Jman

Ex-Arm is incompetence. High Guardian Spice is something a lot worse, publicity wise, a cudgel constantly used to berate and beat CR.

They constantly have Tamaki losing her clothes, Maki flexing, and Diet Esdeth. Isn't that the fanservice equality people want? Or is that just a false flag designed to shame people for putting any female skin in a show?

Last I heard FUNi still wants to give it a limited national run. If it were up to me I'd take the Netflix money and put it next to Mank. Just have Netflix put all their Oscar nominees front and center.

Demon Slayer winning an Oscar is the longest of long shots (9 times out of 10, the statue is already mailed to Disney as soon as the nominees are announced and Soul is prime Oscar bait) but considering the state of filmgoing right now, it's worth a shot, right? Right?

Right around the same time Two Heroes scored $5 million in a limited theatrical run.

That was the culture, particularly the Adult Swim way of lording their "charity" over the average anime fan. Let's face it, anime fans and television channels have always a love/hate relationship to the days of censor-happy companies like 4Kids. Adult Swim could not provide uncensored anime, both because of Standards & Practices - And the people who were acquiring the shows were the tastemakers, so you had to watch what they wanted, which often times excluded shows with heavy content in favor of lighter faire. And if you didn't like it, tough shit weeb, ONLY GAME IN TOWN unless you wanted to hit the high seas or pay out the ass for overpriced DVD's. The ratings were their way of browbeating the fans and lording their choices and superiority over the average fan. They had the answers, not a lot of people liked this shit, and even less people would like the shit you wanted, So shut up and watch Kekkaishi. What, you thought we'd air Soul Eater or Gundam 00? We said shut up. SyFy didn't last, did it? Now everything's been turned on its head. The entire network is trying to find more hits in the vein of Rick and Morty, they're losing the rights to Family Guy, and most of the audience that was mocked and browbeaten by their monopoly bailed for streaming services to watch stuff they actually wanted. The culture they created has come back to bite them in the ass. Hard.

That was something Adult Swim threatened anime fans with constantly during the late 2000s. “Get on your unworthy knees and watch Kekkaishi because you don’t have a choice! We’re the only game in town and we will replace it with more Family Guy!” That threat is kind of toothless today.

I remember back in the day everyone said that Toonami's presentation and advertising were a key part of their success, but looking at these ratings...those days are long gone.

DeMarco doesn't like streaming. He has repeatedly gone on record saying such.

I would say that Toonami's ability to get conventional ratings peaked around Season 1 of OPM, and it was after that where streaming absolutely exploded into becoming the default method of consuming media for a lot of the country, especially anime and other types of prestige format television, which by definition tends to skew younger, towards a demographic that was more willing to embrace the technology and cast aside DeMarco's more old-fashioned way of thinking. It now is at the point where people want the material to come to them, rather than The success of Demon Slayer on Netflix has been my big example to go to. It was doing middling ratings for Toonami, then it airs on Netflix and becomes one of the most watched shows on the platform overnight. So much so I would bet Netflix is probably eyeing Mugen Train as soon as it's available. Same with One Piece. Gets cancelled after it does middling to bad ratings on Toonami, airs on Netflix, somehow becomes one of the most binged shows on the platform. DeMarco is an old fashioned TV man. Shows when he says, once a week, on his schedule. And people are not having it anymore.

FUNi is probably going to try to air the movie as a limited engagement like they did with the Goblin Slayer movie unless theaters are cleared for launch in enough time (doubtful). The alternative is someone pays out of the ass for the movie, and we know who has the money to do that -

Uh, here's the cast, starring people no one in the West knows or cares about. This is going to be such a trainwreck...

After Season 1 did unexpectedly incredible business for Netflix, expect DeMarco to pick it up just to play keep away for a while even if its Toonami ratings were nothing to write home about.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2021/02/11-1/wit-studio-and-netflix-partner-up-for-new-animator-training-school?utm_source=community_cr&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=news_en&referrer=community_cr_twitter_news That’s one way to ensure you have sufficient manpower.

The fact that we got this before Hollywood could get off their asses and make a Gundam film is kind of sad. That being said, if it ends up being better than Voltron Legendary Defender (an admitted low bar) I will laugh myself silly.

Cena is something of a troll with internet interactions. Just throwing that out there for the latter. I still stand by seeing him play All Might.

If the LA film ever gets made, Cena is playing All Might. But for now we settle for Deku saying we can’t see him.

https://www.ign.com/articles/live-action-powerpuff-girls-series-pilot-ordered-by-cw?sf137957284=1 Pilot picked up.

That sort of weird retro approach is marking a lot of Toonami’s originals. Case in point - Shenmue.

It is a shame with Gridman, but the show is over two years old, Toonami sucks dick at promotion, repeatedly, and it’s early on a block that isn’t bringing home the audience anymore. And it pains me to say that but most, if not all of the audience, the anime audience which is tech savvy by nature so it can watch this stuff, has moved on to greener pastures. If Demon Slayer is any indication, the show would do great on Netflix.

All the big shows are available elsewhere, and that’s screwing with them.

Maybe so, but the Oscars will scramble together enough random stuff to keep it out of the nomination. Besides, everyone knows Soul is going to win.

I saw it when FUNi had it on its website. Fun stuff for the most part, but not essential. The new girl was interesting enough at least.

Toonami show?