You know, many people like me USED TO think "anime" "is a Time Warner thing"....It's not!

Yes, in the 90s and early 2000s, Time Warner's Toonami and Adult Swim developed an anime "monopoly" where the common knowledge was "Anime is a Time Warner Thing". Wrong! Time Warner doesn't OWN anime. Broadcast all the anime you want, legit or not, sanctioned by a real network or on YouTube. There's too much anime out there for one nation, city, state, network, or website to claim it. Anime belongs to everyone, not just Japan and Time Warner. Forget those guys. If they stay in power, anime could die altogether. They DID have power in the area of anime, but sometime between 2005 and 2012 when they killed Toonami and stopped playing adult anime on any day but Saturday. Anime is good ANYWHERE, with ANYONE, ANYTIME, ANY DAY. It's precious, it's a commodity, but it shouldn't be selfishly hoarded by a few shortsighted broadcasting multimedia conglomerates, ESPECIALLY when they don't actually own the Dubbing RIGHTS OR OR DVD Distribution Rights.

Drink it in kids. Anime needs us all to stay alive. Don't Forget about anime, and it will NEVER DIE. Tom has passed on, but what he stood for still stands...

But really, I never thought YouTube should be a full on "hate Toonami for cancelling itself" zone. That was unexpected. It reflects a lot of pent up rage in the fans at being deprived of something so good.

But the thing is, Toonami, Adult Swim, and YouTube/Google aren't all that different. Both make money, both air anime, and both win fans repeatedly. They have all the popularity in the world with Otaku. It's just that anime aired on regular TV is sanctioned and contractually obligated by Japanese anime and American dubbing studios, licensed by them. But in a way, Time Warner is pirates too. After all, they broadcast the shows to the fans at home. They don't own any of the DVDs other than the shows they comission, so CN's money obviously isn't in merchandise or DVD sales. It's in their ratings money, which goes to their budget. But that budget better as hell at least partially go to re-embursing costs of FUTURE anime licensing, and not go to stuff like, oh I don't know, Squidbillies, and other rotten shit like that? More of the studios excess, in other words. Money made from anime should go to creating MORE future anime. That is the model Osamu Tezuka set with his manga and Japanese anime studio, and that should be what EVERY anime dubbing company, studio, merchandise house, and broadcaster should do..take chances on new properties, but essentially bring us, the fans, more of the same. PLEASE! I'm asking nicely...I am the Lorax. I speak for Dr. Seuss!