Adult Swim Revamps; Removes Most Anime

E. Megas writes "According to a Collegiate Presswire story, Cartoon Network (Probably due to its recent acquisition of Futurama) is expanding its Adult Swim schedule to Monday through Thursday starting January 12th. The "Comedy" block on Sundays will stay, but except for Inu-Yasha and Cowboy Bebop (Which will replace the Toonami Midnight Run block on the weekday slots) the Saturday "Action" block will be gone. This means that the legendary series Mobile Suit Gundam will not be aired in full for the second time in a row on CN. Future airings of Yuu Yuu Hakusho and Outlaw Star-And the planned re-airing of Gundam 0080: War In the Pocket-Are thrown into doubt by this decision as well. More schedule details in the article. (Anyone else as frustrated by this as I am?)"

Comments

not too pissed off.

[droid_rage]

First of all, CN modifies many anime horribly for content. Entire storylines are sometimes cut out of longer series.

Secondly, if you're already into anime, you can probably find most of the titles they show at the local blockbuster.

Anime has already gone fairly main stream. It's doubtful whether Adult Swim brings in very many new viewers, so I'm not too upset over them, either.

Access 97?!

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Yes, you are.

[MoneyT]

Try Hellsing. Outlawstar is good, but get the subs, and if you're just lookig for something funny, Nadesico wasn't half bad.

Re:Cartoon Network Anime

[Bobulusman]

I've watched the DVDs of Outlaw Star and besides from a little blood, a few swear words and an episode (which I haven't seen yet, BTW - just got to the third disk), it didn't seem like they cut much at all.

I'd be interested in hearing a little more detail about what it bothering you. I mean, I know there in a certain scene that there is blood there. Just because on CN you can't see the blood doesn't bother me too much.

Home Movies

[jeffehobbs]

Who cares, as long as they keep "Home Movies" -- it's the funniest and most enjoyable show on television, hands down. Along with the Daily Show, it's one of the last two reasons I keep cable.

~jeff

Contact email?

[hackwrench]

I'd try webmaster@cartoonnetwork.com
This search yields some interesting results- cartoonnetwork@cust-help.com privacy.adultswim@turner.com are two examples

Adult Swim has always been frustrating.

[Anonymous Coward]

To those of us in who work in animation here in the States, AS has always been frustrating. There are countless people in the American animation world with adult stories they'd like to tell, but the only new work Cartoon Network is willing to fund is stuff about on the same intellectual and graphical level as South Park.

Obviously we can't expect high budgets; CN doesn't have that much money for original series - but their policy of, on the one hand, grabbing (nearly-free) Japanese series that do have a fair amount of adult themes, and on the other hand, only funding the creation of new shows that are nothing but adolescent humor is pretty obnoxious.

Re:I used to have cable. I still might..

[SuiteSisterMary]

'Shin Seiki' translates as 'new century.' 'Evangelion' is an adaptation of a German word meaning 'gospel.' Therefore, the Japanese title would translate as 'Gospel for a New Century' or 'New Century Gospel.' Gainex themselves, by the way, chose the title 'Neon Genesis: Evangelion' for the English title, which is why the average hardcore anime fan doesn't scream about it. It makes sense, if you think about it; 'Neon' invokes images of modernity, technology, cold and sterile science. 'Genesis,' aside from meaning 'beginning,' of course, evokes religious overtones to the average North American. 'Evangelion' is close enough to English words such as 'evangelism' to evoke similar images, yet odd enough to feel somehow different, or other. Kind of evocative, when you put it all together.

You'll notice all sorts of German-isms throughout the series, if you know what you're looking for.

Yeah and..

[Anonymous Coward]

Why isn't this on 'anime-fu', anyway? No one paying attention to it?

Anime geeks ALWAYS want the world to look at them when they talk about anime. It must be some sort of status thing. Newsflash: anime isn't some stupid secret club thing. It's just japanese animation, and ya know what? Most of us could care less. Heck, SOME of us even despise it.

And for the record, CN can bite my ass. They fucked over a LOT of good animation in favour of running SHIT like Dragonball 24/7. They screwed over Mainframe Entertainment by first agreeing to air ReBoot seasons 3 and 4, and then they DIDN'T. They hacked it all up and aired it irregularly, if at all--heck, American viewers didn't get to see it all. Why? DBZ and the rest of the japanese cartoon fetish.

Re:Cartoon Network Anime

[Ondo]

Their is an edit list at http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/edit-list. php

I watched the first episode of Outlaw Star, and decided not to watch the series more when I found out that the guys I thought were robots weren't, and they cut the part where they bleed and the main character comments that they're not robots, and changed "killed" to "destroyed". When something meaningful in the story changes, it's too big an edit for me. I'll try and watch the DVDs some day.

However, this is apparently because it was originally edited for the Toonami block rather than Adult Swim. I'm happily watching Cowboy Bebop as its edits seem generally fairly insignificant.

Re:Cartoon Network Anime

[Have Blue]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/edit-list. php.

A nearly complete list of every single change Cartoon Network has ever made to an anime.

And you thought YOU had too much time on your hands :P

Re:Cartoon Network Anime

[fenix down]

I didn't have much of a problem with anything they did, but I can see why some people had problems with it. If you saw the original first, it probably made the changes more noticable. The fuck->blast damn->blast shit->blast thing gets a little old. I kept waiting for a "Damn it! Blast them!" that could be hilariously edited. Turning kill to destroy was just bad until they got rid of it.

Editing out all the sex kinda hurt the playa thing Gene's supposed to have, but they have enough hints to get the point across. Like Gene wandering off in the middle of the night with a wad of cash to have fun followed by coming home at 5AM. You should be able to read between the lines there. I was surprised they left in the rich guy being gay, but that was already implied. They did make it a little less obvious, but at least they didn't try and totally cut it.

The episode thing's a little funny.
This is kinda SPOILERISH, I guess, but not really that bad, really.
The episode in question is near the end, taking place on the hot springs planet, where the freakish naked bear thing customs officials steal your clothes. Yeah. Guess why they didn't show it. The problem is, this is where Gene gets the special caster shells that get really important in the last couple episodes, along with an explaination of where the shells come from. So, on TV, you miss out on major exposition, and Gene suddenly has bullets that create black holes.

Heh. Those customs officials are hilarious. And disturbing. Deeply, deeply disturbing.

Re:ratings?

[DNS-and-BIND]

There already is a seperate Anime channel. You just probably can't get it in your area of the world. It's pretty much a carbon copy of Cartoon Network before Southpark came on. They created a channel to have an way to make a few bucks by just airing out all these old episodes that have been around forever. It's cool seeing G-force where the kid doesn't stutter, but come on...Transformers and other 70s/80s drek? Bah.