FUNimation is going to have a Goku balloon at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

[Jman]

Cut to DeMarco looking at his ratings and wondering what gives.

[OwlChemist81]

I'll bet Toonami gets mentioned at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and a Dragon Ball Super marathon is programmed for November 24th.

Sorry, AOT--a balloon of the Colossal Titan would have been too scary for the kids!

[PokeNirvash]

31 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Sorry, AOT--a balloon of the Colossal Titan would have been too scary for the kids!

And that speaks nothing of what a balloon of the Rod Reiss Titan would be like...

[Jman]

Meanwhile...

[CaptainStarwind]

22 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

I'll bet Toonami gets mentioned at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and a Dragon Ball Super marathon is programmed for November 24th.

Doubt Toonami will get a mention. Anime may be somewhat mainstream (especially Dragon Ball), but Toonami is niche even among people in my age range (18-29), let alone middle aged people.  I expect the announcers to be genuinely confused as to what Dragon Ball Super is.

[Jman]

20 minutes ago, CaptainStarwind said:

Doubt Toonami will get a mention. Anime may be somewhat mainstream (especially Dragon Ball), but Toonami is niche even among people in my age range (18-29), let alone middle aged people.  I expect the announcers to be genuinely confused as to what Dragon Ball Super is.

Just mention FighterZ.  Video game that handed Marvel vs Capcom its lunch money.

That being said, bring on confused as hell Al Roker!

Edited November 2, 2018 by Jman

[Chapinator_X]

He looks like he’ll be smirking eagerly at the ass of the balloon float in front of him

[OwlChemist81]

1 hour ago, CaptainStarwind said:

Doubt Toonami will get a mention. Anime may be somewhat mainstream (especially Dragon Ball), but Toonami is niche even among people in my age range (18-29), let alone middle aged people.  I expect the announcers to be genuinely confused as to what Dragon Ball Super is.

You may be right, but at least now Toonami begins at 9 PM. That's a garbage timeslot, but strangely quite watchable. Yes, I know they're up against College Football Rivalry Week, but that isn't the Parade's key demographic. Only thing is, Super right now isn't in its best batch of episodes. A marathon of 14 episodes now would go back to post-Zamasu filler.

[The1gairon]

I have one thing to say:  WHY DIDN'T THEY DO THIS SOONER??

[The1gairon]

On 11/1/2018 at 10:46 AM, Jman said:

Cut to DeMarco looking at his ratings and wondering what gives.

But CN no longer looks at only ratings as their source to how their shows are doing, remember?

[ben0119]

I can't believe Goku has never been in the parade before, nor any Japanese manga character.  Some Japanese videogame characters for sure.  Sonic and Pikachu were always fixtures.  Maybe some anime characters that didn't come from manga?  Not sure.

[ben0119]

20 hours ago, CaptainStarwind said:

Doubt Toonami will get a mention. Anime may be somewhat mainstream (especially Dragon Ball), but Toonami is niche even among people in my age range (18-29), let alone middle aged people.  I expect the announcers to be genuinely confused as to what Dragon Ball Super is.

Once upon a time, Toonami used to be a "hit maker," introducing people to shows and either making them household names, or increasing the popularity of already somewhat popular series.  Now, anime is fairly well known, and heavily consumed across various streaming services.  I think we are long past the days I ask the guy in the Walmart electronics section where their Dragon Ball Z tapes are and he replies that he doesn't know what it is.  (But, you couldn't get uncut ones there anyway.  I went to Suncoast for those. )  I walked into a Walmart several weeks ago and there were TWO My Hero Academia posters, a Dragon Ball Super poster, Yuri on Ice poster, and one of that unholy Cyberdyne abomination Hatsune Miku.  But, there's still lots of people that watched the old Toonami, that don't know there's a new version back on air, or never heard of Toonami in the first place.  How the tables have turned.

A while back, one of my friends visited, and questioned why I still watched Toonami when it wasn't very good anymore and most of the shows sucked.  Thankfully that seems to have righted itself.  He did ask me to change the channel when Hunter x Hunter was on, though.  I told him it was by the same creator as Yu Yu Hakusho and he said that doesn't mean anything, and, well, he's right!  Togashi was replaced by an evil alien clone a la Michael Jackson, I tells ya!

Whoop, I went on a bit of a tangent, there!

Edited November 3, 2018 by ben0119

[ben0119]

On 11/1/2018 at 10:44 AM, PokeNirvash said:

And that speaks nothing of what a balloon of the Rod Reiss Titan would be like...

That would be horrifying!  Gotta' say, I was not expecting that bit of gore!

What character is your avatar, by the way?

[PokeNirvash]

1 hour ago, ben0119 said:

What character is your avatar, by the way?

Haruka from the Senran Kagura franchise.

[The1gairon]

2 hours ago, ben0119 said:

I can't believe Goku has never been in the parade before, nor any Japanese manga character.  Some Japanese videogame characters for sure.  Sonic and Pikachu were always fixtures.  Maybe some anime characters that didn't come from manga?  Not sure.

Japan isn't big on parades. That's Louisiana's job.  Now as for why he hasn't been in MACY'S Thanksgiving Day parade?  ... no idea.

[The1gairon]

1 hour ago, ben0119 said:

Once upon a time, Toonami used to be a "hit maker," introducing people to shows and either making them household names, or increasing the popularity of already somewhat popular series.  Now, anime is fairly well known, and heavily consumed across various streaming services.  I think we are long past the days I ask the guy in the Walmart electronics section where their Dragon Ball Z tapes are and he replies that he doesn't know what it is.  (But, you couldn't get uncut ones there anyway.  I went to Suncoast for those. )  I walked into a Walmart several weeks ago and there were TWO My Hero Academia posters, a Dragon Ball Super poster, Yuri on Ice poster, and one of that unholy Cyberdyne abomination Hatsune Miku.  But, there's still lots of people that watched the old Toonami, that don't know there's a new version back on air, or never heard of Toonami in the first place.  How the tables have turned.

A while back, one of my friends visited, and questioned why I still watched Toonami when it wasn't very good anymore and most of the shows sucked.  Thankfully that seems to have righted itself.  He did ask me to change the channel when Hunter x Hunter was on, though.  I told him it was by the same creator as Yu Yu Hakusho and he said that doesn't mean anything, and, well, he's right!  Togashi was replaced by an evil alien clone a la Michael Jackson, I tells ya!

Whoop, I went on a bit of a tangent, there!

But couldn't you say ..... Toonami HELPED make anime more popular?

[Daos]

7 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

Haruka from the Senran Kagura franchise.

BOY YOU BEST NOT BE WATCHIN THAT S2 OF THE KAGURA

[PokeNirvash]

3 minutes ago, Daos said:

BOY YOU BEST NOT BE WATCHIN THAT S2 OF THE KAGURA

TOO LATE, DAD.

[Daos]

17 minutes ago, PokeNirvash said:

TOO LATE, DAD.

UR GUNNA GO BLIND AND I AIN'T PAYIN FOR NO FANCY OPTOMOLGIES

[ben0119]

19 hours ago, elfie said:

But couldn't you say ..... Toonami HELPED make anime more popular?

Oh yeah for sure.  Anime probably wouldn't be where it is now without Toonami.  It was the gateway for a lot of people.  Toonami, you and your contributions to anime in the U.S. will not be forgotten!

[ben0119]

19 hours ago, elfie said:

Japan isn't big on parades. That's Louisiana's job.  Now as for why he hasn't been in MACY'S Thanksgiving Day parade?  ... no idea.

That's what I mean.  And isn't Macy's barely in business now?

[The1gairon]

21 hours ago, ben0119 said:

That's what I mean.  And isn't Macy's barely in business now?

I wouldn't be surprised.  Lord & Taylor on 5th Ave is closing, it's currently doing a clearance sale right now during the holiday season.  But it's a sad idea: Macy's going out of business.

[Daos]

22 hours ago, ben0119 said:

That's what I mean.  And isn't Macy's barely in business now?

I worked at a Macy's. They will definitely be going the way of Sears in the next 5 years. Over priced 100 dollar shirts and non stop pissed off customers because there's never anyone on the floor to help them.

You think they'd learn from all the mistakes Sears made and start upping their game at some point.

[CountFrylock]

still this is perplexing because what are they even promoting with this? the DVD's? the people watching macy's aren't gonna buy the dvds for super

 

most of them don't know what it is

[Jman]

2 hours ago, CountFrylock said:

still this is perplexing because what are they even promoting with this? the DVD's? the people watching macy's aren't gonna buy the dvds for super

 

most of them don't know what it is

The Broly movie and Blu-Rays.

[The1gairon]

10 hours ago, Daos said:

I worked at a Macy's. They will definitely be going the way of Sears in the next 5 years. Over priced 100 dollar shirts and non stop pissed off customers because there's never anyone on the floor to help them.

You think they'd learn from all the mistakes Sears made and start upping their game at some point.

Butbutbutbut the parade, and the fireworks.

THose may be handed over to another big company.

[MasqueradeOverture]

14 hours ago, elfie said:

I wouldn't be surprised.  Lord & Taylor on 5th Ave is closing, it's currently doing a clearance sale right now during the holiday season.  But it's a sad idea: Macy's going out of business.

Out of all the major dept. stores, they are the most stable.

Though in today's age, that's not saying much.

[CaptainStarwind]

7 hours ago, elfie said:

Butbutbutbut the parade, and the fireworks.

THose may be handed over to another big company.

Even if Macy's went out of business, it wouldn't surprise me if the name continued to be used to sponsor the parade.  It's so iconic at this point that it would almost be sacrilege not to use Macy's name with it.

That being said, even if they can't use Macy's name with the parade, someone else will just pick up naming rights to it.

[The1gairon]

5 hours ago, MasqueradeOverture said:

Out of all the major dept. stores, they are the most stable.

Though in today's age, that's not saying much.

Even Barnes & Nobles is in danger.

[PokeNirvash]

59 minutes ago, elfie said:

Even Barnes & Nobles is in danger.

I'm curious, do you get off on telling us about these depressing truths with only superficial relevance to the topic at hand?

[Daos]

3 hours ago, PokeNirvash said:

I'm curious, do you get off on telling us about these depressing truths with only superficial relevance to the topic at hand?

OUR WORLD IS IN PERIL. GAIA, THE SPIRIT OF THE EARTH, CAN NO LONGER STAND THE TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION PLAGUING OUR PLANET.

[mochi]

the only reason I even celebrate Thanksgiving is to watch the parade, and so I have an excuse to eat Green Bean Casserole and Turkey

I can't condone what the Holiday is Celebrating (namely trying to put a happy spin on Genocide)

[Jman]

55 minutes ago, mochi said:

the only reason I even celebrate Thanksgiving is to watch the parade, and so I have an excuse to eat Green Bean Casserole and Turkey

I can't condone what the Holiday is Celebrating (namely trying to put a happy spin on Genocide)

Canadians have a Thanksgiving too you know, and it’s not about the same events.

You’re all goddamn killjoys.

Edited November 7, 2018 by Jman

[mochi]

3 hours ago, Jman said:

Canadians have a Thanksgiving too you know, and it’s not about the same events.

You’re all goddamn killjoys.

I don't live in Canada

[Daos]

56 minutes ago, mochi said:

the only reason I even celebrate Thanksgiving is to watch the parade, and so I have an excuse to eat Green Bean Casserole and Turkey

I can't condone what the Holiday is Celebrating (namely trying to put a happy spin on Genocide)

No no it's all about not starving to death because we tried socialism. That whole genocide thing took decades!

 

[mochi]

of course I probably shouldn't watch the Macy's parade since it's always sponsored by Chick-fil-A

 

 

although weirdly enough the Lesbian Season of Sailor Moon was also sponsored by jesus Chicken on Hulu

Edited November 7, 2018 by mochi

[Daos]

There's a non lesbian season of Sailor Moon?

[PokeNirvash]

There are less lesbian seasons of Sailor Moon.

[The1gairon]

2 hours ago, mochi said:

of course I probably shouldn't watch the Macy's parade since it's always sponsored by Chick-fil-A

 

 

although weirdly enough the Lesbian Season of Sailor Moon was also sponsored by jesus Chicken on Hulu

I thought it was sponsored by ......  ... MACY'S.

As in... thuh MACY'S Thanksgiving Day Parade.  I'm clearly not watching it close enough.

[mochi]

5 hours ago, Daos said:

There's a non lesbian season of Sailor Moon?

S onwards is openly Lesbian,

 

seasons 1 and 2 are just hinting at it

 

[Top Gun]

Just look for the parts where Ikuhara took the helm. Thar be lesbians!

[CountFrylock]

On 11/5/2018 at 5:30 AM, Jman said:

The Broly movie and Blu-Rays.

yeah imagine the commentators butchering goku's name and caling him Goo Coo

[Jman]

29 minutes ago, CountFrylock said:

yeah imagine the commentators butchering goku's name and caling him Goo Coo

You say that like poor Al Roker doesn’t do that with anything made later than Peanuts.

[OwlChemist81]

On ‎11‎/‎7‎/‎2018 at 8:04 AM, CountFrylock said:

yeah imagine the commentators butchering goku's name and caling him Goo Coo

Believe it or not, they actually got his name RIGHT!

But when he first appeared on CBS, they said he was from "Dragon". They did eventually add the "Ball", and then later "Super: Broly", ALL pronounced correctly!

However, NBC only featured him for like 30 seconds, and they mispronounced "Funnymation" and "Super SI-yann"...or maybe "Super Cyan" is actually an official alternate name for "Super Saiyan Blue??"

And he DID have a bit of trouble in the wind, or maybe, just maybe, some mysterious figure in the audience was to blame?

HEY, POST #6666!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

Edited November 22, 2018 by OwlChemist81

[Blatch]

Hardcore DB nerds will tell you that "sigh-yan" is the more correct pronunciation, although someone on NBC's staff probably thought Mr. Roker said it wrong. 

[Daos]

They also like to say "Super Saiya-Jin" but that sounds retarded so we ignore it.

The Sai in Saiyan is supposed to be pronounced just like you'd pronounce Sai the weapon. But Sayan sounds better.

[PokeNirvash]

I completely missed the mispronunciation of Saiyan because I was too busy bitching about how they acted like Goku being in a movie was a first when he's already been in, like, fifteen of them already.

[The1gairon]

7 hours ago, OwlChemist81 said:

Believe it or not, they actually got his name RIGHT!

But when he first appeared on CBS, they said he was from "Dragon". They did eventually add the "Ball", and then later "Super: Broly", ALL pronounced correctly!

However, NBC only featured him for like 30 seconds, and they mispronounced "Funnymation" and "Super SI-yann"...or maybe "Super Cyan" is actually an official alternate name for "Super Saiyan Blue??"

And he DID have a bit of trouble in the wind, or maybe, just maybe, some mysterious figure in the audience was to blame?

HEY, POST #6666!!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!

All i have to say is, I saw this live and hooooly CRAP. this was FEAKIN amazing.

Goku is the BEST Cuper Cyan alive!  I mean cyan is a name for a type of blue, so maybe it fit with his hair color?

The balloons were all somewhat deflated a bit, not just Goku. THat's because heavy winds tend to rip through the material a bit. That's also why they were all flying a tad too low.

[The1gairon]

1 hour ago, PokeNirvash said:

I completely missed the mispronunciation of Saiyan because I was too busy bitching about how they acted like Goku being in a movie was a first when he's already been in, like, fifteen of them already.

Anyone keep track of all the mistakes Roker made?

[ben0119]