SageShinigami said:kisami said:
well toonami has served CN very well. for 11 years they had a very good run, and they probably got a lot of people introduced to the Anime genre. there at the end though, they had some crap running.
the latest trend though is that most shows and block of shows do not last for very long. American viewers are very picky and their attention span is about 2 seconds. these days its not surprising for a new show to go off the air within 3 years time. any show that lasts 5-10 years usually is outstanding and dies near the 10 year mark.
Toonami wasn't a show, it was a block. And it failing is solely Cartoon Network's fault.
I'd like to say I was sad when they killed Toonami, but I totally wasn't.
Don't get me wrong--I
loved Toonami. And I was definitely pretty depressed over its
real death--back in April 2004, when they moved it to the weekends. That was the true killer of Toonami.
Yeah, it went another four years, but it was pretty much limping. If it hadn't been for the occasional movie gimmick (airing Marvel's DTVs, Month of Miyazaki) and the powerhouse that is Naruto, Toonami wouldn't have even made it to that tenth anniversary.
Come on. This is a block that gained its fans primarily from shonen series. (Or mecha series.) Y'know, those series that run 100+ episodes? (Or for mecha, 40-50 episodes.) And you're going to switch to a WEEKLY format? Ugh. And to move it to late night on Saturdays when no one's home and essentially make it "Adult Swim Jr."...that was beyond stupid.
The entire thing was insulting. They moved it to Saturdays because the target audience had changed (newsflash--they grew up and still liked the shows, idiots), and then they go on to air such "adult shows" as Pokemon, Duel Masters, and "4Kids Presents One Piece". GTF outta here. There's nothing they aired on Saturdays that couldn't have been aired on weekdays after school and gotten much higher ratings.
The fact that with the tenth anniversary, all we got were a couple shorts and TOM v4.whogivesashit, should've been the sign to everyone that things were over. Ten years in the game and no new original series? No new anime? Hell, not even a return to weekdays? WTF. I remember even the Toonami fansite gave in the towel at that point, and they were totally right to.
Yeah. I was sad about Toonami dying. But Toonami died for me 4 years ago. This was just the passing of some shell that resembled it.