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Hmm is the fourth episode of Hellsing Ultimate out? If it isn't oh well I have the manga up to volume 8 to satisfy myself with until episode 4 does come out...

On a serious note, I hope they put Zeiram on one day.

MageofFire wrote:

Hmm is the fourth episode of Hellsing Ultimate out? If it isn't oh well I have the manga up to volume 8 to satisfy myself with until episode 4 does come out...

The 4th episode probably won't be out for a long time since it's a Geneon title. But it's probably been dubbed and they show stuff on TV before it's available on DVD all the time.

Actually they showed The Guyver early in the mornig a few weeks ago as well. I remember flipping through and that is what I fell asleep to. But I had to turn it off because I couldn't stop laughing.

On a serious note, I hope they put Zeiram on one day.

Hopefully this increase in schedule space will also translate into an increase in catalog.

And bahaha I thought Guyver was a decent movie. It had Luke Skywalker in it (too bad he wasn't the Guyver himself) and a cool Guyver costume, and less-cool-looking-but-at-least-funny-enough-to-make-you-laugh bad guy monster costumes. And silly rubber suit fighting action. Not a masterpiece achievement but wasn't it a laughably entertaining cheesy show? I'd much rather watch shows like The Guyver than 95% of the random movies out today that deal with...uh, I'm not sure what most movies are about but they are boring as heck I'm pretty sure. Anything without monsters, ninjas, superheroes, aliens, mutant turtles, etc, or at least big eye anime girls in it doesn't appeal to me. I'll never watch any movie that has only boring real people in it.

Hm? I never knew there was a second Guyver movie, cool. I doubt I'd go out of my way to watch it but if it were free on TV I'd certainly tune in. How is the Guyver anime series by the way? I'd seen the OAVs long ago and thought they were good (though I no longer remember what they were like in the slightest). But the TV series pics and trailers look really cheap so I haven't been willing to take the risk on buying the series. Plus, the only other recent OLM production I've bought was Phantom Blade Shin Angyo Onshi, and that was totally awful and cheap-looking. Looks just like the pictures on the Guyver DVDs. I was hoping that Phantom Blade was gonna prove me wrong and allow me to buy The Guyver but instead the opposite happened.

Porcupine wrote:

And bahaha I thought Guyver was a decent movie. It had Luke Skywalker in it (too bad he wasn't the Guyver himself) and a cool Guyver costume, and less-cool-looking-but-at-least-funny-enough-to-make-you-laugh bad guy monster costumes. And silly rubber suit fighting action. Not a masterpiece achievement but wasn't it a laughably entertaining cheesy show? I'd much rather watch shows like The Guyver than 95% of the random movies out today that deal with...uh, I'm not sure what most movies are about but they are boring as heck I'm pretty sure. Anything without monsters, ninjas, superheroes, aliens, mutant turtles, etc, or at least big eye anime girls in it doesn't appeal to me. I'll never watch any movie that has only boring real people in it. Hm? I never knew there was a second Guyver movie, cool. I doubt I'd go out of my way to watch it but if it were free on TV I'd certainly tune in. How is the Guyver anime series by the way? I'd seen the OAVs long ago and thought they were good (though I no longer remember what they were like in the slightest). But the TV series pics and trailers look really cheap so I haven't been willing to take the risk on buying the series. Plus, the only other recent OLM production I've bought was Phantom Blade Shin Angyo Onshi, and that was totally awful and cheap-looking. Looks just like the pictures on the Guyver DVDs. I was hoping that Phantom Blade was gonna prove me wrong and allow me to buy The Guyver but instead the opposite happened.

The second Guyver movie was kind of lame. Okay, but a bit lame. As for the OVA series, I have the original 13 on both VHS and DVD. They were good. Haven't seen the new series, but it looks like they just made a better version of the original cartoons.

MageofFire wrote:

Hmm is the fourth episode of Hellsing Ultimate out?

No its not. Clearly this is a mistake. I believe the is either out or soon to be released in Japan. However, with the state Geneon it is currently on indefinite hiatus here.

There is no way they could be airing it. They must either mean just the 3 episodes or perhaps the signature series.

It would take approximately three hours to air all of Hellsing Ultimate, does Stars even make that much time available for anime in a given block?

And really, it's impossible for HU episode four to air, the Japanese release of the episode is a few weeks after this scheduled airing. Seeing as how it took Geneon six months to release episode three I doubt they even saw the episode before shutting down, let alone had time to translate and dub it.

Porcupine wrote:

And bahaha I thought Guyver was a decent movie. It had Luke Skywalker in it (too bad he wasn't the Guyver himself) and a cool Guyver costume, and less-cool-looking-but-at-least-funny-enough-to-make-you-laugh bad guy monster costumes. And silly rubber suit fighting action. Not a masterpiece achievement but wasn't it a laughably entertaining cheesy show? I'd much rather watch shows like The Guyver than 95% of the random movies out today that deal with...uh, I'm not sure what most movies are about but they are boring as heck I'm pretty sure. Anything without monsters, ninjas, superheroes, aliens, mutant turtles, etc, or at least big eye anime girls in it doesn't appeal to me. I'll never watch any movie that has only boring real people in it. Hm? I never knew there was a second Guyver movie, cool. I doubt I'd go out of my way to watch it but if it were free on TV I'd certainly tune in. How is the Guyver anime series by the way? I'd seen the OAVs long ago and thought they were good (though I no longer remember what they were like in the slightest). But the TV series pics and trailers look really cheap so I haven't been willing to take the risk on buying the series. Plus, the only other recent OLM production I've bought was Phantom Blade Shin Angyo Onshi, and that was totally awful and cheap-looking. Looks just like the pictures on the Guyver DVDs. I was hoping that Phantom Blade was gonna prove me wrong and allow me to buy The Guyver but instead the opposite happened.

The second Guyver movie was kind of lame. Okay, but a bit lame. As for the OVA series, I have the original 13 on both VHS and DVD. They were good. Haven't seen the new series, but it looks like they just made a better version of the original cartoons.

Guyver 2 :the dark hero was weak,but it stared David Hayter as the Guyver(the voice of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid)

In all fairness the old Guyver movies are better than half the modern tripe that Sci-Fi airs regularly.

Emerje wrote:

It would take approximately three hours to air all of Hellsing Ultimate, does Stars even make that much time available for anime in a given block?

I suspect that "four episodes of Hellsing Ultimate on February 11 and 18" indicates a 1-2 broadcast on the 11th and a 3-4 broadcast on the 18th"

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And really, it's impossible for HU episode four to air, the Japanese release of the episode is a few weeks after this scheduled airing. Seeing as how it took Geneon six months to release episode three I doubt they even saw the episode before shutting down, let alone had time to translate and dub it.

Questionable yes, but not impossible. At Oni-con in October, Taliesin Jaffe explicitly stated that he had completed the English language dub for Hellsing Ultimate IV, so it does exist. There's nothing to prevent Geneon from making their license available for broadcast even if they've gotten out of the DVD business.

This raises two somewhat interesting considerations. One is the fact that if IV really does release in Japan on Feb. 22, then it is entirely possible that we could see it in the US 4 days before Japanese buyers get their hands on it. The other is the spectre of a glimmer of hope that the Starz relationship could indicate anything about the possibility of Manga Entertainment picking the title up for DVD distribution.