Jman Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otakuninja9000 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 So they chose a boring-ass scene(other that the dad going psycho) and didn't even give us a proper release date? Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 Remember that time 4 years ago when they released a trailer? No date, not even a vague 2024 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 Damn that looks cool though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenguinBoss Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 I swear they're trying to blend hand-drawn and CG, and it's very off-putting to me. Either way, nice to see a scene early on in the first episode after several years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 Well here DeMarco says it’s coming later this year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viperxmns Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 now I know why it's taken so long, they've been drawing her hair the whole time 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 16 minutes ago, Sketch said: Well here DeMarco says it’s coming later this year Why would that very important piece of info not be in the trailer then? Fully expecting him to drop a “whoops there was a delay lol” around mid September. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 6 minutes ago, Toonamiguy321 said: Why would that very important piece of info not be in the trailer then? Fully expecting him to drop a “whoops there was a delay lol” around mid September. It wasn’t a trailer it was a clip from an episode but it’s not a good sign that DeMarco said no time frame at the panel. For now I’m expecting it to replace FLCL Grunge mid-October because nothing says it has to finish in October. Of course Superman will be done after Labor Day weekend so they could stall 4 weeks then start it in October and overlap originals two weeks. Or since Ninja Kamui is supposedly starting this year then that might replace Grunge and overlap with Uzumaki. Sub that with Rick Anime for a more realistic scenario I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpressAngel Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 Can't wait to piss my pants and cry in fear whenever we finally get the show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Sketch said: It wasn’t a trailer it was a clip from an episode but it’s not a good sign that DeMarco said no time frame at the panel. For now I’m expecting it to replace FLCL Grunge mid-October because nothing says it has to finish in October. Of course Superman will be done after Labor Day weekend so they could stall 4 weeks then start it in October and overlap originals two weeks. Or since Ninja Kamui is supposedly starting this year then that might replace Grunge and overlap with Uzumaki. Sub that with Rick Anime for a more realistic scenario I guess. He did a follow up tweet and said Ninja Kamui is 2024 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naraku360 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 (edited) On one hand, this looks quite a bit better than expected. On the other, out of Uzumaki's 20 chapters, there were like 4 that did not make me feel dumber for having read it. Edited July 23, 2023 by naraku360 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted July 23, 2023 Author Share Posted July 23, 2023 23 minutes ago, naraku360 said: On one hand, this looks quite a bit better than expected. On the other, out of Uzumaki's 20 chapters, there were like 4 that did not make me feel dumber for having read it. Spoiler The hair fight, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naraku360 Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 30 minutes ago, Jman said: Hide contents The hair fight, right? Spoiler That, and the zombie on a bike, and the flies flying in circles, and.... Well.... the main girl. I kinda hated how she'd still be treating things as if nothing is wrong over half way through the series, only to inevitably be shocked by something surreal, at best, if not straight up grotesque. Then she hears about some new oddity in the next chapter, treats it like it's nothing to worry about, then be equally shocked as she was the last 10 times. The combination of the main character's stubborn lack of personality and stupidity with many concepts that really, really stretch the word "spiral" through comically dumb ideas was actively upsetting. I appreciate that this is only going to be 4 episodes since the vast majority of the manga chapters were arbitrary, contrived situations that have no significance whatsoever. I liked the first chapter, a few here and there (actually more than 4 chapters, but still less than half the series), and the arc near the end since that tied a select handful of the adequate-to-good chapters together and managed to make the extreme absurdity into an effective horror story. I just wish it didn't feel like Ito had come up with an interesting premise and some cool ideas of what to do with it, but ran out of ideas almost immediately. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Turns out the Rick & Morty anime won’t be the only subtitled show on Adult Swim soon The current plan is to premiere Uzumaki subtitled So let me get this straight… you spent 4+ years on these four episodes and when the show airs it will be monochrome and subtitled. And you expect your shounen action loving and/or pot smoking audience to watch it? Good luck with that. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 I mean Junji Ito has big name recognition among anime/manga fans by this point, so this is the sort of thing that people will actively seek out to watch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 40 minutes ago, Sketch said: o let me get this straight… you spent 4+ years on these four episodes and when the show airs it will be monochrome and subtitled. And you expect your shounen action loving and/or pot smoking audience to watch it? Good luck with that. Just tag this to the beginning: Problem solved. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted July 25, 2023 Author Share Posted July 25, 2023 I still think airing anything subtitled without a dub option is self defeating but maybe they think it adds to the authenticity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 My biggest gripe is I want to be able to look thoroughly at the art and animation and having to read subtitles takes away from the visual experience. I watch a lot of anime subtitled but it’s usually not my preference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 So 10+ years of telling your audience that subs = ratings death sentence, and now you are gonna roll out one of your pet projects under those conditions? I don’t really care either way (though I do agree on a visual dominant show like this it’s a unique issue), but more hypocrisy from the big man. Place your bets, they will double dip on it, the premier subbed, then rather than a proper replacement, we have to spend another 4 weeks premiering the dub. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OwlChemist81 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Subtitled AND Black and White? Feels like a "Made-For-TCM" project to me, and maybe that's WHY Demarco is backing it, to air it on TCM as an "instant classic" in 2024 after premiering on Toonami in October 2023??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatch Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 3 hours ago, Sketch said: So let me get this straight… you spent 4+ years on these four episodes and when the show airs it will be monochrome and subtitled. And you expect your shounen action loving and/or pot smoking audience to watch it? Good luck with that. Apparently April Fool's Day in 2018 was a test case after all. I shouldn't have doubted Al. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 54 minutes ago, OwlChemist81 said: Subtitled AND Black and White? Feels like a "Made-For-TCM" project to me, and maybe that's WHY Demarco is backing it, to air it on TCM as an "instant classic" in 2024 after premiering on Toonami in October 2023??? I was also thinking this felt like something made for TCM. Maybe it will actually air there. 1 hour ago, Toonamiguy321 said: So 10+ years of telling your audience that subs = ratings death sentence, and now you are gonna roll out one of your pet projects under those conditions? I don’t really care either way (though I do agree on a visual dominant show like this it’s a unique issue), but more hypocrisy from the big man. Place your bets, they will double dip on it, the premier subbed, then rather than a proper replacement, we have to spend another 4 weeks premiering the dub. I don’t think they’ll air the dub immediately after the sub because I get the impression the dub isn’t going to be ready by then. It would have been a novel move to say bookend the block with the dub and sub of Uzumaki but obviously air the dub earlier. But if they’re actually going to run Uzumaki in Japanese in the first hour of Toonami then I’m all the more certain they’ll be leading the block with RickAniMorty encores once Uzumaki ends. The only reason I thought they might just quietly throw that in the back was because I didn’t think they would ever start Toonami with a subtitled show (yeah yeah Sandwhale yadda yadda) but if they’ll do it for Uzumaki then they’ll do it for RickAniMorty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonamiguy321 Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 57 minutes ago, Sketch said: I don’t think they’ll air the dub immediately after the sub because I get the impression the dub isn’t going to be ready by then. It would have been a novel move to say bookend the block with the dub and sub of Uzumaki but obviously air the dub earlier. I dont expect it immediately either. I have a strong feeling that the only reason they are considering a sub run at all is because they can’t get this dubbed in time to replace Grunge. What I expect is sometime in the future we will be pondering what will replace a gap in the schedule, only to be disappointed by the Uzumaki dub which they will spin as some kind of privilege to get over something new. Will be even more frustrating if Uzumaki ends up sucking. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 4 hours ago, Sketch said: ...I didn’t think they would ever start Toonami with a subtitled show (yeah yeah Sandwhale yadda yadda)... I wouldn't call Sand Whale and Me a "subtitled show". Damn thing had no dialogue to begin with! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 No plot either. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketch Posted July 25, 2023 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Semantics, it was a short anyway but I brought it up because it was a weird Japanese thing that one time aired at the start of the block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted July 26, 2023 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Oshii is a special man, isn't he? They should play Funky Forest. Raw. No subs. Visual context only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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