The official Anime News Thread

Wingnut 03-16-2004 04:28 PM
Oh yeah. Big Grin Cool
Now we can compare the Trigun magna and anime first hand.
C.R Foxhound 03-16-2004 06:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Blue Crow
According to www.animenewsnetwork.com :

"One of the administrators of KyleHebert.com has posted the following quote from an unamed source at Fox Studios, "The Dragonball Z movie? We don't have that. I 've got a lot of calls about that so I called around [the studio]. We won't be making that [movie]."

So I guess it's not gonna happen.It looks like it never was going to happen.Perhaps just an internet rumor that spread way too far?

Also:

"Dark Horse has announced that it will release Trigun Maximum, the continuation of Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun, on May 19th. "

Trigun Maximum is on it's way to America at last!Pleased

-BC


Who the hell wants a DBZ movie anyway, it woulda sucked beyond borders

good riddance i say
Blue Crow 03-16-2004 08:32 PM
quote:
Originally posted by C.R Foxhound
Who the hell wants a DBZ movie anyway, it woulda sucked beyond borders

good riddance i say


Amen,brother.Now next we have to worry about that live action Akira thing....... Shocked

-BC
StevieV019 03-23-2004 07:45 AM
This may be a repeat...but I figured Id post this for people who may have missed it the first time:

New Toonami Schedule Premieres on APril 17th


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On Saturday April 17th, the new Saturday Toonami block will premiere. Running from 7pm to 2am the 7 hour block will be almost exclusively anime, with the few shows not produced in Japan restricted to shows that areheavilly influenced by anime (ie: Teen Titans and Samurai Jack).

Included in the schedule, on Saturday April 24th Dragonball Z: Lord Slug , the DBZ movie that Cartoon Network had previously skipped, will be aired.

April 17:

7.0PM: Duel Masters (#106 Episode 6)
7.5PM: Transformers: Energon (#12 Crisis of Jungle City)
8.0PM: MOVIE (TBA)
9.5PM: Gundam SEED
10.0PM: MOVIE (TBA)
11.5PM: Dragonball Z (#195 The World Tournament)
12.0AM: .hack//SIGN (#6 Encounter)
12.5AM: Knights of the Zodiac (#33 Sightless Dragon's Tears)
1.0AM: Teen Titans (#6 Nevermore)
1.5AM: Cyborg 009 (#19 The Hero)

April 24:

7.0PM: Duel Masters (#107 Episode 7)
7.5PM: Transformers: Energon (#13 The Enemy is After Kicker)
8.0PM: MOVIE (Dragonball Z: Lord Slug)
9.5PM: Gundam SEED
10.0PM: MOVIE (Dragonball Z: Lord Slug)
11.5PM: Dragonball Z (#196 Trunks Vs. Goten)
12.0AM: .hack//SIGN (#7 Reason)
12.5AM: Knights of the Zodiac (#34 Farewell, Comrade)
1.0AM: Teen Titans (#7 Switched)
1.5AM: Cyborg 009 (#20 A Phantom Dog)

May 1:

7.0PM: Duel Masters (#108 Episode Eight)
7.5PM: Transformers: Energon (#1 Cybertron City)
8.0PM: Dragonball GT (#16 A Grand Problem)
8.5PM: Rave Master
9.0PM: Megas XLR (#1 Test Drive)
9.5PM: Megas XLR (#2 Battle Royale - The Most Dangerous Game)
10.0PM: MOVIE: Samurai Jack: The Legend Begins
11.5PM: Dragonball Z (#197 Best of the Boys)
12.0AM: .hack//SIGN (#8 Promise)
12.5AM: Knights of the Zodiac (#35 Seiya's Journey of Hope)
1.0AM: Teen Titans (#8 Deep Six)
1.5AM: Cyborg 009 (#21 Fossils of Evil)

Note: This scedule is accurate as of March 22nd, Cartoon Network may make changes.

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The thing to notice, which may be a big deal to some people, is the absence of Rurouni Kenshin. Looks like it wont be on Saturdays, is it being taken totally off the air (for now)? Also, they're showing the Samurai Jack movie, but the series may have been moved as well. Who knows....
The Big Mo 03-25-2004 08:10 PM
From SwimBuddha:

quote:
Adult Swim Ready for Action on Saturday Nights Beginning April 17

Top Animé Series to Air from 11 p.m.-2 a.m. (ET, PT) Every Saturday

Saturday night's all right for fighting - as well as shooting, stealing, investigating, discovering and escaping. As Cartoon Network's Adult Swim launches on Saturday (11 p.m.-2 a.m., ET/PT) with a line-up dedicated exclusively to top action-adventure and animé series. Beginning Saturday, April 17, Adult Swim will air six nights per week. As part of the new programming strategy, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's popular late-night block of animated programming aimed at adults 18-34, will add four new action/animé series to its line-up this year.


"Action programming has been part of Adult Swim since we launched in September 2001," said Mike Lazzo, Cartoon Network's senior vice president responsible for Adult Swim. "With the popularity of series like InuYasha and Cowboy Bebop and the great new shows we've acquired, we decided to create an exclusive destination on Saturdays where fans can turn for the best animé."


To kick off the new action block, Adult Swim presents The Animatrix on Saturday, April 17, at 11 p.m. (ET, PT). Springing forth from the world of the successful film trilogy The Matrix, The Animatrix presents nine original short animated stories directed by pre-eminent animé directors, including Andy Jones (Final Flight of The Osiris), Mahiro Maeda (The Second Renaissance: Parts 1 and 2), Shinichiro Watanabe (Kid's Story, Detective Story), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Program), Takeshi Koike (World Record), Koji Morimoto (Beyond) and Peter Chung (Matriculated). Four of the nine episodes were written by Larry and Andy Wachowski, and all of the episodes are grounded in the world of the The Matrix.


Among the other new acquisitions that will be part of Adult Swim's new Saturday night line-up:

InuYasha: Cartoon Network has acquired 52 additional episodes of the highly rated series InuYasha, which will begin in April. When a young girl named Kagome is transported back in time to feudal Japan, she meets InuYasha, the son of a powerful demon father with a human mother. Together, they protect the powerful "Jewel of Four Souls" from the demons and goblins who seek it. New episodes of InuYasha will begin airing on Adult Swim beginning Saturday, April 24, at 11 p.m. (ET, PT), with a premiere each Saturday evening.



Wolf's Rain: Set in a post-apocalyptic future, Wolf's Rain premieres on Adult Swim in April. In this series, wolves are mystical creatures that disguise themselves in human form. One lone wolf named Kiba is tracking a scent that he believes will lead him to paradise. The source of the smell is an unusual creature made of flowers named Cheza. When Cheza is kidnapped, Kiba begins a journey to find her. Cartoon Network has acquired 26 episodes of Wolf's Rain, which begins Saturday, April 24 at 11:30 p.m. (ET, PT).



Witch Hunter Robin: This series, which began on Adult Swim in February, joins the new Saturday all-action night lineup beginning April 24. Witch Hunter Robin, which will air Saturdays as well as Monday-Thursday at 12:30 p.m. (ET, PT), brings high action, intrigue and conspiracy to its gothic story, set in present-day Japan. In a world where witches abuse their supernatural powers, a special team is given the task of hunting this new threat to society. The STN is a shadowy international organization combating the Witches with a blend of technology, forensic science, and other supernaturally powered team members of their own. A young lady named Robin is the most powerful member of the team. Her mysterious gift, the ability to summon deadly flames, will determine the fates of her colleagues and lead her into a dark world of mystique and witchcraft. Witch Hunter Robin is directed by animé veteran Shukou Murase, who served as character designer for Gundam Wing and Argentosoma.



Case Closed: The detective series Case Closed, which joins Adult Swim in June, is adapted from the popular Japanese weekly manga Detective Conan, which has been published since 1994. Case Closed tells the story of Jimmy Kudo, a famous teenage detective who is poisoned by a mysterious organization. The experiment was supposed to kill him but instead it makes Jimmy grow younger. Trapped inside the body of a 7-year-old, Jimmy takes the name Conan Edogawa and begins to search for the men who did this to him while a friend and family neighbor, Dr. Agasa, invents gadgets for Conan to solve crimes.



Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Coming to Adult Swim in October, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex presents a world in which female cyborg Major Motoko Kusanagi and her fellow police officers of Section 9 must hunt down criminals in both the real world and online worlds. Set in the not-too-distant future where technology plays a key role in everyday human life, this sci-fi action series combines the latest in full CG animation featuring dramatic themes, compelling characters and meticulous design. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex adds a new vision to one of the most well-regarded animé feature films of all time, 1995's Ghost in the Shell. Produced by Japan's acclaimed Production I.G. Studios (Kill Bill, Blood the Last Vampire), the new animé series consists of 26 futuristic half-hour episodes.

The Adult Swim Saturday night line-up is as follows (all times ET, PT):


Beginning Saturday, April 24

11 p.m. InuYasha
11:30 p.m. Wolf’s Rain
12 a.m. FLCL
12:30 a.m. Witch Hunter Robin
1 a.m. Trigun
1:30 a.m. Cowboy Bebop
StevieV019 03-26-2004 07:30 AM
The see-saw continues...this was posted at animationinsider.net....looks like Adult Swim is coming to Saturday...just a follow up post to corroborate Big Mo's post above....here ya go:

quote:
AS IS COMING TO SAT
AS IS COMING TO SAT
By Cody "DC" Silfies, Animation Insider Staff Contributor

According to Cartoon Network, Adult Swim will go ahead and launch on Saturday (11 p.m.-2 a.m., ET/PT) with a line-up dedicated exclusively to top action-adventure and animé series.

Beginning Saturday, April 17, Adult Swim will air six nights per week. As part of the new programming strategy, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s popular late-night block of animated programming aimed at adults 18-34, will add four new action/animé series to its line-up this year.

“Action programming has been part of Adult Swim since we launched in September 2001,” said Mike Lazzo, Cartoon Network’s senior vice president responsible for Adult Swim. “With the popularity of series like InuYasha and Cowboy Bebop and the great new shows we’ve acquired, we decided to create an exclusive destination on Saturdays where fans can turn for the best animé.”

To kick off the new action block, Adult Swim presents The Animatrix on Saturday, April 17, at 11 p.m. (ET, PT). Springing forth from the world of the successful film trilogy The Matrix, The Animatrix presents nine original short animated stories directed by pre-eminent animé directors, including Andy Jones (Final Flight of The Osiris), Mahiro Maeda (The Second Renaissance: Parts 1 and 2), Shinichiro Watanabe (Kid's Story, Detective Story), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Program), Takeshi Koike (World Record), Koji Morimoto (Beyond) and Peter Chung (Matriculated). Four of the nine episodes were written by Larry and Andy Wachowski, and all of the episodes are grounded in the world of the The Matrix.


The PR also points out the following:
•InuYasha - CN has picked up 52 episodes. New episodes will start Saturday, April 24th, at 11 p.m. (ET, PT), with a premiere each Saturday after.
•Wolf’s Rain - Cartoon Network has acquired 26 episodes of Wolf’s Rain, which begins Saturday, April 24 at 11:30 p.m. (ET, PT).
•Witch Hunter Robin - will air Saturdays as well as Monday-Thursday at 12:30 p.m.
•Case Closed - Joins AS in June.
•Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Starts up in October CN has all 26 episodes of the series.

Starting April 24th (the week after the block premeires) the schedule will go as follows:
11 - InuYasha
11:30 - Wolf’s Rain
12 - FLCL
12:30 - Witch Hunter Robin
1 - Trigun
1:30 - Cowboy Bebop

Premeire week will air the Animatrix shorts.

This was the way Adult Swim initially wanted to kick off their Adult Swim Action block, but about a month ago Cartoon Network's Marketing division told them a firm 'no', citing they didn't want to loose the children's advertising on the hours AS would take up.

Since then, AS.com has confirmed that the Saturday block will go ahead as planned and thanks all of the fans who expressed their dissapointment that it wasn't
C.R Foxhound 03-26-2004 10:16 AM
quote:
Originally posted by StevieV019
The see-saw continues...this was posted at animationinsider.net....looks like Adult Swim is coming to Saturday...just a follow up post to corroborate Big Mo's post above....here ya go:

quote:
AS IS COMING TO SAT
AS IS COMING TO SAT
By Cody "DC" Silfies, Animation Insider Staff Contributor

According to Cartoon Network, Adult Swim will go ahead and launch on Saturday (11 p.m.-2 a.m., ET/PT) with a line-up dedicated exclusively to top action-adventure and animé series.

Beginning Saturday, April 17, Adult Swim will air six nights per week. As part of the new programming strategy, Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s popular late-night block of animated programming aimed at adults 18-34, will add four new action/animé series to its line-up this year.

“Action programming has been part of Adult Swim since we launched in September 2001,” said Mike Lazzo, Cartoon Network’s senior vice president responsible for Adult Swim. “With the popularity of series like InuYasha and Cowboy Bebop and the great new shows we’ve acquired, we decided to create an exclusive destination on Saturdays where fans can turn for the best animé.”

To kick off the new action block, Adult Swim presents The Animatrix on Saturday, April 17, at 11 p.m. (ET, PT). Springing forth from the world of the successful film trilogy The Matrix, The Animatrix presents nine original short animated stories directed by pre-eminent animé directors, including Andy Jones (Final Flight of The Osiris), Mahiro Maeda (The Second Renaissance: Parts 1 and 2), Shinichiro Watanabe (Kid's Story, Detective Story), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Program), Takeshi Koike (World Record), Koji Morimoto (Beyond) and Peter Chung (Matriculated). Four of the nine episodes were written by Larry and Andy Wachowski, and all of the episodes are grounded in the world of the The Matrix.


The PR also points out the following:
•InuYasha - CN has picked up 52 episodes. New episodes will start Saturday, April 24th, at 11 p.m. (ET, PT), with a premiere each Saturday after.
•Wolf’s Rain - Cartoon Network has acquired 26 episodes of Wolf’s Rain, which begins Saturday, April 24 at 11:30 p.m. (ET, PT).
•Witch Hunter Robin - will air Saturdays as well as Monday-Thursday at 12:30 p.m.
•Case Closed - Joins AS in June.
•Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Starts up in October CN has all 26 episodes of the series.

Starting April 24th (the week after the block premeires) the schedule will go as follows:
11 - InuYasha
11:30 - Wolf’s Rain
12 - FLCL
12:30 - Witch Hunter Robin
1 - Trigun
1:30 - Cowboy Bebop

Premeire week will air the Animatrix shorts.

This was the way Adult Swim initially wanted to kick off their Adult Swim Action block, but about a month ago Cartoon Network's Marketing division told them a firm 'no', citing they didn't want to loose the children's advertising on the hours AS would take up.

Since then, AS.com has confirmed that the Saturday block will go ahead as planned and thanks all of the fans who expressed their dissapointment that it wasn't


sweetness, hopefull it will stay this way, since its almost April...

Finally, something to do on saturday, cant wait for Wolf's Rain, hell i cant wait for GITS.

gonna be a good year Cool

btw, when do the DVD's of GITS and Wolf's Rain come out?

and the hell is up with the children's advertising? dont they have all friggin day, especially on saturday, and AS is so late at night anyway, i dont understand that Confused
robotnik 03-26-2004 12:25 PM
quote:
and the hell is up with the children's advertising? dont they have all friggin day, especially on saturday, and AS is so late at night anyway, i dont understand that


IIRC, the 18 to 25 (35?) demographic with money to spend is out (not watching tv) on Friday night & Saturday night. On the other hand, kids and younger teens are probably home watching, prime to be bombarded with ads for flashy junk they'll beg their parents to buy.

This doesn't explain the decent ratings on Fox when X-Files ran on Friday nights. Or does it?

Anyways, another night of anime is always good.
The Big Mo 03-26-2004 12:39 PM
quote:
Originally posted by C.R Foxhound
btw, when do the DVD's of GITS and Wolf's Rain come out?


I think its sometime around July for both.
StevieV019 03-26-2004 02:53 PM
My question then, is this:

What will happen to Toonami?? If Im not mistaken, Toonami was supposed to air from 7 pm to 2 am come April on Saturdays (right around April 17th), with a new cartoon block (I forget the name) coming for the weekdays. If Adult Swim takes over Saturday on April 17th, what will happen to Toonami and the new weekday programming block. Something seems odd...for some reason there seems to be a lack of consistency in the news thats being reported about Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, Toonami, SVES, and new weekday afternoon programming block. We ARE right around the April 1st time frame, is this perhaps an Aprils Fools Day joke? I dunno...but does anyone feel the same way??
The Big Mo 03-26-2004 03:25 PM
AS was supposed to be getting Saturdays. This was announced around Janurary 20th. Then CTN has their anual upfront press thingamawhosits and announces Toonami will be moving to Saturdays and Miguzi taking its place on weekdays. A day or two after that it is announced that AS was unable to acquire Saturday because the ad sales department was reluctant to hand over, I think it was, an hour of children's advertising time. It was also mentioned the fight for Saturdays would continue.

So AS Saturdays are on, a month later they are not, then a month later they are back on again.

I would assume an annoucement regarding the new new Toonami schedule will be made within the next few days.

EDIT: Basically what I'm saying is that there was a delay regarding the no Saturday thing after it was announced Toonami would go there. Now its vice versa.
Wingnut 03-26-2004 08:43 PM
It doesn't look that way at all guys.
Look for yourselves
The Big Mo 03-26-2004 09:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Wingnut
It doesn't look that way at all guys.
Look for yourselves


Obviously they've yet to update the site.

Or the left hand doesn't know what the right foot is doing over at Williams Street.
StevieV019 03-29-2004 07:50 AM
quote:
AS was supposed to be getting Saturdays. This was announced around Janurary 20th. Then CTN has their anual upfront press thingamawhosits and announces Toonami will be moving to Saturdays and Miguzi taking its place on weekdays. A day or two after that it is announced that AS was unable to acquire Saturday because the ad sales department was reluctant to hand over, I think it was, an hour of children's advertising time. It was also mentioned the fight for Saturdays would continue.

So AS Saturdays are on, a month later they are not, then a month later they are back on again.

I would assume an annoucement regarding the new new Toonami schedule will be made within the next few days.

EDIT: Basically what I'm saying is that there was a delay regarding the no Saturday thing after it was announced Toonami would go there. Now its vice versa.


The time schedule and the events regarding the moves all make sense to me. It looks like AS has been swinging back and forth between getting Saturdays and not getting Saturdays. As of now, based upon both of our postings, they are ON for Saturdays. However, does anyone know what the future of Toonami is? Have they scrapped the Miyazaki (or whatever the "new weekday afternoon" cartoon block is called) block? Or is Toonami the unlucky victim?

I know...based upon whats been posted, and what hasnt been posted, people probably dont know...just wondering if anyone's heard anything or are we all waiting for an updated from CN...
StevieV019 03-30-2004 09:52 AM
Just an FYI...

Yesterday, I was watching Toonami and they aired a commercial advertising Toonami's new look starting April 17th. The time they advertised would be a Saturday Toonami from 7 pm-11pm...which goes along with previous news about :

-Toonami being moved to Saturdays
-The new afternoon action block coming to weekdays and
-Adult Swim coming to Saturdays

Toonami originally was supposed to air from 7 pm-2am, but with it airing until 11 pm, it looks like it opens the door for an Adult Swim run from 11 pm-2am on Saturdays...as previously reported...looks like the pieces are fitting together....
C.R Foxhound 03-30-2004 10:47 AM
AS better run at eleven , im tired of this flip flopping B.S
re-animate 03-30-2004 08:07 PM
possibility of flcl season two.....

read it on a fan site

rumor or fact.......
Wingnut 03-30-2004 08:23 PM
quote:
Originally posted by re-animate
possibility of flcl season two.....

read it on a fan site

rumor or fact.......

And what was their source/evidence?
I say rumor.
re-animate 03-30-2004 09:37 PM
they heard it from a frinds frinds frinds frinds step-daugters footdocter who hapent to live near the gainax production agency, and saw it through his cristal ball......


nah, they said they cought wiff of it from a gainax script writer.
dominusofdeath 03-30-2004 09:54 PM
Why move toonami?
That means Kenshin is Cancelled.
I'm going on a hunger strike!