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Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series

Posted by Hemos on from the big-news-for-cartoon-network dept.

Rick Ellis writes "Sunday at the 2005 Tokyo Anime Fair in Japan, Cartoon Network unveiled the highly anticipated new series, IGPX. It's a co-production with Production I.G. and Bandai Entertainment and will be the Cartoon Network's first original 'Toonami' series."

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  1. New? Hardly by Masami+Eiri · · Score: 4, Informative
    This show aired before, but as a miniseries. Only difference is now its a full-fledged series.

    IIRC, it wasn't all that great either.

  2. Re:Subbing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem is that the FCC requires that if you use SAP for a second audio channel, that channel's closed caption track must be in the same language, meaning you could see it in english with english subtitles (if you call the misspelled crap in the CCs subtitles) or japanese with japanese subtitles.

  3. Power Puff Girls Z by Deathlizard · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well that explans this then.
    http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20050401/ta f.htm

    It's about 3/4th's down the page. or click the link below for the quick picture.

    http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20050401/ta f32.jpg

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  4. Re:Subbing? by fat+man+with+a+monke · · Score: 4, Informative

    Given the fact that series (Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu Yu Hakusho, Cardcaptor Sakura, DragonballZ) have shown that kids don't care about competent dubbing, I doubt Toonami will have too much of it. But comparing the [Adult Swim] anime to the subbed version, the dubs of many of the series they run have been very high quality.
    Fullmetal Alchemist, [Adult Swim]'s latest anime draw, has even appeared in its entirety, with no content dubbed out (at least, with the last episode comparison I read). Also given the fact that Toonami has been relegated to the late-afternoon Saturday block once a week, its popularity has gone down (at least in the communities I frequent). Right now, I think [Adult Swim] is the main anime draw for cartoon network, and will stay that way.
    By the way, Naruto is coming to Toonami. Which means it'll be shown probably once a week on Saturday. All 200+ episodes of it. That's over 4 years. And even if they do show it multiple times on Saturday, Cartoon Network will probably only buy it a couple seasons at a time, and just keep re-showing the first few until people get tired of it. That's what they did with DBZ and Yu Yu Hakusho Samurai Champloo is coming also coming to CN, on [AS].

  5. Re:Toonami? by Xoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    You do realize that Toonami has been around since 1997 on the Cartoon Network. The world was a much different place back then.

    I agree the tsunami was a terrible tragedy but there is no reason for them to change the name of their Saturday evening block of cartoons because of it.

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  6. Re:Toonami by tuffy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Maybe you and your friends are big on downloading fansubs, but the majority of people aren't. Most people get their anime on TV, some from the DVD rack at the store and a small minority from BitTorrent. And since TV exposure has a huge impact on popularity and DVD sales, what the Cartoon Network is airing matters.

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  7. Who digs giant robots? by TCQuad · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a co-production with Production I.G. and Bandai Entertainment and will be the Cartoon Network's first original 'Toonami' series.

    Um, no.