Adult Swim goes old school. Really old school.

DTJB · Post by **DTJB** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:23 pm

Starting Monday October 21, Adult Swim will be broadcasting the original Gigantor T.V. series at 4:30 a.m., central time. This is one of the earliest mecha shows around and it's a nice example of what anime was like way back then. Personally, I'm interesting in seeing how this will turn out. I think it's a great time slot to put the show in, 'cuss lets face it, not many anime fans, the younger ones especially, will embrace and series that's older than them, and is in black and white, and showing something that early in the morning means the network won't have to worry about ratings or anything like that. I probably won't check out every single installment, but I am really looking forward to seeing it.

EmilLang1000 · Post by **EmilLang1000** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:47 pm

Uh huh... unless you mean November 21st, I'd say your sources are horribly wrong...

Valder · Post by **Valder** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:22 am

I'll be up or have the VCR running. I remember watching Gigantor as a kid. Should be neat to see how my memory is distorted. Now where is Dangard Ace?

Valder

EmilLang1000 · Post by **EmilLang1000** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:00 am

I wanna see 'em put on Mazinger Z or something... G-Force'd be good, too, but that may be asking for too much.

Harlock or Starblazers, though, now THERE'S a couple I could get into...

or Maison Ikokku, or Urusei Yatsur (not happening), or Ranma (HELL no, not happening), Slayers, Video Girl Ai (again, not happening), Love Hina, Ah! My Goddess... hell, anything made between 1985 and 2001... and they DEFINITELY need to get Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust on.

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 2:06 am

Mazinger Z could be a tricky one...I think the license for that's been on kind of dicy ground given it got released stateside back in the 70s-80s in a VERY butchered form known as Tranzor Z (let's put it this way, everyone's names were changed, the show was 1/3 of its original length and all but two references to Japan were axed.) Suffice to say, as a result of that old license, Mazinger's been kind of caught in a legal battle since.

Right now only chance we'd have to see Mazinger hit the airwaves is if AS runs ADV's release of Mazinkaiser...but given that'd be the English dub ... *shudders* (...super robot almost NEVER dubs well...it's a fact.)

...although, on the notes of ADV and older stuff, I'd love to see Adult Swim pick up the Megazone 23 trilogy at some point.

lordoftheburrito · Post by **lordoftheburrito** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:50 am

Awesome!

I wonder if they'll show the unedited version of the show (parts of the original show were considered too violent for american tv, so a lot of action was toned down for US viewers).

iamdeath · Post by **iamdeath** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:41 am

we used have good anime on anime swim

before we had

Tenchi muyo
orphan
yu yu hakusho/ then turn to trigun

now of course is Weekdays at nights
tues to thursday
Inital D
Inuyasha
inital D
inuyasha
they show same anime twice

monday

ghost in the shell 2
inuyasha
ghost in the shell 2
inuyasha

iamdeath · Post by **iamdeath** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:45 am

friday is usless

they show brak show
space ghost coast to coast
Teen huger force
Sealab 2021
like come on nobody going to watch it it boring poorly drawn i wish they shown anime we want take request

dbz
db
inuyasha
many more

Valder · Post by **Valder** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:21 pm

iamdeath wrote:like come on nobody going to watch it it boring poorly drawn i wish they shown anime we want take request

dbz
db

And those are really well drawn?

Valder

Yeah not a Dragonball fan....flame away.

iamdeath · Post by **iamdeath** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:32 pm

Valder wrote:
iamdeath wrote:like come on nobody going to watch it it boring poorly drawn i wish they shown anime we want take request

dbz
db

And those are really well drawn?

Valder

Yeah not a Dragonball fan....flame away.

you know the type of drawn like Flintstone jetson in space ghost & sea lab