Anime Movies to show in CN

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Cartoon Network has announced at the official Adult Swim boards that they have picked up Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, Metropolis, and two Inuyasha movies for 2005. Metropolis is scheduled to premiere in "early 2005," the Inuyasha movies in Spring and Summer, and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie in the Fall.

 

Which Inuyasha movies they are showing is unspecified, however at this time only two movies are licensed, the first movie, Inuyasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time, and the second one, Inuyasha: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass.

 

http://boards.adultswim.com/adultswim/boar...id=47&jump=true

[Agozer]

Metropolis is great. Well worth your time.

[Gryph]

I like Fritz Lang's Metropolis, does this anime have any relation to it? Like a homage or anything?

Edited September 27, 2004 by GryphonKlaw

[Agozer]

I like Fritz Lang's Metropolis, is this anime have any relation to it? Like a homage or anything?

If I'm not mistaken the Anime metropolis is based on Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

 

I haven't seen the original Metropolis, so I can't comment that.

[Skythe]

I already saw Metropolis on TV. I think it was STARZ. Plus the Cowboy Bebop movie. Big deal with that.

[AntiWinner22]

I would rather buy the DVDs for $15 than wait an entire year for all of them to show. But, for those who can't, this is a good deal.

 

Anon.

[Daeval]

True that the DVDs are easier for fans, but I like this because it exposes them to people who may not have seen them. I haven't given Inayusha a chance yet (mostly because it looks at first glance like every other sword-wielding fuzzy-eared anime out ther, none of which I'm big on), but Cowboy Bebop and Metropolis, from what I've heard, could edumacate some people about the potential of anime (and animation in general) as a medium for serious storytelling. I'm all about preaching the virtues of alternative media.

Edited September 27, 2004 by Daeval

[Agozer]

but Cowboy Bebop and Metropolis, from what I've heard, could edumacate some people about the potential of anime (and animation in general) as a medium for serious storytelling.  I'm all about preaching the virtues of alternative media. 

Don't forget Studio Ghibli's works. Those are groundbreaking in this field.

[Daeval]

but Cowboy Bebop and Metropolis, from what I've heard, could edumacate some people about the potential of anime (and animation in general) as a medium for serious storytelling.  I'm all about preaching the virtues of alternative media. 

Don't forget Studio Ghibli's works. Those are groundbreaking in this field.

Definately, among others, I was just reffering to those that Cartoon Network had picked up.

[Gryph]

Anyone remember how back in the day the only channel on TV that would ever show anime was the Scifi Channel and that too only on Saturday mornings? And they'd alternate the same ones every weekend. Talk about the stone age.

Edited September 27, 2004 by GryphonKlaw

[Wizard]

In Canada, there was only 2 stations that showed anime at the time. Teletoon(which would reintroduce me into Anime with view discretion ones) and YTV. Now if I get a dish or digital cable, I can see more o.o

[Sturmvogel]

Anyone remember how back in the day the only channel on TV that would ever show anime was the Scifi Channel and that too only on Saturday mornings? And they'd show the would alternate the same ones every weekend.  Talk about the stone age.

Yeah Gryph...that's where it all started for me. I used to watch Ronin Warriors (aka Samurai Troopers) on Sci-Fi way back when in '97. I'd seen the seres a few years earlier but then I went to a boarding school so...then I just picked up where I left off in '97. Anyway, the program was called the Animation Station, and they showed a lot of decent movies like Tenchi Muyo in Love and Green Legend Ran.

[Daeval]

For a while there, we only ever got anime on TV when the sci-fi channel had a special anime marathon. I forget what they called it. And yeah, they usually showed the same three or four things (Iria was one of them 99% of the time). Then they finally went with the saturday mornings.

 

Man, back then, I had to borrow bootlegged VHS's from friends who knew people who knew people who'd been to japan, etc. Hehehe...

 

Although, other than the kid shows and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, there's still not a lot on TV.

[Wizard]

Reminded me of something. YTV plays a 24 hour anime-a-thon on New Year's Eve. Showing stuff from the late 80`s/early 90`s, including both Inyasha movies, stuff that hasn't even aired in Canadian Stations yet.

[Weirdy]

this reminds me of the TYME(about last spring) at the local fair a friend of mine bought a bootleg copy of the first Inuyasha movie. The subs were in engrish, it was funny.