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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2008 - Funimation Entertainment

With the recent developments at Cartoon Network and [adult swim] I don't really see much future for new anime airing.

LuckySeven wrote:

With the recent developments at Cartoon Network and [adult swim] I don't really see much future for new anime airing.

Maybe not with Toonami strong but last I checked, AS anime seemed to be doing fine outside Code Geass and that other show. I'm sure that, besides Bleach, they're taking a break until they can get a new anime to air on their network. Believe me, D Gray Man will end up on AS one way or another.

Alex_Strife wrote:

LuckySeven wrote: With the recent developments at Cartoon Network and [adult swim] I don't really see much future for new anime airing. Maybe not with Toonami strong but last I checked, AS anime seemed to be doing fine outside Code Geass and that other show. I'm sure that, besides Bleach, they're taking a break until they can get a new anime to air on their network. Believe me, D Gray Man will end up on AS one way or another.

Not really, the anime on AS has been reduced to only two shows, Bleach and FMA, while CN is at least pursuing Power Puff Girl Z. According to Mugen(The guy who post the ratings) it could be due to the decline in AS's placement in the ratings. The lionshare of AS's ratiings don't come from thier originals or Anime, but Seth shows and I think the Boondocks. Family Guy does well for AS so things get cut down when it starts to decline.

Oh come on. Just because we're going through an anime decline right now on CN, I wouldn't count CN out of them getting more anime for their other blocks. Besides I doubt they would skip the chance to put out a show like D Gray Man, which is an ongoing series, on broadcast because they already did it with FMA and Shin Chan.

I agree, we shouldn't count out CN. I just do not think AS will. Ok, what makes D. Grayman anymore special than the other Anime? I like it too, but I don't see why it is something AS would want. Personally, I would rather it go to CN because Shonen do really well with CN's demographic.

idiot wrote:

I agree, we shouldn't count out CN. I just do not think AS will. Ok, what makes D. Grayman anymore special than the other Anime? I like it too, but I don't see why it is something AS would want. Personally, I would rather it go to CN because Shonen do really well with CN's demographic.

*facepalm*

Okay, first of all, we're talking about a show that deals heavily with religious themes that focuses around Judeo-Christianity. Such material is a big no-no for Cartoon Network any way you slice it. Secondly, the show is very very dark for a Shonen series. You have demons being created by murdering their grieving loved ones and taking their form. Thirdly, the show's violence is pretty big even if it is a watered down version from the manga.

The show won't fly on Cartoon Network.

idiot wrote:

I agree, we shouldn't count out CN. I just do not think AS will. Ok, what makes D. Grayman anymore special than the other Anime? I like it too, but I don't see why it is something AS would want. Personally, I would rather it go to CN because Shonen do really well with CN's demographic.

*facepalm*

Okay, first of all, we're talking about a show that deals heavily with religious themes that focuses around Judeo-Christianity. Such material is a big no-no for Cartoon Network any way you slice it.

Your post makes me facepalm.

Yu Yu Hakosho dealth with demons and death as well not to mention it was very dark itself. Sensui wanted to commit mass genocide. Ninjas are killed on Naruto OFTEN. IGPX also allowed cursing. Do you remember Gaara? Are you that THICKHEADED? The dubb can easily be watered down and concepts remade or removed because that's how dubbs and edits work. The Christain element of the show can be easily removed and the order changed to a generic demon hunting agency.

Don't reply to me with such a poorly thought out post again, please.

The people who liked Trinity Blood beg to differ with you. So do the people who hated it, for that matter. (I was in the former camp myself, though I occassionally winced. A drunken, flirtatious nun? An 8-year-old pope? Homicidal holy warriors called Inquisitors? Ho boy...)

Another possibility, of course, is that the project is being tied up by A) the huge workload Funi took on by absorbing the Geneon/ADV orphans, and B) some kind of squabble with Viz, who owns the manga rights.

No, I think the real reason D. Grey Man is being held back is... well, it's shonen. Maybe it's me, but I've been hearing a whisper on the wind saying the anime crash is going to hit shonen especially hard. Sure, Naruto and Bleach are both holding their own, but One Piece bombed, Blue Dragon bombed, Shaman King never took off, Zatch Bell fizzled, toynime series draw zero heat, the prospects for networks where it would find an audience are dwindling, and- this is the important thing- on every anime board on the internet, people mock shonen and the relentless, cookie-cutter sameness of their plots and characters. Sometimes they mock it in good humor, but even then, the flaws are acknowledged. Bluntly put, it's the after-school adventure fare we grew up with- the kind of thing the fandom spent decades trying to argue with the general public that anime was NOT. This doesn't mean the genre itself is doomed in the USA, but it does mean a series has to be exceptional. Plus, there's the fact that these shows tend to run for ages, which is a huge commitment in financially strained times. I think it's going to be very difficult to get an open-ended shonen series on the air for the next few years.