Toonami

Magical Mystery · Post by **Magical Mystery** » May 17th, 2012, 11:29 am

Is there really any difference?

Saturday night through Sunday morning is currently their night for anime - it seems to me that all they are doing is adding the "Toonami" name and ads to it.

ranger · Post by **ranger** » May 17th, 2012, 12:13 pm

Magical Mystery wrote: Is there really any difference?

Saturday night through Sunday morning is currently their night for anime - it seems to me that all they are doing is adding the "Toonami" name and ads to it.

you're pretty much right, Toonami is just a strategy to a higher viewership and reel in their past fans. However, if it's successful, it could potentially be a large step for the R1 anime industry. We might see more licenses happen for future series, especially if Toonami is going to air dub premieres.

At least for me, it's more of a longing for an anime community for American cable that can potentially be Toonami, along with the nostalgia factor with TOM.

What I'm most looking forward to is the new change in audience and their timeslot; there's no way they are catering for a younger audience + new fans with a once a week 12:00 - 5:00 AM slot. I want to see mature dubbed series. Monster, Baccano, Madoka..

GinRei · Post by **GinRei** » May 17th, 2012, 12:20 pm

ranger wrote: We might see more licenses happen for future series, especially if Toonami is going to air dub premieres.

We already get like 70% of a season's shows licensed within 2 weeks of the season starting nowadays. The only thing this might do if successful is get Funimation to not take 2 years to release a license.

Magical Mystery · Post by **Magical Mystery** » May 17th, 2012, 12:54 pm

GinRei wrote:
ranger wrote: We might see more licenses happen for future series, especially if Toonami is going to air dub premieres.
We already get like 70% of a season's shows licensed within 2 weeks of the season starting nowadays. The only thing this might do if successful is get Funimation to not take 2 years to release a license.

I wouldn't be too sure of that.

For several years Funimation has been in the process of making the Funimation Channel more available. More than likely they'll put on there first, in hopes that providers (satellite and cable) will add the channel to their line-up.

Hopefully the channel will collapse (not to be mean), then they make shows more readily accessible. If it doesn't fade away, the delay in release on non-Funimation channels may still take a while.

Personally I would like to have the channel, but it's not carried by ANYONE in my area.

GinRei · Post by **GinRei** » May 17th, 2012, 1:35 pm

It already collapsed to the point that it's now basically a pay-only channel like HBO.

ranger · Post by **ranger** » May 17th, 2012, 2:18 pm

you knucklehead Ginrei just enjoi Toonami before it goes away again

GinRei · Post by **GinRei** » May 17th, 2012, 9:58 pm

No. The Toonami I watched was in the afternoons and had Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Universe, and some other random show. This... this is adult swim cosplaying!

Magical Mystery · Post by **Magical Mystery** » May 17th, 2012, 10:01 pm

GinRei wrote: No. The Toonami I watched was in the afternoons and had Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Universe, and some other random show. This... this is adult swim cosplaying!

I'm kinda afraid of the same thing - but, we'll just wait and see when it starts later this month.

Commi-Ninja · Post by **Commi-Ninja** » May 17th, 2012, 10:51 pm

GinRei wrote: No. The Toonami I watched was in the afternoons and had Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Universe, and some other random show. This... this is adult swim cosplaying!

That would be so much better! They could throw in the original Mobile Suit Gundam, too, then it would be perfect.

kkslider5552000 · Post by **kkslider5552000** » May 17th, 2012, 11:32 pm

GinRei wrote: No. The Toonami I watched was in the afternoons and had Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Universe, and some other random show. This... this is adult swim cosplaying!

Odds are none of those shows are actually good anymore.

ranger · Post by **ranger** » May 18th, 2012, 12:24 am

That's it, if y'all complain one mo time I'm contacting the Toonami front office and you won't get Sailor Moon or anything - just Lucky Star 24/7, darling darling prwease bitches

kkslider5552000 · Post by **kkslider5552000** » May 18th, 2012, 12:28 am

I was just counteracting negativity by making fun of generic nostalgia opinions.

GinRei · Post by **GinRei** » May 18th, 2012, 10:46 am

kkslider5552000 wrote:
GinRei wrote: No. The Toonami I watched was in the afternoons and had Sailor Moon, DBZ, Tenchi Universe, and some other random show. This... this is adult swim cosplaying!
Odds are none of those shows are actually good anymore.

Dragon Ball Kai was good. In Japanese, at least. Funimation replaced some of the voices for the English version, and while some are good others are just absolutely atrocious. Especially Gohan. He sounds like a girl, even when he's a teenager. And not a girl in the "wow, he has a female voice actress trying to sound like a young boy", but more like "His voice actress knows he's supposed to be male, right?"

ranger · Post by **ranger** » May 21st, 2012, 2:05 pm

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... wonderland

Not bad, Deadman Wonderland I hear is a rather good series, and since I haven't seen it yet, it could follow it on a weekly basis

Akonyl · Post by **Akonyl** » May 21st, 2012, 2:11 pm

I've sorta heard the opposite on Deadman Wonderland, though I haven't seen it myself :x

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