Should I list out the number of things wrong with your post, and with your entire attitude toward this series in general? Sure, what the hell. Though I know it won't do one iota of good.
1) You keep saying that shows of Moribito's nature "have sunk the block," but yet again, let me remind you that you don't have one single
bit of evidence to support this. You don't work at Williams Street. You don't have access to [as]'s yearly acquisitions/broadcast budget numbers. You don't see in-depth ratings numbers on a weekly basis. You aren't privy to any details about how much a title like Moribito costs to acquire, or how much (if anything) it cost [as] to re-negotiate the broadcast rights. You don't sit in on the meetings at which the block schedule for the next month or two is determined (if said schedule isn't determined by the dartboard method, as so many have suspected). In other words, you don't know
anything that would allow you to make an informed statement about how Moribito and/or other shows have or have not affected the anime block as a whole. And yet you persist in doing so...why?
2) You're making a comparison between Moribito...and Pilot Candidate. A show that, quite literally,
didn't have an ending. I don't really give a d
amn what your opinion of Moribito is, but for you to ignore the objective fact that Moribito was, at the very very least, narrative-complete is just absurd. And while we're on the subject, the reason [as] made the effort to air the rest of the series was because they're a high-quality network that actually makes the effort to finish what they start. There hasn't been a single short-form anime series in [as]'s history that has been cut short, no matter how comparatively poorly it's performed, and a lot of people have a great deal of respect for [as] because of that.
3) Saturday has been the home of the anime block on [as] for as long as [as] has existed...even longer, in fact, since it draws its roots from the old Toonami Midnight Run and SVES. There's no ostracization going on here, not any more than has existed at any other point in [as]'s history. Granted, Saturday is traditionally the weakest ratings night of the week across all of television, but in a way, that makes having it as the anime block make even more sense so far as [as] is concerned. Even an anime series as comparatively popular as Bleach is never going to pull anything resembling the numbers of ATHF, or Metalocalypse, or Robot Chicken, or (ha) Family Guy, even were it to be aired on a Sunday. But its dedicated fans will watch it no matter when it plays, which ensures that Saturdays still manage to draw some very respectable numbers, all things considered. Oh, and if you think that [as] is in any way going head-to-head with UFC in that timeslot, you're completely self-delusional.
5) Funny how you conclude that "no one" wanted Moribito, simply because you yourself did not enjoy it. I wanted it. Most of the other posters in this thread wanted it. All of the people who posted in the various episode threads wanted it. The general population of this folder wanted it. The more widespread group of anime fans who have slathered praise upon it, and thanks to [as] for airing it, wanted it. Do we reach Bleach fandom's numbers? Of course not, and [as] never expected us to. But we most definitely exist, and we were most definitely thrilled that [as] was able to finally air the rest of the series.
6) I have no problem with you having a negative opinion of Moribito. Hell, I don't even have a massive problem with you saying, "I thought it s
ucked;" I may know to completely disregard your opinion on similar shows in the future, but that's not exactly an issue. What I do have a problem with is you leaping from expressing your own opinions on the series to extending them to some universal standard, like the ridiculous comparison to Pilot Candidate, or the "godawful shows" comment. Just for a second, if you're able, go back and take a look at Moribito from as unbiased of a perspective as you can. Can you sit there and tell me that the background art, or the character animation, or the soundtrack, or the voiceacting, is worthy of the label "horrible" by any reasonable standard? Are you going to attempt to convince us that the plot wasn't well-constructed from a technical standpoint, that there wasn't a purpose to every episode that aired, that a strong narrative structure wasn't followed? Do you reject the notion that the characters were humanized and all had their own individual motivations, to the point where none of them could be considered "evil"? Will you somehow deny that the actual direction of individual scenes wasn't, at the very very least, competent? Because if you can state all of that with a straight face, then there really is no sense in talking to you, because you quite simply have no sense of critical discretion whatsoever.
The bottom line is that what you're doing by posting these same statements over and over again is nothing more than an attempt to project your own personal opinion on the series on not only the other people who watch it, but the entire concept of "opinion" as a whole. The fact that the series has won extremely high marks from just about every anime reviewer who looked at it is apparently completely lost on you...which was demonstrated all too well when you hilariously posted this
same exact sentiment in the ANN comment thread for a glowingly-positive review of the series. Time after time, myself and other people have asked you to back up your statements with concrete evidence, or expanded details, or anything along those lines...and time after time, you've done nothing but ignore those requests and keep re-using the same two or three sentences. You're honestly not even worth having a discussion with at this point; I'd get further by typing at a brick wall.
(I wrote most of this before Meta's post, so I'm going to leave it as-is. I completely agree with his assessment, though: if you continue making these same sorts of posts ad nauseam, all you can really be labeled is a troll.)
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