ADV Confirms Cable Anime Channel

Juanvaldes writes "ADV Films has confirmed reports that they are working to create a cable television channel dedicated to Anime. Currently they are releasing very few details about the channel itself. All that has been publicized at this time is that the channel will run 24 hours a day and will break its content into four categories, Action Zone, Sci-Fi, Comedy Incorrect, and Horror/Martial Arts." Hope I can get access to this one as soon as it comes out.

How about

[Anonymous Coward]

Hentai and Manga after 12 midnight?

No! Why should they?

[Anonymous Coward]

As we all know, no one should ever have access to media. It's all copyrighted and stuff, and you can't listen to it or watch it. They'll arrest you under the terms of the MCPTDTBCPCCMIA if you try to do that!

Anime?

[Hegemony]

What is the big deal with Anime anyway? Isn't it all just recycled Speed Racer cartoons?

the best part is

[Anonymous Coward]

they'll only need one show! (because all anime is the same)

I wonder if my spam filters...

[grub]

.. will drop today's Slashdot Headlines email because of the ADV in "ADV Confirms Cable Anime Channel"..

In other news

[nizcolas]

Hundreds of geeks have been confirmed missing. The last statement heard was "Anime channel you say?"

i'm just hoping

[subgeek]

that they don't find ways to work dragonball z marathons into more than one category. nothing is more exciting than watching characters look at each other and think about fighting for three or four episodes before anything actually happens.

maybe they'll pick up stuff we recently lost from adult swim.

Subtitles

[Iffy Bonzoolie]

I think they need two channels... one in original Japanese + subtitles, and one in crummy dubbed format. Otherwise there's gonna be riots and killing in the streets, meteors will fall from the sky, Linux will finally replace Windows on the desktop, and other crazy stuff. Mostly by my hand.

-If

Re:What about...

[isorox]

... the tentacled monster sex category?

You can't leave that one out and call yourself an Anime channel.

Hell, you could have an entire channel with tentacle monster sex

I don't know if I would let me children watch this

[Adam Rightmann]

for in my parish counciling groups, I have heard some horror stories about anime.

There was one young woman from Scotland who's fiancee would only be affectionate when she dressed up as something called Sailor Moon, which is apparently an anime character.

There was another young woman who father would make her wear revealing anime costumes for something called cosplay, I wonder if I should have alerted the authorities about possible abuse?

I have counseled countless young, over intellectual men who have perverted their sexual mores due to extensive hentia watching, for those who don't know, this is the Japanese festish animation involving aliens, tentacles and sexual relationships under duress.

I wonder why kids can't stick with good old-fashioned healthy American cartoons like Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner.

Ah, anime...

[Ron Harwood]

...it's one of those things you can guage how truly geeky a person is...

Score points for:

1. They watch anime.
2. They correct you if you call it something other than their preffered name (japanimation, manga, whatever)
3. Two words: "Anime Hentai"... (score triple points on this one - add one to that if they try to correct my usage of the words in this question)
4. They learned japanese so they could watch original anime without dubbing or subtitles.

Re:Will it come with a lockout?

[Anonymous Coward]

No... FM's BAD. Especially in stereo. (Death by Britney Spears)

We should all just sit by the fireplace and listen to the sound of wind blowing in the trees... like the Unabomber or something.

If only

[Srin Tuar]

If only there were someway to post japanese on slashdot, It would be perfect for sigs and snide elitist comments too.

Damn lameness filter.

What?

[Unknown Poltroon]

"Action Zone, Sci-Fi, Comedy Incorrect, and Horror/Martial Arts"

Wheres the "Adult" category, damnit??!?!?

Re:How about

[Kenja]

Manga? How the hell do you expect the cable service to provide printed comic books?

Re:I agree, what's wrong with Bugs Bunny

[Torgo's Pizza]

Daffy Duck has left Warner Bros. and joined the Dark Side of Disney!?! Will Elmer Fudd be next?

Re:How about

[Cpt_Kirks]

Man, some of that stuff is so hadcore there is *NO WAY* you could show it on cable. Well, in Tennessee, Utah and Alabama, anyway.

So, once again, thank GOD for Kazaa!

Kazaa, for the pr0n that refreshes!

skinime?

[supabeast!]

How about rolling over to soft-core hentai after 23:00, like skinemax.

Re:How about

[pizza_milkshake]

I was hoping for the Tentacle Rape Hour, perhaps around dinner time.

Time for a karma bonfire...

[Loki_1929]

But we already have the cartoon network...

Re:How about a Channel for the 80s kid?

[Artifex]

I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.

You seem to be thinking of only certain types of anime. Anime is not just fighting, space ships, kids battling with tiny creatures/machines/elemental forces, and/or giant robots. If you expand it out to include other types, you could substitute one or two sitcoms with magic in them (Bewitched [imdb.com], for example) for Kimagure Orange Road [imdb.com] (but I'll hit you with my 500lb. hammer if you say Alf [imdb.com] is anything like NieA Under 7 [imdb.com]).

Re:Ah, anime...

[Twid]

...it's one of those things you can guage how truly american a person is...

Score points for:

1. They only speak english.
2. They assume watching the Japanese equivalent of Powerpuff Girls when they are pushing 40 is "cool" and "alternative".
3. Two words: Morbidly Obese (score triple points if they say they are on a low-carb diet)
4. They assume that a person who admits to watching anime is geeky when statistically it is much more likely that they are japanese.

8-) 8-) 8-)

Re:How about

[Xaoswolf]

They would print one page per minute, unless there was a lot of talking, then they would have to hold it up for several minutes. Of course, I don't really know why they would have to wait until midnight to do so.

details...lacking details....

[phaderphox]

First a note: I didn't read through all the posts, as I have a test on my mind that is given in a 24 hr period, and, well, I haven't exactly attended that class...feel free to mod me down due to my bitching about this. on to the post. More details are needed before I, along with many other anime geeks, will be truly excited. Will there be subs, dubs, or both? will it all be censored to hell a la Cartoon Network? Will, as many others have questioned early on, there be times that "adult" content is shown? (I personally like it because it is nonsensically funny...ok...you saw through my lie.) Will these blocks be time based, or day based, or what? Will it only be anime licensed by ADV? Will there be anime movies, such as the popular well known Akira? My only suggestion is to market this like HBO, which has different channels with different purposes. A family channel with censored crap, A sub channel for "purists" (no comment, I like both types in different cases.) , a dubbed channel for "non-purists" (see above) a movie channel, etc. Hell, with enough capital they could have each "block" be a seperate channel. I am sure that there are enough people that would pay (yes pay....a term I don't like either) for this fabulous service. So if you work for ADV and read this, and think it is a good idea, just send me some dvds and pocky. I am running low and, being a college student, have no money.

Re:i'm just hoping

[holmesIV]

Hey but at least DBZ only takes up like 6K on your Tivo's drive because there are only 4 frames per episode. They just keep showing them over and over and every so often pan across one.

Re:What?

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you think the "Action" Zone is for? Tentacle demons get more action than all other anime combined!

Re:How is this garbage "stuff that matters"?

[MoneyT]

Because Ecology is a bunch of garbage that doesn't matter?

Hentai aside?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey! Put the hentai down and step away slowly! You can take away my hentai when you pry it out of my cold, dead, semi-clenched fist.

Funny story

[Frank of Earth]

So I had puter setup and for some crazy reason I had anonymous ftp set to read and write.

Well, one night I'm in bed and I can hear the server hard drive going crazy. I go over to the server and the console is slow as crap. I check the log and I'm out of diskspace on a 8gig drive that had nothing really on it but a bare bones install of redhat.

So I start searching around doing du and I notice that my ftp folder has about 7gig of data. I look in the folder and there are hundreds of anime porn videos!

I do a search on the internet for my ip and find out that I got flagged as the anime porn hub of the internet. Needless to say, I shut down ftp and made a lot of anime porn fans unhappy.

Personally, I don't get the infacuation with anime porn.. but hey, people also like to watch beastiality and bukkake.