The Dream Must Live On…

Folks, it seems that when I mentioned stewardship - I didnt mean going and even using figures of speech “attacking” those that destroyed/Killed off/Toonami. Thats not how we as americans do things.

If you have read the news, and see the issues – You will notice that K Street and Foggy Bottom Ave (thats Washington D.C.) has given Wall Street a blank check to continue to steal from us. At the same time, those in Wall Street has given its supporters in the financal realm the power to destroy their enemies. This inturn will give there supporters in the Entertainment Business – to promote the next era of Genericism – Miss Cyrus, Miss Lovato, Miss Gomez. Japan is nearing the same boat – however there future is in there hands – it seems that The Otaku Prime Minster isnt gonna make China nor the rest of Asia too pleased – and when you see how much Anime is outsorced (the actual animation) – Asia now has a GUN to any sort of future Anime has in the rest of the world. Add a bit of Muslim intregue and what is going on in Dubai (and how much they are paying to keep Wall Street Afloat) and you have a powerkeg called The Event – In where the next era of animation world wide will live in.

Toonami was the experiment. Just like America, and Just like Capitalism. These were successful Experiments. The problem was it was just that word. They were Experiments. The American Dream was fought for tooth and nail… and then came the good, and the ill that came out of Manfest Destiny. Capitalism was just an agreement between two people using a contract for monetary services. Anybody can use this TOOL. But when that tool became the focus of life – and the ways to malipuate this tool was used – everything became – a contract not between two people – but lawyers, doctors, the state, the parents and everybody else that wanted the all mighty dollar. The American Dream was only realized a few short times in small amounts – the mid 1920’s – the mid 1950’s – and the mid 1990’s. (some would say the mid 1980’s, the late 1970’s, the early 1960’s and I would agree with that) 

But what Toonami is, is that american voice – the one thats says, come – bring your tired, your weak, the humble. What Toonami did was try and make things between different paths of the industry – if not equal, fair. The thing is that Toonami was part of the corporation of AOL Time Warner – and of such they could do with the experiment what they wish. 

But what Toonami has created – is something that This Event will make manifest. The Toonami aegis – What is needed to be called the New Animated Mythos and Conciseness - will need to deal with those that do not respect the business. We now – not 2 years from now and not 25 years from now need to find out why in the world there is more and more pirating of anime and such. The Subbers and the like are not the cause of the issues doing down in this business – but there are a huge reason why its losing respect not only in the modern mainstream world (outside of Hollywood) but in the boardrooms of the major Entertainment giants. If they didnt have a super strong FCC breathing down there necks and SAG with so much power in Hollywood, those giants would have brought every dang J-Pop/J-Drama/J-Idol/Gravture Idol in Hollywood/Manhatten/Broadway etc because of racial reasons, economic reasons, and generational reasons. The Subbers need to become dubbers, and need business models so they can become the new ADV’s and Funi’s. But If the Japanese companies have there way, they will make deeper inroads but will the same problems they bring from Japan over to here.

Toonami now needs not to be a memory of what was not just lost – but what was gained – a group of individuals who have the tools, if not to save the world (and why would we even try) but promote animation as a focal point, for new types of respect between peoples. We cant agree on everything. We can be supportive of those that do the right things the right way. We need to support those that have the nerve to say what ever that can be said with what tools that they have. Toonami could have been the next comic con if done right – but what needs to be done is less taking and more working towards a better future. Disney cant do it as much as it can try because the people that made it what it is, are no more. Pixar is under them and they are in a stage that all animation should be in. 

The Dream Toonami gave, was one of camaraderie in a world lacking such. Hollywood, MainStreet America, Bible Belt, Midwest – the young americans that the adults forgot about – was one America. Until people realize that fact – 11 years would have been in vain. We were broken apart because of the adult world – the world that now has become slavery (unless your born rich) because of a few people that dont know any better and have forgotten what they have wrote and learned. Our Parents told us there were to be rewards for us Growing Up. Sadly those rewards come with prices untold – from financial hardship, to false ideas of courtship of the female (for those female, male), to psychological. But we moved on. But at the same time we feel comformly numb to the pain. Adulthood was very simple; our parents told us – a good job, a good wife, a good home, good kids that would go into good schools and become good people in a productive society. But not only that has not happened for many of us yet – Adulthood has gone backwards, to Nick Jr’s Age group – somebody (or a State) to take care of us until we die.

Toonami wasnt that type of show…It wasnt even that type of block, or wasnt even that type of genre. It was the old school that didnt talk down to us. That didnt hate on us, no matter who we were. It may have been the last true organic generational marker of American life. Toonami gave them friends, it gave them Girlfriends, it Gave them wifes, Jobs, and all types of things.

And all it did was to air.

We need to use that premise – if not the name, but its legend, to set the seeds for better ways of showcasing, supporting truth and deconstructing all of the lies, gossip and greed that exist…starting with ourselfs the rest of the world will change – some will do the same work on themselfs and change – others can go on living there lives the way they have. 

And we now need to set the stage to showcase the animation world – to those that do not have a anti-human (read, anti-female lets not get into the same sex issues yet) bias. Latin America can be the rebirth of the animation industry and of anime. I say it because its history is deeply linked with Asian, European, African, and American infuences. Meaning it has a story to tell. They dont have the money YET to say the stories. But In Shadowness, there is a artist called Reiq – and his art is just ONE aspet of what the event intails, a shift from the US, to Brazil etc – animation, anime, art and each of there brain trusts. These countries in the most part do not have the cenorship issues that the rest of the western world has. They do not yet (and I say YET) have the educational foundations to produce great work, once they do however and its sooner – they will be the ones that rebirth this business. I realize this when I heard about Danela Mercuri – and what Camile Palia said about her. Then I knew. Only a matter of time.

But it isnt here yet. 

Toonami will live on in us, to them and it will be back. Bigger, greater, a much more mature and respected force in the industry.

But what we need to do – is to start working. We need to get out of sadness. We need to work with 4Kids and not try to ruin them – they are the last hope left now that Toonami is gone and Pixar is with Disney. We need to get the Subbers unto dubbers and into the lawful side of the buisness, You can raise the capital to do this. We need to get FCC back to its original rules – looking over patents and radio communications. We own it – we can split the FCC if it needs to look over content and E/I compliance if need be. If nessarly, Cable needs a indipendent one for content – keep it to the HBO rules, No TV 14 or TV MA until after 6 (or 9 if basic cable) pm – it worked for them for YEARS! Why not anybody else? We need to support technologies that are not always internet based – that will still keep the focus on the animated series and its production, presentation, promotion. If that is done – companies will see its money again, its legacy restored and so on.

But it too simple is it…way too simple…

And thats why it might fail…

But let us dream…

Thats all we have left in this dark and evermore increasingly detrius filled cesspool once called the american lifestyle… isnt it?

The Last Word – Toonami, The last dream of equality in animation.

This is the end.

Beautful Friends (Jim Morrison)

This is the game…

This lonley game of history…

In 1982, a series called Captain Kangeroo ended its run on CBS – a long and great run of kids TV came to a sad end that Saturday Morning during the fall…By 1985, the series was put to pasture…

In 1990 – 1992 the syndicated series of Transformers, Thundercats, He-Man, TMNT (it moved to CBS in 1993)  all ended its runs… In 1991 – NBC ended its Saturday Morning run for a much weaker TNBC lineup…

In 1996, CBS ended its Saturday Morning run for more news… 

In 2001, Fox Kids ended its run – to be taken over by 4Kids

In 2008, Kids WB ended its run – to be taken over by the same company

Last Night – Toonami ended the Legacy that started back in the 1950’s. That Legacy is no more. 

Yes, I was angry with the lnner circle, the people behind Toonami, because I wanted more from the block. I wanted a new ComiCon. A PAX, or at least something for the fans.

But it wasnt to be. The bickering and the other issues left that dream in the dust. 

The anger is still there, but there is no reason to be angry at them.

It is time to remember. The good days and the hopes and dreams of a Revelution deferred. 

Not to be seen in the way it was and the way it could have been.

I have my doubts that CN will give a damn about the block or its memories. Some stated it was dead before – but I say it was on the decay like others, heading to transformation.

The problem was the stench was too big for CN to handle. The only way to stop that stench was to end the block.

I met the love of my life in one of the Toonami chat-rooms in IRC, if it wasnt for her drug use or what not we would have been married – she passed away. I met her cousin some time later but havent talked in three years…

I started Toon Radio, Toon Radio Advance, 4.0, Toon Radio Advance Regen, GarouGothic, AnimationRep, did 350 hours of radio and now Cartoon Electro all because of Toonami.

I respected anime because of Toonami.

I got deep into animation and its history because of Toonami.

I wouldnt have come to Gamefaqs if it wasnt for Toonami and XenoGears – and even though I left because of lies, lies and more lies about things and what have you – Toonami is the theme that kept everything together. I wouldnt have been in Shadowness if it wasnt for Toonami.

That Theme is gone. That history is gone.

Anime and the American Animation have a lot to thank Toonami for, too many to count too many to state.

For when the event comes, we will know what it is for – we will know what it means.

Jeff Harris may say some short things, good things and what not.

But I say it’s not time to attack anyone or any company. It isnt time to give up or what not.

But it is time for a gut check. Its time to see who is loyal. Because ill be honest – we are reaching a day where nobody will make money on animation – and that will be the day you know when this country has lost. Because instead of being artists – they have become pronagraphers for a industry that is still under much mangling.

The FCC has been on our case for YEARS. YEARS – and it will never change. Unfortunately - for the FCC and for the american tv industry – they will be wiped clean – not by Obama – not by some nuke, but by a demographic not raised with such anti human sensibilities. I have a feeling that once they see that Government cannot do it anymore – the states will take over, meaning the business of entertainment will become more local and once that returns – anime and animation will finally get the respect it once had.

Until then, we must become stewards of what once was in this nation, which has become the American Soviet – proven by the actions of Wall Street and K Street this week. We must be able to deconstruct until only the truth is left, showcase it and then find out what it is and who will take it.

The fact that our nation has lost is way, lost its nerve and lost its will to survive is represented in Toonami’s start, rise, peak, decay and death. 

Toonami will always be a part of the history of animation. The last great block before the event – one of the last great hopes of an industry, and now with only 4Kids left, the only one left standing, from the pederasts, pimp artists, and all and all out greed machine of Disney and Nick – the dark clouds of Genericism arrives…

For now we have lost our voice.

And soon we will lose our choice.

Before we lose our poise.

And then lose our souls of rebellion.

As we end up the same way as the fat man in Wall-E.

A toothless, souless, jelly like blob that is more animal than human…

May the great king of Providance have mercy on us.

Because for This universe that ends the entropy of those who lost the will to live…

This Universe will not have any for us.

Rest in Peace Old Friend. 

Mankind will end in a whimper…

You ended in with a…

Bang.