Toonami thread

[lhb412]

I imagine the block will have the same lower budget AS's anime block has had. It'll take elbow grease and fan support to really make it into something.

(good news about the other possible shows. Really want Panty and Stocking)

[MekaGojira3k]

Panty and Stocking belongs on AS, or now Toonami. So weird. Can't wait to watch some Toonami tonight.

[lhb412]

My thoughts on the two new shows:

Deadman Wonderland is horrible. It's like everything I hate about anime and comic books distilled into a pure concentrate of mean spirited and brain-dead.

Casshern Sins, however, I liked. Beautiful animation, well directed, cool character designs... not able to glean that much more from it with one episode, but it was an enjoyable half hour.

[MekaGojira3k]

Haha. Deadman Wonderland looks nice, but it is pretty cliche and mean spirited is right, but it's on Toonami and I've not seen it.

Glad to see you liked Casshern Sins though! The story doesn't move too swiftly, but I really liked the thing as a whole.

[lhb412]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Destroysall]

Lol, caught most of Toonami tonight. Watching Ghost in the Shell brought back memories. As for the two new shows, I didn't mind Deadman Wonderland. It was "ok". Casshern Sins was awesome!

[The Shadow]

[lhb412]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Henry88]

Actually, I'm wondering if Funimation is pumping money into Toonami in an attempt to try and build a good base for more TV stuff from them.

[MekaGojira3k]

[The Shadow]

Sounds great to me -- it'd be awesome watching Sgt. Frog on Toonami.

[MekaGojira3k]

[The Shadow]

[MekaGojira3k]

[The Shadow]

So, I did a little researching into Casshern because of Casshern Sins running on the new Toonami (and because I recalled the live action movie that came out a few years ago)

I feel cheated, the first anime series came out in 1973 in Japan and for some uknown reason it never received a dub/adaptation like many other series received in the late 70s through the 80s anime surge. Even with just watching the opening it seems to me that had Neo-Human Casshern had made it to the States it would have been as fondly remembered as the other anime series that were brought over (in one fashion or another).

http://youtu.be/aG2W05xJ76o

[MekaGojira3k]

[Garasharp K7]

[Henry88]

[EricDent]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Henry88]

[quote]As you may know, it’s really important that the new Toonami block gets good ratings. Right now, the block is working with a shoestring budget, and they’ll only get the money for new shows if they get plenty of viewers. So how did it do?



The premieres of their new series, Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins, were both strong. Deadman Wonderland was the top rated in its time period for adults 18-24. The ratings in the time slot were up 14% from last year. Casshern Sins was rated #1 in its time slot for men 18-34 and 18-24. Apparently, ladies are not as big on Casshern Sins.

So how does Cartoon Network feel about the ratings? “It did OKAY,â€

[MekaGojira3k]

[Destroysall]