Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series

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."

Comments

Subbing?

[Anonymous Coward]

Toonami's one of the most popular "programs" on CN right now- what are the odds that we'll start to see things subbed, or at least competently dubbed?

(First?)

Re:Subbing?

[CoffeeJedi]

fans have been asking CN to use the SAP (second audio program) for the original Japanese soundtrack for a while, but no luck yet

when a network gets the broadcast rights to a dubbed program or movie (anime or foreign film, or anything), do they get the rights to the original soundtrack too?

Re:Toonami

[CoffeeJedi]

yes we do, because:

A: CN is not a children's network, have you seen [adult swim] that was my first exposure to Cowboy Bebop, i, like many other people, never really knew about anime before that

B: this isn't a poorly dubbed show, this is coproduced in America, so the dialogue will be natively written and performed in both languages

C: they've been "riding this Japanese fad" for over 10 years, how long do fads last?

D: alot of kids watch anime on Cartoon Network because its their only exposure, this affects the next generation of sci-fi fans. alot of people on Slashdot probably have kids who are into Toonami and anime, and would be interested in this

E: because its cool, its news... its for nerds... and if you're an animation fan (like many /.'ers) its stuff that matters