Jman

Panty and Stocking had ten metric tons of sexual content and that was a no-no.

Context.

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Street Fighter II The Animated Movie. Still great fun after all this time.

This is a show best in small doses. I eagerly await everyone’s reactions.

This shit is crazy, but IIRC they very specifically have a non-exclusivity deal that lets anyone air the show.

Essentially this. Ok, maybe I’m being too hard on FLCL, but Jack was a perfect storm of events. Incomplete story, final season for adults, everyone (save Mako, R.I.P.) back for one last go around, it was perfect.

It’s not fair to expect the same results is what I’m saying. FLCL simply is not that big a name, nor is there that big a demand for it. Comparing it to DBZ and One Punch Man is disingenuous. At the same time, maybe they shouldn’t spend their money on this property. This isn’t a throwaway timeslot Mike Lazzo can air Astro Boy in because he loved it growing up and no one cares what’s on at 5am on a Tuesday. This is a good portion of the 2018 budget.

Let’s avoid some hyperbole (just some) and give these ratings the long term breakdown. Samurai Jack was proof that a genuine world premiere will still work...if it’s something people are interested in. Because Jack’s story wasn’t told. Even the comics ended on a “maybe so”. There was interest, and for a few weeks, DeMarco got to relieve the good old days. Weekly airings, no spoilers, you watch when we tell you, etc. That is very rare. The only other Toonami show that could possibly warrant such a thing was Reboot, and if you followed the televised dumpster fire that was Reboot: The Guardian Code, you know that went...poorly. So poorly Reboot’s original writers disowned it. But I digress. As I’ve repeated to my usual level of “Oh God Jman we get it already!” levels, no one was really clamoring for an FLCL sequel besides DeMarco and friends, and the audience reaction is pretty much what we’ve seen before. Apathy. Unlike Jack, unlike Reboot, FLCL left no plots open, had no sequel hooks, it was one and DONE. My rather derisive comments about it being “FLCL fanfiction” stem from it lacking a lot of the original talent, and being pushed by someone who was a fan, rather than a creator with more story to tell. That and FLCL, unlike Jack, was a cult hit at best, hardly mainstream. As for MHA - To about 90% of viewers, Toonami begins and ends at DB, not helped by the fact that MHA has been available elsewhere and is still available elsewhere dubbed. So even if people saw the first episode of MHA and wanted to watch more (still haven’t) they can go to Hulu or Crunchyroll/FuniNow/VRV, and catch up on demand. This is simply not conducive to getting people to stay up for your linear block. Personally I think we all saw the salad days of Dragonball coupled with One Punch Man and assumed that was supposed to be the norm, not the exception. To which I give it the old casual guy test. People bring up OPM and Krillin when talking about bald athletes. I’ve mentioned how DBZ is popular in sports and martial arts culture (it bears repeating they got the freaking Green Bay Packers and WWE’s The New Day to promote FighterZ, which simply DOES NOT happen with 99% of anime games), and one of my training partners went to a costume party as Saitama. Is MHA doing that? Is FLCL doing that? Probably not. To be fair, FLCL isn’t showing in Mexican sports bars the way the last arc of DB Super was. Toonami is feeling the same squeeze everyone else is - If we can watch it somewhere else on our time, we will. Unfortunately, FLCL does not really make people clamor for a conclusion the way Jack did. The conclusion we got was just fine, thank you. No more is necessary or wanted.

These ratings crater after DBZ. I am seriously wondering how much of Toonami’s potential audience for MHA was eaten up by Hulu and Crunchyroll.

I hate to say it but sometimes what you want isn’t what the general audience wants. We know DeMarco and WS love them some Bebop and FLCL to the point I still expect Archer’s series finale next year to be one giant “Real Folk Blues” reference, but that doesn’t translate to regular viewers. No one asked for an FLCL sequel. No one wanted an FLCL sequel besides DeMarco getting his fanfic animated.

Sequel no one wants does numbers that are below par. Is anyone surprised? Now I’m really interested in seeing how the next batch of Netflix anime does, especially the Saint Seiya remake. If that does well while FLCL 2 and 3 bomb, that’s going to be telling.

They are. Just not on Toonami.

The actual game is a gigantic letdown after the trailer IMO. I was more down with the of idea of it being like Spider-Man on PS4, with Luffy swinging around Manhattan, trying to figure out what in the blue hell is going on, recruiting various other heroes as a new crew, and eventually making it home to his nakama. ...Holy shit we got hosed.

...Linear television is doomed.

Literally everything he complained about was addressed in the Aliens episode.

Lum... Sorry, But she has the damn horns and everything! Would the show have worked better if Hiro was more like Ataru?

No, it’s a dumpster fire that doesn’t get that people watched Voltron for the giant robot Voltron, not your shitty Diet Avatar fight scenes and unfunny comedy.

Doom bitches.

It’s not Voltron. Sorry, sorry, but that show is too easy to mock.

It’s apparently not Xbox’s answer to PS4’s Spider Man, but a brawler.

We need that adaptation of The Origin proper. Also 00 > IBO, and I didn’t even dislike the latter.

I’m amused myself. It’s the entertainment equivalent of gentle prodding, like when Futurama has the manhole from The PJ’s, so the PJ’s had Fry on a milk carton as missing.

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