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[Locke cole]

http://static.ow.ly/photos/normal/D8Rj.jpg (http://twitter.com/#!/adultswim/status/202866436597743616)

[Kyanbu The Legend]

OH.......MY......GOD...........!


OoO


I'm crying tears of manly joy right now!

[Flarecobra]

My reaction, literally:

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/adult-swim-announces-largest-programming-030200213.html

And link to conferm it.

[Aldurin]

Flare is so excited about this she told me about her reaction through Steam while she is offline somehow.

That excited. I'd break Steam out of excitement, too.

[Flarecobra]

But I'm not offline.

[Doc ock rokc]

And they are bringing back the good Tom not those crappy other Toms...

I have to go cry now...

[Premmy]

I can die happy now.

[Donomni]

Am I the only one worried about Toonami's use of the word "Bitch" in their PR here?

Not in the "Oh noes naughty words children shouldn't hear" way, but in the "What the fuck would possess them to alienate half their potential audience by using a slur about them? Did they forget they had both Sailor Moon and Gundam Wing? Fucking G Gundam and it's skin-tight mostly dude-worn body suits?" way.

Quite interested in this, but I'm not very excited for now. I need more proof they really remember all of their audience.

[Premmy]

I think that particular word is more worrying in that it indicates it will likely be an adult swim block, and thus mostly a fan-wank instead of an earlier block aimed at both fans and real people/viewers alike. Fanwanks suck.

edit: but fuck it, still happy.

[Locke cole]

I think the wording is just an "aw yeah!" kind of thing.

I don't really think much of them using language. It's the Adult Swim twitter, rather than a general CN twitter, after all.

[synkr0nized]

We'll see if they actually pull in anything new, or at least new for the network, or keep pumping the same shows over and over as per the norm.

[Pip Boy]

On a related note, The Boondocks is coming back for season 4 soon.

As far as content goes, if theres anybody that knows how to put together a nice anime lineup for us, its Adult Swim. I'm happy to hear they're doing Toonami, and would very much enjoy seeing them do it in their own way rather than trying to maintain the status quo from before. Im crossing my fingers for some new bumps and some fresh anime.

[Flarecobra]

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

Repeat for 3-6AM.

[Locke cole]

That's a pretty sweet lineup. I've actually been wondering about the Deadman Wonderland anime. I've read some of the manga, and it's pretty good.

The only one I don't know about is Casshern, but he's one of those Tatsunoko guys, right?

Actually, I don't know all that much about Ghost In The Shell, but my roommate loves it, and I've seen the second movie.

Definitely gonna stay up for this stuff.

Tomorrow at midnight. Can't wait.

[Magus]

Color me not particularly interested? I can watch the entirety of Casshern Sins on Hulu right now. And everything else they've run before except for Deadman Wonderland.

I always treated Adult Swim anime more like a sampler, myself, especially since I enjoy subs more. Like I watched Death Note on there a few times and said "Hey, better find the Japanese version of this, it's pretty good!" and so on and so forth.

[Locke cole]

Well, new series are always a plus, but the main draw for this is the return of the Toonami branding, which a number of us grew up with before it sort of slowly died off. The hope here is that CN sees a jump in interest when they bring it back, and eventually work towards having it back at the sort of prominence it had in the '90s.

I'm interested by the new stuff, and the old stuff reads like a "CN's favorite anime" list. If they were showing FLCL, that'd be definitive.

I don't feel like talking about Sub vs Dub. That's a discussion for another tim.

[Flarecobra]

They just showed FLCL on Adult Swim recently...

But yeah, gotta start from somewhere.

[Locke cole]

Well, I thought that was a pretty good broadcast. Of the new stuff, I thought that they adapted Deadman Wonderland quite well (I'm disappointed that the anime only has 12 episodes, though), and that Casshern Sins was a nice dramatic thingamabob, even if the robots said "Casshern" the way zombies say "Brains".

[Donomni]

I thought it was... eh. Deadman Wonderland had a... bad choice for the main character's VA, while the white-haired girl's VA wasn't super terrible(when she doesn't sing, her singing reached the protag's level of terribad). The "HOO HOO HOW BIG ARE YOUR BOOBIES?" "G-CUP!" bit was... ugh. After that fucked-up women-hating fake-confession, that particular bit's really given me looooooow expectations for this show.

Casshern Sins, on the other hand, is way more decent! Not, like, super-great or anything, but Liz told me the original Casshern inspired the Megaman series, so now I basically have to watch Kinda-Sorta-Grimdark-Quickman-ala-Megaman-Zero. Also, the Casshern's VA isn't terrible, so that's also a plus.

Then I watched an episode of Brotherhood because shit, it's FMA, and kinda lost interest during a rerun of Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig.

Basically, at this point, Toonami's just [AS]'s Saturday Night lineup with a new coat of paint(With said coat including a theme song with the term "bitches". Goddammit, Williams Street.).

Their budget at this point is tiny, although they say they want to do more if the get the ratings. Casshern's got my interest for sure, though, so I'll weather it out and hope Toonami gets enough ratings to, you know, actually be better.

[Premmy]

I didn't see any tom speeches or Music Videos. I saw a game review though so I'm somewhat happy

[Ecks]

[as] is dead to me
ill have to catch toonami next week to decide whether or not to give it a chance

[Magus]

Toonami was always the name of their after-school anime block, though. They need a third name for their adult anime block. Although then again they used to show Outlaw Star at what, five in the afternoon, and it was pretty bloody...

EDIT: Yeah this has convinced me to go ahead and watch Casshern Sins. Just, probably not on Toonami, unfortunately.