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Toonami |Oct14| A Place for Manly Souls
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Imperial Bishop
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I think it's more to do with compatibility and time slot than anything else. Bleach has been at midnight for years, but it almost always loses a ton of viewers from Attack on Titan before it.
You can count on your hand the amount of times the show following One Piece did a worse number than One Piece, no matter what it's timeslot or what it was.
I honestly want to say it is down to the art style. 4kids didn't help it any, but there's plenty of people in the manga thread who didn't originally want to pick it up because of the art style but loved it when they finally gave it a shot. It goes back to what I've said before, Toonami's demographic is shallow as fuck.
Not starting from episode one along with the travesty that was the 4Kids dub are mostly likely doing the show in on Toonami. Maybe a tad because of the art style as well since it is more exaggerated than most everything else that has and currently airs. Still, I'd put most of my money on starting the show off in the middle of series expecting viewer either catch up with past episodes on their own time or just flat out ignore the connections to past events.
If it was me, I would have skipped the show until I had at least caught up with it because it feels like I'll genuinely miss out on something or have the series spoiled because I didn't watch them in order.
If it was me, I would have skipped the show until I had at least caught up with it because it feels like I'll genuinely miss out on something or have the series spoiled because I didn't watch them in order.
What I don't get is how this never stopped DBZ from getting big. Toonami didnt air DB untill DBZ was in the buu saga if i remember correctly. People still jumped onto DBZ without knowing any of goku's backstory or his relationships with everyone.
TheAbsolution
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What the hell is going on here? I thought the earlier times would help ratings.
Hopefully they recover.
What the hell is going on here? I thought the earlier times would help ratings.
Hopefully they recover.
Anything from baseball game to smash to bad luck to idk
For a second I thought we were in really big trouble.
Doctor Decimate
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BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO OUR END DATE SCHEDULE JOKE?!?!
Not a bad guess. I'm thinking 2028, assuming ~1k episodes, which may happen if they keep on the current ~1ch to ~1ep they have going currently, discounting any possible filler.
With an ending date they won't need to do 1-1 pacing or filler. The only reason for 1-1 pacing or filler is so that they don't catch up, with an ending date that is no longer an issue.
FINAL ACT will save Toonami.
Yep. Very true. They could do the same as with Bleach or Inuyasha as well and just stop it at an arc stopping point too...
And do a 'Final Act' sorta thing (as in Inuyasha's case).
BassForever
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Or they keep doing 1-1 pacing with random fillers just to milk the anime for more ratings
UltraGunner
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It's dead, Jim
Doctor Decimate
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I lied. I'll probably have a review tomorrow but not tonight
BassForever
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Having a off week now and again isn't a huge deal, if Toonami started to consistently do mediocre numbers like that for more then say 5-8 weeks in a row then we'd see some real panic.
UltraGunner
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Cross Ange will save Toonami after it's done saving the rest of anime.
BassForever
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We'll probably see Terraformars on Toonami long before we ever see Cross Ange, with any luck we may actually get a watchable anime without 90% of the screen being black due to censorship
I've really started to not pay much mind to the ratings. Perhaps it's the loyalist in me talking, but I'll take the Toonami staff's recommendation of letting them worry about ratings to heart. After all, it's an antiqued system that doesn't really tell the entire story.
Besides, we all know MLPFIM would be the show to save Toonami.
Besides, we all know MLPFIM would be the show to save Toonami.
Shingeki no Bahamut
UltraGunner
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I was being facetious btw. Cross Ange belongs in Hell
Terraformars will make for a great 2 am show so long as the home release is secured.
UltraGunner
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Inou Battle of course. Trigger saved anime once and they'll do it again with a half-hearted LN adaptations.
BassForever
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To be fair being cheap hasn't stopped anime in the past from becoming huge
Inferno Cop is so cheap, it's hilarious. Each episode is only about 2-4 minutes & you can even watch them all on YouTube, as the series was officially uploaded & even subbed (gotta click "cc").
...also, it was Trigger's anime before going on to do Kill la Kill.
Imperial Bishop
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Space Dandy saved anime so thoroughly that I don't think we need another anime savior anytime soon.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
KLK was good, but the story was way too much a mess for what they were going for and it had some bad pacing issues, so it didn't really save anything.
I can kind of get behind this. Still haven't seen build fighters.
Anime needs to be saved every year or else anime fans won't have anything to gloat about other than the size of their waifu collection.
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