the apocalypse is upon us

[moonwise]

I saw an advertisement for Naruto on CN, which is premiering the second weekend in September.

Brace yourselves, anime fans.

Comments

[memlu.livejournal.com]

I figure the fandom can't get any more batshit if it tried. <3 <3

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I don't think the Naruto fandom approaches the Harry Potter level of batshit, so there's still a long way to go.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I expect to see little Narutos in the Halloween parade. Narutards are cute when they're small!

[arafel.livejournal.com]

That could very probably be it. XD

[memlu.livejournal.com]

I've always considered Naruto to be anime's response to HP fandom-wise (or I did, at least, until I discovered FMA fandom and tore my eyes out in a desperate fit of self-protection) although admittedly, I haven't seen the pairing wars half as often. Which, yes, insane. *g*

(That said, oh the wank when the anime was licensed was beautiful. People left and right, complaining about OMGN00BZ and despairing about how saturated the fandom would be with stupid people and preteens and kids who couldn't spell and it killed me. YOU GUYS, YOU'RE SO FUNNY.

I like to think Bleach fandom would rejoice if the anime were to be licensed.)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

The problem with Bleach being licensed is that then the fansubs would be harder to obtain, and omg need my fix!!!

And Stephen Blum would end up voicing Urahara or something. :P

[memlu.livejournal.com]

Yes, I can see where the pain would come in. XD

asd,maksdlkl,./ <-- possibly dead, or worse

[neochichiri.livejournal.com]

It depends on who licensed it. I used to actually like when ADV licensed anime...but they're slowing their turn around down ALOT lately. (It was well over a year from the time they licensed Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu! to the time they ANNOUNCED the English cast list)

[memlu.livejournal.com]

Good grief, yes. They released the first DVD of Princess Tutu back in, what, January? And months went by before they put up a notice of indefinite delay on the next. Not nice, fellas! I used to adore you!

It's pretty much par for the course to go omgnot4Kidsplz, so I'll skip over that. *g*

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I do know that the entire series of Tutu has been dubbed (you can watch episodes on certain cable pay channels, though I myself haven't), so I'm confident the DVDs will be out some day. But I am sad it's taking this long. Maybe if they aired it and audiences watched it there would be a push for the DVDs. Then again... I have no idea what channel/programming block they'd air it on. It kind of defies categories... it seems like its aimed young, but at the same time there's bits of mature stuff in there too. And it's so positively weird. If I had my way it's air on adult swim or a very late Toonami time slot, simply because I'd rather not see it cut. Although, what would they cut, really? Cause there's only really one scene with strong questionable implications (Rue & Mytho, naked, feathers), but sometimes there's all these subtle implications, like with Fakir/Mytho... how do you edit something that vague? And yet at the same time, it may be vague but you can't really ignore it either. Tis quite a quandry. I'd put it on AS, though, just because they need more weird, funny, inspired anime to liven up their schedule.


If it went to 4Kids, I'd punch something. They'd suck the life and romance and magic right out of PT. They'd try to make it less weird and dark, and focus on the magic and flowery bits. But that'd suck the soul out of the show because the weird dark subversiveness is the soul of PT. They'd make it about ballet, when actually its about classic fairytales and storytelling.

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

Hey, now, we're not all morons. ^_~