What's the deal with this Rising Sun Nonsense?

[Mister Intensity]

Why don't they just call the late Saturday night reruns of Superman and Batman the The Batman Superman Adventures with the TNBSA opening and closing credits instead of re-edited Toonami credits. The original TNBSA credits blow away the Toonami credits.

Mister Intensity

[optimuslives]

I totally agree with you on this one..I would really like to see them dump the Rising Sun crap openings and show the originals.

[Jimmy Kustes]

The Batman Rising Sun opening is okay (because I have seen the original opening so much). But I only like the Rising Sun opening as a suppliement instead of a replacement.

Sunday has the best packaging: A nice CGI commercial with the bat signal (much better than the JL CGI intro), and the original intro with theme song. Don't forget those nice Batman, Joker, and Two-Face lead-ins for the commercials (are those called inbetweeners or bumpers?). If they could squeeze in the Toonami intro with that, you would have the most heavenly-looking Batman show. Maybe even use any cleaned-up episodes from the DVDs.

[GL2k2]

What's really puzzling is why isn't Dragonball Z on Saturday mornings called Rising Sun. Sometimes, I really have to wonder about these people in charge of programming.

[Squall]

Here's what I think:

(1) I LOVE Toonami! :D I wish Toonami would get its own TV channel, in the same way that Boomerang did.

(2) I think that Justice League should be part of Toonami, and that all four Dini/Timm DC Universe TV shows -- B:TAS, S:TAS, JL, and BB -- should be run as a Toonami block on Sunday nights, in that order. That would rock!

Cartoon Network, Sunday nights: Toonami Block
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6:00 pm -- Batman: TAS
6:30 pm -- Superman: TAS
7:00 pm -- Justice League
7:30 pm -- Batman Beyond
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(all times Central)

(3) I love to see my favorite TV shows get the "Toonami Treatment"! :p Part of the fun in watching Toonami is to see what scenes they put together for the 'Tooami version' of the intro sequences, or the going to/coming from commercial breaks (What do you call those?). We all know what the official intro sequences look like -- so it's fun to see alternative intro sequences once in a while! Besides, I LOVE the Toonami version of the B:TAS intro sequence...

[Mattashell]

The real mystery is: For Superman, why do they play the theme music from the movie?

[Mr. Obsession]

So the Rising Sun makes it's return (something a lot of Toonami fans have been waiting for) and it's a bad thing?

I mean, Toonami gets an extra hour each week (plus a nod to the long time fans) filled with something other than DB/Z, and we get Batman AND Superman. It's a victory people, take it. Stop looking at the glass as half empty.




Originally posted by Mattashell
The real mystery is: For Superman, why do they play the theme music from the movie? Because William's Street loves to do things like that.

[Zoddman]

That's like asking why they play the Danny Elfman theme for Batman.
Reason: They're cool. :cool:

[Mattashell]

Except that the Elfman theme was the theme to B:TAS.

[Zoddman]

That's what I meant. :rolleyes: ;)