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Official Toonami thread (Moving to IMDForums)

posted 13 years ago by PF4Eva
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The #BringBackToonami campaign worked!

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Fictionfantasy/news/?a=59872 (taken down)
http://www.twitter.com/adultswim
http://www.adultswim.com/shows/toonami/index.html (no space after html)
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2012-05-16/adult-swim-brings- back-toonami-block-starting-on-may-26

I love that picture of Tom. I can't wait! Toonami's back, bitches! #ToonamisBackBitches

A big thank you to the fans for our undying passion, Richard Branson for his #BringBackToonami and Outlaw Star raps, Steven "Tom" Blum for lighting a fire under fans' asses, and for [adult swim]/Cartoon Network for listening to us.

I don't have a Twitter so I did most of my work using the contact forms on CN and [as]'s websites. But I visited Twitter and adultswim.com's boards and kept up on the latest developments. You guys who went that extra mile truly are impressive.

SPREAD THE WORD! 

Edit to add: I forgot to keep this thread bumped for Week 8, and Week 9 occured a day after the Dark Knight Rises shooting in Aurora. It seemed a bit wrong to promotoe Toonami during a tragedy.

Update (2/14/17): On February 20, discussion will be moved to the Official Toonami Thread on IMDForums's Anime board, following the closure of IMDB's boards.

https://www.imdforums.com/threads/official-toonami-thread.335/[/b]

Toonami returns 5.26.12 on [adult swim]. The revolution will be televised.

[–] legendkillinpeopleschamp 13 years ago

Glad I was wrong. I thought April Fools was a one time thing even though they wanted our response. I will be tuning in to CN more than I usually do. I hope they have some good shows.

[–] WithDreday 13 years ago

Two of your links didn't work. I thought this was BS.

Great news though.

Revenge is a dish best served cold...

[–] legendkillinpeopleschamp 13 years ago

Bleach will still be in the line up.
FMA Brotherhood too good show but it has been on like 2 times already.

[–] Trollhater87 13 years ago

Fck yes!

[–] ShibanuWolf-2 13 years ago

Damn I wish I still had Cartoon Network

Long Live My Brothers-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25gRM84sxtw

[–] killerrabbitmp 13 years ago

I guess I'm just not as optimistic about this as most other people are. Bringing Toonami back the way they are is probably a pretty big risk. You have to take into account that there are people who regularly watch the Adult Swim Action block (I would be one of them). If the programs they watch get replaced with shows that they are less interested in, some are likely to get mad, and might abandon the programming block as a result, and if after the first few weeks of the rebooted Toonami the people brought in by nostalgia for it don't stick around, the anime block might wind up with less viewers than before.

What would make more sense would be to revive Toonami as a daytime programming block, maybe on a weekday afternoon. That way, it could help secure the future viability of airing anime on American television by bringing in new fans to anime as a medium. I don't see this re-branding of the Adult Swim Action block all that helpful in this regard.

[–] WithDreday 13 years ago

They're playing mostly reruns anyway, and they're keeping the biggest ratings getter(Bleach). The only huge change is they may or may not play the openings, which could be a good or bad thing.

I'd love if they bought Toonami back to afternoons in addition too the AS block, but seeing have their nothing new on AS anyway, I'll take it.

Revenge is a dish best served cold...

[–] killerrabbitmp 13 years ago

The lack of variation in the schedule is a problem, but one that could have been fixed without Toonami.

and they're keeping the biggest ratings getter(Bleach)So they are keeping the least interesting and engaging show of their current lineup.