closed the old thread, people seem to be posting in this one now.
random comments on previous posts:
China Ill I think will get another season. Ratings seem decent, WS seems to be behind the show. It smells like momentum.
The anime still seems to be chugging along. Saturday is a little tougher traditionally ratings-wise. BUT I think they really should look to expand their anime library. I think the late night numbers would shift upward possibly if they had more classic anime to cycle through.
My personal view, and I almost hate to say it, is that their picks lately are too nondirect/thin seeming in terms of story. Both Drrr and Moribito were paced in such a way that make them difficult to latch onto, and I think Kekkaishi and FMAB are too Bleachy.
My general advocacy tends to be more toward the weird stuff (and I still say there's not enough of that, could use another flcl, reign, or paranoia agent type show), I think it's time to take a step back from that and go for some solid storyline meat n taters type anime. Stuff like Gurren Lagann, Basilisk, Black Lagoon. Stuff that's not over the top bubblegum like Bleach and InuYasha, but still has a lot of action, and has a good solid easy flowing storyline.
I hate to say this, I actually liked Moribito a lot, and I like Durarara!!, but I think those pickups are what's hurting the block.
It needs something nice and simple, fluid and fun, not as scattered or ethereal as Drrr and Moribito, and not as sugar-shocked preteen hyper as Bleach.
It could also do with something weird yeah. But I really think, the times seem to be dictating maybe the next pickups should be more standard anime type stuff. Good action and animation, but solid story.
Bleach is sort of empty actn calories. Drrr and moribito seem badly paced for the current audience.
I think the answer is to fall back toward stuff like Aquarion, Basilisk, Gurren Lagann, Outlaw Star, etc. Simple but good storylines with a little more maturity/intelligence than Bleach. But not so convoluted, slow, or confusing that they lose the audience like drrr and Moribito seem to.
Obviously those aren't new. But just the kind of general 'middle of the road' well paced story that AS might generally overlook simply because it's 'middle of the road'.
I think where the Actn block is now, the one thing it needs most is: a good solid Story. Bleach doesn't have that. Durarara!! doesn't have that.
I honestly wonder how an older pickup would do (like specifically Basilisk or Outlaw Star) in that spot after Bleach and before DRRR.
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