Anime coming to the Sci-Fi Channel

Post by **JWR** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:37 am

Read this today.

http://today.reuters.com/News/ArticleBl ... Ffe5liWROg

Always good to get more outlets to watch.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:26 pm

That makes sense! There are quite alot of science fiction in Anime!

Can't wait for more anime! We can always use more!

crackpot27 · Post by **crackpot27** » Thu May 10, 2007 3:48 pm

That's good news

, I vaguely remember a while back where they would show the anime movies from time to time (saw Akira for the first time on Sci Fi), so it's good to see it coming back

syan · Post by **syan** » Thu May 10, 2007 8:32 pm

I heard about this earlier this week. I'm excited to see GitS: SSS! Sci Fi gave me first glance at anime - Project A-Ko Vs. Grey Side/Blue Side.

miz ducky · Post by **miz ducky** » Thu May 10, 2007 11:53 pm

Manga is one of the three major distributors of anime in the U.S. and a division of Starz Media.

*Cough* bullshit *Cough*
They have one big money maker and that is GITS.
The only other new shows they have is Tactics and Noein (and Karas, but lets not get into how they've screwed that release).

Other than that, they just coast along on old movie titles.

[sarcasm]Oh yeah, they're one of the top 3 alright. [/sarcasm]

I wonder who are supposed to be the other 2. I can think of 4 that I would say are much higher on the list than Manga.

But, Yay, anime on the sci-fi channel. I can dig it.

cutiebunny · Post by **cutiebunny** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:54 am

I enjoyed how the article featured a token picture of Astroboy. If Sci-fi is trying to capture the "18-34 year-old" male audience, would showing a picture of Astroboy really help?

Geez...at least post some random pic of an anime hooch....

Cue that random pic, Robo!

keeper · Post by **keeper** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:02 pm

crackpot27 wrote:That's good news , I vaguely remember a while back where they would show the anime movies from time to time (saw Akira for the first time on Sci Fi), so it's good to see it coming back

Same here! Gosh, I think this was back in like 1996 or something? It was a long time ago, but every Saturday morning they would show an anime film. I remember watching:

Akira
E.Y.E.S. of Mars (Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve)
Tenchi Muyo In Love
Project AKO
L.I.L.Y. Cat
Vampire Hunter D
Demon City Shinjuku
Green Legend Ran
Venus War

And a few other titles that I didn't sit through; either I didn't have the time before work to watch them entirely, or they just didn't appeal to me. Even though now I refuse to watch anime dubbed, this was actually how I got "into" anime - unless you count watching Unico and Kimba the White Lion when I was three.

Anyway, hopefully I can catch some of the new titles they'll be showing!

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Sun May 13, 2007 9:02 pm

Those who forget the mistakes of the past. . .

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:34 am

keeper wrote:
crackpot27 wrote:That's good news , I vaguely remember a while back where they would show the anime movies from time to time (saw Akira for the first time on Sci Fi), so it's good to see it coming back
Same here! Gosh, I think this was back in like 1996 or something? It was a long time ago, but every Saturday morning they would show an anime film. I remember watching:

Akira
E.Y.E.S. of Mars (Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve)
Tenchi Muyo In Love
Project AKO
L.I.L.Y. Cat
Vampire Hunter D
Demon City Shinjuku
Green Legend Ran
Venus War

Me too! I remember watching anime on the Sci-Fi channel and Bravo when no one else would hardly show it. Bravo even had censored versions of adult anime, like Wicked City.

Those were some great memories, especially at a time when no one knew what anime was. Remember "Japanimation"?

Good times.

eddiefb3 · Post by **eddiefb3** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:24 pm

That sounds great, Cant wait to see some more anime on prime time tv

miz ducky wrote:

The only other new shows they have is Tactics and Noein (and Karas, but lets not get into how they've screwed that release).

I bought Noein and Karas on dvd..lol......still waiting for that second Karas dvd...its been over a year....soon...i hope...

LinaLoN · Post by **LinaLoN** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:24 am

I'm so glad to hear this too! I watched Tenchi Muyo for the first time on this channel when they showed "Tenchi Muyo in Love" which of course got me into the anime and remains to be one of my favorite anime movies of all time. Not to mention the only TM cels I have are of Archika because I LOVE her!

syan · Post by **syan** » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:07 pm

Doh! I forgot it started this week!