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Sacto0562
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Mostly because legal streaming on services like Crunchyroll has made it unnecessary to show anime on even cable TV channels.
I do think we may see a lot more anime--even English-subtitled--on serivces like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video in the future, though. |
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Paiprince
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And American TV mostly caters to out of touch White baby boomers and Starbucks drinking hipster kids who don't have time to read novels so resort to serial adaptations instead. They're not any better. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
Posts: 1684 Location: Los Angeles, CA |
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Since we switched to the new single-question format, a lot of people are going back and reading a lot of back articles and finding the ones they wanted to learn more about. However, the questions that are lumped together with a few others under ambiguous titles get ignored. So, about once a week I've been going through those old columns and finding the "good" questions that still apply today, and reposting them in the new format so that readers can find them again. Most of them need a little updating, but this one didn't. |
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epicwizard
Posts: 420 Location: Ashburn, VA |
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The ratings weren't so great. The season 2 finale only pulled in 69,000 views. No, seriously: http://www.toonzone.net/forums/threads/disney-ratings-thread.5459741/page-3
I see. That totally makes make sense. The single-question format is a lot more convenient than the multiple-question format. |
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MoonPhase1
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I'm not a fan of Streaming Anime, so I watch Anime on Blu-ray, DVD, Toonami and Anime Network On Demand. I did watch Love Live on MNet America back when it was on.
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Tenchi
Posts: 4512 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Minor correction, DiC's Sailor Moon hit North American airwaves and cable in 1995, Sailor Moon only started airing in Japan in 1992. |
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KH91
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Long story short: America is not Japan.
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Random Name
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I think the real question is why do people still pay for TV? I just have an internet connection and I am still able to enjoy all the American/Japanese television I want! Well at least until they kill net neutrality but then I always have my blurays...
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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You say that like as if I'm not a viewer of American TV.
Yikes, I can see why that was pulled then. Doraemon didn't really fit in with Disney XD's general style though.
Me, it's for the stumble-upon factor I mentioned earlier that you cannot get with streaming. |
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Tenchi
Posts: 4512 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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^ I get a limited amount of TV stations in a bundle with phone and Internet and, even though I subscribe to Netflix now, I still like having linear channels for first run shows and as background noise.
EDIT: That was a reply to Random Name's "why do people still pay for TV?" question. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Ouch! That's got to hurt. It seems that Doraemon wasn't nearly as big a hit many have hoped... |
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EricJ2
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More specifically, that's what Adult Swim considers anime to be, from the perception of folks who consider DBZ to be all anime. Particularly for CN, who had to air the whole darn Majin Buu saga. All of it. Every night. For what, two years, three? Not counting reruns? Whatever goodwill CN bore its one most successful anime tentpole cooled quickly, and the perception that DBZ Is All Anime didn't help their patience with it either. If you think PHF was an immature rant against DBZ, check out the scene in Warner's live-action "Speed Racer" movie: In what's meant to be a winking "comedy-relief" scene to its anime origins, we see the characters watching an even Adult-Swimmier "parody" of generic DBZ fight anime on TV, drawn in over-the-top kitschy style, with Hanna-Barbera Jonny Quest music running in the background...Well, it is 00's Warner, after all. Yeah, they may run Kai and Super, but those DBZ-created traumas at CN toward anime and its fans run pretty deep. Asking CN to license your favorite anime show for cable broadcast is sort of like asking the guy whose car you just hit whether he'll polish yours for you. |
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writerpatrick
Posts: 679 Location: Canada |
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I feel like the answer is "it use to be." Even cartoons on US TV have dropped off most stations. There's cartoon channels such as CN, and you've got the animation block on FOX Sunday nights, but the traditional home of animation, Saturday morning TV, is essentially gone. Things have changed.
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CandisWhite
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The edited dub of Escaflowne aired in its entirety, for several years, in Canada. On a youth channel. It was not shown only in a late night timeslot but throughout the day; You could watch Escaflowne on Sunday at 2:30 pm, complete with commercials for Mousetrap and Honeycomb. I imagine that, edited, it was perceived as more akin to Gargoyles than -insert PG-13 equivalent to Spawn here-; Inuyasha and Cybersix got later timeslots. It wasn't as wildly successful as Sailor Moon, in 1995 or 2000, but it didn't tank. I just think that Fox was not the appropriate channel for Escaflowne: Even leaving out behind-the-scenes stuff, the poor show (We get Fox up North, too) was in a shitty timeslot and was preempted every other damn week; It probably would have had much more success in America on a specialty channel. John Thacker:
Canadian content quotas HELPED foreign animation get a stronghold in Canada: Many Japanese and European cartoons were dubbed in Canada, back in the day; Those counted towards channel quotas, as their existence in English had paid Canadian paychecks, so cable channels used them A LOT. ________________________________________________________________________________ Despite anime's historically heavier presence in Canada, what's kicked anime on TV in the pants here is the same as what has in the States-The advent of the internet as the primary source for new and exciting shows being watched in a new and exciting way.; I don't think any country is safe from that. And, yes, I am still one of those people who watches most of her TV through cable. |
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fuuma_monou
Posts: 1841 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Gotta say I love the use of the School Rumble screenshot for today's question.
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