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ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Marvel don't know what the hell. If they did they would have pulled for Spectacular when Disney held the axe over it.

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ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
In short: Disney are fuckers.

Whilst this should be known already, I believe it needs reiterating.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Cardboard Box A posted:

Studio 4c makes this something everyone must pay attention to. Their entire body of work is pretty awesome, even their kids show was pretty good for a kids show.

Holy poo poo, that means that this is, for all intents, Thundercats Animated.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
As far as Digimon Frontier is concerned, I'm going to put it as thus;

When Astroboy 2003 took over the timeslot after Frontier finished, the jump in quality could be measured in magnitudes.

If Astroboy had started after Tamers ended, the jump would have been measured in centimetres, at most.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Mad Surge posted:

And this is why I refuse to be called with that term. Seriously, I like the show as far as cartoon kids go (and also for the titanic revive and reinvention of a franchise that was even more sugary than Carebears), there is good fanart AND good fans, yet it's these idiots that get everyone's attention. *grunts*

Yeah, that 'bout covers my thoughts on the situation. There's some fantastic, Simpsons'esc writing in there ("She'll become a crazy cat lady!" "She only has one cat." "Give her time...") but it's just a good show, nothing more than that.

Oh and the fanart/other stuff is great. When it's worksafe, that is.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Two Words; Extreme Chiropracty. You'll know it when you see it.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Oct 16, 2011

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Yeah, That's about right.

And, honestly, just stop after Tamers, you'll thank yourself for not putting yourself though much else of Digimon.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

mobo85 posted:

Also, though Sesame Street is in no danger of being cancelled, it is apparently now where porn lives.

There's a special level of hell for the sorts of people who gently caress with Sesame Street like that.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Tartarus Sauce posted:

Johnny Test is a contemptible, hideous, noisy fuckbucket excuse for a show, meanwhile.
Indeed, what season it is on? Because it's about that +1 seasons far too long.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

JethroMcB posted:

Why is it so loving ugly? Why is everything so poorly animated? Why is there a GODDAMN loving whip sound effect every time anybody does anything? Why? Why? WHY?

Am I the only one who read that in Robotnik's voice? I can't be the only one...

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Neo Helbeast posted:

For anybody who says kids have it better these days may I present counter point exhibit A, B and C.

Winx Club.

A show that is so cheaply made that they don't have sound for their special attacks. Also every stereotype imaginable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYJ4Qq-eMQg&feature=related

It's been renewed for a Sixth season.

Also Sailor Moon.

Don't rememind me, I saw the recap movies on Nick (UK), it was basically the illustrated guide on the how to not animate in flash

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Yeah. It took up all the time that was rightfully Digimon Tamers and PR: time force's in the UK on Fox Kids. It's repeating again. That peace of poo poo rated a for awesome ate up all of Inazuma Eleven's airtime.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

readingatwork posted:

How is Inazuma Eleven anyways? I've seen a bunch of avatars around and it's got me curious.
It's good fun as long as you accept that it is to Football what YuGiOh is to Magic: The gathering.

Dub is fine and also has minor cussing and no 4kids'ing of undesirables elements (Like attempts to murder the whole cast via bus sabotage or people getting run over by cars) however the dub only ran for a month in the middle of bum-gently caress nowhere on Disney XD UK's Schedule and would have been the worst abuse of anime by Disney XD World wide (Naruto was hosed sideways but at least it was advertised) if not for that short fart of a run of the Stich anime on the US channel.

The sequel series, Go!, is, and I say this with no exaggeration, Zeta Inazuma Eleven. It is about the closest a show will probably get to showing how utterly hosed football and the people who play it can get when the people in charge go completely off the rails.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Nov 16, 2011

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Y-Hat posted:

I said that Cartoon Network is the best kid's channel on cable, but stuff like this makes me realize that they're in that position in spite of themselves.

Pretty much. It's not like they've done a drat thing to help themselves since about 08 or so, letting Naruto go to XD, SymBiotic Titan, this nonsense here. It reads like a deliberate sabotage plot or something.

readingatwork posted:

That. Sounds. Amazing!

EDIT: Watching episode 1. Not thirty seconds in and the "bad guy" pee-wee soccer team just beat the other guys with what appeared to be DBZ soccer magic, unilaterally disbanded the loosing team, and then immediately proceeded to tear down the loosing team's school by driving through it with their military-grade land train thing.

Very not disappointed. :allears:

EDIT 2: Aaaaaand the middle school Nazi stormtroopers have officially won me over. This poo poo is awesome.
Yeah, it's that kind of batshit and it's that kind of glorious too.

Also, JoJo's Bizzare Adventure/Shaman King happens at some point, guess when!

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Nov 19, 2011

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Quote != Edit

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Nov 19, 2011

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Sockser posted:

The Batman was way better than anyone ever gave it credit for :(

e: And Batman Beyond was great, too.

You know when The Batman became great? The moment it stopped caring about being in the Shadow of B:TAS and embraced itself as it's own thing and accepting that, indeed, it's perfectly OK for the concept of a man running around in a bat costume to be a tad silly. Not Nacho eating silly, mind, that's just ridiculous.

Batman doesn't eat Nachos :colbert:

Seconding Beyond being great but the one show I can never get around to seeing is Superman.
If only people would stop dicking around with the UK rights to Superman for more than five seconds I could form an opinion on that.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Nov 20, 2011

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Electric Phantasm posted:

So I went to find out which episode Space Ghost was in, which lead me to this. This show is amazing. :allears:

Shaggy, punches out, The Joker. :colbert:

Magnus Condomus posted:

edit-- Speaking of French Co-productions, anyone else really like Oban Star Racers?

Me. It's one of the few Faux-Anime that actually got that there was something beyond Big Eyes, Small Mouth to making a good cartoon with Asian aesthetics. Real shame the releases were a tad crap though.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Nov 21, 2011

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
I'm talking about the UK one which had a bunch of edits to stutter frames to prevent the poor kiddywinks from epilepsy or something (This is annoyingly consistent across all of Disney XD/Jetix's DVD's, thier Shaman King disks (One volume, up to episode 8, sigh) had content cuts with the majority of them involving Anna slapping people) and didn't have much in the way of anything.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Zeether posted:

Oh, so I guess the Shout! Factory collection's fine then?

I wouldn't know, dood.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Tartarus Sauce posted:

But, by rewinding time and saving Lois Lane, he basically condemned all the people he saved before instead of Lois to death, right? Decisions, decisions, decisions.

You mean Dr. Whooves could rewind time ;). Then, with the help of Dr. Whooves, Pinkie could assassinate Adolf Hoofler, thereby splitting Equestria into two parallel timelines. :D

You sure the writer wouldn't piss the episode away showing how his own personal Mary Sue Pony is the best one and shove Hoofler in the closet?

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

IRQ posted:

Ironically, River Song already sounds like a pony name.

Please don't give them ideas, we don't need another good thing to suffer the same fate as the good doctor, thanks.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

readingatwork posted:

Hey Nick! I have an idea! Bring back Invader Zim your twits!

It's not like they're not already playing it all the time. You may as well get some fresh money out of the rather large fanbase you've been avoiding.
They could always look back to their older days and get Saban or someone to translate Wakfu before that Avatar sequel is supposed to start.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Neo Helbeast posted:

I'm finally getting around to Wakfu's second season and it's criminal this show never made to NA. It's so freaking pretty! For those who don't know Wakfu is a french animated fantasy show that has really high production values. Think of it as a French Avatar: The Last Airbender.
I guess that two episode pilot of that dub using the Code Lyoko voice cast (Amelia was voiced by Alita's VA and I think Barbra Goodson voiced Yugo) that was shown at MCM London a couple of years back scared people off.

Shame really, I could totally go for it dubbed with the slayers cast or something.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

SGT. Squeaks posted:

Ouch, that hurts.

Truth's a bitch, ainnit?

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

mobo85 posted:

I don't know who was asking for a stereoscopic 3-D cartoon from the creator of Animaniacs and the former head of Marvel Comics about Pac-Man as a teenager, but we're getting one anyway.

They've been threatening to do that for like, two years. Probably used the Tales Localisation money to keep it afloat or something.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

404GoonNotFound posted:

The character designer actually died back in January 2011, before the first season was finished airing. That combined with the show being "oh hiatus" to prevent brand confusion/over saturation while Hasbro's busy promoting the second movie means we might not be getting a second season anytime soon, if ever
That would make the post credits sealab 2021 like bit where G1 Duke dismisses it as a dream make a lot more sense.

If they can live up to even half of the promise of the idea of Cobra taking over America then it'll be worth it, I'd say.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Mar 3, 2012

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Yeah, that's the impression I got, le sigh.

Xross Wars had it's issues (Especially in the second half) but it was never this bad.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Mar 8, 2012

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Disney Dramadies are a tragic waste of whatever those shows are shot on and America's Precious Time.

And I'm not just saying that because Inazuma Eleven got poo poo-canned for that stupid "Two doods are Inan gods or whatever" one ether.

Though it is a contributing factor.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Discotek get the rights to Samurai Pizza Cats, prove themselves better than Zombie ADV and Funimation combined.

Also new is the Subtitled version that is getting a separate boxset.

And, yes, it's the same Discotek that licensed Game Center CX and is currently releasing old anime out the wizzo hole.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
I honestly think they could do right by One Piece if they run that as the new DBZ. I think the market's healed on that one.

Alternatively, get Sgt. Frog do some very light editing (going by late old Toonami standards, I think they could get away with "stupid [beeping] Kululu") and you got yourself a breakout action-comedy with a metric gently caress'ton of merchandise opportunities and a chance for Bandai to do Gunpla right.

Outside bets; Inazuma Eleven (has a dub) and Wakfu (would sell "Toonami in HD" like no one's business)

Course, that's assuming CN aren't being cunts, theres always that possibility, sadly.

Actauly; has anyone actauly gotten a fix on this being on TV? The only Youtube versions I can see striked me as very...doctored. That CN Logo in the bottom is far too clean.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Mar 18, 2012

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Vaerai Archon posted:

Hell the Aquabats are the same genre as Voltron/Power Rangers(granted it's satire) and even then they take out a gun and blow someone's head off from time to time...and it's funny.
Wait? They do that On the Hub?!

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

404GoonNotFound posted:

On the other hand, looking at even two seconds of Pretty Cure has been known to cause normal people to go into a diabetic coma.

See: Exhibit A. It would probably cause even a Brony to think twice.

That season had the Cashiern Sins guy (who is also the DoReiMi guy, oddly enough) on character design duty. It's all-right by me.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Mar 26, 2012

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

readingatwork posted:

HAHAAHAHAHA! Oh wow! The ending to Digimon Hunters suuuuuuucked!

I mean, painfully so. All that build up to other protagonist's showing up and in the end all it amounted to was FOUR loving EPISODES with them not really doing anything. It was like terrible fanfiction but done with less love for the source material. It's a shame too because a lot of the basic concepts in play were actually pretty cool.
Honestly, it shouldn't have had anything to do with Xross Wars and it should have been it's own thing.

If Digimon's weakness is anywhere, it's in direct sequels.

And the whole "hold on guys, your favourite doods from the previous Digimon series are coming!" as was hinted at way back at the start of Xross Wars (though that might have been people being stupid with shadows) and though the Digi Memories was a ruse to keep viewing figures up, for sure and sort of betrayed the idea of having the Kamen Rider W dood do the series meant anything of note.

And that's all before we get to Toei's Stupidity with the streaming rights (for all their shows, to be honest, I want my legal Fist of the North Star, damnit :scotland:)
:goonsay:

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
See, I'm glad the Room has outrun it's stay as the standard [as] April Fools joke but this being thier April Fools is just cruel, dood.

That said if this was all a stealth pilot for a 90's Are All That'esc revival it might just be one of the most canny moves anyone's made.

Let's see where this one lies because, much like Mazinkizer, CN has the ability to become ether a god or a devil a this moment.

ConanThe3rd fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Apr 1, 2012

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
Well, at least throw the gauntlet down on that one...oh.

Yeah, ether Williams Street have become suicidal and want death by cop or they have a plan.

The problem is, WS has shown signs of both in thier history so...

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

raditts posted:

Monster Rancher: The game that managed to be much better than Pokemon, with the cartoon that managed to be much worse.

Another Discotek joint?

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Tomero_the_Great posted:

Oh common, we gave you Clone High and Undergrads, and... uh, Redwall? Like 10 years ago...

And oh yeah, that one show that gets a bad rap was also animated up here.
Every Transformers series after G2 except RID, Animated and Prime are, one way or another, Canadian.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009

Sanguinia posted:


I watched three episodes of the current series and I couldn't stand it. It's not a sports anime anymore, its Dragonball Z with tops.

Which is funny because it was the first generation (for want of a better word) that had all the nonsense with bit beasts and all.

ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
It amazes me that the series that has the freaking mythological monsters in the bit part of the spinning top actually makes MORE sense than the recent ones :psyduck:

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ConanThe3rd
Mar 27, 2009
I'll say this much (and I might be mishearing from the one clip I saw so feel free to correct) if the Hub's output improves the voice acting coming out of Canada then I'm all for it.

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