#BringBackToonami Campaign

[Tsumibito]

Originally Posted by SilentBookworm

Those days are waaaaaaaaaaaaay over my friend, dubbed anime has gotten alot better and if Toonami does come back, they've got a whole back-log of dubbed anime they can still show on television with little edit for violence

I havent watched dubbed anime since i saw it on netflix.... it took 10 seconds.... that was horrible... i speak and read Japanese so ill stick with raws 20 times better

[randomredneck]

I'll watched dubbed. If it's the dub I hear first, I like it better. Like FMA, and Ouran and so on.

[Marceus]

Plenty of series have excellent English dubs, like Cowboy Bebop. I'll only ever watch that one English.

[vernanonix]

I've been watching stuff off of Netflix a lot recently. (Eden of the East, Soul Eater, Baccano) I can enjoy a dub. Granted, there are bad dubs, but then again, the original can have terrible voices as well. It's mostly a fanboy thing, in my experience.

Durarara has an awesome dub, whereas Simon has the complete wrong accent in the Japanese.

[8MangaMan]

Adult Swim has said many times before they hate anime, but this still gives me a little hope.

[SilentBookworm]

On midnight of April 1, 2012, just past Toonami's 15th anniversary, Adult Swim, which generally changes its programming for April Fools' Day, began to play The Room (as they had done the past several years).[15] The scene then switched to T.O.M. (in his third incarnation) aboard the Absolution, greeting the viewers while commenting that it is April Fools' Day, before introducing that week's scheduled episode of Bleach. The Toonami-related programming and bumpers continued throughout the night, featuring Dragon Ball Z, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki, Outlaw Star, The Big O season 1, YuYu Hakusho, Blue Submarine No. 6, Trigun, Astro Boy, and Gigantor. T.O.M. also presented a review of Mass Effect 3 and promoted the recent DVD releases of the series featured.[16][17]

The following day, Adult Swim posted a message to their Twitter page, simply stating, "Want it back? Let us know. #BringBackToonami".[18] On April 4, Adult Swim followed up this tweet with one stating, "#BringBackToonami We've heard you. Thank you for your passion and interest - stay tuned."[19]


Adult Swim confirm Toonami will return to Cartoon Network on Sunday April 22, 2012 12am Est(9pm PST)

[captaincrunch]

Am I the only one that can't stomach weekly broadcasts of series already released in full? It'd drive me crazy. I never watch anime on AS for that reason.

Toonami is/was cool when you were a kid and had no other means of accessing anime, nowadays it's old news and lost it's worth. Nostalgia is all it has.

I like AS for my non-anime cartoons (Venture Brothers, Squidbillies, ATHF, etc.). I wish they made more of that.

[TheCoffeeGod]

Originally Posted by captaincrunch

Am I the only one that can't stomach weekly broadcasts of series already released in full? It'd drive me crazy. I never watch anime on AS for that reason.

See, I never understood the basis for this complaint.
It's the same concept as waiting a week for the JP airing, only you're waiting for the Eng. airing.

[mmag13]

^Well yes, except for the Japanese airing is already out, and you could be watching it instead of waiting for the dub. When you're waiting for the Japanese airing to come out you have no choice but to wait.

[truthillusion]

I will happily accept and watch Toonami on three conditions:

1) Newer titles. I don't want a show from the 90s or early 2000s. I don't want DB, DBZ, DBGT, Death Note or whatever popular anime from years ago constantly bombarded at my screen. I mean, I recall being able to watch Gundam Wing completely lots of times back when I was a kid. I just want variety.

2) Newer titles...um, the sub category. I don't want to wait four fucking years for a show to be available (as in transition from Japan's initial airings to USAs). For Toonami to actually lure me in, they need to be showing Hunter x Hunter (2011) during 2012. Or a 2012 show in 2013. Otherwise, I'll have already seen the show and purchased the box sets and will have no desire to watch it on Toonami when I can watch it commercial free. This has more to do with the distribution companies than Toonami itself, but if the people in Toonami were to pressure companies they're connected with for some titles, it might help them get off their asses.

3) Those fucking dubs. Again, this doesn't have much to do with Toonami as it does with distributors or who ever gets the cast. A bad dub will affect everyone: dvd/bd sales and Toonami's ratings. Certain shows of the past may have had superior dubs than the originals (i.e. DBZ), but more often than not, they're terrible. Get new VAs, get them well attuned with the scripts, coach them on emotional delivery, or just get the DBZ team to do every fucking anime. The method is irrelevant, just fucking get it done. This would help everyone involved in the long run: Toonami will garner higher ratings because there won't be questionable dialog/sound which will also help with the marketing of the DVDs/BDs which might encourage more people to buy stuff from the distribution companies.

If Toonami wants a far bigger viewer base than nostalgia addicts, these are three hurdles they have to conquer. Doing one at a time individually alone would probably be good enough, but that's still some kind of work that needs to be done. All will benefit, distributors, Toonami and the watcher.