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biliano*



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:17 am Reply with quote
I agree that AS should have beaten out Tech TV in airing the R.O.D. TV series. I rather see that on AS than that crappy Sealab 2021 garbage.
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kusanagi-sama



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:19 am Reply with quote
Why is this discussion in this forum?
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lianncoop
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:21 pm Reply with quote
kusanagi-sama wrote:
Why is this discussion in this forum?

Because it deals with the most recent edition of the column "The Edit List".
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sinistertaco



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:38 pm Reply with quote
biliano wrote:
I agree that AS should have beaten out Tech TV in airing the R.O.D. TV series. I rather see that on AS than that crappy Sealab 2021 garbage.


Well, don't get too comfortable then. Adult Swim has something like 3 or 4 new in-house comedy series in development, plus new episodes of their current shows. They seem to be slacking off in the anime department, comparitively anyway.
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Vekou



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 2:44 pm Reply with quote
I disagree. Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Super Milk-Chan and R.O.D. are all brand new for October/November 2004. I wouldn't call that slacking at all. That's admirable.
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SSJ Gohan 64



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 3:26 pm Reply with quote
sinistertaco wrote:
biliano wrote:
I agree that AS should have beaten out Tech TV in airing the R.O.D. TV series. I rather see that on AS than that crappy Sealab 2021 garbage.


Well, don't get too comfortable then. Adult Swim has something like 3 or 4 new in-house comedy series in development, plus new episodes of their current shows. They seem to be slacking off in the anime department, comparitively anyway.


Like Vekou said, they are airing anime. They got some anime movies to air next year. Besides, Adult Swim is not a block of just anime. It's comedy shows bring in more ratings than anime. Kyle, I heard that there was an edit on another message board. When that pole goes through Ganjo's neck, some blood was deleted.
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sinistertaco



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:57 pm Reply with quote
SSJ Gohan 64 wrote:
sinistertaco wrote:
biliano wrote:
I agree that AS should have beaten out Tech TV in airing the R.O.D. TV series. I rather see that on AS than that crappy Sealab 2021 garbage.


Well, don't get too comfortable then. Adult Swim has something like 3 or 4 new in-house comedy series in development, plus new episodes of their current shows. They seem to be slacking off in the anime department, comparitively anyway.


Like Vekou said, they are airing anime. They got some anime movies to air next year. Besides, Adult Swim is not a block of just anime. It's comedy shows bring in more ratings than anime. Kyle, I heard that there was an edit on another message board. When that pole goes through Ganjo's neck, some blood was deleted.


Well, that's fine, but most of those series were in negotiations before the Saturday action lineup began struggling, pulling in as little as half the ratins of the comedy block.

If you haven't noticed, Adult Swim is less than happy with the numbers their anime-centric lineup is drawing.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:23 pm Reply with quote
sinistertaco wrote:

If you haven't noticed, Adult Swim is less than happy with the numbers their anime-centric lineup is drawing.


The anime lineup has always struggled compared to the comedy block, yet they still obtain plenty of new series to show. There's only so much you can show when you have to split the time with the comedy block.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 9:46 pm Reply with quote
If I'm not mistaken, the anime portion of Adult Swim is still a rather popular part of the network's overall programming lineup, it just loses out to the comedy segment.
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one3rd



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:28 pm Reply with quote
I really don't understand why so many people are surprised with the things that aren't edited out of the anime that airs on AS. One need look no further than their own Sealab 2021 to see just how much they get away with.
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jstillion



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 11:21 pm Reply with quote
I saw Outlaw Star for the 1st time on Adult Swim, later on I picked up the series box set and never released how edited it was. Glad to hear they loosened up a bit. I did really enjoy ROD OVA.
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Vekou



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:25 am Reply with quote
one3rd wrote:
I really don't understand why so many people are surprised with the things that aren't edited out of the anime that airs on AS. One need look no further than their own Sealab 2021 to see just how much they get away with.

If you've been watching Adult Swim since day one, you'd know that their editing standards have loosened drastically. When you compare Cowboy Bebop's edits to, say, Wolf's Rain's edits (or lack of, for that matter), it becomes clear that we have come a long way in the last three years.
jstillion wrote:
I saw Outlaw Star for the 1st time on Adult Swim, later on I picked up the series box set and never released how edited it was. Glad to hear they loosened up a bit. I did really enjoy ROD OVA.

Outlaw Star was edited to Toonami standards, and was never "de-edited" for Adult Swim. The same happened to Tenchi Muyo!, Mobile Suit Gundam, Gundam 0080, Gundam 0083, and Pilot Candidate.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:44 am Reply with quote
I was kind of surprised that the ROD OVA on AS didn't try to translate any of the onscreen Japanese text. I know we Americans tend to be dead-set against subtitles on our television programs, but I thought some scenes were potentially confusing. For example, early on as Yomiko is going book-shopping there is a sign posted with her picture at one of the stores that says something like "This is our best customer." Since they didn't try to translate it at all, it could have been a wanted poster for all the viewers knew.

I guess subtitles were probably out of the question and it might have been too costly to create overlays for the broadcast. Still, I couldn't help but think of those new to ROD and how this affected their understanding of what was going on.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:20 am Reply with quote
BrianRuh wrote:
I was kind of surprised that the ROD OVA on AS didn't try to translate any of the onscreen Japanese text. I know we Americans tend to be dead-set against subtitles on our television programs, but I thought some scenes were potentially confusing. For example, early on as Yomiko is going book-shopping there is a sign posted with her picture at one of the stores that says something like "This is our best customer." Since they didn't try to translate it at all, it could have been a wanted poster for all the viewers knew.

I guess subtitles were probably out of the question and it might have been too costly to create overlays for the broadcast. Still, I couldn't help but think of those new to ROD and how this affected their understanding of what was going on.


The subtitles that were on the disc were horrid. I don't know who chose the color scheme but they were black letters against a dark background. Pretty worthless, if you ask me.
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The Xenos



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 9:24 am Reply with quote
Hey, fignuts, I rather like Sealab 2021. Of course I think their best comedy show is Venture Brothers. That's just one of the funniest shows on TV for me.

I too hope for more anime, but their home grown shows are nice too and have been there since its conception. Adult Swim is for anime and adult comedy toon too.

Of course I'm glad to see they got Super Milkchan and are exploring odd Japanese comedy as well.

-Xenos
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