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Suggested Changes for Adult Swim Anime

I've seen posters for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, and Minoriteam on the sides of buses. I've even seen posters six-floors tall for Tom Goes to the Mayor. I haven't seen squat offline and off the air for anime shown by Adult Swim.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for how Adult Swim can get more out of anime (and so we can get more anime from Adult Swim)? Does anyone understand why Adult Swim makes the descisions it makes? Is there anything else to be considered? Thanks in advance.

It's been noted before that at least one major person at AS is viehimently against Anime with anything with the slightest ammount of fanservice in it. Such bias seems hypocritical given the crap some of the other non-anime japanese shows get away with (Venture Brothers have several characters that show more cleavage than the Major did in GITS).

Abarenbo Shogun wrote:

It's been noted before that at least one major person at AS is viehimently against Anime with anything with the slightest ammount of fanservice in it. Such bias seems hypocritical given the crap some of the other non-anime japanese shows get away with (Venture Brothers have several characters that show more cleavage than the Major did in GITS).

Okay, on the other side of the coin, give us gals some shoujo and/or josei then. All of us aren't guys, and I'm glad I can watch the AS anime selection without seeing fanservice every five minutes. (Which wouldn't keep me watching very long, by the way).

Consider this - for all the shounen and occasional seinen AS runs, I don't recall seeing, in the several years I've had AS access, one anime series slanted towards a female audience. Not one. You guys still have the better deal by far even if you're not getting as much fanservice as you like. I understand the demographic they're out to get, but I'm glad they're keeping things a little fair and showing alot of crossover series and shounen/seinen series that a female audience might like too.

As for my advice, I wish they would stop changing schedules fairly often. It's the same deal as any other show - people are going to lose interest if they have to start hunting every week.

While I would love to see shojo such as Fruits Basket on AS, it's never going to happen. There's no market for it like there is for manga. With manga, girls like to read, so it's an easier sell. However, most girls who would be interested in shojo (I'd say the 8-15 age range) don't watch Cartoon Network. They usually watch MTV, E!, WB, and VH1. Maybe, if they aired shojo anime on one of those channels, it would catch on but I doubt any one of those channels.

However, most girls who would be interested in shojo (I'd say the 8-15 age range) don't watch Cartoon Network. They usually watch MTV, E!, WB, and VH1.

What bothers me is why schedule changes don't make sense when their justification is ratings (or lack thereof).

Saturday isn't supposed to be a good night for anime, yet most of the anime seen there for much of the year consists of repeats.

I'm in that demographic, and I watch pretty much only Discovery Health, The History Channel, and Turner Classic Movies. Educational TV rocks! (Note: I’m not being sarcastic)

Although the other night I saw that there going to be showing premire's on the Fix seven days a week, I went to see E7, and it wasn't up yet, but I will be glad when it is.

Tetsujin wrote:

I've seen posters for Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, and Minoriteam on the sides of buses. I've even seen posters six-floors tall for Tom Goes to the Mayor. I haven't seen squat offline and off the air for anime shown by Adult Swim.

Tom Goes to the Mayor is probably the only show on AS that is extremely cheap enough to warrant useless advertising. Ever notice how many adverts are for this POS show than any other ones? Goddamn Tommunists.....

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Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for how Adult Swim can get more out of anime (and so we can get more anime from Adult Swim)? Does anyone understand why Adult Swim makes the descisions it makes? Is there anything else to be considered? Thanks in advance.

I'd do a few things:

1. Overhaul the entire AS system of getting anime.

It's been noted before that at least one major person at AS is viehimently against Anime with anything with the slightest ammount of fanservice in it. Such bias seems hypocritical given the crap some of the other non-anime japanese shows get away with (Venture Brothers have several characters that show more cleavage than the Major did in GITS). Fire the bitch, and get someone that won't show such bias.

Also, an idea: Do marketing research. See which Anime could be a good gateway into the mainstream. If they spent half the budget they do with the advertising of Tom Goes to the mayor on marketing research, we'd might be seeing mroe anime.

2. Retire Cowboy Bebop. Permanently.

I'd see this property as more of a liability than an asset. How many times can you justify repeating the show over and over to the point where it's absurd? Retire it and find a new series. It's jumped the shark.

3. Rotate Anime series.

On that note, put anime series in some sort of fixed rotation system. Excluding epics series like Naruto, Bleach, Inu-Yasha, or One Piece, 3 months should be ample time to burn thru them a couple of times.

4. Set parameters for the weekend.

Anime for Saturday, Non-Anime for Sunday.

5. Set quality control.

This should also apply to Sunday nights, but enact some sort of quality control system so that crap anime never hits the airwaves (i'm looking at you Milk-chan.)