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NEWS: Cartoon Network to End Toonami on September 20

babynaruto1 wrote:

What's going to happen to Naruto now? Episodes 200-220 still need to be english dubbed, and then there's Shippuuden! Not to mention the movies and OVAs/Specials! I guess I'll have to wait until the episodes come to DVD, or when Toonami Jetstream finally catches up to them, or when Toonami gets revived or when another channel picks them up .

I doubt Naruto is going away. I mean, as far as I know it's pretty popular, and it sells a fair amount of merchandise. Even with Toonami gone, Naruto will live on somewhere on the CN, I think.

EDIT: Just re-read the article, and yep, there's an episode of Naruto sceduled for after Toonami ends, on Oct 4th. And the Batman thing they are showing before it is actually an anime too. So the end of Toonami doesn't mean the end of anime on Cartoon Network.

Gal, just barely found out about all this...... I mean it was just so sudden, they didn't give us 2 weeks notice or anything like that, it just up and left...... And I just barely found out about it!! I mean what the crap!? I even caught a glimpse Naruto back on Saturday night not even comprehending that it was going to go under, and joked about how they were still on the same OP and couldn't wait till they started doing Yura Yura. Heh, little did I know, huh? How tragically ironic.....

So yes, as one who he himself was not only brought into anime through Toonami but was pretty much raised as an anime fan by it I would for sure like to give it my belated and unexpected farewell. Thanks for all the good times, you surely will be missed. I just wish I could have been there for your swan song.

True enough,but what i'm worrying is that it may mean the end of mainstream anime as we know it. Naruto would've been a lot more popular if people didn't made fansubs and posting it on free websites.Not to mention the errors made by 4kids which caused people to hate dubs completely.I just hope that this doesn't mean that it'll cause the shippuden series to be scraped from CN.

Warstar77 wrote:

heres plan 1, got piece paper and got it to CN 2. Tell cartoon network to make a new block just for anime from 7:00 pm to 11:00 am weekdays and weekends 3. anime blocks on cartoonnetwork. things like gundam seed and gundam seed destiny, and old shows like sailor moon seasons 1-4, naruto, dragonball-dragonball gt, like shows from funimation, viz and other places in america and with this anime block we made on cartoon network. There ratings will skyrocket that toonmai replaced to that we made anime block on cartoon network.. 4.people got last seasoned of sailor moon on cartoon network. come on all anime fans nows the time to replace toonami block with anime block. i need your help people and i am encourge people to wrote to cartoon network to make anime block 7:00 am to 11:00 pm weekdays and weekend and we can make this anime block on cartoon network a really

As much as I, as well as probably everyone else, admires your determination to bring back "Toonami" in some way, shape or form, I really doubt they're going to bring it back. You can try, but it's not going to happen. Like I said in one of my previous posts, I loathe Toonami for airing such crappy dubs, but at the same time it's made me curious about what the original was like, and I'm grateful for that.

I love Sailor Moon in Japanese, and seasons 3 and 4 in English aren't horrible, but I prefer them NOT to have unnecessary scenes cut. Also the voices are horrible. Should they redub the series with better actors that show as much emotion as their Japanese counterparts, then I'd buy the entire series solely for the English version. As it stands right now though, Hell will freeze over before that happens. It's also got alot to do with the US censorship remember...

Hell, I'd kill to see ALL of Sailor Moon get licensed (Including Sailor Stars--WHY WASN'T IT BROUGHT TO THE STATES GODDAMN IT?!), digitally remastered, and given a new, uncut dub, and released in season box sets on both DVD and Blu-Ray.

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote:

Hell, I'd kill to see ALL of Sailor Moon get licensed (Including Sailor Stars--WHY WASN'T IT BROUGHT TO THE STATES GODDAMN IT?!), digitally remastered, and given a new, uncut dub, and released in season box sets on both DVD and Blu-Ray.

Was that rhetorical or do you really not know why SM Stars wasn't licensed?

Seasons 1-4 of SM are available (on DVD at least) and I believe the dub is uncut. Don't quote me on that though.

Shiggity wrote:

AirCooledMan_2006 wrote: Hell, I'd kill to see ALL of Sailor Moon get licensed (Including Sailor Stars--WHY WASN'T IT BROUGHT TO THE STATES GODDAMN IT?!), digitally remastered, and given a new, uncut dub, and released in season box sets on both DVD and Blu-Ray. Was that rhetorical or do you really not know why SM Stars wasn't licensed? Seasons 1-4 of SM are available (on DVD at least) and I believe the dub is uncut. Don't quote me on that though.

And here comes another SM Fan.

Season 1 and 2 are uncut in subtitles only. S and SuperS are available in bilingual format uncut, though the English dub dialogue remained mostly the same.

PunkDaddy wrote:

Williams Street works for Time/Warner.[...]There's also his ego to consider.

Um. You do know Williams Street is not a person, right?

Anyway, three thoughts:
1. Canceling Toonami was a shock for me, too, but, with everything that's been said here, was it really a bad thing considering how the block had ended up? Now we get to see if we can become less "mainstream" (we were never mainstream, but the point is, now we'll be further in a niche than for the last few years). I kind of look forward to that. This blow-out of the last couple years in the R1 industry was (in hindsight) as inevitable as the dot-com bubble burst. Now let's let the dust settle and go back to hunting a little harder for our animé; it won't curb our enjoyment of it, right? It might even increase it.

2. The less animé CN airs, the less I have to watch their channel at night, which means the less promos for their drivel I have to watch; seriously, the level of stupidity in their programming is unrivaled on TV and even what I see in the commercials offends me (and yes, I *do* skip them, now, after having been offended enough times).

3. If CN's animé gets any more scarce at all, I'm canceling my TV service altogether. Seriously. That's not a statement of fanatical reactionism, it's just a sad fact that I only watch 2-4 shows on other channels. CN's animé was the major part of my weekly TV viewing. So, without it, I have even less justification for paying that monthly bill. This is not a bad thing, again: it simply means that I will have to find my animé through other channels (yes, legal, paid channels). Even with having to buy or rent everything I want to see from that point on, I will still probably save money if I cancel TV. So bring it on, CN, make my day and I'll cancel my subscription faster than you can, I don't know, switch shows to horrible timeslots.

Why is Toonami being taken down? Sure I don't watch it much, but that's because I can't stay up late.