Also I feel like Adult Swim picked Inuyasha of all things just for advertising as well as parody. Inuyasha was like.. the staple long-running anime on Adult Swim, I watched a lot of it over the years when I was younger.
Seeing how that skit played out, they also went for the "reverse psychology" trope with the dad doing all that just to basically get the TV in the end. Using InyYasha as the show the daughter watched worked so perfectly well.
Inuyasha was one of three anime shows I always remember Adult Swin broadcasting every Satuday nights. other two being FLCL and Cowboy Bebop. Fun fact about me I use to think FLCL was a full length anime with tons of episodes, because it was on Adult Swim for so dame long.
Despite there only being SIX episodes total they played over and over and over. All three programs were certainly the ones people never shut up about.
the weird thing with FLCL is that [as] seems to air it in bursts, rather than the near-constant playng Bebop gets. It'll air non-stop for a few months, disappear for a year or two, and suddenly start reairing. Not that I'm complaining, of course, FLCL's amazing.
Again, six episodes, not much you can do there besides bore your audience if you ran it non-stop.
Ironically, for years people had asked [as] to run "Excel Saga", their response in one of those cards was something along the lines of the show being "too annoying" or whatever, yet that would've seemd like the perfect home for it anyway. Whatever the case, it didn't stop Chris Chan from cribbing it anyway for his comics.
Who told you Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki is awful? They're probably talking about its third season, but the original Ryo-Ohki is good. Kind of a rough sit first time around, but I honestly prefer this universe when it comes to how Tenchi met Ryoko, it was a cool, creepy moment. Didn't get much of Washuu until the end of the first Ryo-Ohki, but she made up for it by being in the second one.
The first two "Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki" series are typically considered the best of TM! as a whole, being the earliest videos released prior to the TV shows and movies that followed (1992-95). I loved watching these whenever I could rent one from the store (though originally I rented episode 7 and got way confused because I started so late in the game, never doing that again). While true how the first series sets up the intro of these characters, the second digs a little deeper into some of these characters, while leaving in hints of what a third series could be like, which of course already happened much to our dissappointment.
I got it from the "Anime Abandon" review, which said the original direct to video incarnation is the worst iteration (he says its the product of a crazy anime porn creator), and that the 90s tv series is far better, which is the one I'm familiar with. He does specify he enjoyed the first two seasons, though said they were massively flawed, and that it's third season is awful. According to Wikipedia, it has a fourth one, but he didn't review it. Also there's apparently a bunch of other series and films? Can you give me the lowdown?
The real problem is that of standards and audience demographics. TM! started out as an OVA series meant for an older crowd, as the series was the product of an OVA boom that shoveled out tons of original animated videos often catered to all sorts of groups, but often skewered towards an adult crowd who would be into the sort of themes and interests they like (fan service, violence, sex, etc.). The TV shows that followed for TM! were made to be more accessible, hense why they couldn't fall into the perversive nature the OVA's contained. Of course when Toonami aired the shows later, the OVA's often got the scissors and digital undies treatment whenever those moments showed up (like the hot springs episodes). The TV series didn't get as much due to their emphasis on story and action, though I preferred Tenchi Universe over Techni in Tokyo anyway, as it did led to two follow-up movies I also liked.
Omg I haven't heard of this, that sounds hilarious. If that's 100% true, Ryo-Ohki 3 must be a spectacle to behold. I'll have to keep that in mind for when I get around to it. (But yeah, it seems a lot of fans say Ryo-Ohki 3 wasn't good, and not just because the dub had a change of voice actors.)
That is quite true since production of the English version switched from Pioneer/Geneon (who did the previous TM! titles in the 90's) to Funimation from then on. Pioneer originally released the earlier TM! productions themselves back when they started their OVA line of tapes (El Hazard, Moldiver, Kishin Corps to name of their other titles).
Not a problem. As to your question, it's hard to say since it's all a matter of opinion, but outside of Ryo-Ohki and Universe, I don't know how many of them are must-sees. I also haven't seen all of them yet, but what I have seen (my friend and I are currently on Magical Project S, though we did watch Daughter of Darkness) I've liked. My current favorite though is the Pretty Sammy universe, since magical girl bias and all that lol. (Magical Project S and its spin-off sequels don't have a dub, though.)
I've heard one podcast review give Magical Project S their recommendation since it tends to be very self-aware of the magical girls theme they're spoofing and doesn't take itself seriously.
From what I gathered, according to the review, the character designer for the original direct to video release was given control of that iteration, and his only writing credits are Tenchi Muyo and anime porn, hence why they apparently degenerated. Also the guy apparently releases straight up porn of the characters in his free time and fan fiction, which sounds pretty autistic, maybe he's a lolscow...
Even if he is, at least he knows how to make money off of this. Fans do eat this up simply for the girls they love to spend money on. That is the nature of otaku fandom.
Interesting, I'll probably end up preferring Universe myself. But I'll check them all out
Universe certainly is the more accessible of them bunch. Still I'm a sucker for the OVA and its titilating Barbie doll-ish nudity.
