Deadman Wonderland- just after clarification

[BlackJimmy]

Is Deadman Wonderland most definately never ever getting a second season?

 

[Foolery]

Could always read the manga, I guess. But I totally understand the disappointment. I can't think of too many anime shows that follow the plot out in it's entirety. Only Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood comes to mind.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

It was cancelled in japan from what i heard. They won't restart what failed in japan for a western audience.

If Japan doesn't like it, the cord gets pulled. There is no way around it.

I seem to remember The Big O pulling through to a second season in spite of a poor reception in Japan once it proved to be popular enough with an international audience.

 

[Elfgore]

I have a pretty sure fire way of guessing. If the show has an english dub for the last released season and another season has yet to been announced, then another season is not happening. Very rarely does this happen and the anime gets another season, if it does it is usually because the anime caught up with the source material and they have to wait for more LNs or manga to be released.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

It was cancelled in japan from what i heard. They won't restart what failed in japan for a western audience.

If Japan doesn't like it, the cord gets pulled. There is no way around it.

I seem to remember The Big O pulling through to a second season in spite of a poor reception in Japan once it proved to be popular enough with an international audience.

Toonami (or was it Adult Swim?) paid for the second season to be made, though, and they actually own the US rights to it as a result. Like, outright own, not license the way they did other long runners like Cowboy Bebop and Inuyasha. They also own the rights to IGPX (which they also paid to have made) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which they just managed to buy the rights to somehow. Unfortunately, Toonami today is not Toonami/Adult Swim 10 years ago, they don't have the budget to make another Big O Season 2 or IGPX at the moment. They barely have the money to pick up new shows to replace the ones that finish. That's why they had Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins on the initial reboot lineup -- they were cheap. They've got more money than they did then, but it's not "get a new show made" money just yet.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

It was cancelled in japan from what i heard. They won't restart what failed in japan for a western audience.

If Japan doesn't like it, the cord gets pulled. There is no way around it.

I seem to remember The Big O pulling through to a second season in spite of a poor reception in Japan once it proved to be popular enough with an international audience.

Toonami (or was it Adult Swim?) paid for the second season to be made, though, and they actually own the US rights to it as a result. Like, outright own, not license the way they did other long runners like Cowboy Bebop and Inuyasha. They also own the rights to IGPX (which they also paid to have made) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which they just managed to buy the rights to somehow. Unfortunately, Toonami today is not Toonami/Adult Swim 10 years ago, they don't have the budget to make another Big O Season 2 or IGPX at the moment. They barely have the money to pick up new shows to replace the ones that finish. That's why they had Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins on the initial reboot lineup -- they were cheap. They've got more money than they did then, but it's not "get a new show made" money just yet.

Ah, that makes sense (though at the time I was grateful for more anime-Batman to fulfill my Steve Blum hard-on). Is that lack of money also the reason for Toonami's losing their license to old mainstays like Inuyasha and padding out their schedule with domestic product and Black Lagoon?

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

It was cancelled in japan from what i heard. They won't restart what failed in japan for a western audience.

If Japan doesn't like it, the cord gets pulled. There is no way around it.

I seem to remember The Big O pulling through to a second season in spite of a poor reception in Japan once it proved to be popular enough with an international audience.

Toonami (or was it Adult Swim?) paid for the second season to be made, though, and they actually own the US rights to it as a result. Like, outright own, not license the way they did other long runners like Cowboy Bebop and Inuyasha. They also own the rights to IGPX (which they also paid to have made) and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which they just managed to buy the rights to somehow. Unfortunately, Toonami today is not Toonami/Adult Swim 10 years ago, they don't have the budget to make another Big O Season 2 or IGPX at the moment. They barely have the money to pick up new shows to replace the ones that finish. That's why they had Deadman Wonderland and Casshern Sins on the initial reboot lineup -- they were cheap. They've got more money than they did then, but it's not "get a new show made" money just yet.

Ah, that makes sense (though at the time I was grateful for more anime-Batman to fulfill my Steve Blum hard-on). Is that lack of money also the reason for Toonami's losing their license to old mainstays like Inuyasha and padding out their schedule with domestic product and Black Lagoon?

Basically, yeah. In Inuyasha's case the rights ran out, and instead of spending the money to renew it, they're using it to get new shows, like Black Lagoon, actually. It may not be a new anime, but it's new to Toonami. It's another example of a show that's cheap for them to pick up but likely to do well with the target audience.