And even if they do, nothing like The LEGO Movie
Now, to be extremely fair here, Adult Swim wasn't really a Fox rerun farm when it first started out in 2001. It was originally a Cartoon Network After Dark block featuring shows for older audiences that CN wouldn't even dare put on the daytime. For better or for worse, Family Guy and Futurama wouldn't be getting a fair chance if it wasn't for Adult Swim. Same thing with Home Movies, The Oblongs, etc.
True. No argument there.
Honestly, I don't understand why ACME Night, a family block, has to be part the adult side of the spectrum? If I was in charge of Adult Swim, I would either a) move back to Cartoon Network or b) get rid of ACME Night altogether and replace with Adult Swim Rewind.
Yeah, and I can understand that sentiment. To be fair, I was one of those people who was not a big fan of Fox shows overtaking Adult Swim's schedule. I wouldn't say the shows themselves are the problem since I actually do like shows like American Dad, it just that the Fox shows were the only thing that AS has to offer did cause a very bad stigma.
Oh, that's interesting. Kim Manning was in charge of Adult Swim Action? Cool. I guess maybe because OG Toonami died in 2008, Jason DeMarco took over Adult Swim Action, and for what I've heard, it did falter in the early 2010's. Now that Toonami came back on Adult Swim, AS themselves felt that there's no point of airing anime outside of Toonami, or something.
Yeah, I can see what you mean. People grew up with different personalities and different eras of AS. With me, I love all of their personalities of Adult Swim, and it does shows that they cared about creativity, great storytelling, and have a wide range of diverse programming and see animation as a art form. Unlike Cartoon Network where they just fall heavily back on the market research and focusing on stuff what kids would like. Sure there's Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Steven Universe, but those were only just the exception rather the rule. Regardless how you feel about the shows, at least Adult Swim respect, understand, and cared about its audience consistently, and have fun what they're doing. If they don't, they would not be in business a long time ago.
Yeah, thank god for Smiling Friends. If it wasn't for that show, then I wouldn't got into Adult Swim and its retro programming. Sure, I acknowledged Adult Swim's existence for a long time, but I was heavily focus on Cartoon Network. Now, Cartoon Network virtually have nothing else to offer, and seeing what Adult Swim was doing and with the success of Smiling Friends, I've gotten to Adult Swim more than Cartoon Network, all because of Smiling Friends.
Okay. Thank you so much.
I am one of the people that criticizes him the most but this is an absolute truth. Under his watch new Toonami reached 2 million viewers which nowadays is pretty much not possible.
FACTS!!!! Smiling Friends shows you that we need better comedies than Royal Crackers. Royal Crackers should've belong in 2014, it's seriously that bad.
Isn't that what Adult Swim is currently?
Needed. It shouldn't anymore. They've made tens of hits over the years. Question is how they promote them.
I mean, Aniplex might be just as difficult because Sony owns both it and Crunchyroll.
I know this sounds extremely cynical, but haven’t you noticed how most of the new lineup is tied into an existing creator or property? Get Jiro is based on a DC comic made by a celebrity chef, Common Side Effects has Mike Judge at the helm, new series from Genndy and J.G. Quintel… even Oh My God Yes and Haha You Clowns were a previously aired pilot and an AS web short series respectively, and to me it seems like a rather blatant attempt to create Smiling Friends 2 without realizing Smiling Friends got picked up because its pilot went viral immediately. (Like, if you had to adapt one recent Adult Swim Small into a series, I’d have thought it would be Gassy’s Gas n Stuff, as that’s gotten surprising gangbuster views)
I mean, I get why the R&M anime is a lowlight, but I’d have thought you’d put Royal Crackers as a lowlight too.
Plus, it’s much easier to use as a buffer than going from Gumball straight to Rick and Morty. And since Checkered Past seems to be falling apart, it’s clear that CN retro reruns aren’t going to cut it in this regard.
I’d imagine the pre-Bebop pickups would probably be existing Toonami shows for Rewind, like the OG Sailor Moon. Maybe lighter ASA shows as well. And maybe even western cartoons- air the old seasons of Samurai Jack, or license ReBoot from Shout Factory.
I mean, you're not wrong. But at least Adult Swim's upcoming programming were a lot more interesting than Cartoon Network was.
I haven't seen Gassy's Gas n Stuff until I saw your comment. For what I'd seen, it's cute, but nothing mind-blowing. I guess maybe because Ha Ha You Clowns had the most potential than Gassy, but I have no idea.
As much as I don't like Royal Crackers all that much, at least I can say it's better than Mr. Pickles (and that's a pretty damn low bar).
(sighs) I don't know. As much as I'm not a big fan of where Checkered Past is heading, if AS get rid of CKP, then no more CN Classics on TV again. Then, where CN Classics supposed to go, especially a lot classics got removed from Max? Cartoon Network can't. Boomerang can't. At this point, we're stuck.
Kai is also being supplied by Toei. We have not had a non sequel Crunchyroll pickup since Gridman in 2020. Rewind also has no CR titles and had to fallback on Naruto which is kind of an odd duck next to SM and DBZ.
Let’s hope not because Crystal is terrible and it will be much more obvious airing at the same time as the original. If they can afford Crystal, they can afford some less popular shows from Sentai or Viz.
The problem with that is most of the stuff Discotek has that aired on old Toonami isn’t that popular. Seeing today’s schedule change, the ratings are likely already slipping, so they are only going to look for powerhouse titles. Similar to how Checkered Past isn’t airing niche CN shows.
