Adult Swim Reduces Anime Broadcasts
Reportedly in response to diminishing ratings for its Saturday night scheduling, the Adult Swim network has decreased the amount of anime it broadcasts. Beginning Saturday September 13th, Shin Chan will cease broadcast on Adult Swim entirely, Inuyasha will cease airing on Saturday nights, and premier run programs Code Geass and Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit will be moved to broadcast at 5am and 5:30am (ET, PT) respectively. A re-broadcast of Fullmetal Alchemist has been added to the Saturday night line-up.
The only anime title still broadcast on Adult Swim on weekdays is Inuyasha, which airs in a 5:30am dead zone.
Source: ICv2
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Another slap in the face to fans, distributors, and anyone with some common knowledge of the history of Adult Swim rogramming; but not surprising.
Sadly, when the viewership drops off sharply during anime broadcasts, it sends a clear message to programming: Drop the anime, keep the comedy.
Well, to their credit, no one was staying up for it. When you choose to start your anime block at 1 AM, you can’t be that surprised that we’re going to opt to DVR it. They’ve acknowledged that we TiVo/DVR their programming so they moved the shows to the wee hours.
Personally, I’ve just given up on them for anime. The whole reason I watched cartoon network for anime to start with was because it came on weekday afternoons and ran from like 10-12 on Saturdays. When they pushed it all back horribly far I became less inclined to care. Besides, they’ve been picking on their anime viewer base for years, so it isn’t like we’d have any loyalty to them and continue to put up with their crap in an era where anime is available on other channels during better hours.
I thank it’s funny how Cartoon network saids it’s due to low ratings, but you can’t tell me that thier own programming does any better on Saturday nights during Football seaseon. I thank it’s just a plow to get there own shows more air time during prime hours. Case and point, they remove Blue Dragon and One Piece for Ben 10 and Samurai Jack, not bad series, but not from an outside distributor, thier own products.