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NEWS: Discotek Licenses Samurai Pizza Cats/Cats Toninden Teyande

Do you know TBN's Smile of a Child currenty airing 5 anime?

SuperBook (It's at 3am CT every morning!!!)
Flying House
Little Women
Swiss Family Robinson
Going Wild (Potta Patta Monta)

I hope they could get these anime and put them on DVD.

Tell them to release Tokyo Pig on DVD boxset!!!!

Got three words for your wishlist.

NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!!!

There's not way their gonna license that much oldies unless their gonna make a profit. it's fiancial suicide.

Candy Candy will not happen until one of the authors dies (maybe). You can actually buy the Remi Box set pretty cheap, but here is catch 22, you need to learn spanish >: )

Other companies besides Discotek should take note of this simple truth, an anime shown in broadcast TV on daytime slots will outsell those shown on webcast or cable by a hundred fold (at least).

Kokoroanime wrote:

Do you know TBN's Smile of a Child currenty airing 5 anime? SuperBook (It's at 3am CT every morning!!!) Flying House Little Women Swiss Family Robinson Going Wild (Potta Patta Monta) I hope they could get these anime and put them on DVD. Tell them to release Tokyo Pig on DVD boxset!!!!

Patta Potta Monta is so obscure. The show doesn't have an ANN entry, and is basically impossible to find any information about online, haha.

Distributors don't give shelf space either. They pay for it and even then it is still up to the retailer if an anime gets that shelf space.

Other than OVAs and movies, all anime has at sometime appeared on Japanese TV. There's nothing for the Japanese to note or push a distributor into a particular outlet over.

mangamuscle wrote:

Other companies besides Discotek should take note of this simple truth, an anime shown in broadcast TV on daytime slots will outsell those shown on webcast or cable by a hundred fold (at least).

What we already knew for a long time.

Cable TV needs to go back go back to this stage when it seemed like anything weird and foreign filled up the schedule than anything that would interest people in general.

If it is such a well known fact how come we rarely see releases like Samurai Pizza Cats and recent anime in broadcast TV is unheard of?

Because anime is insanely niche and quite often makes broadcasters uneasy due to it being foriegn and cultural differences.

If it is such a well known fact how come we rarely see releases like Samurai Pizza Cats and recent anime in broadcast TV is unheard of?

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Cable TV needs to go back go back to this stage when it seemed like anything weird and foreign filled up the schedule than anything that would interest people in general.

Those kind of funky program schedule is akin to new cable channels, but sadly cable networks simply do not carry them (even if they are free to them) or when they do carry them they ask extra $ to get access. a la carte won't solve this lack of new choices.

Chagen46 wrote:

Because anime is insanely niche and quite often makes broadcasters uneasy due to it being foriegn and cultural differences.

I do not think that anime in the USA is more niche than, let's say, 20th century mexican movies (most of them in b&w no less and none have been converted to HD) yet I know there is at last one cable channel in direcTV/dish/most cable providers that shows them 24x7. Twenty years ago I thought that nowadays there would be several channels like Animax and that broadcast TV would show the biggest hits (even if they had to remove the risky content), but seems to me Japanese anime companies have played a passive role thinking they just have to wait for american companies to beg them to license their titles

In any case, there's not enough anime to go around to fill one channel (even in Japan anime airs on "normal" channels). Combine this with the overall risk of maintaining a channel, and it simply would be too hard to work.

jr0904 wrote:

Got three words for your wishlist. NEVER GONNA HAPPEN!!!

Welcome to my world.

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There's not way their gonna license that much oldies unless their gonna make a profit. it's fiancial suicide.

And that's when people like you can just go home and forget about it!

mangamuscle wrote:

If it is such a well known fact how come we rarely see releases like Samurai Pizza Cats and recent anime in broadcast TV is unheard of?

Why is it that regular TV stations play nothing for talk/game shows where those cartoons use to be on? Tell me that!!

StudioToledo wrote:

mangamuscle wrote: If it is such a well known fact how come we rarely see releases like Samurai Pizza Cats and recent anime in broadcast TV is unheard of? Why is it that regular TV stations play nothing for talk/game shows where those cartoons use to be on? Tell me that!!

I bet because its cheaper and going for more different demographics. Which is kind of sad we won't see more of kid's show these days. Like usual, business wants sure profits than risks.

However for anime classics like these, there might be some hope for a TV broadcast. Boomerang is showing the old epsiodes of pokemon, and then there's the HUB channel which are showing very old carttons from the 80's like Transformers Generation 1 & 2.

I'm not saying they shouldnt license old classics, but to license that much of classics when the new generation don't even know some of these series is fiancial suicide. that became appearant when ADV tried it,and paid a heavy price.

StudioToledo wrote:

mangamuscle wrote: If it is such a well known fact how come we rarely see releases like Samurai Pizza Cats and recent anime in broadcast TV is unheard of? Why is it that regular TV stations play nothing for talk/game shows where those cartoons use to be on? Tell me that!!

I bet because its cheaper and going for more different demographics. Which is kind of sad we won't see more of kid's show these days. Like usual, business wants sure profits than risks.

jr0904 wrote:

However for anime classics like these, there might be some hope for a TV broadcast. Boomerang is showing the old epsiodes of pokemon, and then there's the HUB channel which are showing very old carttons from the 80's like Transformers Generation 1 & 2.

Which are pay channels on my cable box, so that's bad.

Patta Potta Monta is so obscure. The show

Primus wrote:

Kokoroanime wrote: Do you know TBN's Smile of a Child currenty airing 5 anime? SuperBook (It's at 3am CT every morning!!!) Flying House Little Women Swiss Family Robinson Going Wild (Potta Patta Monta) I hope they could get these anime and put them on DVD. Tell them to release Tokyo Pig on DVD boxset!!!! doesn't have an ANN entry, and is basically impossible to find any information about online, haha.

At least some channel out there's bothering to show it. Reminds me of CBN back in the 80's with Honey Honey, Leo The Lion and whatever else they could stick on. Cable TV needs to go back go back to this stage when it seemed like anything weird and foreign filled up the schedule than anything that would interest people in general.

jr0904 wrote:

However for anime classics like these, there might be some hope for a TV broadcast. Boomerang is showing the old epsiodes of pokemon, and then there's the HUB channel which are showing very old carttons from the 80's like Transformers Generation 1 & 2.

Which are pay channels on my cable box, so that's bad.

StudioToledo wrote:

At least some channel out there's bothering to show it. Reminds me of CBN back in the 80's with Honey Honey, Leo The Lion and whatever else they could stick on. Cable TV needs to go back go back to this stage when it seemed like anything weird and foreign filled up the schedule than anything that would interest people in general.

Sadly, there's on English dub episodes on YouTube but the Portuguese dub.

In here, we used to have RTV (Used to be RTN) in here for 2 years until it was switched to MeTV.

The sad thing in here is... We have ThisTV time shared with MNTV programmings and non-ThisTV movies everyday.