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Toonami Producer on Editing Process
Bonker writes "Anime News Network is featuring an interview with Jason Demarco, senior writer and producer for Cartoon Network's 'Toonami' block. Mr. Demarco explains why and how the editing process for several anime shown on Toonami, Midnight Run, and Adult Swim happen, as well as the pressure they're under to produce a product acceptable not only to fans but to parents as well. " Gives an interesting perspective on what CN goes through
to get certain anime on US TV. I've said it before, but I'd still love a Toonami channel that didn't need to edit (or maybe just less). I watch more Toonami then any channel.
This article is just about the most anal (fruedian)thing I've read in a while. Its not about editing or CN itself, my problem with this is the moralists that more or less created the standards for the TV rating system. A system so weirdly complex that most people hardly pay attention to it.
Many moralists are simply religious figures, mostly catholics. Celibate men in black dresses helped created these restrictions and decided on what is appropriate and what isn't. The hilarity of turning guns into blasters was too much for me. What is the difference? The end result is if you're shot or zapped or what have you - then you have been injured.
The sexual hangups these ratings reveal are truly scary. I'm not suggesting that they air nude scenes, but sexuality, kissing, etc are natural and positive aspects of humanity. Many moralists take these acts as disgraceful things we need to hide and the the standards show it.
I don't want to blame religious people in general, as moralists and censors come from all sorts of backgrounds, but historically from early film on the religious establishment has had its thumb on free expression for a while. While a lot of the power has waned in the US, other countries are dealing with 1920's hangups turned into law by these moralists everyday.
I think CN has done a great job in delivering this programming in the conservative and sometimes hysterical US, where emasculation and protecting children define popular society. My real beef is how these ratings were created and quickly adopted by the networks without proper feedback from the people who actually live here, pay taxes, watch these shows, and buy advertised products.
I watch more Toonami then any channel.
/. editors learn some basic grammar?!?!?!?!?!?!?
than than than than than!
When will
Pooty tweet
About a year and a half ago, I wrote a little piece of satire called the "Anime Convention FAQ"
Now... Looking at this article that Rob posted, I go there to find that like 80 friggin percent of the document discusses what.......you guessed it....cartoon sex. Out of 23 questions in this interview, questions 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 17 deal with how to handle important issues like a cartoon characters boobs and nipples, gay cartoon characters, cartoon sex, even down to handle the friggin camera angles of cartoon sex. Theres something really, really wrong with people who watch Anime, especially if it means they're forming some sort of sexual fixation on it.
For cryin out loud, its a damn CARTOON, guys. Wanting to fuck a cartoon puts you right up there with people who assign personalities to inflatible sex dolls. Look, Anime is fine if you enjoy the style and the content, but if you're getting some sort of sexual arousal out of it, thats patently fucked up.
Its sad to see what started as a joke snowball into something increasingly true as time goes on..Especially one takes into account the number of "anime porn" sites on the web, that cater to freaks with this sort of fetish/compulsion. Anime isn't for people who appreciate artistic style, it seems. Its for homely guys who cant get a date, and are tired of taking "Rosey Palm and her five sisters" out on a date.
Real girlfriends should be 36-25-36. Not 1024x768.
Cheers,
Bowie J. Poag