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Originally Posted by The Chaos Entity

Ex-Aid did better than Build in Japan. Build is nothing special there, so its unlikely to get anything that any of the others did. Hell, Ghost was really popular in Japan.

Not really sure how you're substantiating these claims, especially on Build vs. Ghost. Build is doing better than Ghost on toy and Blu-ray sales (embarrassingly so on the latter, which is probably a better determinant of potential V-cinemas than anything) and its movies are doing well (with Be the One having a better opening than the previous two summer movies). It's also doing comparable to Ex-Aid, or better, on toy sales, and while Ex-Aid has better BD sales it's not by a lot.

Hell, Build even has a lot more twitter followers than Ex-Aid did (and like 4 times as much as Ghost ever managed) which while of course is nothing at all concrete, does show some level of engagement above the average. The only area in which Build is really suffering is TV ratings, which have been on a downwards trend for a long while.