Jman

Big words from the guy who just inked exclusivity with Hulu. Or does standing out among Brooklyn 99 and The Handmaid’s tale not count?

There was boxing and a UFC PPV on that night, coupled with the series having finished its run earlier in the year. The continued decline of linear television for non-sports.

It’s still incredibly stupid. How did this franchise become so popular, right, Gary Stu all the girls want to fuck because he’s good at the vidya.

This is what happens when someone, despite all evidence to the contrary needs to prove they’re right for no other reason than to be right.

Bonus comment from the author of the piece. https://nyti.ms/2G5CH6h#permid=29613188 Dissed the FLCL remake while he was at it, which deserved the diss.

I'm more interested if that Netflix adaptation keeps the rape scene. Just because they could, but do they want to?

At this point all the anime is flowing like a damn waterfall.

I’m presuming yes since a lot of these first run deals - 1. Won’t apply to stuff Toonami is already airing. 2. Won’t affect the shows when DeMarco gets them since they usually air them well after their premiere (case in point - My Hero Academia). First run exclusivity means they air it first, not only they get to have it. This is really a question of the delivery again. Is it worth getting shows the other guys air first?

Yeah, that’s why I’m more optimistic than pessimistic on this one.

Netflix owns the world.

It’s Christmas weekend. Do ratings even count that week?

I feel like calling this disingenuous is putting it mildly. Toonami hasn’t aired too many isekai besides SAO, and there’s probably a good reason for that. I figured if Knights and Magic didn’t air most of these other shows didn’t have a chance.

I bought up Soul Train because it and Toonami, surprisingly enough do feel like they have a lot in common. Both were the premiere source of a niche medium at one point but were cast aside because new ways of getting the medium appeared (Yo! MTV Raps, Rap Attack, compared to Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll) and the biases of the man in charge (Soul Train’s executive producer and host Don Cornelius told Ice Cube straight to his face on national TV he didn’t like hip hop or understand why anyone else did, which led a lot of rap artists to tell Don to go shove an Afro pick up his ass). But like I said, at least Toonami is moving forward. It’s interesting to see what’s happened in the past and if those mistakes are being repeated.

Considering the money Netflix spent to renew the license to Friends, they just oughta have the cast of that redub Evangelion.

Technically until 2008, but 2006 is when they closed up the studio and just aired reruns (the creatively titled The Best of Soul Train). The train was decommissioned in 2008 for good and the show was cancelled. And you gotta give that to Toonami. They could very easily just play nothing but old crap from back in the day and look back fondly on when Toonami was where you went for new anime, same as Soul Train for new tracks from soul, funk, R&B and the like. But they’re pushing forward regardless.

At least we’re not seeing an intro that essentially goes “remember when we were the only game in town?” This was 2006 and their intro has James Brown and the Jackson 5, reminding you of when they mattered. They stopped making new episodes that year. Toonami hasn’t gone there...yet. Wistfully remembering the good old days.

Toonami’s starting to feel like Soul Train in its dying days, except less dancing. What used to be THE premiere source for a certain type of material (music, anime) has found itself outmoded and beaten by more contemporary sources for the item in question while its attempts to right the ship are beaten three steps ahead of the game. You’ll know things have REALLY gone south if Toonami starts reminding you about the good old days before Netflix and Hulu like Soul Train did in its dying days.

Well...they’re not wrong. Especially #1. Lost Paradise coming out this year soothed that wound at least.

In 1997, when ADV employed non-union talent for a dub that was often held up as what was wrong with dubs? Let’s just say standards have come a long way in 20 years.

https://apple.news/AE5MbB9V5QhKobCWAxYgduw Huh.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-12-05/original-eva-english-cast-petition-to-re-dub-series-for-netflix/.140411 The original cast of D listers is petitioning to be part of the redub. Personally I rather Netflix just hired people from their other shows, like one of the Stranger Things kids as Shinji.

Now all I need is for Hulu to suggest SSSS Gridman after Mr. Robot or something. This is just another front in the content wars. Luckily Toonami has Crunchyroll in their corner.

Seconded.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-12-04/funimation-hulu-sign-first-look-streaming-deal-for-new-anime/.140359 Ensuring Hulu gets free choice of simudubs, while larger libraries and more obscure content are all via FUNiNow.

The Bleach manga and anime was trash at the end and everyone kinda realizes it now, with Kubo more interested in subversion (some might just say trolling) than consistency. The thing is, the movie goes above and beyond with the chemistry thing because Orihime is little more than a glorified extra (although her and Chad will likely have more of a role in any sequel if Netflix green lights it), superfluous characters like Kon and Don Kanoji (sp?) are cut entirely, and the emotional core of the movie is not Ichigo as a soul reaper in and of himself, but his relationship to Rukia and the responsibility she leads him into, along with their growing friendship. If a sequel is made, expect Kubo to go “No no no no no. No. That was not my artistic intention and we are going to stick with what the manga did because I wrote it and it is therefore irrefutable”. And a new generation of viewers, many of which would never have given Bleach the time of day if it wasn’t on their Netflix dash, get to be introduced to the joys of Troll Kubo.