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It’s apparently a copypasta, so it is a joke. Still…yeah.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tv-un-renewals-amc-hbo-max-netflix-1235293804/ Clout is out, performance is in.

It’s also licensed by Sony, who isn’t playing with Toonami anymore.

The Mooninite bomb scare resulted in a lot of disgraced resignations and indirectly, CN Real. Not the best example of the good old days.

The artist’s fat fetish was plastered over national television. Even with Toonami’s vastly decreased ratings that is more attention than anyone would want, especially with the attention being “dude draws morbidly obese women.”

I bet half of his responses are “What about X?”

Season 2 is happening, and the manga gets more insane from here, so good.

Witch from Mercury 12.

It is what it is.

We have clearly gone too far down the rabbit hole and it’s time to come up for some fresh air.

And this is just the start of the year. I fully expect to hear in a few months something like “Uzumaki canceled by Zaslav after latest delay.”

I think the best thing for all parties involved is for DeMarco to take the L (won’t be the last one he takes this year, that’s for sure) and move on.

...True.

They're not going to do that and piss off more people.

DeMarco remains stunningly out of touch, and this is a pretty ill omen for 2023. Hey, if Netflix One Piece is a hit (PRESS X TO DOUBT) they may not even have One Piece by the time the year is over.

Good to see Toonami is starting off 2023 the same way it did 2022. Confused and underfunded.

Not sure if troll wanting free fan-art, or someone who doesn’t like Toonami and wants to kill any attempt at viral marketing.

If you just want anime, Crunchyroll is your best value. Everyone else does other stuff instead, or gets the anime later.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-01-06/zom-100-bucket-list-of-the-dead-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-july-with-streaming-on-hulu/.193592 Not like it was headed to Toonami but it’s notable.

Dandy’s a bit reminiscent of Moral Orel, not in content, but in that concept of “show advertised as comedy decides it doesn’t need to be a comedy and wants to focus on other things, only to meet a rather divisive reaction.” People don’t call it bad, but they were confused by what it was purported to be vs what it was. For Dandy’s weird, cringe, or otherwise incomprehensible moments, there were genuine flashes of brilliance, laugh out loud episodes, and nothing that could be considered unoriginal. But something that messy and disjointed was never going to get the popularity of “Japanese Beavis who turns into chainsaw monster and fights demons in the hope of scoring.”

The issue with Space Dandy is that it was very difficult to market. It was marketed as a madcap comedy but numerous episodes were not funny, more interested in exploring concepts and ideas than laughs (basically, everything Mike Lazzo loathed about cartoons on his watch). Add that with parodies that went nowhere depending on what side of the world you were on (the cringe that was the High School Musical parody, spoofed ideas from Space Runaway Ideon that were alien to Western viewers save hardcore followers of Tomino’s filmography), and you have a lot of disparate elements that never gelled into a whole and was quickly forgotten on both sides of the ocean.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-01-05/goblin-slayer-season-2-anime-reveals-promo-video-cast-staff-2023-premiere/.193574 LIDEN films is handling the gob killing but with most of S1’s staff.

He’s not entirely wrong, but the problem is the traditional over correction to a handful of sure hits. Netflix and Amazon are similarly correcting in stuff that was never going to be a hit but is there for clout (coughWarriorNuncoughLeagueOfTheirOwncough) but which is not sustainable when purse strings get tightened.

Alice in Borderland and the Kenshin films convinced me they should just throw money to Japanese studios and let them do it.