Personally, I wouldn’t want canon movies until we get simultaneous anime movie releases worldwide.
Unless Crunchyroll or (insert other anime company) don't get their act together... This won't happen, I mean it would be cool.. But it won't happen.
The closest thing to this would be a simulcast similar to Burn the Witch which got simulcast in CR (Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what happened, right? It was simulcasted like a day after it hit Japanese cinemas, correct?).
Maaaaaaybe... Mayyyybe... I can see Crunchyroll or other companies renting movie theaters or doing super limited runs of their simulcasts or something like that obviously limited releases are a thing that mostly happen in super populated cities so that would mean 90% of us wouldn't get the simultaneous movie release, which tbh I'm fine with it, like living in a small city I am used to that haha. I am used to waiting like 6 months for anime movies, iirc we probably will get this movie next year and also the last Fate movie, I'm used to waiting.. And I'm happy as long as we get the movies released, then again I live in a small
city, but what about the people not in cities?
But I highly doubt there will ever be a day where simultaneous anime releases are a thing worldwide or even in the strongest markets which I imagine are other countries in Asia and France.
Personally I don't mind too much waiting for the movie to get to online services
BUT what happens if that never happens?
If a cannon part of the story never gets into ANY streaming service?
As I said in a previous post this same thing happened with Shokugeki No Soma, for some reason they made a super important cannon part of the story (Around 2-3 chapters IIRC) into an OVA, btw that was a not like a "fillerish" kind of episode but more like a "bridge" between season 2 and season 3 because that episode introduced super important characters which to my knowledge has never been available to watch in any streaming service. So basically if I wanted to know what happened there I had three options:
a) Read a summary online.
b) Read the manga (illegally because up to that point the manga was not being published at all in my country).
c) Watch the OVA (illegally, and then again I remember this OVA didn't get subbed for a while.. Which was weird considering how popular Shokugeki no Soma was).
Hopefully, publishers catch up to the fact that maybe from now on OVAs and movies will get cannon material, it already deteriorated the viewing experience of many Shokugeki no Soma watchers (I couldn't have cared less because I'm a manga reader, though I particularly wanted to see that episode animated).
But this probably will be a thing from now on? Maybe? Of course not every anime will get Kimetsu's success but if for example Black Clover or My Hero Academia tried this approach of making cannon material a movie in the future it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.
en.wikipedia.org
is Canon Movie the way now ladies and gentlemen
