It was never bad, it just cost too much to make and was a massive finacial disaster for the company. They put a ton of money into promoting it too. It would have had to be the greatest movie ever made to live up to the hype.

I think they had teally unrealistic expectations for its success. Like we remember the Aki magazine covers and the swimsuit spreads, but what was actually interesting is that the company was promoting Aki not as a character, but as an actress. They wanted to put her in other movies and have her do promotions etc. Which makes sense that they wanted to lay the ground work to reuse assets for sequels or ither gilms that could possibly make a profit