Good Job Bob
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Oh, I know; but it's still very awesome in it's own way.
Toonami on right now!? Is this an April Fool's troll?
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Charoncaori
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I'm not expecting more, it's just like I entered a time slip and I got to experience junior high again... instead of a nostalgic throwback.
I wanna go read what everyone thought about blue sub, I love that show, bad cg and all. That ost is godly.
I'm not trying to say it made made it better because I prefer the original series before I read the manga.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
GUYS, GUYS
This is the most positive thread on GAF in ages.
Let's not shit that up with all this arguing.
This is the most positive thread on GAF in ages.
Let's not shit that up with all this arguing.
thank you
Yuske is the best protagonist in all anime.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
It's watchable. I enjoy it to some degree, at least.
God, don't let Ookami see your post or you'll get an essay on why it's so great. >_>
:lol
lazybones18
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It's gonna be a bitch to read through this entire thread, but it will be so worth it
Well, I'm way past being drunk at this point,so I guess I will use that essay as my English 1117 or 1118 esay.
Charoncaori
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Me too.
Watching that again... I had no context for any of those shows back then. Everything was shiny and new and amazing. I'd forgotten what that was like. I wonder if I'll ever regain that feeling. Best april fools present ever.
God, I feel like I'm basking in an afterglow or something. I've gotta get some sleep...
SonicMegaDrive
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Shoot.
Once I saw that Screwball Squirrel cartoon and What's Opera Doc?, I had a feeling they were gonna play cartoon classics all day.
Oh well, time to turn it off. Thanks for the brief return to good times, Cartoon Network.
Once I saw that Screwball Squirrel cartoon and What's Opera Doc?, I had a feeling they were gonna play cartoon classics all day.
Oh well, time to turn it off. Thanks for the brief return to good times, Cartoon Network.
i really fell like that too... anime was so fucking amazing to me as a child, like it was just this entire new world of colors and feelings and visuals that just captivated my imaginations in ways nothing else ever would...
THIS IS THE LEGENDARY THREAD MANG! The greatest of alll TIME.
Rahxephon91
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My thought was that they should just make what is already the anime part of it the toonami block. I mean couldn't hurt right? I'm not sure they could get back older stuff like Outlaw Star or Gundam Wing, but might as well use the brand somehow. Late nights I guess could be find for what is essentially a nostalgia block.
Its a shame it could never go back to being on in the evening,
Charoncaori
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I just can't believe I'd forgotten that. Are all children like that? Now I know what they mean by lost innocence.
On another note, I'm at PAX next week! Crap!! Is someone gonna update the thread, or are we gonna have to drag a TV into a con room and have a really disappointing viewing party to settle this once and for all?
wtf... Astro Boy is depressing as shit.
Astro Boy is the story of a scientist who finally went crazy from mourning his dead wife and son, and how he subjects his robot creation to constant emotional abuse 24/7. In the newer manga from NOW comics the father was borderline sociopathic.
Boss Doggie
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Hahahah sorry about that. I just really hate original FMA anime. 
I find it hilarious though, that overseas Toonami didn't die. Instead it evolved into an anime and toku segment.
I find it hilarious though, that overseas Toonami didn't die. Instead it evolved into an anime and toku segment.
Toonami came at a time when the industry was in flux.
Same in Pro Wrestling...
Same in Music...
Socity in general.
You dont have the right pieces in place to have Toonami come back. Crunchy hasnt been d-balled. Socity is so hypcrital to the point that even the same Midwestern Mothers who years ago railed against a block like this would have there daughters parade near naked on a womans network. You have so many musical acts using J-Pop tropes then saying their main infuences are MJ, Whitney, Tupac and Biggie? CM Punk got it but then Vince came in and shut the whole thing down...
So yeah, it was nice of them to do that. But AS doing Toonami full time with the way things are? No way. Give it time.
Same in Pro Wrestling...
Same in Music...
Socity in general.
You dont have the right pieces in place to have Toonami come back. Crunchy hasnt been d-balled. Socity is so hypcrital to the point that even the same Midwestern Mothers who years ago railed against a block like this would have there daughters parade near naked on a womans network. You have so many musical acts using J-Pop tropes then saying their main infuences are MJ, Whitney, Tupac and Biggie? CM Punk got it but then Vince came in and shut the whole thing down...
So yeah, it was nice of them to do that. But AS doing Toonami full time with the way things are? No way. Give it time.
zerokoolpsx
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Turned on expecting Adult Swim, but got Toonami instead. So much nostalgia.
I think Saturdays with their current Anime line up and some old stuff they still can air would be perfect to start things off and then eventually grow.
I feel very cleansed now.., like many years of cynicism has melted away from me
I really do feel a Toonami Saturday block like this could 100% work, especially if there was new bumpers/reviews/montages/music videos every week... I think enough time has past that Toonami could run entirely on a nostalgia factor, but could also run as Adult Swim's functional anime block as well... like it just feels right to have this block back, it's a timeless block.
I really do feel a Toonami Saturday block like this could 100% work, especially if there was new bumpers/reviews/montages/music videos every week... I think enough time has past that Toonami could run entirely on a nostalgia factor, but could also run as Adult Swim's functional anime block as well... like it just feels right to have this block back, it's a timeless block.
Outright replacing the AS Anime lineup with Toonami like we had tonight isn't really sustainable. You need to be cycling in new stuff to keep it fresh. Most of tonight's lineup had been gone so long that it felt fresh, that's all.
It would be nice to rotate in some of these older shows, have the classic Toonami presentation, and still bring in new stuff, though. Having TOM back full time would be awesome.
They're having a hard enough time keeping enough anime shows on the roster to fill one night's worth of programming as is, though.
One thing that's for sure is that this stunt got them far more attention than the anime block has generated for them in years and years. Whether that turns into ratings or any future plans will be interesting to see.
Boss Doggie
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Honestly, just have a small section of Toonami. It doesn't need to replace AS.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Nah, I concur with the idea to have Toonami take over on Saturdays. In fact, just do it like they did tonight. "Toonami, on Adult Swim". There would be little difference from the way it is now, honestly. Just some bumpers and a new branding that will draw in the new (old) audience, solely due to (your favorite word) nostalgia. They could cycle in some older shows just to keep the nostalgia audience happy, while introducing them to the newer shows they air on Saturdays already. It's really so simple that I don't see why they haven't done it yet. I've actively avoided AS on Saturdays for years now, but I know for damn sure I'd be there every week if they did this.
Forceatowulf
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Parallax
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The funny thing is, most of the stuff currently airing on Saturday nights are series that have been on for a good while now. Bleach is still popping out new episodes, but brotherhood is on its third go around, kekkaishi is as well, durarara is on its second cycle and the fall to group of flcl, cowboy bebop, big o and inu yash fill in the rest of the gaps. Its not like theres new content coming in now, so I don't really see the difference.
Charoncaori
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Posted this on facebook and sent it to CN's feedback page. Sappy, I know, don't care anymore. Going to try to sleep. Thanks, everyone.
They call us the lost generation. Toonami tonight brought back a lost sense of innocence and wonder I had as a kid that I didn't remember existed. I'll always treasure this night. I was late to catch most of it because I was out singing karaoke and practicing my Japanese with friends. Outlaw Star's ending song made me want to learn Japanese as a kid, and now I have. Thank you.
They call us the lost generation. Toonami tonight brought back a lost sense of innocence and wonder I had as a kid that I didn't remember existed. I'll always treasure this night. I was late to catch most of it because I was out singing karaoke and practicing my Japanese with friends. Outlaw Star's ending song made me want to learn Japanese as a kid, and now I have. Thank you.
I'm pretty sure they knew how popular it was. They just made a lot of really bad decisions with their show choices around the middle of the last decade and eventually found themselves completely dependent on Naruto to sustain the block. Which was okay for a little while, but then Naruto committed suicide with something like 85 straight episodes of really bad filler, so bad that they canned it before they even reached the return of canon and Naruto Shippuuden (in fact I don't think the last few episodes of the first Naruto anime have ever aired on American television).
Naruto self-destructing pretty much doomed Toonami.
It's a shame. Naruto was pretty great up until the filler. If only they could have skipped the filler and went right to Shippuden, I think Toonami would have been much healthier.
I just finished watching Naruto and I'm currently watching Shippuden. If you skip the 80 or so episodes of filler, you literally pick up right where the show stopped being cannon.
I just finished watching Naruto and I'm currently watching Shippuden. If you skip the 80 or so episodes of filler, you literally pick up right where the show stopped being cannon.
Yeah, like I said, they already have issues even sustaining the block to begin with. In order to do anything really meaningful with Toonami, they'd need to license a whole new batch of shows on top of their current roster, and obviously they're not willing to spend all that much on their anime these days. Not that I can blame them for that.
Gotta do something to be able to air shows you don't have the broadcast rights to.
Parallax
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The thing is, if syfy was recently able to sustain an anime block, I have faith that current cn could as well. But its not just the anime that makes toonami special, its the presentation. They could bring up old series like initial d, and more recent ones like funimations dub of one piece, and without that toonami touch, they could all fail.(or fail again in one pieces instance) special bumpers, tom playing up the hype man, interest in other fields(like the mass effect 3 bumps) makes you feel like you are part of an experience, which tonight proves that it works even today. Somehow, they grabbed at a piece of what was the past, and if ratings prove fruitful, I would hope they would run with it.
Which is probably how we got to see the damn shows.
It was tasteful and a respectful nod. "Hey, the DVDs exist".
They lost the rights to some of the shows, I'm wondering if that's something they had to do to let them reair them.
Parallax
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Except for big o and bleach, they lost the rights to all of them.
Damn, didn't know it was that much. I think they lost season 1 of Big O as well, and aired episode 1...so everything but bleach? Unless they do have plans I'm not sure how they managed to do this for a night.
RiderKairuu
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Holy hell this thread is still going??
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