MasterDias wrote:Even ignoring cerebral series like Death Note or Paranoia Agent, I would have assumed anime action shows would have done reasonably well (regardless of arc plots and what have you). Do AS's viewer's just not care for action? I am honestly curious.
Alot of the reason why those animes don't do so great on Adult Swim is two factors, a. people that have wanted to watch it, already have and b. a good number of people that do watch those Death Note and PA seen it on Adult Swim fix.
Blitzkrieg1701 wrote:I'll just say this as bluntly as possible: the reason Adult Swim hasn't had another hit to the degree of Cowboy Bebop is because they just haven't been able to find another anime that's anywhere near that good.
I have to disagree that Cowboy Bebop was the only really big hit on Adult Swim, FLCL, FMA and as much I hate it say it Inu Yasha has had some pretty good ratings.
Also, The ratings for Death Note on Adult Swim fix have been around 200,000 to 300,000 and then add the ratings for when it airs on tv which have been in the low 200,000 and some times in the middle 300,000's range.
They are not great numbers, but they are not that bad.
Now this doesn't have anything to do with Adult Swim, but Cartoon Network, but the first season of Big O was a hit on Toonami.
SirThinks2Much wrote:Are there any good mystery anime series? AS might have more luck with those. I mean, look at the CSI spinoffs, people just eat them up, and there are about 200+ Conan episodes.
Sadly, Adult Swim tried that with Conan (aka: US name Case Close) and it failed big time. Adult Swim only had tv rights for Case Close for 52 eps and then they drop it.
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