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NEWS: Toonami Replaces One Piece Anime With Tokyo Ghoul Starting on March 25

Tsumikisan wrote:

KH91 wrote: Oh wow, I was under the impression they were already at Marineford. Well damn then there goes my theory. leafy sea dragon wrote: The timeskip won't happen for another long while, around 100 episodes or so. They're reached the timeskip in their DVD releases (the last release finishing on the last pre-timeskip episode) that came out in December and they haven't revealed the release date of any news ones yet which is strange because normally by the time a DVD comes out they've already announced the release date of the next, and they stopped their simulcast back in September. But at the same time the latest volume had an extra feature called Outtakes part 1(which implies a part 2 is intended) and they did recently license One Piece Gold so it looks like the future of one piece in Funimation is pretty vague at this point. The evidence suggests they had every intention of continuing past the timeskip but something is getting in their way, this thing with Toonami is clearly related.

The simulcast is still going on both FUNi and Crunchyroll and there's evidence that shows that they've been dubbing the post-timeskip stuff since July

I hope that this isn't permanent and that after Tokyo Ghoul is over One Piece makes it's triumphant return.

there's evidence that shows that they've been dubbing the post-timeskip stuff since July

3 AM is mostly the slot where shows still owned by Toonami for broadcasting are placed, until the rights revert back to the licensor. Attack on Titan, Kill la Kill, Parasyte, and most recently One Punch Man are examples of this.[/b]

Hellsing Ultimate was also a premiere at 3 AM, but it was like that since Episode 1.

Tokyo Ghoul will die while OP will still live.

Pathetic.

Fine with me. I turn off Toonami after ShotaXShota, anyway.

That's a shame, but hopefully it will return one day. One Piece has always had a hard time in the US, which sucks because it's a great series with great characters, so much heart, and a really memorable, unique style. I'll watch every episode a million times over before I view a single episode of comparatively bland (IMO) stuff like Bleach and Naruto.

Also, One Piece is a show that pretty much forces you to watch multiple episodes at once. One episode a week is just way too slow. It would take months for the plot to seriously move along. Maybe if Toonami was still on five times a week, it would make more sense. That's how they made DBZ work. Toonami really did try to make this series work. They even tried repeats at 8:30 (at a very bad point in the show), and the show does have a devoted cult following, but it was just hard to make it work here. The writing's been on the wall ever since they pushed it back so late. It had a decent 4-year-run on the block, but it's, sadly, just time to move on.

Depressing. I can't say I'm shocked, but it does sting that dragon ball can hold down two series at once and One Piece can't maintain one much later in the block. (I'm fully aware of the difference in popularity, just speaking as an avid One Piece fan who wishes for it's success over seas.)

I do think that airing Toonami 6 nights a week or so is a good idea as they can get through the longer series faster that way. I propose that if they did that at 11:30 every night that we could be through all those series in half the time. I say that because Sunday is a big day for Adult Swim as typically most of the core shows air at those times and Toonami would cut into them. Granted they air some things during the end portion of the week but that for a handful of shows.

Lopezz wrote:

Tokyo Ghoul will die while OP will still live. Pathetic.

I'm pretty sure Sui Ishida wasn't setting out to get "One Piece" cancelled on American TV. It's not TG's fault this happened. This is why OP fans annoy me. They have such an elitist attitude. They're the PC Gamers of the Otaku Community.