animedevil wrote:
where r all the ANIME shows and what about the gundam fans??!! Does [AS] even care about it's anime fans??? I guess its all about the money.... >_<; I mean why the hell is King of the Hill still on on Saturdays?? Why does [AS] still re-run cowboy bebop, GitS, and Big O over and over again?? People dont watch Saturday as much as [AS] on a sunday is well does anyone remember when they last saw a commercial from [AS] about Saturday action block??? I mean I know when the new episode of Family Guy or Robot Chicken will be on...BECUZ OF THE **beast** COMMERICALS CN KEEPS PLAYING!!!! They should also should reply the action block on Thursday...Saturdays are the lowest ratings for ages 20+ for any network...
1) I'd love to see them air Gundam again. It's a darn shame Turn-A isn't getting a dub because they could have premiered that but Zeta hasn't aired on US television yet either so they could try that or air Gundam 00 and Unicorn.
2) AS reruns Cowboy Bebop, GitS and The BIg O over and over because they still do decently and because they love them. They are airing every anime they have right now because... they can. It's either that or give those a break and double-up other shows that probably wouldn't do as well anyway.
3) Actually Saturday's been doing a lot better in recent years with the addition of Family Guy. The Boondocks has been doing surprisingly well and that's the reason why they're not going give anime back 11PM.
4) They could stand to make more commericals for ASA but I see promos for any anime that's in premieres. Particularly on Friday nights (though Friday is usually the only night I regularly watch weekday Adult Swim). Kekkaishi, FMA: Brotherhood and the recent run of Bleach all got individual promos. I'd like to see them do a general Saturday night promo though. I don't think they've had one in a while. But it's not as if people don't know anime airs 12AM-6AM on Saturday nights. It's been that way since 2008. How can anyone in their target demographic not know that by now? Action ratings have improved in recent years simply by keeping it exactly where it is and not shaking things up too dramatically at any point.
5) They air anime on Saturday BECAUSE it's expected to get low ratings. Anime is pretty lower priority for Adult Swim. In all honestly, why should it be important to Adult Swim? They can get better ratings from their own shows and the FOX reruns. Why don't otaku understand that? It should be obvious by now. Ya'll should be more glad they even air anime at this point because they sure are not doing it for ratings and they don't have merchandising rights to those shows like they do with original series. 6 hours of anime every week and at least 2 premieres within that 6 hours is pretty generous of them at this point. Anime's proven much more successful on websites such as Hulu because most people watch anime on their computer at their own pace rather than rely on television for their fix but thankfully Adult Swim has stuck with it because they have found decent success with it while other networks have not.
6) Funny thing, back in 2004 they contemplated making the anime premiere night Thursdays and maybe if they had done that it would have stayed on Thursdays but now they wouldn't put anime on any other day because they air it on Saturday specifically because it has a dedicated fanbase that will watch it regardless of when it's on, where as the comedy viewers wouldn't tune in for the usual comedies on Saturday. It's the combiination of casual viewers tuning in for King of the Hill, Family Guy and The Boondocks and the dedicated viewers tuning in for the anime that makes Saturday work at all. I don't think any other combination could do quite as well at this point.
7) King of the Hill airs on Saturday because it gets ratings, better ratings than most shows would get at 9:30PM on a Saturday night and at 10PM it's ratings are roughly as good as the anime premieres following Bleach. You may not care for it but it gets results and that's all that matters to Adult Swim.
HELPeR for the TOONAMI, Mobile Suit Gundam, Dragon Ball Z, Harvey Birdman and Perfect Hair Forever boards. Feel free to ask me anything on those topics.
sketch only puts the arrogant whiney punks in their place... sort of like batman, except on the {AS} boards - THECZAROFGNAR
Sketch, should we make sure it's imprinted on your grave stone "He felt very strongly that Bleach belonged on Toonami!" - .hack-SIGN_John
"We aknowledged that Toonami is cooler than us... and they aknowledged that we're full of ****." [adult swim]
). A lot of us would like to see show A, B, C, etc...., but [as] dose not own the rights to the shows we would love to see. So the only thing we can do as viewers is just say, hey [as] if you guys/gals could get the rights to this show it would be cool, but if not! Can you let us know when you get ready to air a new other show, thxs the fans.
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