Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20170405162643/@comment-26018514-20170405214010

I think if any company were to consider this they likely would be best off compare/contrasting "letters from Iwa jima" with any horrible engrish anime about a western war... because if it tanks those are likely to have any reasons it would.

It really depends on the production value, intent, art style, and Voice acting. If the intent is action focused, the ACW has that, but I don't think the Japanese are interested in the actual story except for possibly War buffs...

The trouble I fear is that the ACW occured and ended as a result and cause of a culture that the japanese find interesting because it is so alien to them... so finding a director and writers who will keep it faithful yet interesting would likely require some kind of collaboration like the RWBY translation;  Writers/directors who are American(or mostly so), with localizers representing what they find interesting from their own cultural perspective, and of course a mostly japanese design/animation team to again align the resulting product closer to their market audience while also keeping it faithful to the actual history.