As I explained in a previous post, the way Cartoon Network assigns a time slot to a show has a direct correlation to how much money Cartoon Network stands to make off the broadcast deal. By the time SEED was scheduled to go on the air, the Gundam franchise was in steep decline - most of the money i...

Honestly, though, I'd like to blame part of the decline on the way television (especially Cartoon Network) has treated anime. A dozen years ago, most of us would get home from school and watch Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing, and other such exciting shows on Toonami five days a week, and quite a few peop...

Glad to hear you're excited, Albireo. :P Happy to review the show, particularly since it has so little web presence (like Dunbine and L-Gaim). It'll be the toughest I've done yet, that's for sure but am looking forward to it. Was able to tackle my first draft for ep 1 tonight, hopefully in a manner ...

Would love to review it for the site like I've done some other things, but the show is just so ridiculously complex that I don't think it would flow well through typed up episode summaries (and I think Chris has claimed ownership of it anyway). You can go ahead and knock yourself out if you want to...

Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show and Imajica. Those who have read the first will know the obvious way in which I express my enjoyment of it.

I enjoyed the show alot when I finally got around to watching the whole thing. Initially only got the first 2 discs, didn't find the show interesting enough to stick with, and a few years later was able to get the entire show for cheap from RightStuf and found it a lot better when I was able to see ...

Great thread, particularly Keith's posts. You've articulated so well what I've always felt is the heart of the problem, not the piracy, but the japanese companies themselves and the lower quality products that they've been creating, then forcing into the North American market. The biggest question t...

Your 2007 NFL Champions: The New England Patriots And while I'd love to say that the Boston College Eagles will be the BCS Champions, they'll do their usual choke job late in the season and will barely make top 25, if at all. USC Trojans is my pick for the championship this year. I must say, this q...

I doubt we'll see any of the older Gundam series anytime soon due to low sales, and it's not just stuff like Gundam that is suffering from low sales the whole industry is. Since you can get almost any anime for free these days who is gonna pay for them? Why buy when you can get it for free? Look at...

Honestly, nobody can answer that. Currently, the odds are against it, but it might happen someday. They might as well, they dubbed Zeta out of the blue. (which i'm glad they did of course) I'm gonna be pissed if they decide to ignore all the ones i mentioned and License Gundam 00 once it finished i...

Escaflowne's an amazing series and I can't stress that fact enough. In fact I would probably say that it is the single best mecha anime series ever made. Yes better than Evangelion, even better than Gundam. Although to be fair to those shows (well at least Gundam) one of the reasons Esca is so great...

If a Gundam show ever gets aired in Cartoon Network again I hope they try to avoid what they did to SEED and at least give it a chance I hate to sound so negative on the subject, but if Seed of all shows was treated that badly, I don't see how they would treat anything else any better. If a show th...

I doubt it would do too good. I actually think the animation is quite good (I prefer it to Seed's), but I'm one who prefers 80's animation, so that's just me. I doubt it would do any better than MS Gundam would because of the 'outdated' animation. And knowing CN, if they were to even air it, it woul...

personally have come to believe that anime was fated to remain a niche market in North America, if not internationally. It had plenty of room for growth and grow it did in this last decade. But in order to realize the kind of profit these anime licensing companies wanted would take a major media su...

I don't think we can say it's Cartoon Network's fault, it makes about as much sense as blaming everyone who didn't watch Gundam on TV. Cartoon Network is doing nothing without reason. Cartoon Network is nothing but another group out trying to make money. Their money comes from ratings and things li...

You know, I just realized that the interview is from 1993, right about the same time as Victory. Hmm, I see a correlation. I mean, it's safe to say that Tomino was at a kill 'em all high while working on Victory. It's also safe to say that his disdain for the genre shown through at times. i'd say i...

The plainness of one's uniform doesn't mean much. Standings do. Cleveland is 3-1. Cincinnati is 1-3. Plus we all know the longstanding reputation of the Bengals' downright crap-ness. They havent had a good season since the late eighties, minus a fluke in 2005 where they actually made it to the play...

They still did a good job, but I still cannot remember Rosamia Piloting that thing and fighting the zeta. Another thing I noticed about this series was there is a huge amount of girl characters now that I really think about it :/ ? Kamille actually thinks about that fact after he comes back to spac...

Galaxy Express 999 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999 on the Sci-Fi channel. Imagine my surprise when I realized that there were uncut versions on VHS that were immensely better than the already amazing edited versions I saw on TV.

If thats the case then yes, I would agree