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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?)"
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.
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.
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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
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.