Exactly. Mediocre adaptions of long running mangas won't help anything.
People will get bored.
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Toonami |Jan15| Sold Our Car for Gas Money
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Exactly. Mediocre adaptions of long running mangas won't help anything.
People will get bored.
chicagocubsfan
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Wonder if they could just skip fillers and go into maybe the best arc of the series. If not we will have to wait until summer basically.
Gucci Messiah
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4 months of filler? Christ.
One Piece tanked during the recaps which should have been skipped. If it doesn't recover I could see them giving it the axe. Isn't it already pushed back to 2:30AM now??
chicagocubsfan
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17 episodes that starts with Episode 55. So basically yeah.
wow...what bummer news (especially One Piece knocking on death's door).
However, I didn't stay up for the shows that got cut and didn't get home in time for the 11:30 show...sooooo it doesn't hurt me much. Still cuts are never good.
As much as I like One Piece (BTW I started reading the manga..and wooooooo), I don't think having 3 long running shows in which often nothin happens is a great idea. Naruto gets really really boring soon IIRC and has filler galore. Enes Lobby is gdlk but after that? Thriller Bark lulls at times. DBZ Kai cuts out the filler tho..but still.
Luckily Gurren, DBZ and OP are about to hit their OMGHOLYSHIT moments which should pull ratings hopefully and Inuyasha seems like it is hitting endgame soon too. KLK starts pretty well (although IMO the middle kinda stagnates) but I worry how people will react to the show as a whoke...it is a hard sell and generally a show with very little inbetween...you either hate it or love it.
I worry about Toonami..it has been a great way to spend a Saturday night. When GL and DW ends in March...they need to replace it with some heavy hitters . Hopefully that doesn't mean more long running shonen or repeats.
However, I didn't stay up for the shows that got cut and didn't get home in time for the 11:30 show...sooooo it doesn't hurt me much. Still cuts are never good.
As much as I like One Piece (BTW I started reading the manga..and wooooooo), I don't think having 3 long running shows in which often nothin happens is a great idea. Naruto gets really really boring soon IIRC and has filler galore. Enes Lobby is gdlk but after that? Thriller Bark lulls at times. DBZ Kai cuts out the filler tho..but still.
Luckily Gurren, DBZ and OP are about to hit their OMGHOLYSHIT moments which should pull ratings hopefully and Inuyasha seems like it is hitting endgame soon too. KLK starts pretty well (although IMO the middle kinda stagnates) but I worry how people will react to the show as a whoke...it is a hard sell and generally a show with very little inbetween...you either hate it or love it.
I worry about Toonami..it has been a great way to spend a Saturday night. When GL and DW ends in March...they need to replace it with some heavy hitters . Hopefully that doesn't mean more long running shonen or repeats.
Four months of filler
Guys. Toonami is being sent to die.
...Okay, not really. Those who criticized things from SAO to AoT to DBZ or even the upcoming KLK, those are popular, hence they will air and be decent for it.
But uh...yeah, this isnt exactly good amounts of filler.
Guys. Toonami is being sent to die.
...Okay, not really. Those who criticized things from SAO to AoT to DBZ or even the upcoming KLK, those are popular, hence they will air and be decent for it.
But uh...yeah, this isnt exactly good amounts of filler.
The series isn't even done. There's 26 episodes planned, and the latest was 14. A bi-weekly schedule will do that.
Schadenfreude
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Again!?!?
Gucci Messiah
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They need SAO 2 badly. Who cares if it's terrible overall; it brings in ratings. I'm hoping it gets dubbed soon and that DeMarco has the money to go after it.
I'd love for toonami to skip the Naruto filler but we all know DeMarco is too stubborn to do so; he'd rather go down with the ship. I'm legit worried that it's going to drag down the rest of the block.
I'd love for toonami to skip the Naruto filler but we all know DeMarco is too stubborn to do so; he'd rather go down with the ship. I'm legit worried that it's going to drag down the rest of the block.
Sailor Moon could make sense as an Inuyasha replacement, being a similarly female slanted "action" series. Even then, I have my doubts on how it really fits in on this incarnation of Toonami. I'm not really sure how it would do or how exactly it would fit in. I do imagine that it would have at least a partially built in audience base by virtue of the name alone, much like DBZ.
That's only 16 episodes. Bleach had filler arcs a lot longer than that.
Still, is it not possible to have lawyers argue for skipping filler?
THEY CAN'T EVEN PAY THEMSELVES! What makes you think they can hire lawyers?!
Gucci Messiah
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Bleach actually sustained huge ratings during filler and wasn't boring
I highly doubt anyone in here, including myself, knows anything about TV contracts or how they are written so I'm not going to even speculate on that. Maybe mightynine would have some insight but other than DeMarco spilling the beans or one of us getting a gig at Turner, I doubt we'll ever know.
TheAbsolution
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They probably don't have lawyers.
The pacing in the filler arc is actually pretty good, it ties into the cannon arc pretty well too. If anything it's more interesting than what we've seen so far.
It gets pretty dumb but agree.
Oh no doubt about that, it gets dumb as shit but it's still better than the last cannon arc.
Gucci Messiah
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Staring at a pile of rocks would be more interesting than what we've seen thus far so I'm not going to hold my breath. I was so excited for Shippuden to air but it has been straight up terrible since the first episode. Terrible pacing, too many flashbacks, bad animation, crappy new characters...ugh.
Doctor Decimate
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I don't think that's true. But he has said that it's exceptionally hard to convince the people who have to ok the decision because that means they're essentially skipping stuff that they paid money for.
mightynine
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Sadly, all my media experience is in radio, where there is no filler to worry about (although we do use PSAs for fill!).
But based on every answer Demarco's given about filler, I would guess that it's just not worth the headache of trying to carve out certain episodes and it would probably be something of a nightmare to keep track on for both ends - what if episode XXX is filler, but Funi sent the wrong tape and it airs anyway and you've skipped the two episodes before it? Wouldn't that be confusing for the viewers?
Also, his Ask has been kinda forthcoming about the changes. Obviously not enough to ruffle any feathers above him, but you can tell he's frustrated (i.e. he says moving One Piece behind GL was not his call, cutting back the block may be a plan to boost ratings but it's not HIS plan), but he's also looking at the positive side that the block is now mostly premieres, which is something they couldn't say when it first returned - i.e., the fat is trimmed.
I wonder if someone thinks that pushing OP later will help prop up the back-end of the block. Hope that people stay up for it!
Why would be done with the doom and gloom? This kind of trauma is indeed going take some time to digest.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
It's not easy to be cheery when half the block gets cut out of the blue.
lol
Gucci Messiah
Banned
I wonder if we'll ever see Dandy again with a shortened block...
If the 3:00 show doesn't also get dropped when Deadman is over, either Dandy or Bebop is probably what goes there.
I really wanted to see this one again.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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Imperial Bishop
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An interesting read that's related somehow to Adult Swim and cable in general.
http://www.businessinsider.com/forrester-video-and-tv-consumption-report-2015-1
http://www.businessinsider.com/forrester-video-and-tv-consumption-report-2015-1
Which one of you was this?
BassForever
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Probably you as the speaker sounded like a shota
>.> Not me!
He said he wished toonami was every day
Wasnt it weekdays when I was a kid?
mightynine
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There was the also the Rising Sun Saturday morning block (which I always liked the music used for the intro).
Gucci Messiah
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Nice try
Imperial Bishop
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We already know this is you, Assault.
Goddamn is Soulflarz pissed off
ASSauLTxMasTER
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