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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. Subbing? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?)

    1. Re:Subbing? by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 5, Interesting

      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?

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    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. 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].

  2. 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.

  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:Feh by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why do all these shows nowadays focus on some "competition" like a race, or a card tournament? The stupidest one I've seen is that kid's show on saturday morning where a giant arena of people gathered to watch kids fight with spinning tops! It was like ten-thousand people all looking down at a little 2 sq-ft board with little spinning tops smacking into each other, while prebuscent kids yelled at the top of their lungs to... I don't know... get the tops to hit each other harder or something. It made no sense.
    There's never any real conflict in these shows, the 'evil' character is just another player in the 'tournament'. When Optimus Prime and Megatron fought, they didn't pull out little decks of cards or summon holographic monsters to fight for them, they went out there and beat the shit out each other! And it wasn't for some lame 'tournament', it was because the Decepticons were trying to take over the whole freakin' world! I tell ya... thank god for Justice League Unlimited, or kids today would have no sense of proper cartoon violence!
    [end rant]

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  5. Re:Feh by R.Caley · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Why do all these shows nowadays focus on some "competition" like a race, or a card tournament?

    1. You don't need to come up with plots.
    2. You have an obvious way to spin off merchandise.
    3. ????
    4. Profit!!!!
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  6. Re:Toonami by CoffeeJedi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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

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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.