В 2009 году американские фанаты начали кампанию по привлечению интереса Toei под названием Операция "Лунный Рассвет". Они создали серию опросов, касавшихся того, как повлияла на них СМ и в каком виде они хотели бы получить её возвращение в США. И вот, недавно было объявлено о переиздании манги. Тоеи и Коданша ещё и выразили фанам благодарность за работу.
Я спросила у них, как можно было бы привлечь внимание компаний, лицензировавших СМ, к СНГ и России (в частности, к организации перепоказа). В ответ мне пришла куча материала и советов, вот они (на английском):
Toei Animation Europe is one company - I am unsure of Plus Licens though. Do they deal with Russia? As far as I understand they are dealing with Scandinavian countries like Poland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. They do have offices in Russia though. Perhaps they would be a good starting point. I would look at this page:
http://www.pluslicens.se/OfficeRussia.htmlFirst, send Paul Tush an email. If within a week he doesn't respond, get on the phone and speak with him or someone in sales and marketing. I have found that if you speak on the phone, company executives are less afraid of you and will actually share better email contacts with you once they know you are a normal person. Just ask if Plus Licens has the rights to Sailor Moon to Russia and other countries in that region. If they say yes, your job got a lot easier, you know exactly who you need to contact. Don't worry if you are nervous the first couple calls (I was too!), but it will get a lot easier as you progress and build a friendly business relationship with these companies.
If they say no, then you have to go to square one and work with Toei, but also other anime licensing companies. A good way to figure out who would work for Sailor Moon is to look at the biggest properties right now in Russia - is it Dragon Ball Z? Is it Pokemon? Is it Naruto? Whichever is the hot series that not only has DVDs, but also has toys and other merchandise, these are the companies you need to be contacting. If you are ever unsure about who to contact at a company send us a link to their staff page and we'll tell you who is your best bet!
Now when it comes to TV - look at what channels are airing anime right now, or if anyone airs a lot of "girl cartoons". These are the ones you want to approach. Do not, I repeat, do not, run a petition. Petitions are useless because it doesn't really tell a company too much details about what they want in a release. Instead, run surveys. Fans like them because of the anonymity, and companies like them because you can show them numbers. Try to aim for a minimum of 500 surveys at the very least (if you can get 1000, that will be great, but we got by with 500 for our first one ever). Companies will respond to surveys because the numbers there show them that fan concerns are quantifiable, and this makes it easier for them to understand. Format a report for your surveys as well - loosely, this is the format that we followed:
Introduction - History of Sailor Moon in North America, or Russia in your case. Deal with the anime only with the broadcasters. I also included some background on the anime in Japan - I had wanted someone who had never watched Sailor Moon to have a good idea of what the series was and where it came from. It is fully possible that an executive may not know the series well at all. I think this was one of the high points of our reports, aside from the organization. The people that read it really admired our research and how we made them familiar with the series!
Survey Section - Brief one page intro to the survey (why you asked the questions you did and what your purpose was, add one sentence listing the total number of survey responses you had), a copy of the survey questions, graphs with the survey answers (we did bar charts for questions that fans could answer more than one choice for, pie charts for those with single answers), and then at the end, make tables with the numbers and percentages (rounded off to 2 decimal places) so that they can look at the numbers. If you look at our report page, we have posted excerpts of what we had written along with simplified versions of our charts and the numbers. The only difference is, we did one graph per page, and then at the end we had 2-3 pages of just the numbers. After that, we had sorted through all the fan comments into different categories and put them after these numbers. This will likely be your largest section!
Conclusion - What were your major findings in your survey? Are there any other issues that you feel need to be mentioned in this section (censorship, has society changed? are cartoons airing without censorship of major issues that were concerns when sailor moon was around?) I ended this on a lighter note talking about some of the recent events in Japan (the DVD launch, the charaben classes, and Naoko's updates on Sailor Moon channel), and then a big thank you to the companies and a sincere hope for a successful return of Sailor Moon to North America.
I sent our results by courier, but I picked the cheaper one in Canada. I think each report I sent cost be around $25, but it was worth it for the document tracking and security. Make sure you get a tracking number. Call the company the day before you send it as well, and confirm the address as well as give them a name of someone at their office to stick on the address. This will ensure that it will get delivered to that person. You can do email, but make sure you are on the phone with the person you are sending it to before you send it off. When you put your binder together, the key is to make it look professional. I'll show you this photo I took of the first report I printed:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r9BGMMVpdVk/S ... inders.pngPut your logo and site name on the front, as well as your report title (ours was simply Operation Moonrise Campaign Results). Go out to your equivalent of our dollar stores here, and buy lots of page protectors, and put your pages in here (you can print double sided, but I didn't have the time to make sure all 200 pages came out okay, so I just did it single sided, but put two pages facing opposite in each protector). Also, get a set of dividers and label them corresponding to the sections. The people reading this will want easy access to the sections if they use them in future presentations.
Two weeks after you have sent the report, contact the person by phone and ask if they read it, if they liked the format and if they have any questions. Offer to run another survey if there was something they wanted an answer for but didn't. Make a contact at the company and ensure you get their email. Also, don't publicize what you speak about with their rep on your site - companies won't trust you if you do this!
I hope this helps. Let me know if you ever need help - we will also help get publicity for your surveys if you decide to run them. Send us a link and one of our staffers will get it up!
Cheers, and Good Luck!
¤Sailordees