Funi TV Discussion (Saturday Night/Sunday Morning 1:00 a.m., USA Toonami)

[YouthNinja]

People are still asking what's gonna happen to One Piece on Cartoon Network?

I'm at least glad that in it's final year, the block at least had a scheduele that was worth watching, the two Naruto's (one too many though), Fun Piece, and a taste of the old days, DBZ. That will be the last memory in my mind for a somewhat worthwhile Toonami.

So true. If Tom 4 can be remembered for anything, it is that he was there when Fun Piece aired.

[Kuwabara]

There's still that new show 'The seceret saturdays'
anyone think that will be a good show?

the star wars clone wars ripoff is gonna suck, hated the movie, and im probably gonna hate this more, it's going to have so many refrences to modern day things because of that 15 year old skanky padawaan. Hope she dies in the first 4 minutes.

And total drama action might come, thats a good thing :D

and naruto shippuden, hopefully.

[KaizokuFan22]

I think those two shows are scheduled for fridays...although i think the new Sat night schedule will go:
9:30-Naruto
10:00-Ben 10:alien Force
10:30- Samurai Jack


no idea who would be for 9PM
and whats with all the weird characters for my question?

[Jet Pistol]

Can anyone post a Youtube vid of Toonami's finale? I'm sure someone posted it on there.

[KOFSoldier]

Hey Jet Pistol, its up on youtube now, you should check it out. Its really short though.

Well, at least Toonami was there for one more Golden Run (2 Naruto's, One Piece, DBZ) before its cancellation. I wonder if, and what they'll use, to replace it? Is it just me, or is CN in need of a serious revamping, I cant even remember the last time I watched it.

[Jet Pistol]

Wow, that was kinda sad. Especially for those people who wanted it to change.

[SantoryuMaster97]

Wait didnt they have that run where it was Naruto,Bobobo(i miss that show),One Piece,DBZ

Unfortuantely the first Fun piece epi aired right after bobobo ended so i guess that doesnt count

[Kuwabara]

You just answered your own question. ^

[SantoryuMaster97]

Hooray!!!
Break out the booze!!!

[Sandai Mera]

Wow, that was kinda sad. Especially for those people who wanted it to change.

Not really you can't have Toonami the way you want it to be.

[RomanGod]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/conv...artoon-network

According to this, One Piece was taken off 'cause of low ratings...

[KuwabaraTheMan]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/conv...artoon-network

According to this, One Piece was taken off 'cause of low ratings...

The question is, what does 'low ratings' mean? Every indication we've gotten is that it was definitely doing better than the 4Kids version, but CN wanted more from it.

[tonitonichopper]

Hey Jet Pistol, its up on youtube now, you should check it out. Its really short though.

Well, at least Toonami was there for one more Golden Run (2 Naruto's, One Piece, DBZ) before its cancellation. I wonder if, and what they'll use, to replace it? Is it just me, or is CN in need of a serious revamping, I cant even remember the last time I watched it.

This year was revampage. In a very bad way. It seems end of 07 bad was a place holder for late 08 bad. Hopefully late or early 09 will be brighter?

[Mumbo]

The question is, what does 'low ratings' mean? Every indication we've gotten is that it was definitely doing better than the 4Kids version, but CN wanted more from it.

It's impossible to know for sure because there's no real evidence but the theory is that the Funi dub did better than the 4Kids dub's last run, but not better than the 4Kids dub at its height. At its height the 4Kids dub was pulling in 4.0s, not that far off of Naruto, and if the Funi dub pulled in numbers like that they definitely wouldn't have removed it.

The 4.0s on the Toonami broadcast came while the dub was just wrapping up on 4Kids TV, so late 2005-early 2006 or something like that I think. It was in a CN press release.

[WalrusGuy]

It's impossible to know for sure because there's no real evidence but the theory is that the Funi dub did better than the 4Kids dub's last run, but not better than the 4Kids dub at its height. At its height the 4Kids dub was pulling in 4.0s, not that far off of Naruto, and if the Funi dub pulled in numbers like that they definitely wouldn't have removed it.

The 4.0s on the Toonami broadcast came while the dub was just wrapping up on 4Kids TV, so late 2005-early 2006 or something like that I think. It was in a CN press release.

It's mostly due to the fact that most One Piece fans were watching at the time just to see how bad the dub was going to get.

[Quexinos]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/conv...artoon-network

According to this, One Piece was taken off 'cause of low ratings...

Then why'd Funi reps say the ratings were going up? And even if it was "low ratings"... who the hell cares? I mean really, who the hell (besides you) cares? We "True Blue Anime Fans" are happy to get our DVDs which are selling just fine.

[SantoryuMaster97]

Then why'd Funi reps say the ratings were going up? And even if it was "low ratings"... who the hell cares? I mean really, who the hell (besides you) cares? We "True Blue Anime Fans" are happy to get our DVDs which are selling just fine.

Dont start bashing the guy again just leave him be i for one dont really enjoy the fact that we only get dvd's in such a long period if FUNimation is at such a leap in the series.13 episodes every 2 or 4 months wtf is that? If they cared about the fans they would at least give more episodes like DBZ remastered sets which get like 30+epis a boxset its not enough to really keep some fans going.

[KOFSoldier]

Its not only that, but guys, we have to be realistic.

Without a strong TV following (such as DBZ and Naruto), pumping out a whole series of DVD's can get quite expensive. Especially for an anime that's already 360+ episodes and still going, we can only guess how long Funi will keep going until it gives up on the series.

Also, we can basically kiss any merchandising goodbye (such as videogames).

[Dragon Warrior Steve]

Kiss merchandise goodbye? Didn't Toei just give Funimation merchandising rights? I'm sure Funi would like to take advantage of that somehow.

[Kitsune Inferno]

Everyone is seeing this as "the end of One Piece in America." Am I the only one seeing this as a new beginning? By them saying "anime will be handled by Adult Swim", Naruto MIGHT be moved to AS (as silly as it sounds) which means One Piece might be able to find a timeslot there, perhaps even in uncut form.

OR we might see One Piece in this new action block that's coming into play? Even so, if neither of these are possibilities, there's always Nicktoons, Jetix, or even Wam! (they aired Vandread and Samurai Deeper Kyo for sure). I think without Toonami, OP might actually have a better chance of coming on the air in some form or another, since Toei is probably not so adamant about getting OP on Toonami now, since there is no Toonami.