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Oh brave new world with such musicals in it.
So there may, someday in the future, be a Tiger and Bunny musical.
Dear universe: PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN.
Also, Masayuki Ozaki is *surprised* that Tiger and Bunny gained more of a female fanbase - specifically, more of a middle-aged female fanbase - than it did an otaku male fanbase.
Okay, so, let's run down this premise again: A middle-aged single father with superpowers participates in a reality show about superheroes and ends up being partnered with a much younger prettyboy angstbucket superhero who doesn't trust his new partner at all and they have to power through all sorts of BUDDY-COP DRAMEDY TROPES in order to strengthen their friend/partnership that takes exactly half of one episode to start being overtly colored with homosexual overtones.
And Ozaki is surprised that this series gained a much larger female fanbase than it did a male fanbase.
As for why older women were watching the show? Well, that's fairly obvious. Japanese television is always suffering from a dearth of non-teenage protagonists - yes, even if you count live-action dramas, which for the past few years have been overwhelming focused on high school or college student characters - and Tiger and Bunny is the first anime series in a loooooong time to have a middle-aged father as its handsome, quirky, charming protagonist.
Again, the fact that this character led a series that gained popularity amongst an older female demographic really shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. Unless you're Masayuki Ozaki, I guess.
I guess I really should stop making fun of him for this, and to be fair, Ozaki did say that he intended for older working people and non-otaku to be watching the show, it was just the gender makeup of the resulting fanbase that surprised him. But still, Christ on a cracker, does the man live under a rock?!
Dear universe: PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN.
Also, Masayuki Ozaki is *surprised* that Tiger and Bunny gained more of a female fanbase - specifically, more of a middle-aged female fanbase - than it did an otaku male fanbase.
Okay, so, let's run down this premise again: A middle-aged single father with superpowers participates in a reality show about superheroes and ends up being partnered with a much younger prettyboy angstbucket superhero who doesn't trust his new partner at all and they have to power through all sorts of BUDDY-COP DRAMEDY TROPES in order to strengthen their friend/partnership that takes exactly half of one episode to start being overtly colored with homosexual overtones.
And Ozaki is surprised that this series gained a much larger female fanbase than it did a male fanbase.
As for why older women were watching the show? Well, that's fairly obvious. Japanese television is always suffering from a dearth of non-teenage protagonists - yes, even if you count live-action dramas, which for the past few years have been overwhelming focused on high school or college student characters - and Tiger and Bunny is the first anime series in a loooooong time to have a middle-aged father as its handsome, quirky, charming protagonist.
Again, the fact that this character led a series that gained popularity amongst an older female demographic really shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody. Unless you're Masayuki Ozaki, I guess.
I guess I really should stop making fun of him for this, and to be fair, Ozaki did say that he intended for older working people and non-otaku to be watching the show, it was just the gender makeup of the resulting fanbase that surprised him. But still, Christ on a cracker, does the man live under a rock?!