I thought the first 15 episodes of SOA were great actually. The first couple ones are the most hype and it starts getting a bit weird after 7 or so episodes but for the most part, it was weird in a good way. Now the REALLY fucking weird shit doesn't come until episode 16-17 and by that point most people will be invested.
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ASSauLTxMasTER
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SAO should be the good puller, to the curious. Sword Art Online is decent and keeps you in for a bit. It should bring the viewers in and cause anticipation for them enough to wait until 2.
2 weeks to go, lets see.
2 weeks to go, lets see.
Let's keep in mind that they've already stated outright that One Piece's "expected" ratings going into putting it on the air was mid-700ks. It's vastly exceeding its original expectations already at these numbers.
mightynine
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And for those of you that want SE is break a million, putting SAO behind is it's best chance of that happening. It should easily do better than IGPX just because it's new, even with a somewhat late time slot.
Doctor Decimate
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i'm not sure how i feel about that statement. on the one hand, they have no reason to lie about it. but it doesn't really make a lot of sense that they'd put a show in front of Soul Eater, which was getting 900k pretty regularly, and expect mid-700k for ratings.
unless everything's doing above their expectations and they just never adjusted them accordingly.
mightynine
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Wasn't that mid-700K figure mentioned in response to One Piece's premiere? I would guess that was DeMarco meant. I think the expectation would be OP would grow slowly after that, but it hit a mil on average pretty quick.
Also, while Soul Eater did get bumped, it's also bringing close to a million to a time slot that rarely sniffed it before. If SAO can get SE numbers they'll be happy, above that they'll be ecstatic.
The Frankman
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It could be he meant 700k in the 18-49 ([adult swim] ratings system).
Doctor Decimate
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well, he didn't say the number 700k so much as that the second week of One Piece where it hit 700k total viewers was in line with their expectations for the show.
mightynine said:
maybe, but having that expectation when they put the show in front of Soul Eater still seems weird to me.
Doctor Decimate
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true. they did say they wanted to avoid shuffling the schedule as much.
ThatObviousUser
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Haha.
BassForever
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One Piece will be around longer then anything Toonami will pick up for the next 15 years, hell it might be the longest thing they pick up ever
Case closed is the only other anime that comes to mind that has a ludicrous episode count.
BassForever
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Longest I can find is Sazae-san which has run for almost 7000 episodes Damn
And about half of it is filler. Seriously, if they cut out all the non-cannon episodes it would only have about 300 or so episodes.
Also for the record the Red vs Black arc was godlike. Seriously it was just twelve episodes or so of constant awesome.
Sao will have good ratings regardless how bad it is for the following reasons.
1.it's new pretty much no one has seen it before the anime was created a few months ago,viewer are going to watch it out of curiosity.
2.good time slot after the heavy hitters
3.the plot is not hard to grasp viewers are familiar with videogames
4.Also it helps unlike one piece they aren't going for maximum confusion by starting many episodes in, but starting from ep1
The question is will the viewers stick around as it spirals deeper and deeper each episode into pure filth or will they abandon the time slot.
1.it's new pretty much no one has seen it before the anime was created a few months ago,viewer are going to watch it out of curiosity.
2.good time slot after the heavy hitters
3.the plot is not hard to grasp viewers are familiar with videogames
4.Also it helps unlike one piece they aren't going for maximum confusion by starting many episodes in, but starting from ep1
The question is will the viewers stick around as it spirals deeper and deeper each episode into pure filth or will they abandon the time slot.
I honestly can't wait to watch SAO. I watched one episode and though I felt it was a little disquieting and I immediately hated the protagonist I figured it would probably be an alright watch, but never got around to it and by the time I thought about it again :firehawk had swept GAF (probably for very accurate reasons).
But it sounds like exactly the kind of show to watch with ToonamiGAF
But it sounds like exactly the kind of show to watch with ToonamiGAF
Gucci Messiah
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SAO is basically going to be the new Bleach for toonami-gaf
But will it be the new GXP?
ThatObviousUser
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SAO would have to be pretty damn boring for it to be the new Bleach. It would also have to go on for 300 episodes longer than it should.
Gucci Messiah
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What I meant is that people are going to bitch about it nonstop. Obviously it's not a 300+ episode series.
ASSauLTxMasTER
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Dat SAO convo still goin' on? ._.
Welp, in semi-news, Monty Oum's RWBY premieres today. They made a mistake in their episode page, and I may have caught the episode......
VAs are so weird, but yes. As my role,the OP is goin' to YouTube. Never mind.
Welp, in semi-news, Monty Oum's RWBY premieres today. They made a mistake in their episode page, and I may have caught the episode......
VAs are so weird, but yes. As my role,
Gucci Messiah
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mightynine
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Together again for the first time....
lazybones18
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^taken at Comic-Con?
Also no matter how bad Bleach gets you'd be really dumb to not try and keep the big three together as much as possible. I don't even really like Bleach and fell out of love with Naruto years and years ago but having all three together just feels right and forces me two watch all of them more often than not.
Also Unless they suddenly luck into the rights to DBZ they'll never get anything near as long as even Naruto so keeping the three longest shows together make sense.
Also Unless they suddenly luck into the rights to DBZ they'll never get anything near as long as even Naruto so keeping the three longest shows together make sense.
Together again for the first time....
So good
Well unless they decided to get Case Closed, which funnily enough would be really easy to start half way through since every episode has a little explanation of the main plot before the main theme.
Detective Conan/Case Closed is nothing more than the anime equivalent of Law & Order or the 500 crime dramas on CBS. Plot development is almost always brushed aside for the killer of the week.
At this point, the manga has 859 chapters and Conan is still a kid.
At this point, the manga has 859 chapters and Conan is still a kid.
At the same time the plot has moved quite a bit since it started, it just tends to move in huge spurts instead of slowly over time.
Gucci Messiah
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Not a big DC fan but based off of what I've seen I'm going to have to agree with BatDan
How little you know.
My man
Gucci Messiah
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I might miss toonami for the second consecutive week. I hate having responsibilities.
Future Foundation
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I've heard SAO called shit like despicable/disgusting/terrible. What in the world is with this show? Why this reaction?
In two words:
surprise incest.
Future Foundation
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Is there a link to this review? Do I go thread hunting?
BassForever
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Google firehawk sword art online it's the first link
I'll be honest, I only know of the show through reviews and while I am considering writing a review myself after it's all over I doubt I could do a good a job as firehawk.
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