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Cartoon Network Acquires Neon Genesis Evangelon
The Fool writes "Anime News Network is reporting that Cartoon network will
be airing All of Neon Genesis Evangelon. You can also read the Toon Zone speculation as well as some more."
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Evangelion... with an i. Just like the way it's spelled in the links.
Here is an example of what you can expect to see should you decide to submit yourself to such torture.
I honestly don't think anyone should view this series in its mutilated, dubbed form on CN, not even newbies. Those of us that love the show most likely already have the boxed set, and can watch it in its proper, unedited, subbed format. Those of us that haven't seen it would be getting the worst possible introduction to the show on CN and might even form incorrect opinions about it based on that mess.
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If they contain those themes, are they kids shows then?
Yes. When they first appeared in Japan, those series were exclusively marketed at children. The original manga (comic) of Sailor Moon was in a compilation aimed at young girls, and the TV series was showed at 7:30 AM as part of the childrens' block of programming. If you can get hold of some of the original fansubs, you'll see that the commercial breaks are full of adverts for toys and sweets.
It's true that both shows contain materials that some Americans see as objectionable, but that shouldn't make you assume that this wasn't their target audience. The difference is mostly because of cultural differences between Japan and the US over what is suitable viewing for children.
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Yes to nitpick.
It's written anime, without any "é"s or other wierd letters.
It comes from the word "animeeshon" (with a long "e") which is the Japanification of the word animation.
Animation -> animeeshon -> anime.
And if slashdot allowed me to enter Japanese letters, I could show you the actual spelling.
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Samarai Champloo is pretty new I think. Eva is a *full* decade old. The original gundam is freaking ancient, but I guess they aren't showing that.
For the record, EVA *has* aired on cartoon network before. It aired the first episode dubbed as part of some Giant Fighting Robot theme day on toonami. It also aired the whole series in australia.
I see three major problems with airing this show.
1. The dub is atrocious. For those who have watched cartoon network before, you know that they refuse to air anything in subtitles, even after midnight. Although, now that I think about it, everything on adult swim currently has a pretty good dub. The cowboy bebop dub is actually better than the original japanese. Maybe they will make this one exception, or redub the show, but I doubt it.
2. There is a lot of sexual innuendo, sex, and gay sex in eva. I don't know how they are handling such things now, but in the old days, they would edit *everything out* even if deleting the relevant scenes made the show make no sense. Somebody who is willing to stay up late and watch adult swim should tell us what they have done recently with the homosexual characters in samarai champloo. Particularly, the guy from holland in episode 6.
3. The ending sucks. Here, let me spoil it for everyone. Gainax runs out of money. Seriously. They start out by finding clever excuses to hold the same frame for a long time, but by the last two episodes, they have given up and they are just animating some rough sketches, not even bothering to color things in. They try to convince you that they are just being artistic and deep with their sketches, but... no. They are just broke.
They do pull together enough money to do a couple of cool, fully animated scenes. I particularly liked the the alternative world bit, where everyone is happy and healthy.
4. There is an alternative ending with extremely high production values that they should show instead. A movie, called End of Evangelion replaces the last two or three episodes. It features some really bad ass fight scenes and is overall, a pretty good ending to eva. Unfortunately, it also has some really disgusting stuff in it. Frankly, I hope cartoon network airs this, and I also hope they censor the hell out of it. It would be nice if they kept the most obvious bit of nudity. The *big* nudity issue (can anyone crack my code? I don't want to spoil it for people who haven't seen it). There are some things, like the disgusting scene between shinji and asuka that starts out the movie that should be removed. Removing that would not be censorship, it would be good editing. No one I know liked that scene or felt that it added anything to the movie.
Hentai does exist, and can be generally used to describe any anime that would be rated NC-17 or X because of nudity and sexual themes. That said, some animes will flash the occasional boob, panty shot (some more than others here), and not be considered hentai by the anime world. It's up to you to decide what you're comfortable watching. Despite what 'they' may have told you, most anime is not for kids. At all.
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Good anime series: (Haven't read other replies to this as they are below threshold, so sorry for repeats. Also, having now completed the list, I'm not sure how much of the japanese culture you'll learn from these. Most of them take place in settings that clearly aren't, or aren't supposed to be, Japan.)
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Naruto
Noir
Vanguard
True Lunar Chronicles (Tsukihime)
Monster
Ghost in the Shell: Stand-alone Complex
Bleach (though I personally stopped watching at ep. 13. you may agree with me there or stick with it
Good Movies:
Vampire Hunter D (and sequel, Bloodlust)
Metropolitan (older animation style)
Cowboy Bebop (hopefully you'll grab this as soon as you finish the series)
I feel as though there are many many shows I haven't been able to remember that were really good also. Good luck with exploring the world of anime yourself. Other advice I have for you: Watch everything you can in the original Japanese with English subtitles (subs). To give you an idea, my friends and I once set up a show playing with subtitles, turned the sound down, and played the sound of the dubs over that. It was very funny, yet sad, how they did not AT ALL match. Wasn't even the same show. Characters might be saying something like "I feel as though I have been looking through a foggy glass the whole time. Thank you for rescuing me." and the English dubs would be like "Nice dress! Did I ever tell you you're cute???"
Anyway, done with that rant.
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That's a good translation of the English title, but the Japanese title for the series was actually quite different: "Shin Seiki Evangelion". "Shin Seiki" translates fairly directly to "New Century", and "Evangelion" is a modification of the English word "evangel", which is synonymous with "gospel". So, "Shin Seiki Evangelion" can be (somewhat loosely) translated as "Gospel of the New Century".
Personally, I think that's much cooler (if a bit pretentious), and fits the series better, IMHO.
(I didn't figure this out on my own, I read it somewhere. Exactly where, I can't remember.)
the animes Cartoon Network shows on Adult Swim (such as Trigun) and which I believe they'll be showing NGE on are not censored at all or if censored, only very little because I can't really tell the difference.
Only gripe I'm going to have is that it'll probably be dubbed and most american voice acting is not up to par if you get my drift.
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