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NEWS: Adult Swim to Debut Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Why are they showing only 26 episodes? Doesn't it have 63 episodes?

Dark Elf Warrior wrote:

Just because an anime is being broadcast on national television does not mean the fanbase will grow. This is only going to interest us anime fans. Besides, are you really worried about other people liking anime? Instead of worrying about anime not having an extremely huge fanbase, just enjoy it while you can. Who cares if it's not big.

I've seen you make this argument a couple times, as though you're confused and offended by people who want their chosen hobby to be successful and popular.

Anime successful and popular in the US = more anime. Pretty simple logic. You may not care at all about anything that doesn't impact you directly, but other people do, and it isn't that hard to understand why. Enjoy your cave, please stop telling other people to stop caring about the health of the industry.

Zac wrote:

Dark Elf Warrior wrote: Just because an anime is being broadcast on national television does not mean the fanbase will grow. This is only going to interest us anime fans. Besides, are you really worried about other people liking anime? Instead of worrying about anime not having an extremely huge fanbase, just enjoy it while you can. Who cares if it's not big. I've seen you make this argument a couple times, as though you're confused and offended by people who want their chosen hobby to be successful and popular. Anime successful and popular in the US = more anime. Pretty simple logic. You may not care at all about anything that doesn't impact you directly, but other people do, and it isn't that hard to understand why. Enjoy your cave, please stop telling other people to stop caring about the health of the industry.

Thanks for the defensive rebound, Zac.

Dark Elf Warrior, unless a Magical Girl arrives to save the day by singing a song to magically bring about another golden age of Anime with a robust and diverse catalog of imaginative IP's... I'm gonna stick to my guns and go with my original statement: a growing fan base means more money, which attracts more creative talent who then have the means to make really good Anime for us ALL to enjoy.

What's more this also has positive implications for the Dub industry as well if local/regional demand grows for dubbed anime (the preferred means of delivery for John Q Everyman who doesn't like having to read subtitles), i.e. more and higher quality Dubs, quite possibly.

Nationally broadcasted Anime that has a shot at making inroads with new potential customers that can be translated into and revitalize the fan base can ONLY be a good thing.

I myself only got back into Anime in 2004 when R.O.D. was being shown on cable, and I was blown away. I'd not watched Anime since High School (Akira and Ghost in the Shell) and was completely out of the Anime scene. I'd no clue, none, about the state of Anime or what was available with no desire for it or to learn more about it's current state. Watching R.O.D. on TV hooked me deep, rekindling my love for the medium.

Look at the current Video Game Industry; they rake in billions and billions of dollars! They make more than the movie industry, but there was a time not too long ago that video games were still very much a niche market, not unlike Anime here in the US. But with a larger fan base came more money, better games and more fans -it's a positive feedback loop. Now, I'm not saying Anime need be that big, though it would be nice, but look at the Multi-billion dollar Juggernaut the Video Game Industry has become and the relatively humble (by comparison) origins from whence it came.

Entertainment that doens't make money goes away. Anime isn't immune to this economic fact of life. Anime is not too big to fail. Nothing is.

But we are talking about a show that's on Sat Night at 12, that's a really bad time slot.

Most people in the 18 to 35 Demo are busy on Sat nights, they aren't going to stay home to watch this.

Plus Adult Swim is hardly a cultural juggernaut, its not like FMA on a network channel, like Fox. Heck any 18-35 year old who is at home and sober enough to watch TV, will likely watch SNL instead.

For all you cable payers,
Good for you. happy for ya. (I don't have cable, I stick to the funimation youtube releases.) But its good to know it's going to be aired over here as well. I was wondering when they would.

The original series never grabbed me. eventually though I picked up and started the Manga, and liked it a hell of a lot more. So this Anime was big hitter for me. the quality is also WAAY better.

But *Sigh* No DVD?
*Sigh* Not everyone has Blue Ray, Funi...

Sure took Funi long enough to start releasing the English dub. The Cantonese dub is only 3 episodes behind the Japanese version and is dubbed pretty well. Why'd it take over 10 months for the English dub to come out?

I am a little disappointed with [as], they are sticking with safe shows. I do plan on getting the new FMA brotherhood on blu-ray, so no need to watch it on TV. I guess I just had higher expectations of [as] to give us something new and fresh, so now they are airing FMA brotherhood, and FLCL, gee what could the last one be????

must be inyasha final act, since they already have the first one, so really there was no reason to be so secretive about the new shows.

It would have been nice if one of the shows was something completely from left field and a shock to everyone,

Most people in the 18 to 35 Demo are busy on Sat nights, they aren't going to stay home to watch this.

Plus you really can't compare the video game industry to anime, considering some of the most popular video games are made in the West and have western consumers in mind, you can't say that about anime.

The Overlord wrote:

But we are talking about a show that's on Sat Night at 12, that's a really bad time slot. Most people in the 18 to 35 Demo are busy on Sat nights, they aren't going to stay home to watch this. Plus Adult Swim is hardly a cultural juggernaut, its not like FMA on a network channel, like Fox. Heck any 18-35 year old who is at home and sober enough to watch TV, will likely watch SNL instead.

Wow, it's like listening to someone who thinks they're a pundit but hasn't been paying any attention at all to the basic history of the industry he's trying to be an expert on!

Adult Swim late night scheduling was directly responsible for the mainstream popularity of shows like Cowboy Bebop, FLCL and Inuyasha.

The original Fullmetal Alchemist series was a considerable hit in that timeslot, in terms of late night cable numbers - which, this is a small pond and a small audience, so let's just keep that in mind before complaining that it isn't primetime CBS. A new anime series getting that timeslot is good news, and it's a good thing that Adult Swim is bringing some anime back and are being smart about what will appeal to their audience.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is a show with proven mainstream appeal - its predecessor and Death Note are the only two series you could really call "hits" from the last 5 years, both of which aired on Adult Swim in this time slot.

Again, it makes sense and is a good thing and could - could, not will, not definitely will, not absolutely will - mean good things for, at the very least, DVD sales of FMA Brotherhood. Which is good for everyone in the long run.

The Overlord wrote:

Most people in the 18 to 35 Demo are busy on Sat nights, they aren't going to stay home to watch this. Plus you really can't compare the video game industry to anime, considering some of the most popular video games are made in the West and have western consumers in mind, you can't say that about anime.

So, A) apparently you work for Neilsen company, such that you can quote with authority -or make gross generalizations- how and where that demographic is (or any other) and what they're watching during that time slot?

B) It was someone other than Nintendo and Sega who rescued the deceased console gaming industry in the West in the 80's (or Sony, later on in the 90's with the Playstation, prior to the Xbox)?

Outside of PC gaming, console gaming WAS from the East then. It's overwhelming popularity in recent time has created the demand for Western game developers as well as a Western console developer (Microsoft). But the force that started it all... Yeah, outta Japan, Bro.

I won't argue that some of the highest grossing video games of all time came from Western developers for a Western market, but face the facts: if it weren't for the increase in popularity and profitability, none of those Western developers, or the video game industry as we enjoy it today, would likely have existed or exist. In the console world post-Atari, the West was way late coming to the party.

If a large enough local demand exists and money can be made, companies will make it and cater to it.