Theale Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 So, with the popularity anime rising and becoming more and mainstream in recent times, I've been wondering what'd it be like if anime aired regularly on national television channels (Think NBC, ABC, etc.) in place of normal TV shows, and wasn't available on any streaming services (including pirating websites). Would it be great that you could flip through channels and discover new anime whenever you feel like it, or would it suck that you wouldn't have any episode readily available whenever? How do you think having a more mainstream audience would affect the style and/or quality of shows? Personally I think it would be cool that you would be forced to wait more often for the next episode and such and that it would draw out satisfaction. (btw this is from an American perspective where anime isn't aired regularly other than in a few scarce blocks, so if you live in Japan I guess this doesn't apply as much) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RepentantSky Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 I mean as you mentioned, Japan already does this and it seems to work fine. I'd be okay with it, so long as they didn't change anime in the wrong ways going forward to keep it main steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadaraUchiha Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Airing anime in mainstream television would mean that content would get regulated and monitored regularly, and I don't want that to happen to anime. As long as it's niche, I'm okay with that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florida Fool Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Anime would be censored or distorted in some way. Just look at Marvel comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
変態先生-chan Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 Most anime has sexual content, it would be highly censored. For example, Pokemon, had many things censored. And for the mainstream audience, anime, is just stupid aisan cartoons that only weebs watch. Anyway, my freind had a tv channel called animax which played anime all day, it sounds good, but it shows animes that have been aired a couple a years ago. And for western audience, people who show the anime on tv would try to please the mainstream audeinence by only playing anime which have been dubbed in english, and dubs are crap. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheesyTrees Posted September 25, 2017 Share Posted September 25, 2017 I think it'd be cool for people to be able to stumble on anime and see that you CAN have good animation that's not explicitly catered to kids but also isn't just pornography. Western animation has, of course, some awesome shows, but almost all of them are aimed for kids and are funny/cool to adults as a sort of bonus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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