Forum - View topicHey, Answerman! [2008-09-19]
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penguintruth
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Better than Cowboy Bebop? Trigun? Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex? Fullmetal Alchemist? Better than Home Movies? I think not. Though it is rather good. |
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Dargonxtc
 Posts: 4463 Location: Nc5xd7+ スターダストの海洋 |
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Yeah, I know it is shocking, but most people don't have TiVO. I finally got a DVR 3 days ago. Guess what two shows are going to get recorded?
I am also surprised Zac didn't bring up the fact that anime has an uphill ratings battle as it is, because most of the target audience has already seen it as many times as they want to at that point. Unless he knows something about Nielsen families that I don't. Which is a whole other can of worms in regard to the accuracy of niche market ratings. |
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belvadeer
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Is that what happened? They moved both anime to the early morning hours? Oh for pete's sake -_-
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AirCooledMan_2006
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Not promoting Moribito and Code Geass, then moving them to the graveyard hour: Proof that [AS] WANTS those shows to fail, and that they absolutely do NOT know how to handle anime. Good anime deserves far better. **burns effigy of Mike Lazzo** |
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Who Is This Guy!?
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Actually, yes. Yes, it is. Better than all of them combined... Go Team Venture! By the by, those bunnies are hideously cute... |
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Ai no Kareshi
 Posts: 561 Location: South Africa |
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I share in this sentiment 100%. I had that very same feeling when I finished episode four of Code Geass. 
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dtm42
Posts: 14084 Location: currently stalking my waifu |
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That's so neat. Now, I'm not a rabid fanboy of many series (hardly any, in fact). But, the first season of Code Geass is just so awesome, I quickly made an exception. The end of the first episode had me hook, line and sinker. The next three episodes were downed immediately, and by the end of the fourth I knew that my Internet bills were going to get a lot higher. Shame that it has suffered the treatment Adult Swim doled out on it. I may loathe the dub, but no show that fundamentally good deserves to be placed at the worst possible timeslot. Adult Swim could not do any more harm to Code Geass if it tried to. Even taking it off the air would be better in my opinion, if only to save the show its dignity. Anyway, thankyou for your heartwarming reply. |
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marie-antoinette
 Posts: 4136 Location: Ottawa, Canada |
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They definitely are still in high school in ParaKiss. You see it more if you look at Yukari and her classmates, since they are all preparing to take university exams. The art school students however are not going further in their education, which is why it might seem like they are in university, but it is still a high school, just a specialized one. |
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Hon'ya-chan
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So your willing to trust an outdated system where One Viewer = XXXXX Households? That's like saying Westburo Church is representative of most Christians in America. |
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petran79
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no matter how good or bad anime or american TV (animated or not) really are, I'd never feel comfortable to be squeezed between those two
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rinjichan
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Some thoughts on anime vs American TV:
I've watched anime for years ( oh god like 8 at this point, I think) and for anyone who can claim that anime is more 'intelligent' or 'thought provoking' than American TV, hasn't seen the whole pie yet. There are tons of cliches within each genre, and many shows that repeat them not just year after year, but season after season, sometimes with very similar shows airing at the same time. Just looking back at the shows that aired this summer we have series that might be entertaining, but I can't think of one that was a fresh twist, superbly animated, and thought provoking. 32 shows/specials aired this summer. Anime, like a lot of American action movies, is 90% entertainment, and rarely original thought-provoking character studies that people seem to tote the medium as. American animation is of course, also rarely these things because American animation has only tiptoed through the premise of purely adult shows. On the other hand, I wouldn't claim that children's anime is particularly intelligent either. Any look at the children shows that air each season, and I can tell you at least one is a tie-in to a toy line or card game. It's basically just to sell merchandise. Two air next fall that are card-fighting games like Yu-Gi-Ou but not part of that franchise. I'd say that at least American children's shows aren't all merchandise tie-ins, and while I thought the downfall of started with CatDog on Nickelodeon when I was a preteen, I haven't seen much of what airs now. I think sitcoms might be where you see the real hit or miss with American TV, but with shows like House, Fringe, Sons of Anarchy, and other dramas, I think we really excel. |
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dirge_without_music
Posts: 3 Location: Cardiff |
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Don't you guys have anything like sky+ in the states it lets you record programs off the TV without a DVD recorder? as many as you like, I couldn't survive without sky+ in my house!
Also did anyone think of comparing anime and american TV to British TV, maybe it's just me but I think British films and TV are much better than American TV, and on a par with Anime. As we don't go on for years like American TV does (except with soaps - which I hate) and we don't insist on everybody living happily ever after! |
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ikillchicken
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Um...they want them to fail? Saying they don't know how to handle them is one thing, but generally, trying to make your programming fail is a poor business model. Wouldn't they just not put it on in the first place? Or do they perhaps feed on the tears of otaku that can only be created through false hope? |
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Tamaria
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Oh yeah, that's right (been a while since I've read Paradise Kiss). The artschool students always seemed more like college students to me, which is probably why I had forgotten they were still in high school. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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That makes no sense at all. If anything, listening to kvetching anime fans on forums is like listening to Westboro Church, because they're the loudest and their opinions have little to do with the rest of the country. (For those unfamiliar, they're the people who claim God hates gays. Though they use a different word.) At least Nielsen Media Research TRIES to be scientific about their polling methods, and has improved in recent years, though there's still a lot to be desired in their accuracy. |
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