2013-09-25, 04:40 | Link #3621 | |
Maddo Scientisto
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I'd say if anything, HXH is one hell of a case of mood dissonance: the art and the looks of it being childish only make the end result even creepier. There are different arcs with different moods, but they range from "good, solid, well thought out combat arc" (think Dragonball, but with very consistent powers, less brute force and more strategy/smarts. Hell, there's even a tournament arc!) to "dark as all hell". And I mean it. The closest comparison, if you've ever watched or read it, would be Yu Yu Hakusho, from the same author. It's rougher around the edges and not quite as twisted as HXH can be, but it has some similarities.
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2013-09-25, 07:33 | Link #3623 | |
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I have a fun anecdote about HXH being "for kiddies". I first knew HXH through the Italian dub. It was aired around 1 PM, in a time slot usually reserved for popular (and thoroughly sanitized) shonen anime. The kind of slot where they'd usually air our Dragonball dub - which manages the heroic feat of not using the word "death" once during the whole run despite the source material. Well, in this slot they began airing the old HXH series completely uncensored. I guess they just watched the first two-three episodes and thought "ok, mindless adventure anime for children, passed". When it came to that-certain-episode (the one where we get an heart ripped and the mention of the word "transvestite" - le gasp! - in less than twenty minutes), shit hit the fan. Hard. I guess the network was submerged by the usual zealot parents writing flaming letters, because the entire series was suspended and they began a new airing, this time with a hurried and ultra-censored dub. Gore was cut out, any allusion to homosexuality in that specific scene was eliminated, and even Killua and his family were rebranded from "assassins" to "mercenaries".
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2013-09-25, 08:51 | Link #3625 |
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It also means less ratings, ad revenue and general exposure for the franchise. I haven't found any of the censorship intrusive to the point where it bothered me - I think Madhouse has done a remarkable job in that respect. But they probably held the line as long as they could - I'm sure NTV was under a lot of pressure to make this move.
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2013-09-25, 09:26 | Link #3627 |
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It's not entirely unexpected, considering how dark and violent this current arc is, but I'm still worried because at the pace the anime is going, it will take about 50 more episodes to cover the manga up to the second-to-latest chapter (which I think would work really well as a conclusion to the show), but series that air after midnight don't usually last that long.
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2013-09-25, 09:40 | Link #3628 | |
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So it's not unheard of for shows in that timeslot to be 2 cour or longer (even if not in one go), so if there was a late night timeslot where we could hope to catch up the manga it's this one,though hoping is one thing,I wouldn't bet on it either.
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2013-09-25, 09:45 | Link #3629 | |
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2013-09-25, 10:05 | Link #3630 | |
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Kaiji (promoting live action movies) , chihayafuru (promoting manga) did end up getting 4 cours, even if it isn't in one go.
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2013-09-25, 10:24 | Link #3631 | |
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2013-09-25, 15:38 | Link #3634 | |
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2013-09-25, 19:22 | Link #3635 |
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In my opinion magi went away with more inappropriate stuf for a sunday morning timeslot anime, but if this took this decision they likely did the proper demographic research since this is a series that does quite good in its ratings, not sure about disc sales tough, but certainly the plot in this arc can be quite heavy and complicated for little kids, but the same could been said to some extent to the york shin arc.
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2013-09-25, 19:35 | Link #3636 |
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Disc sales were pretty much non-existent, but I don't think that was unexpected - shows that air in the morning almost never sell discs. Not that H x H will as a late-night series either, which is a major part of the problem.
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2013-09-26, 03:27 | Link #3639 | |
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Magi didn't have a quarter of this many balls.
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