KuwabaraTheMan
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If only G-Reco had been dubbed it could have saved Toonami.
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Autumn Anime 2016 |OT| The seasons change, but we're still Falling for Euri
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Valdfellgar
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I agree, Garo was good, quite good in places, but I don't think it's in any tier above IBO or parasyte. I can't think of anything I'd consider stupidly good action anime that I think would outclass any of these other shows for Toonami To snag. At least not this late at night.
Save it by burning it all down?
nintendoman58
Member
I really hate to say this, but G-Reco probably would have ended up doing the opposite to Toonami.
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
If Toonami can survive truly and irredeemably bad shows like Deadman Wonderland, Sword Art Online, Tenchi GXP and Bleach, then it would hardly be destroyed by a fun mecha anime.
The Silver
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Best fave five worst anime i'm thinking about at this moment, Sword Art Online disqualified since it's far too bad to be put on this list of best bad anime.
Aldnoah Zero - worse than testicular cancer
Eureka 7 - every character was an unlikeable piece of shit, who recommended this shit to me
Hyouka - oh how prett- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Digimon S2 - what's the dark ocean, what's the deal with Daemon? my childhood needs these answers you idiots
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers - loved this show, but there won't be a second season, so fuck this show, should've never watch it.
Aldnoah Zero - worse than testicular cancer
Eureka 7 - every character was an unlikeable piece of shit, who recommended this shit to me
Hyouka - oh how prett- zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Digimon S2 - what's the dark ocean, what's the deal with Daemon? my childhood needs these answers you idiots
Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers - loved this show, but there won't be a second season, so fuck this show, should've never watch it.
GoldCrusader
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I did not call Garo bad, I said it was good, just not high-quality. I think I stayed respectful.
Also I did enjoy TG more then Garo, but I also liked Garo, it has one of the best sword fight imo.
Maybe it would've made the story easier to understand, but much more then that heeeeh.
nintendoman58
Member
triggered.
The Silver
Member
no one respects anime more than me, a lot of my friends are anime, exceptional, tremendous people
So what's wrong with what I said?
hosannainexcelsis
Member
If the best action anime can do is Parasyte, then anime should stop doing action.
GoldCrusader
Member
If you did not mean ill then nvm, but your comment felt snarky for what I think was a fairly reasonable comment.
Don't be so over dramatic, he never said that. He just said Garo wasn't as good as you say.
My Hero Academia would make a good toonami show imo or Mob psycho too.
Valdfellgar
Banned
Thanks, Senpai
Yeah I mean I liked Garo a lot. enough so that crimson moon hurt as a follow up.
Basileus777
Member
I think if you're going to go this route you need to offer more than 1 title as a suggestion for what action anime they should be licensing.
but madhouse
nintendoman58
Member
I still hope Madoka Magica finds its way onto Toonami someday.
Live Madoka reactions from ToonamiGAF would be incredible.
Live Madoka reactions from ToonamiGAF would be incredible.
Valdfellgar
Banned
Oh did they not air Academia? That's definitely a good title for their audience then, I agree.
UFO - #9
ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ〜
I'm liking where this is going with Asuka, and really appreciate that the show hasn't relied on hammy situations with her mom again so far. You could tell she had always been doing everything for her own selfish goals, and now we know she's just putting up with the whole band thing because that's the one way she's found to bond with the father that was out of her life for as long as she could remember.
The fact that almost everything she says is nothing more than lip service is something I really appreciate in her, because her character as a whole is really complex and the show's doing a decent job of exposing her real self slowly but surely. The experience of wearing a mask for the sake of social interaction, and the struggle that comes from trying to show you give a damn about people and things you actually don't is something I can really relate to, which is the main reason why I care so much about seeing a character like hers playing an important role here. It's also nice that the catharthic moments so far are coming from the way she's legitimately bonding with Kumiko, as opposed to having her pushed into a corner where she'd be forced to enact some big dramatic scene.
And since I also watched this...
Girlish Number - #8
Having an episode without Chitose in it was kind of like a breath of fresh air for me, and the way they took the time to develop her two sempais was nice and felt worth the time investment. Keeping Kuzu out of the way for most of the episode was also good, because so far he feels like a one-trick pony, much like Chitose (sadly).
Still, what's with the abuse of chromatic aberration in most background-only shots? I feel like those artifacts acually make things look worse than they should, rather than making them more eye-catching or anything.
ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ〜
I'm liking where this is going with Asuka, and really appreciate that the show hasn't relied on hammy situations with her mom again so far. You could tell she had always been doing everything for her own selfish goals, and now we know she's just putting up with the whole band thing because that's the one way she's found to bond with the father that was out of her life for as long as she could remember.
The fact that almost everything she says is nothing more than lip service is something I really appreciate in her, because her character as a whole is really complex and the show's doing a decent job of exposing her real self slowly but surely. The experience of wearing a mask for the sake of social interaction, and the struggle that comes from trying to show you give a damn about people and things you actually don't is something I can really relate to, which is the main reason why I care so much about seeing a character like hers playing an important role here. It's also nice that the catharthic moments so far are coming from the way she's legitimately bonding with Kumiko, as opposed to having her pushed into a corner where she'd be forced to enact some big dramatic scene.
And since I also watched this...
Girlish Number - #8
Having an episode without Chitose in it was kind of like a breath of fresh air for me, and the way they took the time to develop her two sempais was nice and felt worth the time investment. Keeping Kuzu out of the way for most of the episode was also good, because so far he feels like a one-trick pony, much like Chitose (sadly).
Still, what's with the abuse of chromatic aberration in most background-only shots? I feel like those artifacts acually make things look worse than they should, rather than making them more eye-catching or anything.
Aldnoah Zero is like an anime that was made by people who didn't know what they wanted to do with the show and they never really figured it out and it was just garbage the whole way through. Probably the only anime I've hate watched the entire way through and of course it ended with Idaho winning to just top of the shit sundae.
KuwabaraTheMan
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I don't know that the casual audience would be willing to stick with Madoka for three weeks until getting to that moment. And a lot of viewers would probably be immediately turned off by the art style/"it's a girl show". Toonami is incredibly risk averse in general.
Basileus777
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I feel like anyone watching anime and posting on Neogaf can't be innocent when it comes to a show like that. They know what the jig is. Then again I never cared for the reaction post culture in this thread either when it came to things like School Days because I rarely believed that they were genuine.
I don't understand. You agree that Garo is no Tokyo Ghoul. It is there on record. Why are you upset at me for merely stating how you already feel.
GoldCrusader
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If we agree then marvellous!
hosannainexcelsis
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I was responding to the sentence "I can't think of anything I'd consider stupidly good action anime that I think would outclass any of these other shows for Toonami To snag." there.
I'll agree that it's difficult, because the audience Toonami is aiming for and the licensing restrictions they have to work with heavily restrict the number of quality anime they can go for. But if I had no licensing restrictions and could be a little adventurous without going outside the bounds of "action" that is the Toonami brand, I would make a block with anime such as the following:
Fate/Zero
Gundam Build Fighters
Haikyuu (sports might be a tough sell, but it's still a kind of action and Haikyuu in particularly would likely be one of the most accessible sports anime for the Toonami audience)
Majin Bone
Mob Psycho 100 (this at least will probably get on Toonami eventually)
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (this will likely never come because negotiations for it have already failed sadly)
Yona of the Dawn
Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta (if Toonami could air KLK, they shouldn't have any problem with the lewd aspects of this)
While some of the Toonami audience might have issues with pre-HD anime, I'd still also ideally like to put older action-oriented shows such as Dirty Pair or Hunter X Hunter 1999 up to remind people that there was anime before 2007 other than Cowboy Bebop.
Of course, I know my idea of quality anime does differ from that of the average Toonami viewer, so if I was put in charge of the block I'd probably run viewership into the ground. Oh well!
What happened to him anyway?
half of those shows would need to get dubbed first
nintendoman58
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I agree that the art style and girly nature of the show may be a turn-off for most casual viewers, but I wonder if the show's mega popularity in the west would be able to mitigate that somewhat.
It's not like the show is 100% K-ON!-esque fluff until that moment though. There's still a good amount of action and a general creepy atmosphere that could keep viewers drawn in. Especially with the opening scene.
ToonamiGAF is generally good at keeping the spoilers/hints to a minimum (I'm always seeing someone post a little card or something that features a character from the upcoming show telling them not to do that, it's kinda cute).
Reaction post culture has worn out its welcome a while ago, yeah. It's a lot different though when it comes to group reactions though. I'll never forget that time when Twitch aired most of the Pokemon movies in a single night.
The chat. Oh my goodness the chat. It was the best.
High school and white people tv.
Oh whew. I thought for a moment he got cosmicblizzard'd while I wasn't looking.
Madoka's dub is pretty bad though outside of a few choice scenes and lines (none of which are in episodes 10-12), might not get the reaction you're hoping for.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Sure, but I believe a lot of the anime that airs on Toonami gets their first English dub for that timeslot.
GoldCrusader
Member
Man what would I give for a Haikyu dub...DAMN YOU SENTAI!!!
nintendoman58
Member
Majin Bone would never get a proper English dub lol.
It'd end up as Netflix Original butchered dub a la Glitter Force.
Now I'm mad again that that's how most people saw Smile Precure and missed out on all the legit good eps it had.
The spice is life.
Hellwarden
Member
Eh, we've had bad dubs on Toonami.
The last episode of Parasyte had dub Shinichi falling asleep while talking about the nature of mankind.
The last episode of Parasyte had dub Shinichi falling asleep while talking about the nature of mankind.
BTW you should watch Jodorowsky's Dune if you haven't.
I've been meaning to, I read about his planned production and it sounds like the most absurd, decadent production of all time.
As much as people seem to want MHA on Toonami it seems to be on the low priory shelf for them. Mob Psycho 100 is currently the most requested program to come to Toonami and for the record number 3 is Lupin The 3rd Part 4.
Cornbread78
Member
Hey guys, are C3 and Absolute Duo pure shit?
I remember those being the case.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Yeah
nintendoman58
Member
Both are 12-episode harem anime LN adaptations with no second season.
What do you think?
Certainly I know whose opinions to totally discount now.
Time for a Hyouka I rewatch now.
Man...if you think shows without second seasons shouldn't be watched you're not watching an awful lot of anime.
Praise be to G-Reco.
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