neo-pactio
08-08-2007, 12:19 AM
The day after my family upgraded to Verizon FiOS, I discovered the FUNimation Channel. Thanks to it, I discovered a few interesting titles that I'm considering getting DVDs for.
BUT...
FUNimation, IMO, needs to put more effort into their 24-hour anime channel. The only titles shown are Kiddy Grade, Tenchi Muyo GXP, Spiral, Negima!, Kodocha, Case Closed, His and Her Circumstances, Hare+Guu, Blue Gender, Slayers, Dragon Ball, Galaxy Railways, Fruits Baskets, Pandalian, Baki the Grappler, Revolutionary Girl Utena and a few movies on weekends.
It looks like there's plenty of titles, but on a 24 hour schedule, it gets overbearing. Everyday, I'm finding that there's 3 showings of nearly every anime on the channel. Not only that, but the episodes rarely change. In one week, episode 26 of Fruits Basket played about 3-4 times! The lack of titles wouldn't be so bad if the people brodcasting them would change them out every now and then!
What kinda bothers me also are the the way things are aired. I like the style of FUNi's bumpers and programing ads, but some shows have close to zero ads, like Negima which has none, and Fruits Basket, which is only mentioned once in ad for a block that also includes Kodocha, Pandalian and Case Closed.
And the STUPID COMMERCIALS ARE WORSE! It's nice to see some ads for the newer FUNimation properties like School Rumble and BECK, but old ads like Bio-Broly and Blue Gender: The Warrior are shown probably close to 100 times a week! Plus, there's ads from other promoters that are overrepeated, like GameStop and the He-Man DVD collections. Doesn't FUNi have other sponsors?
What's kind of strange is that almost all the anime shown have their openings and closings edited to make them shorter (except for a few properties that don't actually belong to FUni, like Utena and His and Hers, but Slayers and Hare+Guu also are free of this burden). That I don't like a lot either. If the openings could run fully, that's means that less repetition of commercials. Of course, it's obvious FUNi is cutting down the OPs and EDs to make room for commercials, but I don't think it's really going to help sales, IMO.
Plus, the ad for the FUNimation channel features shows not even on the channel, like Gunslinger Girl and Burst Angel, so why not show them?
So what do you think? Do you get the FUNi channel? Should FUNi overhaul it, get more sponsors, and actually air something else besides the 100th repeat of episode 5 of Kodocha? I think so.
BUT...
FUNimation, IMO, needs to put more effort into their 24-hour anime channel. The only titles shown are Kiddy Grade, Tenchi Muyo GXP, Spiral, Negima!, Kodocha, Case Closed, His and Her Circumstances, Hare+Guu, Blue Gender, Slayers, Dragon Ball, Galaxy Railways, Fruits Baskets, Pandalian, Baki the Grappler, Revolutionary Girl Utena and a few movies on weekends.
It looks like there's plenty of titles, but on a 24 hour schedule, it gets overbearing. Everyday, I'm finding that there's 3 showings of nearly every anime on the channel. Not only that, but the episodes rarely change. In one week, episode 26 of Fruits Basket played about 3-4 times! The lack of titles wouldn't be so bad if the people brodcasting them would change them out every now and then!
What kinda bothers me also are the the way things are aired. I like the style of FUNi's bumpers and programing ads, but some shows have close to zero ads, like Negima which has none, and Fruits Basket, which is only mentioned once in ad for a block that also includes Kodocha, Pandalian and Case Closed.
And the STUPID COMMERCIALS ARE WORSE! It's nice to see some ads for the newer FUNimation properties like School Rumble and BECK, but old ads like Bio-Broly and Blue Gender: The Warrior are shown probably close to 100 times a week! Plus, there's ads from other promoters that are overrepeated, like GameStop and the He-Man DVD collections. Doesn't FUNi have other sponsors?
What's kind of strange is that almost all the anime shown have their openings and closings edited to make them shorter (except for a few properties that don't actually belong to FUni, like Utena and His and Hers, but Slayers and Hare+Guu also are free of this burden). That I don't like a lot either. If the openings could run fully, that's means that less repetition of commercials. Of course, it's obvious FUNi is cutting down the OPs and EDs to make room for commercials, but I don't think it's really going to help sales, IMO.
Plus, the ad for the FUNimation channel features shows not even on the channel, like Gunslinger Girl and Burst Angel, so why not show them?
So what do you think? Do you get the FUNi channel? Should FUNi overhaul it, get more sponsors, and actually air something else besides the 100th repeat of episode 5 of Kodocha? I think so.