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yeah the second message i got today informed me i was gonna be banned because they saw my response to them giving me one strike and decided to ban me anyways i do wonder who here mentioned this topic to TZ/ASH Mods? the fact they know this place even exists weirds me out although i suppose what's even weirder is how they seemed to be watching me here to the point where they claimed i was lying about statements related to me getting a strike are they so pathetic that they just keep tabs on random websites to make sure nobody's talking crap about them?

ended up getting banned over at the anime superheroes forum due to this topic lol...

Rill's an idiot that's confirmed....haven't you noticed how stupid and clueless he is about everything?

can't handle the chungus

I Didn't watch it but going off the clips I've seen and overviews running it down on youtube Light was turned into a complete dumbass with the real mastermind being his girlfriend(since the characters are american He's Light Turner not Light Yagami...what?) also L is even more of a dumbass as there's a scene where he's just out in public in front of a crowd talking shit about Kira on a podium The Entire story gets changed for all the wrong reasons and certain characters don't even show up at all

after what happened with the live action death note movie on netflix there are people who are skeptical of another live action anime film on netflix

except this has nothing to do with a problem on funimation's side The Japanese Release also went on break before the most recent episode

that's the only explanation i guess...they refuse to see things differently than when they were in high school because it doesn't reflect the narrative of "Anime being obscure foreign stuff that american's couldn't care less about" and i suppose when you are a moderator who has the power to ban anyone who disagrees with you You start thinking "I'm correct!" because nobody's gonna challenge the opinions of a moderator If He said Avatar Is Far More Popular than my hero academia everyone else would have to nod and agree just to avoid getting in trouble

there's never a day where you don't seem pissed off and ready to bite someone's head off

this was the message i got "Hi. It's been brought to our attention that you've been complaining about some of our members on another forum. We typically don't infract people for what they do elsewhere, but something like that is unacceptable. If you want to do it in private, fine, and it's okay to have your own thoughts on the subject that was being discussed and even have your own discussion on it, but posting a public thread and quoting members and complaining about what they said is not, even if you didn't mention them by name. I'm giving you a warning. We have a three strikes system, so three warnings could result in being banned, so please keep this in mind going forward." so sounds like someone here did inform them this topic existed...like i said didn't expect that at all

Yeah I've accepted he won't change his mind now.... what i did learn however is that either he's on this website or someone else from toonzone is and saw this topic because i got screamed at by the moderators and threatened with a potential ban over this Honestly didn't think people on there would care enough to start keeping tabs on forums like this to make sure people weren't badmouthing them people mostly come here to shit post this isn't a message board they should be frequenting

theories are it's just another rick and morty short

wasn't the first mistake thinking i meant someone IRL when i clearly stated it was someone online on the toonzone forums? if i meant An IRL Friend i would have said so and not called them "Someone" You Don't really refer to a friend as if they are just some random person

they'll resume next week(assuming the double dose of MHA on the 31st is two new episodes that means We'll be three episodes behind funimation once the regular schedule returns)

Eh I Prefer Physical myself....I Always stare at screens plenty during the day I'd rather not do that just to read manga

well i did the start off by saying "this thought came after seeing a post on the anime superheroes/toonzone forum in response to the harley quinn marathon where someone stated" i didn't imply the person in question was a friend or even someone i knew IRL anyways this topic mostly came out because it's crazy to think somebody that spends so much time discussing toonami stuff can believe anime is still some obscure foreign garbage that most american's cannot comprehend because "It's Japanese" no amount of success stories will make him change his mind and simply result with him saying "Well that's good but they'll always be number two to american animation...still that's a decent start" Nah i wouldn't go that far...I Just think he allowed his high school memories to make him think that's still the case today and You get bullied simply for mentioning anime since he's a moderator on that forum most people don't really challenge his opinions...not that anyone would be able to change it anyways the fact he used high school as proof that More people know who Aang And Zuko are than Naruto And Sasuke proves that

"That is a sign that anime is coming close to rounding that corner and maybe it could get wide theatrical releases based on its success. I hesitate to say it's mainstream, but anime is becoming a larger subculture than it used to be" he really does seem to deny it's popularity a lot "The next anime movie might someday get a wide release and do somewhere around $60 million domestically, a pretty good number."

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/48767/the-great-manga-shortage-2021 "Manga sales just spiked during the pandemic, and it's almost impossible to get replacements right now,” Bob Schaffer of Dragon’s Lair Comics and Fantasy in San Antonio, Texas, told ICv2. Ryan Higgins of Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, California, only stocks first volumes of most manga because the store is so small, but lately when he goes to special-order later volumes for customers, he often finds they are out of stock. “ChainsawMan [volumes] two and three and four, they're just gone,” he said. “I don't think we'll ever be able to get those back in for customers.” Higgins gets restocks from Diamond and Penguin Random House, but he’s still having trouble finding titles. “If it's not a current series, forget it,” he said. “Anything that’s finished, there's nothing available. There were select titles that obviously they do keep around, but if you're just looking for a random volume of, like, AttackonTitan, it is not available.” The Boston comic shop Comicopia has a wide and deep manga collection (see “Successful Manga Retailing in a ‘Comic Bookstore’”), but owner Matt Lehman has the same problem. “If we're sold out of those popular titles, we have many other titles that customers can explore,” he said “These are also more likely to be able to restock, since they're less likely to be sold out from the publisher. However, we're still selling manga faster than we can restock it, as is evidenced by our increasingly large gaps [on shelves].” Big retailers such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble can’t keep some titles in stock either; as of this writing, neither had volumes 2, 3, or 4 of Chainsaw Man or the first volumes of My Hero Academia or Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaibaavailable for online purchase, and neither had a full run of Jujutsu Kaisen."

Yeah that's probably it...Not really sure if disney plus will dethrone netflix as the king of streaming and Hbo Max is Just...Eh

honestly i think he seems too wrapped up in how anime was treated during his high school years to realize that's not the case anymore i know this because when i brought up the success of demon slayer mugen train he just shrugged it off and said He'd Hesitate to call anime mainstream he downplayed it's success by saying "Sure anime's becoming a larger sub-culture but it probably won't touch anything like into the spider-verse's box office numbers and Anime will surely be Lagging behind American Animation In Popularity For Some Time" for whatever reason he just seems to have a hard time not viewing anime as being obscure and too foreign for america

He's not saying he expects that content but that stuff like DC Animated movies tend to do better in the ratings than anything else on toonami which again I've always rolled my eyes at because even before streaming services existed....TV Ratings weren't any better it was always some random crapshoot due to it being a small focus group of randomly selected people who would have their viewing habits gauged and collected knowing that and trying to say that tells us how american's feel about anime is really stupid i said The Market's changed though and i think it's weird to claim Anime's too foreign for americans when Demon Slayer Mugen train was a massive success yet it's setting is very Japanese and this was his response "That is a sign that anime is coming close to rounding that corner and maybe it could get wide theatrical releases based on its success. I hesitate to say it's mainstream, but anime is becoming a larger subculture than it used to be. It probably won't touch anything like Into the Spider Verse's $190 million domestic box office gross. The next anime movie might someday get a wide release and do somewhere around $60 million domestically, a pretty good number. Anime will probably be behind American animation in popularity for some time, but it's getting to be pretty popular."

nobody can expect anyone to have them all so what would you peg as the default defacto streaming service?

so what would you tell him then?

and that's something this person doesn't realize they keep harping on and on about how Most American's find Anime too foreign and weird for them "We at least know that the DC movies do better in the normal lineup than ratings, so it seems that American toons are more popular at least with the entire 18-35 demographic. There might be some in the 18-25 demo who prefer anime to American cartoons, but a much smaller quantity of the 25-35 demo is into anime. Granted, a great portion of that 25-35 demo that watches anime might be small, but they are the super passionate fans who watched stuff like YuYu Hakusho and Rurouni Kenshin back in the day and got bullied for it. Sure American cartoons would cast a wider net, but the airing rights for them are really hard to get. Besides, Adult Swim has been a strong proponent of anime and would air them even if they aren't as mainstream with American cartoons. They know the majority of anime fans are Zoomers who use streaming, but it seems like Adult Swim's primary audience seems to be that small niche of Millennial fans who watched anime back when it was heavily stigmatized." this specific part of the last post they made really makes me facepalm...The Nielsen Ratings aren't the overall undeniable truth when it comes to what american tastes are We're talking about a system that only counts a small selection of the country in a randomly selected way that's his problem he's using TV Ratings to try and say "This is how america feels about anime!" when streaming services exist and We've seen that contrary to what TV Ratings would tell you on toonami Anime isn't some super obscure thing that only a small percentage of the country is into Last Year In December When I Went to Walmart They had Volumes of MHA alongside some marvel and dc trade paperbacks Manga Publishers are currently dealing with supply problems due to an overwhelmingly unexpected increase in readership since last year due to covid-19 so to say these series are obscure and only known by a very small percent of the country just sounds...really dumb

". Yes, DBZ and Naruto aren't the only anime in existence, but they were the only ones (aside from Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh) known to general pop culture. Then we get the really weird abstract stuff like Paranoia Agent, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Serial Experiments Lain. Adult Swim has exposed audiences to the weird artsy stuff and that also has an impact on people fearing watching anime expecting it all to be like Paranoia Agent. Those factors are probably why anime can't reach the mainstream." how would you respond to this comment? i can easily say the bullying experience this person had is no reason to just think "Oh Anime is Some Niche Garbage that only a small section of people online are into" not only that but this idea that Anime is too Japanese for Americans is bizarre....just this statement alone tells me the opinion this person has on the matter "Probably just how very over the top it is with the shouting and spiky hair and people shooting lasers out of their hands and other shonen stereotypes that aren't like your typical American cartoon. American superhero cartoons might be a little bit over the top, but in a normal American way."