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Danette-Anime-Otaku
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I still don't get how Disney
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KENZICHI
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great! i hope i don't miss it
i've been missing shippuden because i don't know what the time slots are... and when i do see them it's on like 1 am which i just can't stay up that late. |
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Mohji
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They're still airing new episodes. However, the timeslot recently changed to Saturdays at 11pm EST. Times like these I wish The Click was still around. |
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Kid Ryan
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Where's your source/proof that Manga UK licensed the second shippuden movie? |
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kakoishii
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Is that when they're showing it? I was under the impression disney didn't really care much about shippuden anymore since I've only really seen it randomly late sunday nights when I flat iron my hair. I guess it's no surprise their using naruto like CN used anime back when it still cared about anime, simply to help push attention on it's other shows. In disney's case having something like shippuden around helps to pad its marvel action block, I mean if they were serious about at least naruto not even to talk about anime in general you'd think they would have purchased the rights to air the 1st naruto series which is all but extinct on american tv. I guess CN still has the rights on that and I'm sure they'll let that expire. |
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TitanXL
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enurtsol
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Guessing you're separating CN from Adult Swim here, since technically they're run separately. Still, keep an open mind and check out some of the shows. Well, unless you're not much into CN comedy because that's where CN headed when it de-emphasized action by the end of Toonami. (BTW, which boss are you talking about?) |
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Mawdryn
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Not really. Live-action still only accounts for a small percentage of CN's content. On quite a few days, there's no live-action programming at all. But I believe the reason why CN droppeed Naruto has nothing to do with a hate of anime but rather because it was pulling in the wrong demographic for CN advertisers. They're still running Pokemon, Bakugan, and I think Beyblade because those bring in the demographic (6-11) that CN really wants. I think Naruto was skewing a little bit older (older enough to make it unattractive for CN to keep anyway). The same could be said for their reason for ending Toonami in general... |
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configspace
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Just curious, what type of scenes do they edit and how? |
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Aura Ichadora
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Other fun edits (and ones that still crack me up) are back during the Sasuke Retrieval arc and any references to Sasuke's sword are edited out, spoiler[so moments like the Sasuke-Naruto face off while he's making the motion to stab him, Sasuke's stabbing of Yamato, and such like that are all edited,] either completely out or very horribly in order to make it look like it's not happening. So yeah...very interested to see how they'll handle the film.
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TitanXL
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Eh, Disney seems happy with the demographic and mentioned the 2 - 14 being strong; at least before they moved it to 11PM; which I hope was more censorship reasons. I do believe the only reason they air those is because those have toys associated with them and CN gets a cut on the profits. They seem to be slimming down the acquired properties because they don't want to split the profits with parent companies. It's cheaper and more profitable to make their own stuff, unless it has huge toy brands associated with it. And yeah, they still air Beyblade, it's their second highest rated show on Saturday mornings behind Pokemon Black and White when I checked awhile ago. |
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NJ_
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Here: http://www.uk-anime.net/newsitem/MCM_London_Expo_industry_panel_news.html
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Mawdryn
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It goes without saying that Disney X-D has a slightly different strategy than Cartoon Network. But back when Toonami used to run every weekday afternoon (remember that?), CN was less picky about what audience they were targeting. They would have been happy if anyone was watching the channel at the time. But at some point, probably around 2004 or so, CN started focusing more on the 6-11 crowd, probably because that was the age group that many toy and game sponsors want the most. That was their new adopted strategy, and shows like Naruto didn't fit into it.
Yep. Otherwise, they'd be long gone.
That was another reason why Toonami died. CN could make more money with original productions such as Ben 10 and Generator Rex than they could with properties owned by another company like Naruto and One Piece. CN also gets a bigger chunk of the profits from merchandise based off their own properties than from acquisitions, except for the aformentioned Pokemon, Bakugan and Beyblade. |
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jr240483
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Well the answer to your question is , ITS GOING TO BE BAD! REALLY REALLY BAD!! TO NEAR 4kids bad even Disney " crap ' D have screwed the series with it's edits that I've resorted to watching the subs on Hulu , and getting the uncut dubs on ITunes. Their edits are THAT bad! The original version as well as their three movies and OVA that showed on CN's Toonami ( GOD I miss those days a lot ) were also edited too , but not a lot was edited to begin with. Unfortunately The their broadcasts, have shown us what would have happened to the series is 4kids or that other company from Canada got their hands on the license all in the name of targeting a series for the wrong demograph. I've seen bone headed exces done with the industry but giving Shippuden at the hands of Disney , as well as giving DBZ Kai to Nick and to CW4kids toonzai are the worst. Both series were doing just fine on CN , but alas. Luckily I watched the Uncut movie at an anime convention recently, So I'm definitely skipping this 4kids style massacre. As for the TV series itself, take my advice. DO NOT BOTHER WITH THE TV BROADCASTS AT ALL!!!!! Either get the DVD,download them from ITunes, or if your cheap , watch the subs on Hulu which I'm doing right now and I ususally watch only eng dubs. |
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HuskofDaimao
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Nice speculation, but people put too much stock into Naruto, really. Getting a higher demographic isn't hurting their public image, if it's what, (15-20), and that sort of audience was welcome ten years ago; Dragon Ball Z capped almost all of them and set records, that being for children(Nickelodeon, Disney, etc., 9-14), and teens and adults (MTV, 14-24), and actually brought the network numbers and an image it'd never really seen before and by superseding all of those networks for the throne;(Nickelodeon, vs. Rugrats; Disney, MTV). DBZ was like Wrestling, SpongeBob, Music; teen-adulthood, and X-Men for basic cable then, rolled into one. A networks rank they'll never achieve again. You're right, they aimed for a 9-14 demographic for Naruto, but it tended to attract a slightly older audience. Problem with Naruto fans, is as I've said, is they tend to put too much stock into Naruto; some of them believe Naruto was Cartoon Network's highest-rated program, when in reality Ben 10 set records and had a strong audience for just the demographic the network was aiming for, and surpassed ratings records set by DBZ six years before (9-14). Naruto may have been the highest-rated Toonami program, but c'mon let's get real.... DBZ and Ben 10 were fighting for whole-network ratings ... Toonami was abandoned when Naruto was still mid-season. No network or program would terminate itself and its shows if they were doing as well as people would suggest. Truth is, of course Naruto has a cult-following (just like DBZ ...One Piece, and many Shonen-related anime), but a lot of the stuff surrounding many of those animes and their fanbases are exaggerated. And, honestly, networks like NickToons and DisneyXD are only capable of attracting less than one million viewers (which is...catastrophically less than what Cartoon Network considered "record-setting" for the stretch of their successful anime airings from 2000-2002. So if anything, anime today is just very low-key, less mainstream, and minimizing from what it used to be, actually. The reason they opted to keep Naruto on the air is because it does have a cult following similar to Dragon Ball's... it's just more of a current title, and a bit fresh...but it could never be as mainstream as stuff like Dragon Ball, Pokemon, Yi-Gi-Oh!.. |
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