Why wasn't Ryuki as popular as Madoka got?

[Oblivion]

I'd been stalking this thread for a while, and I just realized that we did not talk about Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Before Precure, Magika and Puerla(spelling please? Haven't been catching up with the magical girl genre), we had Nanoha and if I remember correctly, it was a major bomb wasn't it? First of it's genre to move away from the Magical Girl formula, uses weapons that looks and sound tech based. Oh, wait, or was Nanoha after Ryuki?

 

[Kamen Rider IXA]

Nanoha was before Precure? WTF?! Are you sure?

 

[Hell Kaiser Andy]

On technicalities she is.

Futari wa Pretty Cure - February 1, 2004
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha - October 1, 2004.

However Nanoha is a Alt. Universe Spin-Off of Triangle Heart which came out as an Eroge in 1998 and had OVA's in 2000. And Nanoha first appears as a minor character in Triangle Heart 3 which was released in 2001, and again in a later Triangle Heart OVA sporting her animated debut, in 2003.

 

[Eldar]

Everything is based off Ryuki even Highlander.

 

[billySEEDDecade]

Maybe because Nanoha have no-to-little similarity to Ryuki. Really, Nanoha is more similar to Gundam than anything else. Never watch the show though, although from some clip that I watched, It's pretty much a shounen battle anime with female cast rather than a magical girl anime.

 

[Shynilyte]

The movie came out around the time Odin appeared in the tv show. Anyway, I don't think there's anything stopping him from reseting time after the movie was done.

In the tv show, he was clearly pretty desperate in some scenes involving Yui at the end, and in the movie he sees Yui killing herself just to antagonize him, that must hurt, so his reaction isn't really out of character.

Besides, the movie does end with that scene in the past.

Well, if he did reset again for the movie ending, then it's even less satisfying, since everyone ends up back where they started.

Anyway, as for the popularity thing, Ryuki didn't get fansubs as it came out, did it? That probably made it hard for a lot of people to get into it. And I think old shows that are recently getting subbed tend to get less attention than brand new shows, so there's that.

 

[Oblivion]

Nanoha was before Precure? WTF?! Are you sure?

I am not, that's why I stopped saying anything else after that. I should get to watching Nanoha.

 

[Berty]

Okay... let me see. Kanzaki rolled back time at the end of the movie story. He rolled back time at the end of the 13 Riders story. Part of the plot mentioned in the magazines was that he may have rolled back time, trying to give Yui a longer lifespan, multiple times. So the TV series ends with him realizing that Yui will never let him pay for her life with the lives of innocent people and the men and women he chose to fight as Riders.

Further, in the series no, Verde, Femme and Ryuga were not killed off-screen.

Professor Hideyuki Kagawa created the Alternative decks, stealing two places. Shuichi Kitaoka and Goro took his place to fight as Zolda. Okay, counting Goro, sweet lovable Goro, is a stretch.

 

[KingRanger]

Okay... let me see. Kanzaki rolled back time at the end of the movie story. .

No he didn't.

 

[ooo5]

Well... there's no telling whether he did or didn't.

There's no actual statement about whether Episode Final or the 13 Riders special are actually canon, as different time loops where Kanzaki failed to save Yui.

But considering the events of the series aren't Kanzaki's first attempt, it's nice to be able to think of them as alternate timelines for the Rider War. Especially considering the dubious canonocity of most Rider movies and specials.