Cartoon Network takes a hit on Adult Swim

[Sixchan]

Frankly I have always felt cartoon network would be best served by splitting into two channels, one that is complete anime all the time. Not being in a youngster catergory anymore(18-25), my workload precludes me from staying up to 1 am to watch cowboy beebop, hell since I usually awaken at 4 am I generally couldnt watch futurama.

However an all anime all the time channel with a good mixture of different shows,(mecha fantasy and so on), I would deffinetely watch.

Well, this is what we get in the UK. That's why I wasn't sure what Adult Swim was exactly, since our version, CNX, is on 24/7. It's not all anime, but I guess it's basicly most of the shows that they show on Adult Swim.

Though there are some differences. Sky One has quite a few of the animes mentioned, that they show in the mornings. And Fox Kids has Jackie Chan Adventures (And Sailor Moon, but they stopped showing that just as I actually developed an interest in it, thanks to one of the PbP games).

 

[Welverin]

I haven't watched Cartoon Network since they stopped running Batman: The Animated Series every afternoon. And unless the bring that back, or put Gargoyles on the air, I'm not going to be watching the network in the future.

What? Not even for Futurama?

 

[jdavis]

Well, this is what we get in the UK. That's why I wasn't sure what Adult Swim was exactly, since our version, CNX, is on 24/7. It's not all anime, but I guess it's basicly most of the shows that they show on Adult Swim.

Though there are some differences. Sky One has quite a few of the animes mentioned, that they show in the mornings. And Fox Kids has Jackie Chan Adventures (And Sailor Moon, but they stopped showing that just as I actually developed an interest in it, thanks to one of the PbP games).

I think there are two here too, Boomerang shows older cartoons, I am not sure it's a separate channel but I think it is. Of course where I live we don't get a lot of cable channels.

 

[Welverin]

I think there are two here too, Boomerang shows older cartoons, I am not sure it's a separate channel but I think it is. Of course where I live we don't get a lot of cable channels.

It's a separate channel but part of the same syndicate.

 

[Jemal]

Up here in canada we don't have Cartoon network, but we've got something that's basically the same thing that's been going for a few years... "Teletoon", and every night they have a block of programs called "Teletoon Unleashed"

As for the lack of Anime stores... Saskatoon (The city I live in) Is only about 300,000 people and we've got at least 3 stores I know of that are all about cartoons + Anime (Evangelion, Sailor Moon, DBZ, etc).

Course then again they don't call saskatoon 'toontown' for nothin', eh?

 

[jdavis]

As for the lack of Anime stores... Saskatoon (The city I live in) Is only about 300,000 people and we've got at least 3 stores I know of that are all about cartoons + Anime (Evangelion, Sailor Moon, DBZ, etc).

Where I live is a thriving metropolis of around 30,000 (if we're lucky), If they don't sell it at Wal Mart then it's hard to get around here. We have a comic book store that also has some gaming stuff(a rack of stuff and some dice) and and there is a Suncoast in the Mall for anime. Thank goodness for mail order, I order most of my stuff off the internet. Heck it wasn't that long ago that we got Cartoon Network as a cable channel here.

 

[jdavis]

My favorites are Aqua Teen Hunger Force (again, go figure) and Harvey Birdman (which seems to be in limbo right now). The Brak Show, Space Ghost, and Sealab all have some good episodes here and there, but I am not a regular for those shows.

New Harvey Birdman this week.

http://www.animelib.com/index.php?nav=0&m=viewnews&id=162&PHPSESSID=c77b5293abd4bee8d794b2d222ff89b8

They also had some news on the ratings for adult swim going up again.

 

[Chun-tzu]

New Samurai Jack as well, starting this Saturday. Woohoo!

And here's an interview with Bruce Timm on season 2 of Justice League, starting this summer. It looks like season 2 will be better than the first, and that they recognize some of the weaknesses of the first season and have worked on them. I can't wait!

http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=000941

 

[Angcuru]

[Turn on Squeaky Meatwad voice]

Hell, yeah, I'm a dirty white boy! You give me a beer and woman, I'll give that waterbed a work out.

[Turn off Squeaky Meatwad voice]



and now for the gamer version

Hell, yeah I wanna go kill evil! You give me a beer and a greatsword, I'll give that battlefield a work out!