[Anime] Since no one else is talking about this...

[Fallen Seraph]

I can't see it affecting anime growth at all in North America. At the most perhaps some of the more obscure animes will be noticed as people go else where to get their anime.

Perhaps animes like for example Grave of The Fireflies will get more of the recognition it deserves amongst the North American anime community. Hell, even Robert Ebert has recognized it as one of the best war films ever.

 

[TwinBahamut]

If all the the networks stopped broadcasting it I think we'd still have a growing anime community, if only from fan-subs on the internet.

This is probably true, but I wouldn't like to see such a thing come to pass. I hate fan-subs, and refuse to watch them for a number of reasons.

Who cares about Toonami when there's the Funimation Channel and the Anime Network?

Unfortunately, me, mostly because the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim still has a death grip on Code Geass, but also because I simply don't even have the option of getting those two channels. My cable company doesn't carry them. Once I finally give up on Adult Swim (probably in about a month when the first season of Code geass ends), I really will have nowhere else to watch anime on TV.

Most of the rest of my sentiments about this were expressed in a thread on the WotC Rec Room forum... Rest in peace, Toonami.

At least I can still always get good anime series on DVD.

 

[Oni]

The less and less anime adult swim shows, the less I watch that channel. The only non-anime show they have I try to go out of my way to watch is Venture Brothers. Though to be honest I'm not really fond of the currently selection of anime anyway. I hate Bleach, have no interest in Code Geass, or Deathnot really (though to be fair I didn't see the beginning of this series, so mostly I just don't know what the hell is going on). I was enjoying Moribito if for no other reason than the beautiful animation, but they took that away (to the crack of dawn anyway). Honestly Scifi has beening doing better than cartoon network lately with their ani-monday, they just finished up showing Gurran Lagann (however it's spelled) and Now and Then, Here and There, which were both excellent. Hopefully they'll show more good stuff.

 

[Rackhir]

Anime is here to stay. The anime section at BB is as large if not larger than the SF or Horror movie sections. They don't do that for stuff that doesn't sell. While toonami did help get anime established in the US, it's easy to overstate how much of an effect it's had. I suspect that it would probably be as popular in the US even if they had never showed it.

Most of the manga on sale in the US doesn't have any anime available in the US for it and doesn't even have it in Japan. Manga is the source for most anime series, not the other way around. So even if Anime sales decline it's unlikely to directly hurt manga sales in the US.

FWIW, the SF channel has picked up the pretty popular new Gundam series Gundam OO.

 

[Mallus]

I don't watch anime on the Cartoon Network, so the Toonami cancellation doesn't affect me.

As for the impact of the Toonami cancellation? Minimal, at best. Netflix has a huge anime selection, it's widely available online, there's no shortage of access to it in the US. Outlets like CN were a good vehicle for bringing anime to a wider audience, but it's time has passed, as someone else pointed out, they've moved on to focus on their own properties, and anime (and manga) are here to stay.

 

[MichaelSomething]

At least Code Geass is being shown on the adultswim website for now. It was the least they could do.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Anime is here to stay. The anime section at BB is as large if not larger than the SF or Horror movie sections. .
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Sadly, this is something that many art teachers (even at the collegiate level) seem to loathe since too many people are trying to conform/emulate the Anime/Manga art style rather then experimenting and creating a style of their own (among other reasons).

 

[Villano]

As you can see by my sig, I miss Toonami. Back in the day, they had some of the best shows on TV.

However, I will admit that lately the quality had fallen off. One Piece was a great series that was stuck with a terrible, unfunny, re-edited dub. They tried to bring in MAR and Prince Of Tennis, only to skip episodes and air them out of order and then dump them. And Naurto was fun until it turned into non-stop filler episodes

And, from what I understand, they are replacing Toonami with an action cartoon block. I'm not sure why they needed to ditch TOM and the Toonami label for this. I mean, it's not like Toonami was exclusively anime (Megas XLR, Teen Titans, Storm Hawks, Ben 10: Alien Force, the new He-Man series, etc.). Plus, they are still airing Naruto (and his movies).

I'm just sad to see an era end. It's like when JLU was cancelled and you realized that the universe that started with Batman waaayyyy back in '92 finally came to a close.

Long live, TOM.

 

[DonTadow]

I am glad someone brought this up. I am amazed by how good a brand they built with showing good anime and then to just throw it away... that's silly. The made a good amount of money on the anime they broadcasted, but the thing isthey want to make more money. No problem with that, that's business. It's just sad how everything's a business and nothing is for the fans.

This doesn't hurt anime though, there are way too many outlets of it, and a good half the fans hate dubbed stuff anyway. The channel is making a mistake though, and will loose a good many viewers. To think they will replace it with their comedy stuff is a miscaluation. Outside of Metalopyse Frisky Dingo and Robot Chicken, everything else is poorly made retreads of everything else.

 

[Rackhir]

Outside of Metalopyse Frisky Dingo and Robot Chicken, everything else is poorly made retreads of everything else.

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