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Looks like it started broadcast already but episode 2 will be shown again later this week.
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Shows - ABC ME
Looks like it started broadcast already but episode 2 will be shown again later this week.
It's a bit frustrating Sailor Moon Crystal gets a TV broadcast deal pretty much everywhere in the world but North America.
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FloraKiraraHime
^Because Hulu has broadcast rights, this was confirmed by Toonami on their Preflight show back in June 2016 that they tried to get Crystal and were outbid by Hulu and considering that Viz posted the entire dub of season 3 on there (& Yahoo) back in October, not much has changed since.
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FloraKiraraHime
Sailor Moon Crystal is still more action oriented than other magical girl anime and there's a lot of guys that love Sailor Moon so I don't know that it would be all that out of place on Toonami . I mean the old school Toonami once aired Hamtaro of all things. Sailor Moon Crystal is much more closer to the spirit of the block than Hamtaro was.
^You can also make an argument for Tenchi since that was also out of place at the time yet it did pretty well on the old block.
GXP on the current Toonami was a different story but then again, it wasn't liked even when it originally came out.
GXP on the current Toonami was a different story but then again, it wasn't liked even when it originally came out.
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FloraKiraraHime
Tenchi Muyo on Toonami was always so weird with how much sexual humor was in that series.
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FloraKiraraHime
I think this is a marvelous piece of news. The more people watch Crystal, the more fans there will be. 
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chrissifniotis
In the long term, this actually is better overall than any network broadcast could be.
The TV landscape has changed considerably even since Sailor Moon Crystal was first announced. Within the past few years, streaming has replaced cable or even fixed media as the go-to for people to watch shows. Yes, people still watch TV and it will never go away completely, but at the same time the trend has been towards a tailored viewer experience.
It really doesn't matter if Sailor Moon comes on cable TV in the United States, because streaming is how people -- especially those who advertisers like to target -- watch TV now.
The TV landscape has changed considerably even since Sailor Moon Crystal was first announced. Within the past few years, streaming has replaced cable or even fixed media as the go-to for people to watch shows. Yes, people still watch TV and it will never go away completely, but at the same time the trend has been towards a tailored viewer experience.
It really doesn't matter if Sailor Moon comes on cable TV in the United States, because streaming is how people -- especially those who advertisers like to target -- watch TV now.
I can't think of a single magical girl anime that is less action-oriented that SMC. None of those I have watched fit your description. Were you thinking of a specific show when you said that?
This is purely anecdotal but in my general experience, most casual anime fans who haven't been exposed to Sailor Moon have generally been much more positively receptive to Crystal than the long time hardcore fans who are the only ones that care to argue about things like comparing character personality depictions between different versions or whether or not the ShinxSenshi pairings were a good idea. I mean Cartoon Network is airing Black Clover right now which seems to be doing well enough for them in spite of it's negative reputation among hardcore anime fans.
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FloraKiraraHime
No, but if 100 new people watch the show, 15 don't like it and 20 are neutral, there are still 65 new fans.
I've noticed that as well - people who never got into the original series (because it's 200 episodes long and that's honestly a bit intimidating) tend to be just fine with Crystal.
I've noticed that as well - people who never got into the original series (because it's 200 episodes long and that's honestly a bit intimidating) tend to be just fine with Crystal.
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FloraKiraraHime
At this point I think the biggest issue beside Hulu's exclusive streaming rights in preventing Sailor Moon Crystal from airing on Toonami is season four shifting to a movie format. But arguments Crystal doesn't have enough action for Toonami are purely subjective arguments that doesn't take into account the wide diversity in tastes of anime fans and ignores that Toonami themselves did in fact try to buy back Sailor Moon but they were merely outbid by Hulu, but clearly Toonami did have interest at some point in airing Sailor Moon again.
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FloraKiraraHime
It's too bad Toonami didn't get the rights. While having an internet stream is still the most important thing, a Hulu stream in addition to a tv broadcast would have helped Crystal reach an even wider audience.
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