[Taaron]

The two new shows have been announced!

Casshern Sins and Deadman Wonderland

May 27th:
12:00 a.m. - Bleach
12:30 a.m. - Deadman Wonderland
1:00 a.m. - Casshern Sins
1:30 a.m. - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
2:00 a.m. - Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG
2:30 a.m. - Cowboy Bebop

I saw Casshern Sins a while back as a fansub. A little bit slow paced, but the action scenes are great. Not too familiar with Deadman Wonderland.

[Blitz-Wing]

Bummer that they still have 3-4 series that they have already ran at least twice on there. There is plenty of good anime fodder they haven't used yet.

[Lord_Onslaught]

Sounds like Toonami is just rerun city now. That is sad, I miss the days of Gundam Wing

[Taaron]

According to some chatter on Twitter earlier today, they're only doing two new shows due to being unsure of how the ratings for new Toonami are going to turn out. If they get good numbers, they'll get more new shows.

Jason DeMarco / Twitter said:

SPEAKING OF WHICH: Something you should know about THIS Toonami: We have very,very little $$. This experiment will need ratings success...
Toonami will have to prove itself to get more resources, just like it had to do when we first launched.

This post has been edited by Taaron: 21 May 2012 - 08:32 PM

[Blitz-Wing]

Sad thing was, Toonami WAS proven back in the day but went stale. It happens all the time. Just ask the Ford Taurus or the Apple Macintosh.

[Shadowpanther]

Blitz-Wing, on 21 May 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Bummer that they still have 3-4 series that they have already ran at least twice on there. There is plenty of good anime fodder they haven't used yet.

Lord_Onslaught, on 21 May 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

Sounds like Toonami is just rerun city now. That is sad, I miss the days of Gundam Wing

Taaron, on 21 May 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

According to some chatter on Twitter earlier today, they're only doing two new shows due to being unsure of how the ratings for new Toonami are going to turn out. If they get good numbers, they'll get more new shows.

Jason DeMarco / Twitter said:

SPEAKING OF WHICH: Something you should know about THIS Toonami: We have very,very little $$. This experiment will need ratings success...
Toonami will have to prove itself to get more resources, just like it had to do when we first launched.

Blitz-Wing, on 21 May 2012 - 08:57 PM, said:

Sad thing was, Toonami WAS proven back in the day but went stale. It happens all the time. Just ask the Ford Taurus or the Apple Macintosh.

when toonami first launched it had great japanese anime cartoons on CN like Gundam,dragon ball Z,Trigun,cow boy bee bop,full metal alchemist,inuyashia,big-O,Ghost in the shell.

CN's toonami only Failed & fans lost interest because non-anime/non-japanese based shows started to air & take away anime shows. non-anime shows like that justice league cartoon,batman,Futurama,family guy,space ghost coast to coast,the brak show,birdman attorney at law. that CN in house american created robot cartoon with a big heavy guy with almost no brains saving the day with his big blue robot with flames decals all over it. power puff girls even aired on toonami for a while.

This post has been edited by Shadowpanther: 22 May 2012 - 06:45 AM

[TheTfboy]

Shadowpanther, on 22 May 2012 - 04:48 AM, said:

Blitz-Wing, on 21 May 2012 - 02:36 PM, said:

Bummer that they still have 3-4 series that they have already ran at least twice on there. There is plenty of good anime fodder they haven't used yet.

Lord_Onslaught, on 21 May 2012 - 04:53 PM, said:

Sounds like Toonami is just rerun city now. That is sad, I miss the days of Gundam Wing

Taaron, on 21 May 2012 - 08:27 PM, said:

According to some chatter on Twitter earlier today, they're only doing two new shows due to being unsure of how the ratings for new Toonami are going to turn out. If they get good numbers, they'll get more new shows.

Jason DeMarco / Twitter said:

SPEAKING OF WHICH: Something you should know about THIS Toonami: We have very,very little $$. This experiment will need ratings success...
Toonami will have to prove itself to get more resources, just like it had to do when we first launched.

Blitz-Wing, on 21 May 2012 - 08:57 PM, said:

Sad thing was, Toonami WAS proven back in the day but went stale. It happens all the time. Just ask the Ford Taurus or the Apple Macintosh.

when toonami first launched it had great japanese anime cartoons on CN like Gundam,dragon ball Z,Trigun,cow boy bee bop,full metal alchemist,inuyashia,big-O,Ghost in the shell.

CN's toonami only Failed & fans lost interest because non-anime/non-japanese based shows started to air & take away anime shows. non-anime shows like that justice league cartoon,batman,Futurama,family guy,space ghost coast to coast,the brak show,birdman attorney at law. that CN in house american created robot cartoon with a big heavy guy with almost no brains saving the day with his big blue robot with flames decals all over it. power puff girls even aired on toonami for a while.

^THIS!
But yeah, I totally agree, however, based off of what I've seen with Toonami, I think that MOST of Toonami best momnet/shows involved MECHs. I mean, let's be hounest here, we all just love to see two Robot/machine beat the crap out of each other; Big O is a great example Also, this is why Toonami was very popular from 2001-2005, with alot of Mech shows like TF Unicron Trilogy, Gundam, IGPX, Megas XLR, etc. Now notice some of the shows after 2005, You have one, maybe two ( Depending on your POV ) MECH shows, and thus this lead to the Downfall of Toonami.

Now, don't get me wrong, not every show that didn't involve MECHs on Toonami was bad, such as Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Jack. ( Samurai Jack is probably what kept Toonami alive untill 2008. )

So, main point or all this is that most Toonami fans are MECH fans aswell. ( You might not agree with me, but that's how it is. :/ )

This post has been edited by TheTfboy: 22 May 2012 - 08:59 AM

[Blitz-Wing]

OK, I didn't think Megas XLR was all that bad. Corny, yes. But it was a decent show. Did it deserve to be on Toonami? Hell no.

[Taaron]

Shadowpanther, on 22 May 2012 - 04:48 AM, said:

when toonami first launched it had great japanese anime cartoons on CN like Gundam,dragon ball Z,Trigun,cow boy bee bop,full metal alchemist,inuyashia,big-O,Ghost in the shell.

CN's toonami only Failed & fans lost interest because non-anime/non-japanese based shows started to air & take away anime shows. non-anime shows like that justice league cartoon,batman,Futurama,family guy,space ghost coast to coast,the brak show,birdman attorney at law. that CN in house american created robot cartoon with a big heavy guy with almost no brains saving the day with his big blue robot with flames decals all over it. power puff girls even aired on toonami for a while.

Do you know much this makes you sound like you're out of it?

Toonami had NONE of those those when they first launched. The first year, they only had Voltron and Robotech for anime. Thundercats as maybe anime, and the rest of the lineup was classic Hanna Barbera action shorts(Space Ghost, Birdman, etc), 1940's Superman and Johnny Quest.
Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Alchemist, & Ghost in The Shell were never part of the Toonami line up until this year. I want to say Inuyasha wasn't Toonami, but a Adult Swim only title as well, but I'm not 100%.

This post has been edited by Taaron: 22 May 2012 - 06:46 PM

[Blitz-Wing]

I don't think CN has EVER aired TriGun before