Why so many Adult Swim Action shows are edited like Toonami

[SirLemming]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/KylePope/editlist_special1.CNinterview.php

A very interesting interview with a Cartoon Network edit-guy. Among many things, he says they simply didn't have the extensive time and resources to re-edit them for TV-14 instead of Y7 standards -- not yet. It's an extremely time-consuming and technologically advanced process. But hopefully they'll get to work on it! Also, I think he's implying that these shows are sort of like "placeholders," and all future shows brought to Adult Swim will be edited to TV-14 standards first.

I find it comforting that they're all fans of the shows and make sure they're not cutting out anything important -- and that they hate doing it, so they get away with as much as possible.

I still find it weird how they get away with stuff on Batman & Superman -- they can say "kill" and have blood & stuff (although Kids' WB mutilated the Batman Beyond movie, but the unedited is coming out in April -- hallelujah). This guy can't really explain it either.

[ohmrbill]

Relatively old news. But I'm glad to see that people are still finding that interview. It's probably a good thing that it got posted again, too, because there are quite a few newbies here who have not had the chance to read it yet.

[Jude Santos]

we all know that by now

anyway, since we're on the subject, in the other forums i visit at, they diss Adult swim because they think the edits for 0083 and PC are adult swim edits. ive probably said the reason why 50 times.

[SSJ_Gogeta]

Ok. I will go through this one more time (Probably kidding myself about that :p).

[edit] toned down, so as not to piss off people [edit]

The shows were already edited to Toonami standards before anyone ever thought of bringing these shows over to ASA. AS needed new shows to fill time slots, and used already edited Toonami shows as filler.

I am happy you found that interview. Please check it out again. It is very informative.

[Naraht]

Originally posted by SSJ_Gogeta
Ok. I will go through this one more time (Probably kidding myself about that :p).

(caps lock on)

Grr! I am Angry! - Paraphrased by Naraht

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I am happy you found that interview. Please check it out again. It is very informative.

Chill, that was the point of the thread...and no one is disputeing the fact.

[SSJ_Gogeta]

I didn't mean to come off pissed when I had caps on. Just wanted to get the point across. Now everybody's gonna think i'm angry! You make me so mad! :p

Just wanted to get the point across to the new guy. He might have missed something.

[Shnay]

Originally posted by SirLemming

I still find it weird how they get away with stuff on Batman & Superman -- they can say "kill" and have blood & stuff

I find it srange that on Dragonball they have to edit out a little boy peeing on a tree, but they allow ridiculous stereotypical racial caricatures to appear regularly.

(I know this is a little off topic, but I've been looking for a place to say this for a while, and my guess is that this is as good as any).

[SSJ_Gogeta]

Originally posted by Shnay


I find it srange that on Dragonball they have to edit out a little boy peeing on a tree, but they allow ridiculous stereotypical racial caricatures to appear regularly.

(I know this is a little off topic, but I've been looking for a place to say this for a while, and my guess is that this is as good as any).

It's the style. Nothing to get mad over. I'm assuming you mean the black characters looks? It's how they used to draw black people. They may draw the lips a little overboard, but that is how most black people were drawn in anime. I guess it was really wierd how that style stayed all the way through DBZ too, but I guess continuity was important. Funi edits thier own shows BTW just in case you don't know that.

[Mr. Obsession]

Originally posted by SirLemming
I still find it weird how they get away with stuff on Batman & Superman -- they can say "kill" and have blood & stuff (although Kids' WB mutilated the Batman Beyond movie, but the unedited is coming out in April -- hallelujah). This guy can't really explain it either. Batman, Superman, and Batman Beyond got away with "kill" because at the time when they were made Fox kids (Batman:TAS) and kidsWB (The New Batman-Superman Adv & BB) didn't have a real problem with a character saying the word "kill". RotJ almost got away with so much (and it will shortly :D ) because it's a Direct to Video release.

CN, for one reason or another has a problem with the word "kill" and while they won't bother to edit it out of their acquisition like Batman or Superman they are not about to let it into the shows developed in-house (like Justice League and Samurai Jack) or Toonami acquisition that air between, say 6 am and 10 pm. Any future acquisitions that will be aired planed to air between 10 pm and early morning (pre-5am shows) can get away with anything that’s allowed under a TV-14.

[SirLemming]

I was reviewing a lot of the posts here, and I saw lots of complaining that the shows are edited like Y7, but nothing about this interview. I guess it was a pretty old post.

I loved in "Unmasked" yesterday when Batman took the Kobra guy's clawed hand and turned it to his chest... only heard, of course :)

(I mean, the Kobra guy's own chest, not Batman's :rolleyes: )

[David Lucas]

I've been asking for years, why Batman and DBZ got to say "Kill" but everyone else gotta take it out. Thanks Mr. Obsession, but one quick lil thing........I havent watched JL since Wonder Woman's episode, but I do recall in "Enemy Below" that Aquaman DOES in fact say, "Someone tried to kill me." Any thoughts on how that one slipped by?

[SirLemming]

Very possible, but my memory isn't good enough. However, I do remember one of the single most brutal (implied) acts of violence in American animation: when Aquaman sawed his hand off. That kind of surprised me. But hey, Cartoon Network is cool like that.