lupinfan83 wrote:
I think it's kind of funny that they keep reducing the amount of anime they show, but AS just had a commercial saying how they love japan.
They like the insanity that is Japanese culture, the tech, the whole traditional + space age nutbar-i-ness of the place. In America, you get some Facebook'd flashmob to show up in a mall and they sing some aria or something equally acceptable and everyone giggles at the daring because it's so 'unexpected' . In Japan, you have kids who study, cram school, study some more like proper, respectable children and then go out dressed up like bubblegum panda bears to the local park carrying more tiny tech toys hanging off their ears than most NSA agents might have in their entire office and not even the aging geishas bat an eye. 
So it has it's own appeal.
I think that if they really had no holds barred airing [no outrageous rights pricings, no restrictions regarding what can or can't be aired, no worrying about what time of the day / night they can get away with something or worries about commercial sponsors being tools about stuff [ex. Pizza Hut America not wanting the Pizza Hut logo in the English release of CG or companies deciding they only want to purchase air-time if a show surpasses a particular rating] ], they'd probably aire all sorts of things. I believe Ranma 1/2 and Elfen Lied are both examples of shows they secretly wish they could have and share but the fees and censoring are really restrictive as things currently are.
I doesn't help their image with the fans that advertising of the Saturday schedule seems to stop before the actual evening-evening with it's actual continuing NEW episodes unless someone pokes them with a stick about it.
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