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Demetrios Making darkness adorable since 1999 from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
X2X You'll never see it coming... from the Darkness Beyond Time Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
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#53052: Jul 14th 2018 at 11:58:22 PM

For a show that leans heavily on the comedic/bizarre side of things, Space Dandy has a lot of those.

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BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#53053: Jul 15th 2018 at 12:07:48 AM

Come to think of it, yeah.

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Demetrios Making darkness adorable since 1999 from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Making darkness adorable since 1999
#53054: Jul 15th 2018 at 12:16:03 AM

I'll be calling it a night now. I'll see y'all next week. Have a good night, everybody. :) I hope you all have Sweet Dreams Fuel to help erase that Black Clover episode that was like watching an evil snail.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Rojixus The Last Nineties Anti-Hero from A Dark and Rainy Cyberpunk City (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Abstaining
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#53055: Jul 15th 2018 at 12:24:39 AM

[up]Fortunately, Toonami ends with three very strong anime that wash away the taint of Extruded Shonen Product and The Sauce.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53056: Jul 15th 2018 at 12:28:22 AM

I'm gonna pray & hope that the Black Clover anime doesn't do well enough to warrent a second season.

And if it does hopefully Toonami doesn't get it because they clearly don't like it anymore than we do.

Eitherway night yawl. [tup]

Edited by slimcoder on Jul 15th 2018 at 12:28:18 PM

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Rojixus The Last Nineties Anti-Hero from A Dark and Rainy Cyberpunk City (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Abstaining
The Last Nineties Anti-Hero
#53057: Jul 15th 2018 at 12:58:41 AM

And that's all she wrote, see you guys next week!

Demetrios Making darkness adorable since 1999 from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Making darkness adorable since 1999
#53058: Jul 15th 2018 at 10:48:48 AM

[up][up]Yeah, although I will miss making jokes about it with you all.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53061: Jul 16th 2018 at 5:30:19 PM

Hype news. [awesome] [tup]

What show is it replacing?

Edited by slimcoder on Jul 16th 2018 at 5:29:57 AM

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#53062: Jul 16th 2018 at 5:34:25 PM

People have theorized that it's not replacing anything, and that Toonami will expand to 6 hours again.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#53063: Jul 16th 2018 at 5:47:25 PM

Both Space Dandy and Stardust Crusaders ends in August so the theory I'm hearing is the week after Dandy ends, they'll probably just air filler.

Moth13 Since: Sep, 2010
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#53065: Jul 17th 2018 at 8:48:34 PM

So in an Ask.fm response De Marco more or less confirmed that the reason why One Piece got pulled from the block is because the Japanese Side (Toei) increased the broadcasting rights to more than they were willing to pay.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53066: Jul 17th 2018 at 8:55:19 PM

Huh so it wasn’t due to declining ratings or anything like that.

Fuck man that’s sad as shit. sad

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mythbuster Since: Jan, 2010
#53067: Jul 18th 2018 at 3:21:14 AM

Stupid is what it is. Nobody else picked it up, so now they get nothing from the US market.

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#53068: Jul 18th 2018 at 10:43:27 AM

There's definitely an unfortunate dissonance when it comes to One Piece. It's a merchandise empire over in Japan, so Toei likely expects it to carry the same commanding weight that Dragon Ball does in the West. Which like, it just doesn't. So I can't fault the network for not wanting to fork over the extra money for it.

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#53069: Jul 18th 2018 at 11:41:50 AM

It's not a hard fact to understand though - it just isn't popular in the west, and where it is, the anime isn't popular at all.

This is just the same sort of not-understanding-the-market that trips up getting manga across to the west.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
mythbuster Since: Jan, 2010
#53070: Jul 18th 2018 at 3:39:13 PM

Blame 4KidsEntertainment for botching the dub the first time, and thereby ruining the market. Toei needs to be more careful about their brand.

Edited by mythbuster on Jul 18th 2018 at 3:39:01 AM

Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#53071: Jul 18th 2018 at 3:43:07 PM

No, don't blame 4Kids. 4Kids didn't even want to bring it over, it was part of a package deal and they were forced to.

One Piece has always failed in the west because of the visual style. I like it, a lot of people like it, but loads of people don't. To the people who like DBZ etc. it looks too kiddy, to the majority western anime nerd crowd it doesn't look enough like most anime. It is just never going to be really popular in the west.

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
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#53072: Jul 18th 2018 at 3:58:12 PM

Wait, since when was One Piece a failure? Wasn't it part of the "big three" of the 2000s?

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Sigilbreaker26 Serial Procrastinator Since: Nov, 2017
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#53073: Jul 18th 2018 at 4:09:21 PM

Well, by fail I mean "not as blindingly dominant as it is in Japan".

"And when the last law was down and the Devil turned round on you, where would you hide, the laws all being flat?"
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#53074: Jul 18th 2018 at 7:16:45 PM

Well isn't that the case with most Japanese properties in America?

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#53075: Jul 18th 2018 at 8:11:03 PM

[up][up][up] Big three is a bit of a misnomer in the sense that yeah, the manga was really popular on scanlation sites, but that never really translated to the anime catching over with people.

Like, the blu-rays/dvds sales enough to warrant Funimation continuing to dub it, but One Piece was always leagues less popular than Naruto and Bleach in the West. And that's the problem that the block ran into last year. Toei wants to charge for the series as if it has the same type of demand in the West that stuff like Dragon Ball and Naruto does, which it just doesn't.


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