Cartoon Sunday: Tactics (Anime)

How's it going lurkers? Earlier this morning, Tokyo Ghoul premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block. 

Hopefully, this Seinen SciFi Horror Action Anime does well in the ratings, despite the Toonami nitpickers acting like crybabies and throwing their tantrums ad nauseam because it does not live up to being the stereotypical Toonami Anime.

To all those who have never watched episode 1 of Tokyo Ghoul, if you liked Parasyte -The Maxim-, you should enjoy Tokyo Ghoul.

Over the last 2 weeks, the Toonami fans that watch One Piece have been acting like crybabies because One Piece was replaced with Tokyo Ghoul. 

Meanwhile, there are the other Toonami fans who LOVE ruining everything for other fandoms with their incessant nitpicking of shows, which do not fit their personal Toonami archetypes.

Those Anime fans in particular are partially to blame for the cancellation of Chiller TV's Anime Wednesday block from 2 summers ago. Toonami brats and other Anime fans nitpicked Anime Wednesday so much, that their incessant nitpicking was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Their constant bitching online contributed to the downfall of Anime Wednesday.

Nearly 2 years later, I am still reeling over the fact, that Chiller TV not only did a piss poor job of advertising Anime Wednesday, but also canceled their own Horror Anime block within the first 3 weeks.

About 10 years ago, SciFi launched their Ani-Monday block. Shortly after, Chiller TV began airing Ani-Monday.

Because Chiller TV and Syfy are sister channels owned by NBC Universal, Horror Anime that premiered on SciFi was eventually sent to Chiller TV. This wasn't the case for Chiller's Anime Wednesday block the last time.

The Anime Wednesday block actually premiered Anime that SciFi NEVER aired, which was a positive. However... the Horror Anime for Chiller TV's Anime Wednesday block did NOT  necessarily qualify as Horror Anime. Both Anime AND Toonami incels threw the biggest toddler tantrums online about Is This A Zombie? premiering on this Horror Anime block. 

Is This A Zombie? NEVER qualified as a Horror Anime. 

In fact, 1/2 Chiller TV's Anime Wednesday block were Comedies for a Horror Anime block. 

Even though I enjoyed watching Black Blood Brothers and Is This A Zombie? years before Chiller acquired them, they were mostly Supernatural Comedy Anime.

Devil May Cry and Tokyo Majin were THE ONLY 2, which came close to being Horror Anime. Devil May Cry is a Horror Action Anime and Tokyo Majin is more Supernatural Action.

There is a plethora of Horror Anime, which Chiller TV could've acquired and premiered at decent times.

I believe if Chiller really wanted to compete against Adult Swim's Toonami block, the network could've possibly premiered Horror Drama and Mystery Anime at 9pm Central on Saturdays or Sundays. 

This would've been MUCH better than premiering Horror Anime on Wednesdays at midnight.

The Horror network also could've premiered its Horror Anime block starting at 9pm on Fridays. Then again, that would've been too logical.

I am somewhat surprised that Chiller TV did NOT acquire the Occult Supernatural Detective Anime, Tactics. SciFi originally premiered it on Ani-Monday in 2008.

Then again, Tactics might've lacked suspense for Horror Anime fans. The Anime is set, during the Taisho Era as opposed to the Meiji Era in the Manga. 

Regardless, Tactics focuses on the young man, Kantarou Ichinomiya. Since childhood, he had the ability to see yokai and was of course, ostracized for having this special ability. 

Kantarou's yokai friends told him, that he must find the oni-eating tengu, in order to become stronger. Shortly after, Kantarou vowed to find the oni-eating tengu and name it. 

Long story short, the florist/part-time exorcist finds this oni-eating tengu on an assignment in the mountains and names him, Haruka.

I could explain more, but it would be much better for you to watch Tactics for today's Cartoon Sunday.

Tactics Episode 1: "The Black Goblin Awakes" [English Dub] (2004)