Jman

Thought to be lost media, this VHS rip of the pilot looks to be contemporary with Beast Wars. Is it any wonder FUNi stuck to anime releases?

Fair enough, but the market might force it. I just prefer digital for space saving purposes. You only have so much room in the house, and keeping all those volumes of manga in a digital form for tablet reading makes it easier to use the space for other stuff.

So in examples of things Mark Hamill can do that most anime VA's can't, he got to promote the series on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon -

Beastars S2 1-2. Horny Zootopia returns.

At this point he’s not worth listening to. Maybe he would have preferred Afternoon Adventures was back.

Digital sales are going to go through the roof.

The same thing I tell hardcore Toonami worriers. The market has fundamentally changed, Netflix is making a small fortune off of anime and would be more than happy to take any Toonami doesn't want to air (Chainsaw Man anyone?) but most important, where's the money coming from? Where is the money coming from? Is Magical Girl Friendship Squad the sort of thing you want on Toonami because that's pretty much all they can afford.

He is living in the past. Comics can't sell for crap, the top 20 graphic novels sold in the US have been dominated by manga for close to a year now, and we don't have American action cartoons that do well. Infinity Train was ultra-cancelled because kids didn't want to watch the writer's therapy sessions, the only reason Steven Universe wasn't cancelled damn near immediately was because of the PR nightmare Rebecca Sugar would have sprung by calling the network homophobic, and most people aren't watching stuff via TV anymore anyway. Did you see the Emmy nominations? It's is predominantly streaming shows, Mandalorian, The Crown, WandaVision, etc... It's kind of crazy. I've rallied against Toonami fans being stuck in the past, but this guy is even further stuck in the past.

This might have had some truth to it 15 years ago. A lot of stuff was different 15 years ago. Streaming as we know it didn’t exist. The UFC was seen as too brutal for cable television let alone ESPN so it had to air a reality show on Spike TV, which no longer exists. This wasn’t outside Madison Square Garden - 15 years ago Baki couldn’t get on Adult Swim because they were the only game in town, now it’s among the most popular shows on Netflix. Same with the work of the manga-ka’s daughter, Beastars. How well does Beastars perform on Adult Swim in 2004 when Sealab 2021 is making endless “anime sucks” jokes? Not very. Does Demon Slayer do comparable views to the Crown if we’re still playing by those rules? No. The world has changed. Dramatically. And expecting the market to be the exact same as it was in 2005 is a recipe for disaster.

If you’re going to use the Netflix kids rankings as a measure of popularity, Avatar and Naruto are pretty much neck and neck in views. Look, I’m not anti-Western animation, far from it, but the question, once again is where is it going to come from, and why should people watch it on Toonami when it’s available elsewhere? And yes, I get the bullying thing too. In 2004-2005. But it’s 2021. The Demon Slayer movie was packed in theaters! Fortnite is about to introduce a bunch of anime characters. Anime on Netflix, provided it’s the right show, regularly competes for the Top 10, and a lot of the Western animation that does outright lies about being anime. We’re older.

If Avatar was so goddamn popular they would have kept making sequels after Korra instead of being stuck in a near decade rut.

Hoo boy, where to even begin with this? First off, what adult action cartoons? There’s a bunch of movies DC has with a new one once every couple of months, the one Harley Quinn cartoon, and what else? Forgiving that Harley Quinn would run into the exact same problem as their anime lineup (it’s available elsewhere in a more convenient, less edited format) what else could they possibly use that they wouldn’t have to pay quite a bit for? I guess there’s one season of Magical Girl Friendship Squad on Siffy, you know, the magical girl parody drawn in bean mouth that makes fun of anime fans for being misogynists? That’ll do great. Then there’s the fact that at this point, most of the adult animation on Netflix that isn’t raw comedy outright pretends to be anime. Castlevania? Claims it’s anime but made in Texas. The core problem the block has is a rather simple one. Most of what it airs can be watched elsewhere at a more convenient time without any fear of the BS&P. Doesn’t matter where it’s coming from, that’s the issue. The solution was to make co-productions, but that takes money and Crunchyroll is off to Sony. So where’s the money going to come from?

I was wondering what was the reasoning until I remembered The Suicide Squad comes out that weekend. Given that HBO Max Subscriptions (and to a lesser extent film tickets) are Priority #1 for Warner Media no matter who owns the debt that week, it makes sense.

Expect Toonami to have this on late night lockdown for at least a year.

Maximum metaness would be it getting released the same time as a big screen Yakuza movie that ends up on Netflix.

You do realize that was Khara swinging their exclusive rights dick around and demanding the most literal translation around right? Doesn’t matter who gets the film rights, Khara has a very specific script.

https://comicbook.com/anime/news/shenmue-anime-still-in-development-confirmed/ Hopefully with an overhauled voice cast.

Imagine seeing this as you leave a concert.

And the opening. Sentai bagged the rights, so it will premiere on HiDive/VRV.

New trailer -

Toonami doesn’t show movies, and I think you can blame the success of Invincible for convincing Amazon animation is a growth sector.

I’m more surprised Amazon is doing this, since they haven’t really done a lot of newer animation. I can only guess Invincible made them decide it made more sense.

And they’re going to air with a Prime Video subscription on August 13. So you can watch it if you’re interested.

Amazon has stayed away from animation, but maybe Invincible convinced them to try again.

It’s a co-production and presumably CR threw more money into it.