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by penguintruth » Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:24 pm
JulieYBM wrote:None of those titles will work. Toonami would have to air on multiple days of the week with at least seven-to-fourteen 'premiers' a week. How likely is that going to bring in money when [as] has to worry about making actual money (with the Fox titles) and juggling their original titles? Hundreds of episodes long titles that they have to spend a lot of money on with little insurance of making a profit on them isn't going to fly.
By that very reasoning, why bring back Toonami at all?
Long-runners mean dedicated viewers who might stick around to watch the other shows.
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by KiddoCabbusses » Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:04 pm
penguintruth wrote:JulieYBM wrote:None of those titles will work. Toonami would have to air on multiple days of the week with at least seven-to-fourteen 'premiers' a week. How likely is that going to bring in money when [as] has to worry about making actual money (with the Fox titles) and juggling their original titles? Hundreds of episodes long titles that they have to spend a lot of money on with little insurance of making a profit on them isn't going to fly.
By that very reasoning, why bring back Toonami at all?
Or "Why air Bleach or Inuyasha on AS?", to bring an example of what they've done even before this idea came up?
Longrunners have already been an AS staple even before this came up. I don't see how that'll change.
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by Saimaroimaru » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:29 am
10:00-10:30pm Dragon Ball(From Dragonball to GT)
10:30-11:00pm Yu-Yu-Hakusho
11:00-11:30pm Tenchi Muyo
11:30-12:00am Rurouni Kenshin
12:00-12:30am Bleach
12:30-1:00am One Piece
1:00-1:30am Fairy Tale
1:30-2:00am Naruto Shippuden
2:00-2:30am InuYasha The Final Act
2:30-3:00am Salior Moon
CN would have to wrestle the rights from Disney when it comes to Naruto.
The idea behind my list is the Toonami starts off with some old shows to drawn in the nostalgia crowd and then prime time(Which start at Midnight on Sat for AS) is devoted to new stuff. The block ends with an old show since as time moves on people will be falling asleep.
To be honest which old shows to be shown should be voted on by the fans.
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by funrush » Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:35 am
Saimaroimaru wrote:10:00-10:30pm Dragon Ball(From Dragonball to GT)
10:30-11:00pm Yu-Yu-Hakusho
11:00-11:30pm Tenchi Muyo
11:30-12:00am Rurouni Kenshin
12:00-12:30am Bleach
12:30-1:00am One Piece
1:00-1:30am Fairy Tale
1:30-2:00am Naruto Shippuden
2:00-2:30am InuYasha The Final Act
2:30-3:00am Salior Moon
CN would have to wrestle the rights from Disney when it comes to Naruto.
Disney hasn't aired it in like, half a year. Maybe they could be willing to sell the rights.
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by Running Wild » Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:33 am
If Toonami returns, they absolutely must have One Piece. One Piece really needs the exposure, I've enjoyed the dub up to the Alabasta Arc, and I'm just about to dip into Skypeia where Toonami left off before it went kaputsky.
If Sailor Moon somehow reemerged with a new dub, that would be amazing... the re-release of the manga has been doing pretty well I hear, maybe it could warrant another run for the anime, hopefully even reach the final season.
There's a lot of classics worth revisiting, but new stuff is important too... but from my point of view, most of the new stuff today... it just doesn't cater to the kind of action and storytelling Toonami was known for. We seem to live in an era of anime full of school romances, slice of life, lolicon and "moe", those are the things that seem to be the big money makers right now. There's still a huge selection of Shonen titles, but it's not what it used to be and most of the good ones are titles that have been running for years now.
I think Tiger & Bunny would be right up Toonami's ally and fit in nicely.
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by Akumaito Beam » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:47 pm
A broadcast version of One Piece might even get me into the series again. I basically quit because it was WAY too long but if I could casually follow it without dropping 45 bucks for 13 of the four gazillion (and climbing) episodes I would totally get reinvested. I would even sit through those terrible goat episodes again.
I wonder if they'd make new DBZ bumpers or reuse old ones? Either way sounds magnificent.
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by ThunderPX » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:24 pm
FUNimation's actually in the process of re-releasing what they have of One Piece so far in collection sets that have double the episodes for less than half the price.
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by samuraix123 » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:18 am
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by Super Sayian Prime » Sat May 05, 2012 12:18 am
That an intern hasn't filled in the schedule yet to hide the fact they'll air Perfect Hair Forever?
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by Akumaito Beam » Sat May 05, 2012 12:21 am
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:
That an intern hasn't filled in the schedule yet to hide the fact they'll air Perfect Hair Forever?
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by Son Geeko » Sat May 05, 2012 12:55 am
Super Saiyan Prime wrote:That an intern hasn't filled in the schedule yet to hide the fact they'll air Perfect Hair Forever?
Adult Swim has ALWAYS aired Kekkaishi, FLCL, The Big O, Ghost in the Shell, Durarara, and Inuyasha around that slot. Why would they suddenly change the Saturday schedules from that time on?
There's a good possibility that this might have something to do with Toonami, guess we'll just have to wait until May 26th to see if anything happens.
Akumaito Beam wrote:WHY do I keep relyin' on you Son Geeko-Man!?
Whoa, since when did I have a fanbase here?
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by son veku » Sat May 05, 2012 1:00 am
I really hope they get rid of cockaishi
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by Saimaroimaru » Tue May 08, 2012 6:14 am
Son Geeko wrote:Super Saiyan Prime wrote:That an intern hasn't filled in the schedule yet to hide the fact they'll air Perfect Hair Forever?
Adult Swim has ALWAYS aired Kekkaishi, FLCL, The Big O, Ghost in the Shell, Durarara, and Inuyasha around that slot. Why would they suddenly change the Saturday schedules from that time on?
There's a good possibility that this might have something to do with Toonami, guess we'll just have to wait until May 26th to see if anything happens.
Akumaito Beam wrote:WHY do I keep relyin' on you Son Geeko-Man!?
Whoa, since when did I have a fanbase here?
Problem being that As isn't going to make a season 2 of any of the new stuff like Kekkaishi or Durarara since they just dub anime or broadcast dubbed stuff. I hear rumors that Bleach caused a lot of trouble and thus why they have gone to shorter anime series for new stuff to air.
Even if Toonami is returning it could take months. The april fools broadcast could just been used as a talking starter for whoever deals with the menial day to day business stuff of AS and whatnot.
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by Nikkolas » Tue May 08, 2012 6:59 am
Saimaroimaru wrote:10:00-10:30pm Dragon Ball(From Dragonball to GT)
10:30-11:00pm Yu-Yu-Hakusho
11:00-11:30pm Tenchi Muyo
11:30-12:00am Rurouni Kenshin
12:00-12:30am Bleach
12:30-1:00am One Piece
1:00-1:30am Fairy Tail
1:30-2:00am Naruto Shippuden
2:00-2:30am InuYasha The Final Act
2:30-3:00am Salior Moon
Fixed for you.
And I dunno about GT (since I kinda hate it) but the rest sounds good. I'd love Fairy Tail to get more recognition here in the US and that will only happen if it is on a main channel like CN.
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by son veku » Tue May 08, 2012 8:14 am
Did anyone actually watch Yu Yu Hakusho that night because they resized widescreen to full so everyone is tall and really skinny.
I hated that
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by Soul » Tue May 08, 2012 10:12 am
It was like that because the show was aired on HD via the Blu-ray masters, I've seen it happen before if you don't have HD reception, then you that "tallscreen."
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by Avenged » Mon May 14, 2012 3:16 am
Just so everyone knows, Adult Swim has been showing advertisements about bringing Toonami back.
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by superrayman3 » Mon May 14, 2012 6:14 am
Avenged wrote:Just so everyone knows, Adult Swim has been showing advertisements about bringing Toonami back.
That
's a very good sign
. Thanks for the heads up
, Avenged
. There is one thing I'm cur
ious about though
: are these advertisements talking about the po
ssibility of bringing Toonami back
, or are they directly saying for sure that Toonami is coming back?
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