ben0119

No, what is CGDCT?

You'd do best to avoid Babbling/Rants, lol. Unless you like watching a train wreck. Yup if you don't like a show you don't have to watch it. I maintained a completionist policy where I would watch everything ASA and Toonami showed, but after being very patient with Hunter x Hunter, I had to break my own self-imposed rule and drop the show. You don't see me in the HxH threads endlessly ranting. There's nothing forcing people to watch shows they don't like. Continuing to watch something you hate is actually an abnormal thing to do, haha. Yeah, like many fandoms, most of the hatred comes from infighting within the community, rather than people outside of it who aren't interested in or like the thing. I mean, even when anime was less popular and unknown or wildly made fun of by non-fans, you had the sub vs dub bullshit and supporters of shows warring with each other like console fanboys. Now anime seems to be more mainstream and accepted even by non-fans, and you see its influence everywhere, but anime fans continue to bicker amongst themselves.

Jason and Gill made multiple trips to Japan to negotiate an end to the Gundam embargo, and Sunrise are notorious for being difficult to deal with, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had to accept such a deal. Yeah people were requesting Gundam and now they've answered that request. Not so sure they will air much more of it, if any. Either way they can say they did what the fans asked, and if we don't get anymore then that just means the ratings didn't justify the efforts to acquire them and the cost. I'd prefer to see other stuff, like you said, myself.

Don't know if movie studios pay off critics but they are definitely pretty selective about the quotes they put on trailers and such. I mean just by sheer statistics there's bound to be some critic that likes even the shittiest of movies. The cupcakes, really? Not sure they were that featured or it was even said what flavor they were? If this were Kekkaishi I could understand LOL. Haha, ouch. Wouldn't say it's that bad but I think the issue is people just have shonen fatigue and Black Clover wasn't cutting it for them.

Communism? What? Yeah read what Owl said.

I think you put more thought into this than Demarco did. Your idea admittedly sounds like it could pan out and has some sense to it. Only problem with that, is while DBZ and FLCL both have the nostalgia thing going for them, they are pretty different from each other, and DBZ was and is mega-popular, mainstream even, while FLCL was always a weird, niche series. Could that change with the reairing of FLCL in front of more people in a prominent timeslot, and then bringing out the new shows? Hard to say. Yeah well Naruto cribbed a lot from HxH, but was actually entertaining, at least for a while, and Black Clover is close to Naruto and Fairy Tail. So yeah suppose that combo could work. Yes they should give more warning. People are likely to think their show got cancelled, etc. Hell, some people thought SAO got cancelled just because the first season finished airing.

Probably because the UC stuff is full of emo crybabies like Amuro and Banagher. Yeah because the characters in IBO aren't bitch boys! It's a breath of fresh air.

Oh yeah that's right. It must be a Japan thing then. I wouldn't personally agree with that assessment, but there were lots of people complaining about the story. Don't know if I would say it was a majority or not since I know complainers can be vocal, especially manga/anime fans, and I would just be going by forums and comments, etc. I do believe the ratings were going down in Japan, though. I mean, Bleach a long-running shonen, they wouldn't have stopped the anime without reason if they thought they could still get more mileage out of it. Even odder still a live action movie is being made though. It could be all of that. I would also like to think that Japanese fans finally stopped putting up with filler. Whatever the reason I am glad things have changed! Yeah I've noticed that as well. You hear more and more about authors having more control and sometimes even direct involvement with the anime productions. From what I understand this was pretty rare in the past. Bleh! lol

Care to elaborate?

We know by now that that doesn't have much impact, though. If a show appeals to people, they will watch it, and not everybody watches everything in those places first. So far their "original content" has been sequels to old shows. Samurai Jack, yeah, I can see it. People wanted a conclusion. Even after all these years there was still people who wanted to see it, as borne out by the ratings. But FLCL? No one but Demarco wanted that. It remains to be seen if the new FLCL shows will be good. Jury is still out. It also was never mainstream like Jack was. Their actually original original was IGPX. Which, admittedly, was a very original idea, but horribly executed.

Maybe not the entire budget, but a sizable chunk of it, it seems. Where are the new shows? We know one was delayed for legal reasons, but what about the others? Why replace things with reruns if you've got new shows waiting in the wings? We're already four months into 2018...

Yes, seppuku. I even looked it up to see I spelled it right, but I guess I didn't look at the google results correctly. Not sure how you got bukkake from that, though.

I didn't think she held much sway anymore. Honestly don't hear about her much anymore. She replaced Lazzo as whipping boy and now she's been replaced by Demarco. Have no clue. I can't imagine it would flow with other shows too well and I'm pretty sure it will kill retention. And yeah putting it last is a waste of their investment. So yeah I dunno.

I'm watching Ghost in the Shell, so I can't cut out early. Quite annoying. I'd rather no slot than Bebop airing. It's been run to death enough as it is. It also wouldn't create the impression of there being a slot wasted. How do you know it's not taking up a premiere slot?

No one else gives a shit that the block is wasting away?

Oh I see. Odd. Don't really get why the show was made that way? They could toss this on last at night before comedy and probably wouldn't do much harm, regardless of if they air both parts. Though that may be throwing their money away. I dunno, I just really doubt they would air something like this except maybe for April Fool's. There's "confusing" and then there's ratings suicide. They aren't going to go too crazy.

In DBZ when you alter events it just creates an another timeline, which avoids paradoxes and is ironically probably the most scientifically plausible form of time travel. =3

Oh, weird. Not sure if this will even be dubbed, but I wonder if they would still do that. If Toonami aired it, I think they would only air one part, in any case.

I didn't even know that. Is the voicing done differently with the second set of actors? Like they do silly voices or something? How would this work as a dub?

Links or it didn't happen. If true, this means Demarco is even more delusional than we thought!

Looking at Konosuba seems like it could still have some action elements, so that could be a candidate. Demarco will have completely lost it if he thinks people are hyped for either one of those. NOOOOO!

I swear I've been reading it as Pop Team Eric. I hope they don't get it then. Talk about comedy cancer.

How about no next Gundam? They have a low hit rate for quality. Yes, we all know Demarco infamously said he would like to always have a Gundam on the block, a Gundam slot, if you will, but I don't think this can continue. They got IBO to start out, as a fairly recent, popular Gundam series. It was pretty decent. Then they got Unicorn, which was just a trainwreck. They got IBO season 2 probably only to complete the series, since they got season 1. This season 2 has not been that great though. The writing and directions the story have gone have been baffling. I think this experiment is over.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=In the Pocket Looks like it's a musical reference or saying. I would have thought it had to do with pool. To me that sounds like something that you would expect Toonami to get. If he must get another shonen, I hope it's a good one. Does confusing mean the show itself is confusing or bizarre, or it's not something we would expect Toonami to get, or the decision to air it was? If it's the last option, you could say that about a lot of shows that Toonami has picked up. JoJo is already pretty out there. Not sure what would be even more crazy? I think it's more likely they go outside their wheelhouse. He did do that informal survey about other genres people would like to see on Toonami. If so, though, that means the show could almost anything. Super psyched so it's possibly something people are expecting or at least hoping Toonami gets. Attack on Titan 2 and SAO 3 are all but guaranteed regardless, and wouldn't be coming this soon, so hopefully it's Re: Zero.

We called them the scheduling monkeys. And while Toonami doesn't have complete control over programming, per se, you can see their influence compared to the nonsensical things ASA used to do.