New Anime Block Starts Tonight Cartoon Network

Silverhammer writes "Just a reminder that the new five-hour Saturday night Toonami block starts tonight on Cartoon Network. It includes the american premieres of three of Bandai's new (or at least newly dubbed) anime series: Yu Yu Hakusho (11pm EDT), Pilot Candidate (12pm), and Gundam 0083 (12:30pm)." Also in the list is old favs Tenchi, Bebop, and Outlaw Star as well as the non-anime but still cool Justice League, which I've been enjoying, but is it just me, or are there only like 4 episodes that they just keep looping? I'll be Tivo'ing each of the new shows for a few weeks in hopes that they are good. I'm still first in line to vote for a Toonami channel.

Comments

Re:reasons for anime?

[Dark Paladin]

Sorry, at first I was going to ignore this as the troll it is.

Then I figured "Eh, my pot roast is still cooking, I might as well respond."

Ah, yes - people only like anime and Linux because of an elite attitude. I used Linux for 2+ years after being exposed to it not because of the great tools (Gimp, Image Magick, able to set up a mail server, fetchmail), or because I had it running 10 months without a reboot, or even on the day that a physical hard drive died, the system kept running so that when I got home I could do something to fix it.

I only watch anime because I have bad taste and I'm a pedophile. Not because of fascinating shows (Lain, Utena, Boogiepop Phantom) that challenge conventional ideas with symbolism, or for heart wrenching shows (like Grave of the Fireflies), or works of art (Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso), courageous tales (Magic Knights Rayearth, Gunsmith Cats). Yes, there is the crap (Bastard), but I only watch it because I like to watch young girls getting nearly naked (let's see, I don't like Sailor Moon, but I do admit to liking Jubei Chan because it's so damn funny).

Sorry. I have seen the error of my ways, and I will now only comform to the crowd.

Asshole.

Brad Siegel: Moron At Large

[The Spie]

Glad to see that Brad Siegel's reverse Midas touch is working perfectly. For this we're losing Late Nite Black and White? First it got moved to Saturdays from Sundays, and now it's gone, replaced by some crap anime? And I thought Siegel was a complete Stallman when he let World Championship Wrestling die a very hideous public death on his watch as AOLTW's overseer. This takes the cake.

How nice that Chuck Jones and LNB&W die on the same day. Piss on history some more, why don't you? Screw anime, give me classic Warner Brothers!

News for nerds?

[pongo000]

I've never been able to make the connection between the "news for nerds" thing and anime. Especially when Cmdr Taco already takes care of his anime fix via Anime Fu.

Am I the only one here who doesn't see the connection? Maybe it's the "stuff that matters" part...in which case I'll just go away (for now).