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NEWS: Naruto and One Piece on Cartoon Network

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Unfortunately, ratings information for weekday afterschool programming isn't nearly as readily available as the Saturday morning ratings, so i wouldn't be able to say how well CN and Nick do compared to Fox in that timeslot for that demographic.

I don't know as though Fox plays weekday after-school cartoons anymore. I think that of the broadcast networks, only WB is still doing this.

One Piece and Naruto seem to be very similar story style-wise to other adventure type shows CN's previously had success with - DBZ, IY, DB. I'd figure that both should be fairly successfull. They've got a lot more action and some humore, as apposed to the last big name show they got - SEED. Toonami is deffinately the place for these shows, though.

pardon me for being so whiny.

but it sucks that the dvds here are soo expensive and overpriced.

anyways i think they will cut a LOT of Naruto and get rid of all the original humor since its on toonami.

and that takes up a lot of time and if they cut it out each episode will only be 15 min long just like rurouni kenshin was.

i hope they don't make a song of their own.

Isaaru wrote:

darkhunter wrote: Naruto in adult Swim....LOL don't make me laugh. Fanboy these days. True that! its got a lot less work than One Piece. The only thing that would require some sort of editing is really stuff about Gaara, Zabuza's fight in the end. Thats about it. Without giving away spoilers, can anyone, who seen the series think of anything else?

Let's see, there's the Sexy No Jitsu (called the Ninja Centerfold in Viz's manga translation) which will definatly have to go, which is going to make the ending to episode 2 a pain to edit...there's the sequence where Gara tries to stab himself...the scenes where Naruto and Orochimaru do stab themselves (both in the hand) especially since Orochimaru does it just to wake himself up...the scene where Kakashi scares Sakura with an illusion of Sasuke bleeding profusly with multiple knives sticking out of him and his leg bending the wrong way....the end of the fight between Gara and Lee...the sequence where Itachi makes Kakashi believe he is being crucified and tortured with a sword...the sequence where that one kid's father is ACTUALLY crucified....Kiba teaching his dog to mark trees while jumping, with lots of lovingly drawn dog urine flying everywhere (and Shino commenting "I can't work with this guy")...Iruka with a huge shuriken sticking out of his back...Jiraya's habit of peeping in on women while they're bathing...the sequence where Orochimaru makes Sasuke believe he just died...various references to Tsunade's large breasts...a giant snake exploding in a shower of blood and guts...LOTS of random blood spurts here and there...and, since this IS Toonami, the third Hokage smoking a pipe.

Oh, and some spolier-y ones too:
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I could go on, but this post is long enough. So in regards to Naruto on Adult Swim-not as ridiculous as you thought, huh? :p

I'm not too thrilled that Viz will likely pull the same "sell a 150+ episode TV series at three episodes a disc at standard MSRP" deal that they did with Inu-Yasha either, but it could still be worse. And outside of Viz's questionable practices, the domestic market's only been improving in recent months in terms of the sort of deals we get on releases. Would you rather we go back to the days of $30 monolingual VHS tapes with two episodes a pop? Or how about we copy Japan and sell two episodes per DVD volume at around $60? Five or so episodes at $25's a fair deal, I'd say.

koali aloalo wrote:

and that takes up a lot of time and if they cut it out each episode will only be 15 min long just like rurouni kenshin was.

They do Sexy no Jutsu for half an episode every single episode? Uh...what Naruto were you watching? It's a bit gag that's not really that vital to the series save for a couple filler episodes, and they'll probably just opt to tone it down in place of cutting it entirely anyway.

koali aloalo wrote:

i hope they don't make a song of their own.

They...won't? Are you sure you're not confusing Viz with 4Kids & TokyoPop? Yeah, Viz does a few things rather questionably with their releases, but they're hardly as deplorable as you seem to make them out to be. Neither are Cartoon Network.

On the editing thing, I'm with Nagisa, and if Sexy no Jutsu is left it, it'll be more than likely be given a digital bikini, hey, in the Naruto Gamecube games they gave Naruto a bikini while he was using the Sexy no Jutsu, so that'd be the most logical thing, plus they can leave in some of the Sexy no Jutsu moments anyway, they'll just be treated similar to some of the stuff in Tenchi Muyo.

I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe all of ShoPro's anime that have aired on CN (and were originally intended from CN, so Megaman NT Warrior doesn't count) have kept their original music, the only big change I've noticed is that the OP/ED themes in Hamtaro are dubbed over, and I know the ED theme for Hamtaro IS the same as the Japanese one

And bobobo bobobobo... o_o I thought this wasn't ever gonna get licenced... BUT IT DID!! It's gonna be soo great!! I only saw the first 3 eps and I can't wait to see the rest of the series!! hopefully they'll do the series justice with the joke re-writes, or however they'll tell the jokes... hopefully it won't be totally butchered... bobobo in a sandwich, ah, hilarious... and all the cuts to the movie theather, ahaha, good times...

IGPX... hmmmm... kickass... or... well... wasn't this on a while ago? I think I remember it...

Bobobobo on Toonami? That has got to be the weirdest decision CN has ever made. I haven't seen it yet, but I've seen some pics and read about it, and it looks like a very strange anime. It's about time Toonami put in some comedy anime.

yeah yeah..i see what you mean. Maybe i should have used a finer tooth comb here. However, all that stuff doesnt sound as violent or disturbing as you have made them sound. A lot of that will stay. With the exception of Kakashi and Itachi's scene (forgot about that...wow) The rest can easily be reasonable edited, toned down WITHOUT hurting the central story.
I love Naruto, but its targeted to a younger audience in Japan, and it will be here in the US, but like Harry Potter, many adults are attracted to the story. In Japan, a lot of the stuff you mentioned is acceptable in thier society. Here, many younger preteen audiences will enjoy Naruto and take in its meaning and story despite editing for US youth audiences. Save Adult swim for 16-up oriented programs like Full metal Alchemist, Samurai Champloo, and Paranoia Agent.

Naruto should not be hidden from Toonami's audience because we feel it belongs to us "adults."

On the editing thing, I'm with Nagisa, and if Sexy no Jutsu is left it, it'll be more than likely be given a digital bikini, hey, in the Naruto Gamecube games they gave Naruto a bikini while he was using the Sexy no Jutsu, so that'd be the most logical thing, plus they can leave in some of the Sexy no Jutsu moments anyway, they'll just be treated similar to some of the stuff in Tenchi Muyo