Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38066118-20191115011848/@comment-44629268-20191210080028

Kingasdfg wrote: Oh shoot, really? Do you have links? I don't mean to call you a liar but I don't want to spread misinformation and everything I can find says Araki hates the movie.

That's the issue, there's no proof Araki ever talked about the movie beyond what I mentioned, which was said at a 2006 event where the PS2 phantom blood game was promoted (and where the film's teaser, later included on a pre-order bonus disc with the game, was first screened).

As for how I'm knowledgeable on this? I'm basically the Phantom Blood expert. I run the discord for the movie, and I acquired and uploaded the 2004 teaser/pilot. It's a passion project of mine, trying to find the movie. If you don't believe that it's me, go ahead and track down the server, I can confirm there myself that it's me :p

As for misinformation... I'm just trying to stop such things from being spread myself. "Araki hates it and wants it lost so we should too" is an attitude that's plagued this movie and harmed its chances of renewed fan interest so I've tried to put that myth to bed, given how baseless it all is. Most of the rumours about the movie like that seem to originate from an old 2chan post from 2007/2008 (I forget which exactly) that has a 'my uncle works for araki' vibe to it, from what I've heard.