nagano routinely hated Tomino's style and the direction where he was taking the show, up to the point that [[The Five Star Stories]] basically started as his [[Start My Own]] towards their other collaboration, [[Heavy Metal L-Gaim]].</ref>

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': The series had just aired its 10th episode when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan. Most shows held back a week out of courtesy, but while most shows were returned the following week, ''Madoka Magica'' wasn't. Despite using the time to polish up the final two episodes, the channel that had first air rights to the series refused to air it for nearly two months before relenting and airing the last two back to back.

* ''[[The Dream Machine]]'' the final movie of the [[Author Existence Failure|late]] [[Satoshi Kon]] has experienced its share of trouble, having gone from production into [[Development Hell]], back into production only to fall back into development hell. First Kon's death from pancreatic cancer put the film on hold to determine the next course of action. Kon's widow and Studio [[Madhouse]]'s Masao Maruyama told they would finish the film and production resumed. However at Otakon 2011 Maruyama reported the movie has been put on hold due to financial difficulties. Maruyama is still determined to finish the film eventually with about 600 shots out of 1500 had been animated at that point.

* For a long time, ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' looked like a happy subversion. Ken Akamatsu wanted to do a shounen-action series from the start, but [[Executive Meddling|his producers]] wanted a [[Harem Genre|harem show]] like his extremely popular ''[[Love Hina]]'' series. Akamatsu ''faked'' a harem series, using the first two volumes to lay down characterization, then slowly segue into the fighter series he wanted from the start. This resulted in an extremely intelligent and popular series known for its [[Amazon Brigade]] and ridiculously badass ten-year old protagonist. However, some three hundred chapters later, the executives tried to take the rights to the series away from him. He responded by ending the series abruptly, with a carefully crafted final chapter that managed use the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] to [[Torch the Franchise and Run|make sure no one else could use his series]]. It remains to be seen if there will be any more releases filling in the unanswered questions.