Yu Yu/Inu News

[Duelist]

In The Winter 2003 Wizard Anime Invasion mag it quotes Terry Kalagian, Cartoon Network's senior vice-president of programming saying "Kalagian promises more new anime, to be rotated into Adult Swim, to keep everything fresh, with new episodes of Yu Yu Hakusho and Inu-Yasha definate"

:confused:

So new episodes of YYH?

[NewLib]

On Toonami maybe.

But new episode of IY, new episodes of Lupin, Big O 2, Trigun, GITS (If they can ever sign the deal), Zeta Gundam (I am almost positive it will come to AS over Toonami), and maybe another surpise.

[aesir]

Is it just me or does it seem AS has way too much on its plate as far as new shows are concerned. I dont know how they will fit all that crap in

[Anthony]

Or perhaps they might air lightly edited or unedited YuYu on Adult Swim while airing edited YuYu either concurrently or a few months later on Toonami (similar to Gundam Wing)?

[NewLib]

Why the hell would they do that? This is Cartoon Network though. So no matter how dumb or unreasonable the decision is, it is always in the realm of possibilities.

[Masamune2052]

Originally posted by Anthony
Or perhaps they might air lightly edited or unedited YuYu on Adult Swim while airing edited YuYu either concurrently or a few months later on Toonami (similar to Gundam Wing)?
No, I don't think they will do that. It's illogical to put the same show on two seperate blocks.

[Anthony]

No, I don't think they will do that. It's illogical to put the same show on two seperate blocks.

Illogical but not unprecedented. Tenchi aired on Toonami while it aired concurrently on ASA. Likewise, many shows have been a part of multiple blocks on CN (although not at the same time, except for Tenchi). If FUNi is looking to turn YuYu into a cash cow to replace DBZ, it would make sense to give it as much exposure as possible to both the Toonami and AS crowd.

[hs232]

Originally posted by Anthony
Illogical but not unprecedented. Tenchi aired on Toonami while it aired concurrently on ASA. Likewise, many shows have been a part of multiple blocks on CN (although not at the same time, except for Tenchi). If FUNi is looking to turn YuYu into a cash cow to replace DBZ, it would make sense to give it as much exposure as possible to both the Toonami and AS crowd.

Tenchi was more of a filler. Once CN had some more stuff (for example Inu Yasha and Mobile Suit Gundam) they quickly dropped it.

[Anthony]

Tenchi was more of a filler. Once CN had some more stuff (for example Inu Yasha and Mobile Suit Gundam) they quickly dropped it.

It might've been filler, but it aired on Adult Swim for 13 weeks (and it's not like they couldn't have chosen a show that wasn't airing on Toonami at the same time). I'd also call Mobile Suit Gundam filler, since it was TVY7 and had aired on Toonami a few months earlier (once again showing that CN doesn't have much of a problem with block switching). I'd like to once again reiterate that due to Gundam Wing it's not unprecedented for CN to air a lightly edited version of an anime in the evening an an unedited version late night.

I'm not saying that this is what I think will happen or that the magazine article is correct, but it's not impossible especially considering Funi's goal of exposing YuYu to as large an audience as possible. Plus new YuYus on AS wouldn't exactly be a bad thing (would you rather see 7th run episodes of Reign?).

[NewLib]

We wont see seven runs of Reign. April something new is GOING to come and kick off Reign or Cowboy Bebop. So Reign might only get two.

[Nobuyuki sama]

Originally posted by Anthony
It might've been filler, but it aired on Adult Swim for 13 weeks (and it's not like they couldn't have chosen a show that wasn't airing on Toonami at the same time).
But Tenchi wasn't airing on Toonami and Adult Swim simultaneously...

[DarkMaster]

Little Late are we. Only mentioned it a few times. These spoiler threads get in the way. Shakes fists. :)

[Killtacular]

Inuyasha takes over YYH's spot when it moves to Toonami. It won't be on Adult Swim again. End of that discussion.

Inuyasha will obviously have more episodes, the dubbers are just catching up, and since AS is starting over, we won't see more episodes until around May. Unless they do an hour of Inuyasha and start airing new episodes earlier (hey, it's possible).

Yu Yu Hakusho may be airing at least up to episode 28. You can see the potential airdates of #22-28 on the March thread in the Toonami forum. If what I heard is correct, anyway.

Trigun will take over Cowboy Bebop, I'm almost sure of it.

Lupin's episodes were delayed because the dubbers aren't finished. This was proved by the fact that Pioneer had to delay volume 3 of the show from April to July.

So April's schedule would be:

12:00 - Trigun
12:30 - Reign
1:00 - Inuyasha
1:30 - Lupin the Third

And May's schedule would be:

12:00 - Trigun
12:30 - Reign/Inuyasha (new episodes)
1:00 - Reign/Inuyasha (repeats)
1:30 - Lupin the Third

And around the end of June:

12:00 - The Big O (well.. or something else. shrug)
12:30 - Trigun
1:00 - Inuyasha (repeats/new episodes)
1:30 - Lupin the Third

Either way, prepare to lose sleep.

[Anthony]

But Tenchi wasn't airing on Toonami and Adult Swim simultaneously...

It was. In 2002 Tenchi was on Toonami from January to April and was on Adult Swim from February to May. Look up the old schedule threads.

Inuyasha takes over YYH's spot when it moves to Toonami. It won't be on Adult Swim again. End of that discussion.

No offense but not too long ago you posted that WS would never put YYH on Toonami, that WS would never put an ASA show on Toonami, etc. Until it's proven that the Anime Invasion quote is wrong or was made before the decision to put YYH on Toonami I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility.

[Sheamon]

No offense but not too long ago you posted that WS would never put YYH on Toonami, that WS would never put an ASA show on Toonami, etc. Until it's proven that the Anime Invasion quote is wrong or was made before the decision to put YYH on Toonami I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility.

Yeah, but think about it for a minute. Where the heck are they gonna put it? You've got 2 hours of action stuff on the block. You've got Lupin, Cowboy Bebop, Reign, Inu Yasha, Trigun, and by summer you'll probably have Big O and Zeta Gundam(According to that toyfair pic anyway). Remember, this is to keep everything fresh. With new episodes of Inu Yasha, Lupin, Trigun, Big O, Zeta, etc... that TONS of fresh stuff for the block. YYH certainly isn't needed for the block. And it definately doesn't fit there in the first place.

And remember, this is Anime Invasion we're talking about. Have you gone carefully through that magazine a number of times? Cause I have, and its simply amazing how blatantly wrong they are on things all the time. They're not much of a trustworthy source if you ask me.

Come to think of it, if it was the winter 2003 issue, then it was probably before they made up their mind to kick YYH off the block. Did we know about Trigun and Reign yet then? Its certainly possible that once obtaining those shows plans changed since they didn't need YYH to fill a spot.

Inuyasha will obviously have more episodes, the dubbers are just catching up, and since AS is starting over, we won't see more episodes until around May

So they're working on dubbing new episodes now? Thats good to hear :D

[Killtacular]

No offense but not too long ago you posted that WS would never put YYH on Toonami, that WS would never put an ASA show on Toonami, etc. Until it's proven that the Anime Invasion quote is wrong or was made before the decision to put YYH on Toonami I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss the possibility.

They're not going to do that. Williams Street does NOT WANT to do that.

It's not like Gundam Wing where Midnight Run was still aimed at 6-11 year olds.

Advertising an 'uncut for 18-34 y/o's' version of a show that airs on Toonami would be saying "HEY KIDS!! COME WATCH THE SAME SHOW TONIGHT AND IT HAS CURSES AND BLOOD AND BOOBIES!" They might as well say "HEY PARENTS!! TALK TO YOUR CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVE!"

[Anthony]

They're not going to do that. Williams Street does NOT WANT to do that.

Once again, several times in the past few months you've said that Williams Street will not do something and then soon afterward they do the opposite:

YYH is not coming to Toonami, because it simply gets too gruesome at too many important plot points. If it's not on Adult Swim, it won't be on CN at all.

At the same time, they can't put it on Toonami becuase it will make Adult Swim look bad AND because the Dark Tournament Saga is simply un-reworkable for kids.

And yet YYH is coming to Toonami.

[Killtacular]

That has nothing to do with anything. AS to Toonami and Toonami to AS are one-way operations. Not both ways.

YYH won't be hopping back and forth.

[Anthony]

That has nothing to do with anything. AS to Toonami and Toonami to AS are one-way operations.

Earlier you also posted that AS to Toonami operations would NEVER happen because it would make the block look bad and encourage kids to watch Adult Swim -- the same argument you're using now to say that a show will never air two versions on AS and Toonami concurrently.

Not both ways.

YYH won't be hopping back and forth.

As I said before, it's already happened both ways: Tenchi aired on Toonami from January to April 2002 and aired on Adult Swim concurrently from February to May 2002.

[Killtacular]

But those were different circumstances. Adult Swim didn't have enough programming to stretch across three hours.

That's not the situation here. Adult Swim has TOO MUCH programs for the mere 2 hours of action timeslots. Why would they try to stuff YYH needlessly into there too? Answer: They wouldn't.

[Killtacular]

Earlier you also posted that AS to Toonami operations would NEVER happen because it would make the block look bad and encourage kids to watch Adult Swim -- the same argument you're using now to say that a show will never air two versions on AS and Toonami concurrently.

Don't get me wrong. I think YYH going to Toonami wasn't a very good idea, and I -did- think that it was sending a bad message.

But the reason they moved it was out of the realization that YYH fit a pre-teen audience better than an adult audience. And I can understand that.

So in this situation, it wouldn't be encouraging kids to watch Adult Swim. What would encorage kids to watch Adult Swim would be an ad saying "watch Yu Yu Hakusho uncut tonight!" Like I said, they're just not going to do that.

Now that they've decided YYH is for pre-teens/teens, they're not going to have it waste valuable real estate on a block that is NOT for pre-teens/teens.

[Anthony]

Adult Swim has TOO MUCH programs for the mere 2 hours of action timeslots. Why would they try to stuff YYH needlessly into there too? Answer: They wouldn't.

Alternative Answer: They plan on rotating programming so that on most nights there will be something new on AS. In fact that's what the quote from the Anime Invasion article says -- they plan to rotate different anime into those slots to keep things fresh.

This is consistent with AS's current strategy: bump InuYasha reruns in February to air new Reign, bump YYH reruns in March to air new InuYasha, bump Cowboy Bebop reruns in April to air new Trigun.

[NewLib]

Anthony, Toonami needs new episodes of YYH, more than Adult Swim does in the future. There is no point in showing new episodes on Toonami and then showing the exact same episodes later that night on Adult Swim. Your splitting the viewership then and not many people will watch both airings. Its not practical.

Edit: Oh yeah, InuYashu isnt new in March. All of ASA is reruns in March.

[Killtacular]

Alternative Answer: They plan on rotating programming so that on most nights there will be something new on AS. In fact that's what the quote from the Anime Invasion article says -- they plan to rotate different anime into those slots to keep things fresh.

This is consistent with AS's current strategy: bump InuYasha reruns in February to air new Reign, bump YYH reruns in March to air new InuYasha, bump Cowboy Bebop reruns in April to air new Trigun.

Buh! I'm not arguing THAT.

But they're not rotating the entire lineup. They only replace one show at a time. They've already got several series on deck to air on Adult Swim, and YYH isn't one of them.

How I see things panning out for the next few months: Trigun takes Cowboy Bebop (or Reign)'s slot. Once that show gets a full run, they'll move it down to 12:30, and bring Lupin back to 12:00, where they'll air the remaining 10 episodes.

Once those 10 episodes have aired, Inuyasha will be back up to episode 36, and they'll place that in the midnight slot, bumping Lupin back to 1:00 (keeping Trigun at 12:30).

It will be summer time by then, and that's when The Big O will premiere, bumping Inuyasha to 12:30, Trigun to 1:00, and Lupin to 1:30 (getting rid of Reign or Cowboy Bebop).

That's 26 episodes, so the summer schedule will mostly stay like that. Then in the fall, you'll have Zeta Gundam squeezing in.

And from there, who knows? The initiative isn't out yet so there may be more shows coming.

[nothing]

wowsers. it seems anything MW says is treated like the word of god and ye all shall be damned because of it.

in its infancy, AS had programs that were originally planned for Toonami. it's true that those shows that were previously on T that were playing on AS, would not show up again on T.

the YYH situation is different. AS played the un-edited version of the show. T will have a Y7 version of the show... why? who's to say. i would speculate that there's more money (DB/DBZ $) to be had from marketing this show on T than on AS. i'm not certain. i do know that this is a special case and probably won't happen again, unless another show comes up that could be marketed better in T rather than AS.

MW reports on what CN is doing and gives his educated & informed opinion on the potential plans for the network. however, MW does not work for CN. their plans change like a fart in the wind and at times, there are some contradictions. suffice it to say, facts are checked before a report is made - unlike other sources of "news" which suddenly become gospel and are quickly forgotten once the facts are straight.

oh my. i'm rambling on and on. time to empty my bowels.

[KingKoopa]

Also, I wouldn't expect One Piece for Adult Swim by any means. I seriously doubt another FUNimation show will air on Adult Swim. FUNi likes to market to the kids, not the adults. We learned that back when Yu Yu first premiered, and they were bragging about getting over a million kids watching. The only FUNi things that even have a CHANCE of airing on Adult Swim are probably the Lupin the 3rd specials.

[NewLib]

Yeah the chances that one of the series Funimation now owns will ever appear on Adult Swim are as about as slim as a UC Gundam ever appearing new on Toonami again. At least in my opinion.

[Killtacular]

wowsers. it seems anything MW says is treated like the word of god and ye all shall be damned because of it.

At least they don't ignore me anymore. Heh.

But it's not just me. A lot of people's speculations get treated as fact around here. Rather quickly.

MW reports on what CN is doing and gives his educated & informed opinion on the potential plans for the network. however, MW does not work for CN. their plans change like a fart in the wind and at times, there are some contradictions. suffice it to say, facts are checked before a report is made - unlike other sources of "news" which suddenly become gospel and are quickly forgotten once the facts are straight.

hm.. *coughANIMETOURISTcough* Heh.

Nothing is right, though. Anything can change. And if you wish to believe what you want to believe, then go ahead. Take for instance myself. I will delude myself into thinking GRW and YYH are TV-PG, whether they are or aren't.

Of course, with YYH, it's no big loss either way. I've seen all the episodes CN has shown as it is. I'd only be tuning in for the Yukina arc.

oh my. i'm rambling on and on. time to empty my bowels.

Gah! All over my new carpet! And I just got it yesterday too..

[Anthony]

Anthony, Toonami needs new episodes of YYH, more than Adult Swim does in the future. There is no point in showing new episodes on Toonami and then showing the exact same episodes later that night on Adult Swim. Your splitting the viewership then and not many people will watch both airings. Its not practical.

That's based on the assumption that:

1) the people watching Toonami are the same people watching AS.
2) Cartoon Network is the only player involved.

I don't think anyone would disagree that AS brings in a greater number of 18-34 year old viewers than Toonami: 18-34 year olds who have the cash to buy DVDs. Remember, FUNi's DBZ cash cow is ending, and it's no secret that FUNi is trying to get YYH to take DBZ's place. The entire purpose behind FUNi releasing three versions of YYH DVDs was to get YYH to appeal to as broad an audience as possible. Most likely YYH's placement on Toonami is to hook the kids onto the DVDs, IN ADDITION to the adults who have purchased and will continue to purchase YYH DVDs from viewing the AS airings.

This would not necessarily result in a split in the viewership -- if moves like this resulted in split viewerships, then you wouldn't have had edited Gundam Wing airing at 5PM and unedited Gundam Wing airing at 12AM, you wouldn't have Tenchi airing on Toonami weekdays and Adult Swim Saturdays, you wouldn't have the same episodes of DBZ airing twice a day on weekdays and the midnight run as well as on Super Saturdays, you wouldn't have a 24 hour Iron Giant marathon, etc. You also wouldn't have shows like Law & Order SVU being repurposed on USA two weeks after the episode airs on NBC; you wouldn't have Monk episodes airing on ABC a few weeks after airing on USA; you wouldn't have episodes of Power Rangers airing on ABC Family two weeks after airing on ABC; you wouldn't have unedited episodes of Kingpin airing on Bravo a few weeks after edited episodes air on NBC; and you wouldn't have episodes of Adult Swim airing on TNT at the same time episodes air on Cartoon Network.

The point here is not to split the viewership, but to gain MORE viewers -- although SOME people will view both airings, it would be hoped that a substantial portion of the viewers will be unique. If the Toonami viewership wasn't different from the AS viewership they wouldn't be airing the 21 AS YYH episodes on Toonami.

[Killtacular]

Also, I wouldn't expect One Piece for Adult Swim by any means. I seriously doubt another FUNimation show will air on Adult Swim. FUNi likes to market to the kids, not the adults.

Yeah, but I'm not sure how marketable One Piece is. I also can't really decide on if it's for kids or adults. It seems to have something for both, but no single factor that labels it for a single demographic.

As for kids.. well.. boys aren't really into pirates anymore. I think Treasure Planet's box office revenue is a good indicator of that.

[NewLib]

The main point is still though you are underminding the entire point of Adult Swim. ASA doesnt need Toonami fillers anymore and if you show YYH while it is showing on Toonami your basically saying that with a little more blood and cussing that anything is adult. Thus you could basically allow all animes into Adult Swim and defeat the entire purpose.

[Anthony]

I would just like to clarify that I'm not trying to bash Matt Wilson or anyone else here, nor do I truly believe in my heart that YYH will continue on AS. I'm just saying that it would be wrong to completely dismiss it as something that'll never happen, since unless Matt has insider information from CN that he can not post about there is no proof that the quote is outdated or outright wrong.

[jeffrey 228]

And I also like to point out that taking out a show like InuYasha is just going to be a bit on the bad end since Regin and YYH need more popularty, and I just think that is bad to make a few of us get upset about these issues every now and then.

[SpaceCowboy]

Originally posted by Matt Wilson
Yeah, but I'm not sure how marketable One Piece is. I also can't really decide on if it's for kids or adults. It seems to have something for both, but no single factor that labels it for a single demographic.

As for kids.. well.. boys aren't really into pirates anymore. I think Treasure Planet's box office revenue is a good indicator of that.

If it were to be put on CN, it should be on late-night on Toonami Saturdays with very little editing and a disclaimer. It would certainly get more exposure from being on TV for the 100+ episode series it is.

[NewLib]

Hold on very little editting and a disclaimer.... Why not just put it on Adult Swim?

[GreenLegend Ran]

Id love for it to air on AS again as i dont bother watching toonami anymore, but i doubt it ever will again ,at least i can buy the dvds.

[aesir]

First off Funi does market to adults and not jsut kids. Ever seen Blue Gender. Very adult show. Next yyh cannot stay on toonami past ep 34 or so (this is out of a 112 ep series). Why u might ask. Well things get so that they cannot be edited for kids unless they plant to hire cartoonists to re-draw the series. Concepts in the sensui saga would be far to dark for toonami. Since that IS true than we can only assume it will stiop airing on toonami once it gets to more serious eps. From there it will either jump back to AS or it will simply stop. The magazine said there would be more eps but how many. 4 . Who knows. Inuyahsa is much more suited for a long term toonami time slot.

In conclusion, YYH will not stay on Toonami for very long into the new eps. At least thats what i expect. Maybe the whole channel will go all ages programming.

[hs232]

The reason that YYh is going to Toonami is an effort to make it more like DBZ. Thats what they want the new craze to be.
FUNimation Plans Hakusho Marketing Orgy (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/article.php?id=3215)

"FUNimation has taken steps to turn Yu Yu Hakusho into a DBZ-sized marketing phenomenon.


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The show has moved to Toonami, scheduled to air right after Dragon Ball Z in order to best position Hakusho in the minds of the maturing DBZ audience. Jakks Pacific, new owners of the DBZ toy license, have signed on to create Hakusho action figures. Score, publishers of the DBZ card game, will sell a Hakusho-based CCG. "

[Sir Gatts]

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67646
At that thread brings the discussion of future marketing treatment towards YYH. This would leave me to believe that in order to produce sales, we would have to expect this series to develop an fanbase within the demographic that would be likely to produce the most buyers. The current Toonami demographic appears to best suit these marketing needs.

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67482
That thread discusses the Rurouni Kenshin editing treatment for which will air next month on Toonami. The stated blood editing and possible foul language editing appears to follow the current trend in Toonami's editing standards. As to how much editing will be done still remains uncertain. In any case I would expect any editing done within Kenshin to resolve any possible conflicts with neighboring animation shows; conflicts as in terms of damaging the current Toonami demographic in favor for an more older demographic, which would most likely harm any planed marketing strategies towards Toonami's current, mostly youth demographic. Action figures appear to favor the youth demographic rather than an older demographic in terms of producing the most sales.

The viewer rating system however (TV-Y7, TV-PG) for both shows seem to be undetermined based on these scenarios giving above as viewer acceptance becomes an factor. With the debut of Giant Robot Week, or in this case the announcement of an uncut run of the first two episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion, previously left me with the assumption that Toonami was shifting demographics. As toy action figures become an factor, it would seem to negate any option for an demographic shift.

Greater viewer level of acceptance? Maybe. Advertisers would be expected to follow the same path.

YYH on Adult Swim appears to make little sense seeing that there is marketing motivation for toys. (Well unless they plan on marketing adult toys. :p) As we already do know, there is an heavier edited version over the Adult Swim version out there produced by FUNimation. However since the Adult Swim version is already edited for television broadcasting, it still remains possible that the Adult Swim version may be played on Toonami, especially since the port would virtually cost Cartoon Network almost nothing.

But as the first season of YYH ends, there will be many who will crave the following seasons. Keeping up with the TV-Y7 editing level as I've been told appears to be quite difficult to the point of taking the step of calling for the butcher. Most likely the reason as to why FUNimation no longer produces an TV-Y7 edited version. This is where Adult Swim's editing standards hold an advantage. Though I'm still scratching my head on the cut of Yusuke grabbing Kayko's ass while we see Miroku later laughing in Yusuke's direction. Maybe ass grabbing pushes too far above any level of acceptance surrounding Toonami's demographic yet falls just within the boarders of Adult Swim's acceptance level.

Eventually in time we will learn most of the answers to these questions. For all that we already know, there may be yet an few more surprises waiting down the road.

[Anthony]

I'd say that Bandai's announcement that Zeta Gundam will be airing concurrently on Toonami and Adult Swim now gives some added credibility to the CN Senior VP of Programming saying that new episodes of YYH will be airing on Adult Swim.

[Killtacular]

FUNimation says new episodes are going to TOONAMI. TOONAMI. Not Adult Swim.

[Anthony]

FUNimation says new episodes are going to TOONAMI. TOONAMI. Not Adult Swim.

New episodes on Toonami doesn't exclude new episodes on Adult Swim. Remember when CN was hyping He-Man and Armada as Toonami exclusives yet at the same time was scheduling them to air on non-Toonami blocks?

[Killtacular]

New episodes on Toonami doesn't exclude new episodes on Adult Swim.

Yes. It does. In this scenario, it does.

Remember when CN was hyping He-Man and Armada as Toonami exclusives yet at the same time was scheduling them to air on non-Toonami blocks?

Both blocks were for kids 6-11, so moving it was no problem.

[KingKoopa]

After FUNi's campaigning, there's NO CHANCE that Yu Yu Hakusho will EVER be on Adult Swim again. Not after the commercials with 8-year olds saying "Speerit Gun!!!!1".

[KingKoopa]

Originally posted by aesir
First off Funi does market to adults and not jsut kids. Ever seen Blue Gender. Very adult show. Next yyh cannot stay on toonami past ep 34 or so (this is out of a 112 ep series). Why u might ask. Well things get so that they cannot be edited for kids unless they plant to hire cartoonists to re-draw the series. Concepts in the sensui saga would be far to dark for toonami. Since that IS true than we can only assume it will stiop airing on toonami once it gets to more serious eps. From there it will either jump back to AS or it will simply stop. The magazine said there would be more eps but how many. 4 . Who knows. Inuyahsa is much more suited for a long term toonami time slot.

In conclusion, YYH will not stay on Toonami for very long into the new eps. At least thats what i expect. Maybe the whole channel will go all ages programming. Watch them. Yu Yu Hakusho will air up to 62 on Toonami. And, if you want to prove that it can't "stay on Toonami past ep 34 or so", provide examples. You're just making yourself look bad.

[aesir]

Examples huh. Well a punxhes 4 guys in half and theres a ton of blood in episode 33. Not really easy to edit that and make it seem that they just got tired and fell over. In episode 42 the same guy that did the punching flicks a guy in the head (just a normal human) and his head explodes leaving only the bottom half of it. In 44 hiei slices off a persons arm and holds it behind his back until the guy is told that his arm is missing. In 51 people are killed after beggin for their lives (in gruesome ways. imagine lotsof holes through bodies.) Im too lazy to put up the others.

But hey we agree on the fact that they cant get into the sensui saga. :)

[Killtacular]

I don't think FUNi has a problem with slicing people in half since the TV-Y7 version of the show seems to have Hiei and Kurama slicing through tons of plant monsters. So punching people in half shouldn't be a problem. Just be sure to look out for a lot of bouncing paint.

As far as slicing off limbs, Piccolo lost a few limbs in TV-Y7 DBZ.

The head explosion will probably be cut, since it was cut in TV-Y7 DBZ.

As far as "gruesome", I don't think the dated animation of the show could make anything literally "gruesome". Definitely not as gruesome as Inuyasha, anyway.

[UltimateGirFan]

Originally posted by Sheamon
So they're working on dubbing new episodes now? Thats good to hear :D [/B]

Yes, Inuyasha isn't canned for now, and it'll be back on the air March 3.

[SirLemming]

I saw an edit in DBZ today that was at the same time hilarious and sad... Hercule was walking around all tired, and then he saw a store with a big sign on it: "BEER"! But above it, floating conspicuously, was the word "root" digitally superimposed. In some scenes absolutely nothing was moving and the word still floated around for some reason. It was hilarious... but it doesn't bode well for certain scenes in Yu Yu Hakusho.

I realize beer doesn't play a major role in YYH, but it's just a bad reminder in general...