Anime to return to Sci-Fi

[Roy Mustang]

Just got this by email from the atlanime group.

Sci-fi Channel will start airing anime again on Jun. 11 at 11:00 PM. The lineup will be called Ani-Monday, and run for 2 hours every Monday and feature titles will be from Manga Entertainment.

I just check and ANN has it reported and has more details about it.


Col. Roy Mustang

[Fish and Chips]

Sci-Fi channel's going for the underground anime audience, eh? Any words on what titles they have in store for us?

[ashfire]

I wonder why just Monday and why at 11 PM? Maybe they don't want to mess with CN's line up.

[Roy Mustang]

I wonder why just Monday and why at 11 PM? Maybe they don't want to mess with CN's line up.

I think they are going to test the waters.

From what I saw at Sci Fi Channel lineup.

June 11

They will air Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society


Then the lineup untill the end of June will be.

11:00 pm Noein

11:30 pm Tokko

12:00 am Macross Plus

Col. Roy Mustang

[KhakiBlueSocks]

You know, once upon a time, Sci-Fi had Pilot Candidate, and I THINK they aired something with Evangelion too.

Either way, If this takes off like I think it will, Adult Swim had better straighten up and fly right.

[rocklobster]

WOO-HOO! They used to air some great movies back in the day: Robot Carnival, Project A-ko, Galaxy Express 999, and Akira (ok, so I didn't like it, but I know it's a classic).

[Doubleshadow]

Good news. New titles to try.

[Roy Mustang]

WOO-HOO! They used to air some great movies back in the day: Robot Carnival, Project A-ko, Galaxy Express 999, and Akira (ok, so I didn't like it, but I know it's a classic).

Yeah, they had Saturday Anime in the late 90's.

Here is a list of animes that have showed.

8 Man After

Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture

Tenchi Muyo! in Love

Armitage III: Poly-Matrix

Robot Carnival

Galaxy Express 999

Akira

Dominion Tank Police

E.Y.E.S. of Mars

Galaxy Express 999

Gall Force

Green Legend Ran

Iria: Zeiram the Animation

Lily C.A.T.

Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight

Project A-ko

Roujin Z

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer

Vampire Hunter D

Record of Lodoss War OVA

Col. Roy Mustang

[Blitzkrieg1701]

Oh man. This is, hands-down, the coolest thing I've heard from the Sci-Fi Chanel in a LONG time.

Let us rejoice and dance and sing in the new!!!

[Fish and Chips]

Oh man. This is, hands-down, the coolest thing I've heard from the Sci-Fi Chanel in a LONG time.

Let us rejoice and dance and sing in the new!!!

Next best thing since Tremors - The Series.

Yes.

[Bobtheduck]

Too bad I lost my VCR remote, and now can't watch anything but networks... I really want to start watching anime again.

[Kkun]

I wish they'd show E.Y.E.S. of Mars again. It was sad, but pretty good.

[ashfire]

Too bad I lost my VCR remote, and now can't watch anything but networks... I really want to start watching anime again.

You got to be joking. You can pickup a replacement remote at any Radio Shack or electronics store or department section of big box stores like K-Mart, Wal Mart etc...

[Bobtheduck]

You got to be joking. You can pickup a replacement remote at any Radio Shack or electronics store or department section of big box stores like K-Mart, Wal Mart etc...

Replacement remotes? If you mean "universal" remotes, they don't work on this VCR... If I find a frequency which works, the buttons are all mixed up, some of them don't work at all, and many functions are missing...

I have yet to see a set specific replacement remote... Radio shack probably used to have things like that... They're too focused on selling cell phones and cell phone accessories now...

Besides that, universal remotes are sort of expensive. I don't watch TV enough to pay 30-40 bucks on a controller that isn't guaranteed to work...

[Roy Mustang]

SCI FI Unveils 'Ani-Monday'


Col. Roy Mustang

[CrimsonRyu17]

They're showing Blood. I've been wanting to see this.

Teh awesomeness.

[KhakiBlueSocks]

Besides that, universal remotes are sort of expensive. I don't watch TV enough to pay 30-40 bucks on a controller that isn't guaranteed to work...

$30-40 bucks?! Where do you buy YOUR Universal Remotes? Wal-Mart got a bunch of 'em for under $10!

Back on subject: I saw the list of anime Sci-Fi is going to show, and I must say I'm intrigued! Maybe I'll finally get a chance to jump onto the "Ghost in the Shell" bandwagon. (I never really got into the series)

[rocklobster]

I just saw on ANN that these other programs are expected to air as well:
NInja Scroll (movie)
Read or Die (OVA version)
Blood: the Last Vampire

[Bobtheduck]

$30-40 bucks?! Where do you buy YOUR Universal Remotes? Wal-Mart got a bunch of 'em for under $10!

http://www.walmart.com/search/search-ng.do?search_constraint=0&search_query=universal+remote&Continue.x=0&Continue.y=0&Continue=Find&ic=24_0

http://www.buy.com/retail/searchresults.asp?querytype=home&qu=universal+remote&qxt=home&display=col&dclksa=1

The under 30 crowd won't mean much to me unless they have access to all the menu functions I need. And, you know, unless it actually would correspond with the buttons my VCR, which the universal remote I have doesn't do...

[Fish and Chips]

I just saw on ANN that these other programs are expected to air as well:
Read or Die (OVA version)

Well it's about time someone aired that again.

Oh, wait, but I already own it on DVD.

Forget you people.

[Roy Mustang]

I just saw on ANN that these other programs are expected to air as well:
NInja Scroll (movie)
Read or Die (OVA version)
Blood: the Last Vampire

Blackjack is also on the list that will air on the Sci Fi channel.

Well it's about time someone aired that again.

I have always wonder if AS gave up the tv airing rights to ROD (OVA) and now we know.





Col. Roy Mustang

[Roy Mustang]

Update: They on Sci Fi Channel.

They show Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Street Fighter II V on the Ani-Monday block for July.


Col. Roy Mustang

[Zeonic Freak]

Yea, i also hear the end of the month there showing Macross Plus as well...

[Roy Mustang]

Yea, i also hear the end of the month there showing Macross Plus as well...

Yep, Macross Plus OVA is what they will be showing.




Col. Roy Mustang

[mitsuki lover]

Actually from what I see in the tv section of today's paper they will be re-airing
Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within tommorrow from 11 p.m.-1 a.m.
So you might also want to keep that in mind as well.

As far as the Read or Die OVA goes,you also have to remember that AS also only showed the Escaflowne movie once as well so it might just be that they lost interest in it as much as anything else.And one needs to remember that R.O.D. might not have been the direction that AS wanted to go to either when it came to anime.
I mean any series or OVA that features a bookworm that doesn't look like
a blonde bombshell might not be the type of draw that AS was looking for.
Just my thinking on R.O.D. and AS(also the fact that at the time the OVA aired on
AS G4 still had the rights to R.O.D.the tv might be another factor).

[Roy Mustang]

Actually from what I see in the tv section of today's paper they will be re-airing
Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within tommorrow from 11 p.m.-1 a.m.
So you might also want to keep that in mind as well.

I check the Sci Fi Channel web site and it does show FF:TSW on Tommorow night from 11 pm to 1 am.


Col. Roy Mustang

[ChristianKitsune]

so...are they just gonna show bits and pieces of each series? Or will there be some sort of consistency?

[Roy Mustang]

so...are they just gonna show bits and pieces of each series? Or will there be some sort of consistency?

It will be some sort of consistency. Macross Plus OVA is only four eps long of a running time of 40 mins.


Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Ghost in the Shell: SAC SSS are movies and Street Fighter II V, Noein and Tokko are TV series.

This is what they show from June to July as showing.


Col. Roy Mustang

[mitsuki lover]

According to the information in the Rightstuf catalog the Highlander movie will
feature COLIN and not DUNCAN MacLeod.In other words it occurs in one of the
parallel universes to the live action tv series.Also Colin voluntarily had
Duncan kill him in the End Game movie which is another clear sign it is not in the same universe as the series.

[creed4]

Blood + has got me interested in seeing Blood the last Vampire