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Adult Swim Revamps; Removes Most Anime

Posted by Hemos on from the changing-the-line-up dept.

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?)"

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  1. not too pissed off. by droid_rage · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.