You mean FUNimation's? They always try to exaggerate on stuff people could misinterpret as fanservice as fanservice shows have been a huge success for them. I mean, Sekirei sold out in it's first week last year, and they were going on all about the boobs "Boobies for the win!", despite the show not having that much fanservice. They do it to make those shows sell as high as possible. Usually the show seems to have more fanservice from the ads and art than it has in the actual show.
The nipples got maybe 5 minutes at most total throughout all 12 episodes in Sekirei BTW.
Also, One Piece is mainstream for a reason. Us wierdos can be expected to find it rather blase, but it's just a long-running ensemble show - all about the characters and their relationships more than any plot. Highly episodic. Though I'm speaking from just the first 30 or so... may watch it at some point, but maybe not. Didn't quite fall in love with the characters, and have others keeping me company already I like better. But don't knock anybody for loving the show.
One Piece was never mainstream here in North America. Only places it's mainstream really is Japan.
I hope FUNimation's recent efforts of trying to make the series more popular, and mainstream here will work. On a side-note, I doubt the One Piece game for the PlayStation 3 will come here. It's been 4 years since the last one, and only reason why it got a game was due to it being on Toonami. Retailers still had the "Anything relating to the anime will sell real well." mentality. Soundtracks I think were still being sold at the time.
Also, Bleach rarely gets games here. You can count the number of games that came out here on your hands. 3 DS games, 1 Wii game, and 1 PS3 game.
Yup, it's truly unfortunate. 13 years later, this is happening to them. This is a much bigger deal than when Tokyopop went under (They tried coming back from the grave stupidly months later.).
Well, I don't think TGAT hates shounen... although there are certain trademarks of shounen anime/manga that some of us don't particularly care for.
So it's like somebody who doesn't have a problem with horror films per se, but can't stand ones that are riddled with all the usual horror cliches imaginable. There's some shounen we love (like FMA:B), but then there are the cliche-riddled crapfests like DBZ and Bleach.
On a side note, shows with hundreds of episodes, like Bleach and One Piece do, tells me that they're either making the crap up as they go along one arc at a time, or it's based on a lengthy manga that was made up as it went along one arc at a time.
For something that's just silly and fun like One Piece, that's fine in the same way that I don't expect writers to plan out an entire sitcom from beginning to end... they make it up as they go along on a per-season level. But for a show acting like it's trying to tell a serious story, I can't buy into it if I feel like they're just making crap up as they go along.
Silly and fun? One Piece has many serious business moments like a recent arc that I won't mention due to the absolutely massive spoilers. Having this character's death spoiled will ruin the show people reading this post.
Also, they're not really making it up as they go. Eiichiro Oda still has the ending for One Piece envisioned, and it's been the same one he's had for years. Only reason why One Piece got so long is because he was having so much fun creating it, that it went past the 5 year plan, and had all these other arcs (Alabasta, Water Seven, Skypeia, etc.). He is trying to end it currently.
Just watched the first three episode of Burst Angel. It's pretty awesome. Lots of action.
However only three episodes in and Meg has been kidnapped twice. What the hell lol.
Also up to episode four of the second season of Gunslinger Girl. It's actually starting off pretty good but season one also started off good and then it fell flat on its face so here's hoping season two keeps going the way it is.
She'll be kidnapped more and more often. She got kidnapped A LOT.
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1. K-On! Anime Legends got solicited. Release, 2/7/2012, surprised this got solicited now after the news of Bandai stopping new releases (And by new releases, I mean shows they never released before.). http://www.fandompost.com/forums/showthread.php?735-K-ON!-Anime-Legends
2. My on-hold list, why must it be like it is? When I add the total episode numbers (Making it like I had completed them.), it adds up to 4,200+ episodes. That's almost double what's in completed. It's 1,000 episodes more than what I have in my total episode count (3,692).
3. NIS America got Brave 10, nice. Very nice premium set here we come! (Regular edition also available, they don't do limited edition only.) http://www.fandompost.com/2012/01/05/nis-america-adds-brave-10-for-home-video-anime-release/
(ANN is down, so that's why there's no ANN link.)
4. Oh, almost forgot, finished Nabari no Ou yesterday, 7/10. It could have become a 6/10, but the ending saved it, even though it was kinda sad.
Silly and fun? One Piece has many serious business moments like a recent arc that I won't mention due to the absolutely massive spoilers. Having this character's death spoiled will ruin the show people reading this post.
Also, they're not really making it up as they go. Eiichiro Oda still has the ending for One Piece envisioned, and it's been the same one he's had for years. Only reason why One Piece got so long is because he was having so much fun creating it, that it went past the 5 year plan, and had all these other arcs (Alabasta, Water Seven, Skypeia, etc.). He is trying to end it currently.
She'll be kidnapped more and more often. She got kidnapped A LOT.
Who ever made those avatars should be fired for discriminating against handicapped characters! Give him a week's detention! Shake his soda bottles! Take away his lunch money! Egg his house!
Who ever made those avatars should be fired for discriminating against handicapped characters! Give him a week's detention! Shake his soda bottles! Take away his lunch money! Egg his house!
Tite Kubo for example already has 3 arcs planned through. Long shows/long manga (Though, most manga are at least 15-20 volumes long. Longest is on it's way to 200+ volumes, been in WSJ since the 1970's.) have different reasons for being long, and at times the stuff was planned months to years in advance.
Also take a look at this (Look at the blonde haired guy.).
That character I'm pointing out didn't appear until like around volume 30, or in the anime, in the early 100's, yet there he is, in the color spread for chapter 1 in the manga (I have the hardcover collector's edition volume 1 here, so that's why it's in color, usually it'd be black and white as usually color pages are in color only in the manga magazine.).
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