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NEWS: Attack on Titan to Run on Adult Swim's Toonami Block

Your description of the fight is objectively false. It's like calling a black car a yellow one. If you don't like the fight scenes that's one thing. That would be a subjective difference. Your description is false. The fights are not "skipped over stills" that finished offscreen. That is objectively incorrect and patently false.

Maybe your cable line was messing so the broadcast was constantly freezing or something.

I've always heard it said that the FCC only applies to broadcast networks and not cable. Cable only obeys as a general following of American taste. Notice that Comedy Central, FX, and Adult Swim have been getting more lax in the use of certain profanities and nudities, without any major shift in FCC policy. Adult Swim could go completely uncensored and f-bomb left and right tonight if they wanted, but people would complain, especially with it still being on Cartoon Network, and that would be the end of that. It's just that Adult Swim has only been pushing its acceptable boundaries in the past six months or so.

You know I can't really get hyped for this when us Canadians don't have Toonami and Anime on TV has become a rarity to begin with over her.

spoiler[Case in point, the fight with Evil Santa back in Ep 3, I believe, was all done off screen when it should have been something animated. The fight with Gleam eyes was like something out of DBZ as soon as Kirito revealed he could dual wield. The Skull thing? Another let down that was over by the time the next episode started with little of the actual battle shown. Probably the best fight was the first one between Kirito and Heathcliff. Other then that we saw them focus more on Kirito killing random lizardmen then we did key moments.]

either way , it will be a testament to see if the edits would be as severe. though it definitely would have a lot less of a headache if they did get the same broadcast rights as IFC , then they would be able to show AOT without fear of getting fined by the FCC or get crucified by those kid friendly advocates.

Kougeru wrote:

This just solidifies Toonami's rule of "Shows that have a ton of action but no substance or intellectual value". In other words we'll never see real masterpieces like Dennou Coil on there (I know, it's never been licensed for some reason, just an example). In the end, it makes sense. Please the masses, and according to Michael Bay the masses like the violence and that's all.

People like you had Moribito air...and subsequently be the biggest bomb on the block ever.

I do wish I could get Cartoon Network. I've been meaning to re-watch Attack on Titan and trying out the dub would be a good way to do that. Oh well, I do plan to buy the DVD/BR release, so I'll see it eventually. And this is definitely good to see happening, since the show has a lot of potential to reach anime fans and non-anime fans alike.

jr0904 wrote:

either way , it will be a testament to see if the edits would be as severe. though it definitely would have a lot less of a headache if they did get the same broadcast rights as IFC , then they would be able to show AOT without fear of getting fined by the FCC or get crucified by those kid friendly advocates.

With all due respect, I don't think you know Adult Swim's standards and practices as much as you think you do. I really think you just don't know.

but its not just some of the VA but some of the exces like sam register who usually attends some of these panels when announcing new series on CN.