the apocalypse is upon us

[moonwise]

I saw an advertisement for Naruto on CN, which is premiering the second weekend in September.

Brace yourselves, anime fans.

Comments

[neochichiri.livejournal.com]

It depends on who licensed it. I used to actually like when ADV licensed anime...but they're slowing their turn around down ALOT lately. (It was well over a year from the time they licensed Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu! to the time they ANNOUNCED the English cast list)

[memlu.livejournal.com]

Good grief, yes. They released the first DVD of Princess Tutu back in, what, January? And months went by before they put up a notice of indefinite delay on the next. Not nice, fellas! I used to adore you!

It's pretty much par for the course to go omgnot4Kidsplz, so I'll skip over that. *g*

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I do know that the entire series of Tutu has been dubbed (you can watch episodes on certain cable pay channels, though I myself haven't), so I'm confident the DVDs will be out some day. But I am sad it's taking this long. Maybe if they aired it and audiences watched it there would be a push for the DVDs. Then again... I have no idea what channel/programming block they'd air it on. It kind of defies categories... it seems like its aimed young, but at the same time there's bits of mature stuff in there too. And it's so positively weird. If I had my way it's air on adult swim or a very late Toonami time slot, simply because I'd rather not see it cut. Although, what would they cut, really? Cause there's only really one scene with strong questionable implications (Rue & Mytho, naked, feathers), but sometimes there's all these subtle implications, like with Fakir/Mytho... how do you edit something that vague? And yet at the same time, it may be vague but you can't really ignore it either. Tis quite a quandry. I'd put it on AS, though, just because they need more weird, funny, inspired anime to liven up their schedule.


If it went to 4Kids, I'd punch something. They'd suck the life and romance and magic right out of PT. They'd try to make it less weird and dark, and focus on the magic and flowery bits. But that'd suck the soul out of the show because the weird dark subversiveness is the soul of PT. They'd make it about ballet, when actually its about classic fairytales and storytelling.