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NEWS: Adult Swim Shifts Bleach, Geass, Moribito Timeslots

The members of [as]'s message boards have started a letter campiagn of sorts...they are sending pizza box tops to [as]'s offices (as well as normal stuff). If you all would like to join in the fun, here is the link that will get you the address


http://boards.adultswim.com/adultswim/board/message?board.id=6&thread.id=5044299&jump=true

second, either this move is to avoid more shit from viewers or the first move was just to stir the already uneasy flames of discontent between the groups

1st of all I want to apologize to all of you about the change and to let you know this took a lot of us who work for AS by surprise as well last Wednesday. After discussing it we came to find out that this schedule change came directly from the president of CN himself.

It boils down to a combination of low ratings and complaints. 1st off the president told us that CN had been receiving complaints from parents and AS fans for a while about Shin-chan and Code Geass. Shin-chan because of all its foul language and sexual harassments coming from a Kindergartner, and Code Geass for its occasional full frontal nudity (even though we do censor it). Because of these reasons, parents were preventing their children from watching them and fans were turning the channel; causing them both to lose ratings. Shin-chan took the hardest hit. After the 1st couple of weeks after it premiered the ratings for it just kept dropping until it was barely getting over 100,000 viewers.The decision finally came last Wednesday to cut Shin-chan, Code Geass, and Guardian of the Spirit from AS and replace them with other shows. Since no one here at AS liked Shin-chan all that much it was immediately cut and replaced with FMA. But we did manage to save Code Geass and GotS for a little while but both were shoved to the “Death” time slot of 5:00 and 5:30 am. CN has cut their agreement with Bandai to show Code Geass R1 and R2. They will show the rest of Code Geass R1 at least before it gets cut. Same with GotS.

I know it’s a sad day for you all and us because we really did like Code Geass. Again I apologize to everyone here on behalf of the AS employees who wanted to keep Code Geass going.

I'm kinda flumuxed, why pizza box tops?

This really is sad that CG is being cut once R1 ends. I feel bad that people won't get to see what happens in R2, considering that (being ambiguous to avoid spoilers) R1 ends on a huge cliffhanger. I do wonder how this happened though. CG has won numerous awards in Japan, its dvds have been at the top of the charts, and R2 is the 6th highest ranked anime of all time here on ANN. I have a lot of love of [as], and I wish them all the best, but I believe that some network will have the inteligence to pick up R2 and, by giving it the marketing it deserves, will make it a massive hit; I know I'll be watching.

This really is sad that CG is being cut once R1 ends. I feel bad that people won't get to see what happens in R2