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NEWS: Space Dandy to Air on Toonami Before it Airs in Japan

Meh. So this puts the final nail in the coffin for me for this show. (Just in case there was anyone left out there still wondering...) I still will definitely NOT be watching. The rest of ya: enjoy the effing heck outta your tiresome misogynistic fantasies!!!

Japan has shorter commercial breaks so they have no choice in having to cut SOMETHING to fit American commercials.

If you want to see where anime actually got cut to fit on tv, you should've seen how much SyFy cut from anime to fit in 4 commercial breaks per show.

Which is why I'm largely baffled by the weirdly negative way this is being received on this thread. I mean good god guys, can you not just enjoy great news like this for once in your lives without finding something to nitpick? Watanabe has a good track record with his shows, it's airing in a great timeslot, and people have been dying for toonami to expand since its relaunch.

CG-LOVER wrote:

Which is why I'm largely baffled by the weirdly negative way this is being received on this thread. I mean good god guys, can you not just enjoy great news like this for once in your lives without finding something to nitpick? Watanabe has a good track record with his shows, it's airing in a great timeslot, and people have been dying for toonami to expand since its relaunch.

I know it is Watanabe, and he has an excellent track record. But what if the silly looking Space Dandy flops. I am not so sure trying to do Cowboy Bebop 2.0 is a good idea. Funimation is taking a big gamble by financing a dub (they are not cheap by the way) for a show that we do not know if it will be well received.

I doubt this flopping would break the company or be anything more than a hard lesson learned. They dub basically everything they've ever put out and not everything they put out has been a success. How is this any different?

Do not give me wrong. This is a cool and interesting idea, but to me it seems a bit risky.

Oraculo wrote:

Meh. So this puts the final nail in the coffin for me for this show. (Just in case there was anyone left out there still wondering...) I still will definitely NOT be watching. The rest of ya: enjoy the effing heck outta your tiresome misogynistic fantasies!!!

You determined that the show is misogynistic on the basis of what? That it has a Hooters-esque restaurant? No one knows how the show even plans to address that.

1. Step one: put "from the creators of Cowboy Bebop" on the cover when Space Dandy hits home video. Step two: Profit. Step three: there is no step three.
2. Come on, this is Watanabe. It won't suck. This is as smart a prelicense as can ever exist.

Meh. So this puts the final nail in the coffin for me for this show. (Just in case there was anyone left out there still wondering...) I still will definitely NOT be watching. The rest of ya: enjoy the effing heck outta your tiresome misogynistic fantasies!!!

This is not airing in Canada even though Funi’s press release says “North America Broadcast”. But I’m sure it’s just the people in the states forgetting once again they aren’t “North America”. Thats just embarrassing funimation

http://www.funimation.com/blog/?p=2464

Ambimunch wrote:

This is not airing in Canada even though Funi’s press release says “North America Broadcast”. But I’m sure it’s just the people in the states forgetting once again they aren’t “North America”. Thats just embarrassing funimation http://www.funimation.com/blog/?p=2464

It's easy to forget that the US isn't in North America.

bglassbrook wrote:

If the English-dubbed version comes out before the Japanese-dubbed version, it's a fair bit hypocritical to call the latter "the original version." Unless it turns out we are skipping straight into a gab-dub, in which case pass the fire.

The "original" is the version recorded under Watanabe's supervision, so unless he's flying to Texas and directing the American VAs personally, the Japanese track trumps the English regardless of which premieres first.

It's very easy to forget that the US isn't alone on the North American continent.

Don't feel too bad: if we let Canada into our exclusive club then we'd have to let Mexico in. Next the Caribbean islands and Central America would want in, and then some extremists would sue for inclusion of South America by claiming that it is a "subcontinent" of North America... Let's not get that snowball rolling lol.