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

Death to dubs

[slothbait]

I would care if any of the stuff on CN wasn't dubed/edited to death

Darn, but...

[Bobulusman]

It's probably for the best. This will encourage me to actually go out and buy the DVDs for the shows I like, rather than just tape them off of CN. (And no cutting that way, too)

Plus, Futurama will find a new home. It is a very underappreciated show, and I'm glad it can be shown somewhere were it will won't be constantly preempted by sports. :P

CNX

[FrostedWheat]

I don't know much about Cartoon Network over in the states, but here in the UK things are actually improving. We now have an extra channel 'CNX' which shows a lot of anime stuff, some live-action movies (lot of hong-kong action movies) and the more adult cartoons that they wouldn't put on the regular channels.

As far as I know, Cowboy Bebop has never been shown in the UK before this channel.

Re:Cartoon Network Anime

[signine]

Well, much of it comes down to a simple dub-sub debate which would really be totally off topic. It seems to be the tendency of the companies that cartoon network either contracts or purchases their anime from to dumb down the translations ridiculously (not that Outlaw Star is particularly thought-provoking).

Secondly, I'm annoyed when I don't get to see the artists original intent, irregardless of how small a modification that might be. It doesn't hurt that naked anime girls are part of the original intent, admittedly, but it's amazing how a few subtle (and not so subtle) edits and translations can completely change the meaning of any given work of art.

Case in point: Sailor Moon. Not originally the kids show it is here.

Re:Legendary ?

[rgmoore]

Gundam is probably as close to legendary as any anime series can be. It radically altered the whole climate for SF anime. Perhaps it would be better to call it seminal or groundbreaking, but it was certainly very important in the development of the genre.