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Date Posted: 02:14:29 11/15/02 Fri
Author: Ray
Author Host/IP: ip68-8-133-147.sd.sd.cox.net / 68.8.133.147
Subject: Tru Dat'
In reply to: D1 's message, "About the openings..." on 19:47:35 11/14/02 Thu

>I know a guy who I thought would like anime if he gave
>it a try, so I told him to check out Cowboy Bebop on
>CN. He said he would. When I asked what he thought
>of it a few days later, he said he didn't watch it. I
>asked why, and he said the opening looked too wierd.
>
>I'm guessing that's not an isolated incodent, either.
>Japanese language music and writing could actually
>turn off an anime newbie or casual fan, as much as
>die-hards love that stuff. I'm assuming CN changes
>openings to try and make things a bit more palettable
>for all audiences, not just to piss of fans.

You are correct, to a casual non-fan most J-pop-y openings and pretty much any singing in Japanese can be a put off. So i can see them trying to do this to appeal to a broader audience. Like i garuntee DBZ would not be the rating juggernaut it is if they kept its original soundtrack. The music is pretty hard to bear, at times, and there barely is any of it to begin with, its certainly an aquired taste. Not that I'm saying the US DBZ soundtrack is going to win any awards or anything, but its allot more appealing to a broader range of the US audience.

But Adult Swim, is different from toonami in that it's aimed at Otaku's, while it certainly gets lots of casual fans as well. I think AS should really be keeping the original openings on, they don't really have an excuse not too [except for MS Gundam, because it has one of the most horrible opening in anime history]. The every weekday AS thing seems very weak to me, while seeing Inu Yasha daily will be cool cause its new episodes, why the hell are they showing Bebop? I love bebop, but they've re-ran it 30000000 times now, they really need something new. That was the good thing with adult swim saturday was 6 shows, now we only get 2 shows a day.

Altho it is strange that guy was wierded out by the Cowboy Bebop opening, cause thats US Jazz style.

I do like the music video's toonami does with the Trance tracks and everything, those are usually pretty cool I wish they'd make a new one. They should get Paul Oakenfold to work on some, he does every other damn thing.

-And replying to emerje through this thread as well, i think CN hit rock bottom when it became the 22 hour powerpuff girl network. I dont hate ppg, but a few months ago the scheduel was like 12-3 ppg 4-5 toonami 5:30 ppg 6-7 rest o toonami 7-12 ppg. You just could not escape that show it was literally on 4 hours a day! so repeating DBZ once doesnt seem that bad to me, in comparison.


>
>at least in makes sense with anime. As for the
>T-cats.... who knows.
>
>D1

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