Forum - View topic[as] pushes Moribito back another hour.
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Hardgear
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Just so y'all know, in case anyone plans on watching tomorrow, [AS] has changed their schedule again and has pushed Moribito back by an hour. The 2 Bleach episodes are now followed by 2 Fullmetal reruns, and THEN Moribito comes up.
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penguintruth
 Posts: 8511 Location: Penguinopolis |
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So, Moribito gets screwed again?
Huge shocker. |
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SXAniMedia
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Here we go again.
 It's times like these I'm glad I have DVR.
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David.Seth
 Posts: 453 Location: near SF |
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Exactly... i find it better to record the shows I want to see, that way I can watch them at my own leisure. And if you don't have a DVR, you could always get a VCR (still use mine  ) theyre cheap new and even cheaper used.
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BellosTheMighty
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Disappointing. But not surprising. Moribito has continuously gotten no respect from fans, I'm not surprised that it's pulling weak ratings. At the risk of sounding like a snob, it's too good for the people who watch Adult Swim. Whenever AS gets a high-quality series like Paranoia Agent or Eureka Seven, it gets ignored, abused, and mocked for being "slow"- a criticism which is baffling in the face of Bleach, which stops the plot for filler every six weeks. (And is even now in the middle of an canon storyline which is nothing but filler battles.) You hand them a series with a top-notch storyline, characters with depth and humanity, beautiful animation and one of the best dub casts ever assembled, and they ignore it because they want swordfights and mecha blowing up. Disgraceful. An embarrassment to any fan with more than half a brain cell.
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Hardgear
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I have to agree with you there. Adult Swim is aimed at drunken college fratboys with ADD. So yeah, their definition of "slow" is when the gags-per-second count drops below 5 and/or the crap-blowing-up/someone-getting-pwned count drops below 100 times an episode. Anything that isn't a show for the braindead (Tim & Eric, I'm looking at you) or nonstop action doesnt really stand much of a chance. |
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daedelus
 Posts: 743 Location: Texas City, TX (ajd: 6/11/05) |
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So, they are dumping Code Geass before it's second run, huh? Does FMA still pull in better ratings?
BTW: It is true. FMA has just started in CG's place. I'll just play some Modern Warfare for an hour. 
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norrinradd1
 Posts: 10 Location: Orlando, Florida |
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Hardgear wrote:
Wow, thats a pretty harsh endictment of Tim and Eric. I think they've managed to do some really cool things. And I think they're on to something with regards to their format, but that may or may not be such a good thing. Who knows? Maybe it just appeals to web junkies like me with squirrel-like attention spans
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Ktimene's Lover
 Posts: 2242 Location: Glendale, AZ (Proudly living in the desert) |
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I wish they would put it on their website so people can watch it. I remember watching Code Geass last year on their website Friday afternoons before it aired on TV so late at night.
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Jedi General
 Posts: 2485 Location: Tucson, AZ |
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Indeed. I didn't see this thread until just now, so thank goodness for technology. Still, at this rate, Moribito may end up again getting removed, forcing us to have to wait out Media Blasters' painfully SLOW DVD releases. |
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I SHALL WIN THE INTERNETZ
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Such amazing animation.
and its treated like its soft-core porn on showtime or something 
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yuna49
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If someone here is looking for a term paper project for a course in business or marketing, I'd suggest looking at the horrible mishandling of Moribito in R1 by all concerned. If you browse the press releases before the show started, you'll see it was financed by some heavy hitters like Mitsubishi and designed to be sold into overseas markets. The reality was sadly quite different.
There may not be many venues for anime distribution on American television networks, but I can categorically say that [adult swim] was not the right one for Moribito. I actually think the show might have worked better if it had been targeted primarily at young women. I've also wondered why anime production committees and licensors don't take the same approach they do in Japan and just buy time. There are dozens of cheap availabilities on the cable networks today. Why not consider running Moribito in the 6:30 am slot on Lifetime that already shows "Paid Programming?" It'd be a lot more entertaining than yet another infomercial for some fitness machine. Who knows, they might even sell an ad or two. |
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Kirkdawg
 Subscriber Posts: 742 Location: California, USA |
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Sad to see one of my favorite shows being mistreated like this, Moribito certainly deserves better.
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Haterater
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I agree with that. It can even run after Lifetime's original programming as I think it would fit that channel more and get more appreciation if marketed just right. |
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Hardgear
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ya know, now that y'all mention it, Lifetime or Oxygen would have been better channels for Moribito after all...
Sadly, I just doubt anyone would be willing to take the risk, especially these days. |
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