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Toonami |Oct14| A Place for Manly Souls
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Netflix has spent much more than a dub would cost to get far less.
Psycho Pass has no exclusivity to Netflix.
Well, the be IF is Sentai, they need to play ball first.
"Hey would you like to air your shows in the only place on American TV where they can air?"
"Yes."
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Wasn't this said about Kill la Kill too? I don't think it's coming anytime soon, if ever.
BassForever
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Almost forgot, thanks for reminding me
Sentai dubs most of their shows so that shouldn't be an issue, and considering that DeMarco just said in this AMA that they're open to Sentai being on Toonami. Why would Sentai need to pay for Akame Ga Kill to air? It doesn't have TnA they'd need to censor
No one said this about Kill la Kill because it came out pretty early that it might be too lewd for Toonami
Please tell me where they are then?
Late to the party and blocked out for the moment by Funi and Aniplex
They'd have announced it or thrown it up there by now. It's too big a property to keep hidden away like this.
BassForever
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I very much believe we'll see a Sentai show on Toonami in 2015, both sides have clearly shown interest over the past few months and as Sentai continues to pick up shows that are popular and dub them and release them in the US the more a partnership would be mutually beneficial.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Nobody? I recall a lot of speculation that KLK would come to toonami before DeMarco shut that talk down at Momocon. I'll go out on a limb and say AGK won't come either without edits which neither side wants to pay for.
Welp, until they show up to the party I can't consider them a player in the Toonami ecoshpere.
Seems I just missed the Q&A
A) Did anybody ask/say anything about Jojo?
B) I feel pretty confident that Log Horizon would bomb on Toonami. Akame no Kill has a better chance but that shitty anime humor brings it down from time to time.
On an unrelated note, the problem with the Fake Kaurakua Town arc was that it was sold as a "war" but played out like a tournament. A bunch of mostly one on one fights with everybody staying neatly out of each others way and taking turns. There was no strategic element to it, there were basically no group fights and there were barely any stakes. Because this is Bleach and Shonen, none of the good guys were in any actual danger but none of them could hope to ever touch Aizen, Gin or Tousen. Since most fights in Bleach devolve "my power level is greater than yours", few of the fights are every engaging. It was mostly an exercise in wasting time :/
A) Did anybody ask/say anything about Jojo?
B) I feel pretty confident that Log Horizon would bomb on Toonami. Akame no Kill has a better chance but that shitty anime humor brings it down from time to time.
On an unrelated note, the problem with the Fake Kaurakua Town arc was that it was sold as a "war" but played out like a tournament. A bunch of mostly one on one fights with everybody staying neatly out of each others way and taking turns. There was no strategic element to it, there were basically no group fights and there were barely any stakes. Because this is Bleach and Shonen, none of the good guys were in any actual danger but none of them could hope to ever touch Aizen, Gin or Tousen. Since most fights in Bleach devolve "my power level is greater than yours", few of the fights are every engaging. It was mostly an exercise in wasting time :/
BassForever
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You would think this would be the case for anyone who has the dub rights to this series, same with JoJo... and yet here we are still waiting and wondering what the hold up is
BassForever
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Uhh what part of Akame Ga Kill would have to be censored/edited? Girls in bathing suits hasn't been a problem before and the violence is nowhere near as graphic as Hellsing.
I don't see what edits AGK would need.
We had a Nazi Vampire eat a baby on Hellsing Ultimate. You know the type of shit that sends American censors in a tizzy and violence isn't it
Both the comedy and violence in Akame ga Kill are way closer to normal than both in Hellsing.
Doctor Decimate
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the thing is that Sentai hasn't worked with Adult Swim in any capacity for quite a while because they chose to focus on pushing their Anime Network.
for what it's worth, i think the current rumor was that HxH was in the midst of a bidding war.
BassForever
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More like what FMA:B does with it's comedy scenes, it's no where near as jarring
Gucci Messiah
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We had a Nazi Vampire eat a baby on Hellsing Ultimate. You know the type of shit that sends American censors in a tizzy and violence isn't it
Wait for the child molestation, rape, and genital torture
Imperial Bishop
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Didn't DeMarco already state that too much nudity wasn't the reason KLK hasn't aired yet?
BassForever
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1) This season of the anime isn't even going to get to this
2) This stuff isn't going to air on Japanese TV either as they've already toned down scenes of rape and cut a scene of child molestation
Aaah, okay. I like to use FMA:B as a series that knows when to use comedy to lighten the mood, but still understands when to keep it serious & not switch to its sillier art style.
BassForever
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IIRC the comment was that the nudity would be a problem and that they'd have to pay to get it censored
Imperial Bishop
Banned
Spoilers, man. Geez.
Doctor Decimate
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i do not agree with this at all. for the first 20 or so episodes, anyway.
BassForever
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The style of comedy works for me, but I know it doesn't for others. Also with how much darker AkG is compared to FMA:B it's comedy might be even more jarring for those who didn't like what FMA:B did
Exactly like this here lol
Imperial Bishop
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They originally said that nudity might be an issue, but apparent it's not if I'm taking the context of this correctly.
That doesn't mean Kill la Kill is free and clear, it just means that wasn't the reason they got Gurren Lagann
Gucci Messiah
Banned
1. Probably won't get to the genital torture but you know exactly where the anime will end this season? I bet there's a good chance to get to some of the sexualized themes and even implied child molestation won't fly on cartoon network.
2. There's a plot point that involves rape/molestation they can't ignore whether it's this season or the next
Violence isn't the problem with AGK, it's the sexualized nature in which it's portrayed. On top of that the show will probably be expensive to air. You think they're going to splurge on AGK to air it at 2 or 2:30AM and roll the dice with something that will probably do Black Lagoon or Hellsing ratings? SAO II and Log Horizon are much safer bets imo.
I grew up watching a decent amount of comedies as a kid & teen, so FMA:B's humor worked most of the time for me.
BassForever
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Got a pretty good idea of where it'll end
the battle with Esdeath in the church with everyone
And both Gurren Lagann and Black Lagoon aired on the block, Black Lagoon even featured all those themes you mentioned and arguably was darker with how it depicted them.
I can't speak to what the anime hasn't covered yet that happens in the manga (and I expect some things to be toned down based on what people are saying in here) but from the 17 episodes aired so far, there's nothing that would be too much for this version of Toonami. Let's see how the anime actually handles the super edgy stuff before we say its too much for Toonami or not.
That was about as batshit insane as I was thinking it would be.
Schadenfreude
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Eh. It was pretty boring.
BassForever
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This seriously, nothing in the manga is any worse then the manga for Black Lagoon shows, and that arc was animated just fine and aired on Toonami
BassForever
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I mean it wasn't mind boggling funny, but it did make me laugh and it's classic animated style worked really well. It also somehow managed to have no gross out humor which is a huge plus for me.
Gucci Messiah
Banned
Bro Black Lagoon doesn't have
a deranged clown that openly talks about how he rapes and murders kids to preserve their innocence
Putting the nature of the content on hold, do you actually think the network will shell out money for AGK when it will air at 2 or 2:30AM and super edgy content has generally proven to tank in the ratings? The 'new' shows they air after the long running shonen are generally a few years old outside of SAO.
Not Mr. Pickles/10
AGK will get better ratings because it looks like SAO
BassForever
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And that spoiler isn't even going to be in this season of the anime as there simply aren't enough episodes left at the pacing they're going to get there. Plus we don't even know how the Japanese version of the anime will depict that, but odds are when the second season of the anime gets to that part they'll edit it down because it's too much even for Japanese TV.
And they aired Hellsing Ultimate from 3-4 and are currently airing it from 2 - 3 and Hellsing Ultimate had a baby getting eaten... yeah it's not sexual but it's a dark and edgy show and they just went out of their way to say they want more adult shows like Hellsing Ultimate tonight. The bigger question about AgK on Toonami is if we ever get Sentai on Toonami, not if AgK is too racy for Toonami (it isn't)
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