Most Americans already have a rather xenophobic attitude towards Japanese entertainment (both Fark and Portalofevil regularly herald Japanese TV insanity), so I would imagine CN is taking a conservative, canny approach to ensure that there is absolutely no backlash against them continuing to import these extremely cheap, high-rated shows. Give it a little time... once shows like Lain and Shaman King start making it on TV, we'll see a relaxed attitude towards those wonderful vices anime endorses. For now, let them do what they want, this is more anime than any of use ever thought we'd see on US TV.
As an otaku, my opinion comes off as wretched bombast, but Love Hina? Excel Saga? Even Trigun? Compared to what could be imported stateside, these shows are really just excoriable pablum.
If CN were really shrewd (which I am becoming more and more convinced they are not), they would license a show that a) actually had more than 26 episodes so i don't have to watch asteroid blues 298347923874 times, and b) is not continuity-dependent, so burgeoning anime enthusiasts don't need to sit in front of out-of-order reruns pretending to understand what's going on, their eyes glazing over from the strain of convincing themselves that what they are watching is actually really cool, when in fact it is totally unintelligible.
They did a great thing bringing Lupin over, but CN's commitment to anime is still only a half-measure that is continuing to misrepresent anime to the point where only a select kind of generic space-oriented silliness will be imported. "Pilot Candidate"? Feh. Also, meh.
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Most Americans already have a rather xenophobic attitude towards Japanese entertainment (both Fark and Portalofevil regularly herald Japanese TV insanity), so I would imagine CN is taking a conservative, canny approach to ensure that there is absolutely no backlash against them continuing to import these extremely cheap, high-rated shows. Give it a little time ... once shows like Lain and Shaman King start making it on TV, we'll see a relaxed attitude towards those wonderful vices anime endorses. For now, let them do what they want, this is more anime than any of use ever thought we'd see on US TV.
As an otaku, my opinion comes off as wretched bombast, but Love Hina? Excel Saga? Even Trigun? Compared to what could be imported stateside, these shows are really just excoriable pablum. If CN were really shrewd (which I am becoming more and more convinced they are not), they would license a show that a) actually had more than 26 episodes so i don't have to watch asteroid blues 298347923874 times, and b) is not continuity-dependent, so burgeoning anime enthusiasts don't need to sit in front of out-of-order reruns pretending to understand what's going on, their eyes glazing over from the strain of convincing themselves that what they are watching is actually really cool, when in fact it is totally unintelligible. They did a great thing bringing Lupin over, but CN's commitment to anime is still only a half-measure that is continuing to misrepresent anime to the point where only a select kind of generic space-oriented silliness will be imported. "Pilot Candidate"? Feh. Also, meh.