Future of anime on CN (series pick-up speculation)

[Sketch]

Here's a list of the animes I think CN will pick up within the next year or so... Some are more likely than others. If I missed something very potential be sure to point it out.

Second hand series:

Shaman King - Winter or Spring 2005
Sonic X - Winter or Spring 2005
Tokyo Mew Mew - Fall 2006
One Piece - Fall 2006
Mega Man NT: Warrior - Becomes a regular sometime in 2005
Pokemon Advance - Summer 2005 (already picked up, but not airing yet)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Enter the Shadow Realm - Summer 2005 (^ ditto)
Kirby Right Back at Ya - Sometime in 2005

First hand series:

Dragonball Z Redub - Spring 2005
Bleach - Fall 2005 or Spring 2006
Naruto - Fall 2005
Samurai Champloo - Spring 2005
Samurai 7 - Fall 2005
Gungrave - Winter 2005 or Spring 2005
---- the following I'm less certain about ----
SGT Frog - Fall 2005
Viewtiful Joe - Fall 2005
Flame of Recca - Winter 2005
Gundam SEED: Destiny - Spring 2006 (but we all know that's way up in the air now)
Hunter X Hunter - Summer 2005
Spiral - Winter 2005
Kodocha - Spring 2005

By no means do I expect CN to pick up all of these titles, but some of them.

[Karl Olson]

Here's a list of the animes I think CN will pick up within the next year or so... Some are more likely than others. If I missed something very potential be sure to point it out.

Second hand series:

Shaman King - Winter or Spring 2005
Sonic X - Winter or Spring 2005
Tokyo Mew Mew - Fall 2006
One Piece - Fall 2006
Mega Man NT: Warrior - Becomes a regular sometime in 2005
Pokemon Advance - Summer 2005 (already picked up, but not airing yet)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Enter the Shadow Realm - Summer 2005 (^ ditto)
Kirby Right Back at Ya - Sometime in 2005

If Mew Mew is as battered as it seems, I'd rather not see it turn up on CN, or atmost, it should get a 6 am run where it's not in the way. In general, I'd like second-hands, outside of what they've already got, to be kept to a minimum, unless they are run away successes. Also rans shouldn't have a place on the network.

First hand series:

Dragonball Z Redub - Spring 2005
Bleach - Fall 2005 or Spring 2006
Naruto - Fall 2005
Samurai Champloo - Spring 2005
Samurai 7 - Fall 2005
Gungrave - Winter 2005 or Spring 2005

Eh, I'd rather not Gungrave and Samurai 7 turn up, as they strike me as having similar issues to Wolf's Rain and WHR (straight-forward stories told over-dramatically.) Naruto and especially Bleach would be great shows for CN, though god only knows when they'll hit the states. The DBZ would get ratings guaranteed, and Champloo is probably the least otaku-centric anime since Bebop (atleast of anime that have been dubbed,) so it would do very, very well on CN. They just need to pony up and buy it.

---- the following I'm less certain about ----
SGT Frog - Fall 2005
Viewtiful Joe - Fall 2005
Flame of Recca - Winter 2005
Gundam SEED: Destiny - Spring 2006 (but we all know that's way up in the air now)
Hunter X Hunter - Summer 2005
Spiral - Winter 2005
Kodocha - Spring 2005

By no means do I expect CN to pick up all of these titles, but some of them.

Destiny will come as long as SEED doesn't do so bad that Bandai can't even give the show away to CN. Spiral is probably out (fairly bland stuff from what I've heard,) Kodocha hinges on either airing on AS, or a brillantly-done TVY7 edit. Keroro Gunzo, when it's licenced, would be Miguzi-bound hopefully, though the Gundam jokes might make it a bit more Toonami friendly... or unairable. I won't comment on the rest, but as long as they hit favorable distributors, the question probably won't so much be will hit CN, rather when and where it could fit in. CN's got a pretty full billing next year, and they've been hinting that it only gets fuller from there.

[rmarti3926]

I was expecting Love Hina

[Karl Olson]

I was expecting Love Hina

CN's rejected it, repeatedly. Same probably goes for any harem anime, standard or reverse, outside of Tenchi (and arguably InuYasha.)

[Youko Recca]

If Genshiken(It'd be complicated a little though) turns out to be as good as it's manga counterpart this October, that'd be good for a watch in about 2005 or 2006. So far Beet is giving some Miguzi-possible vibes, so I'll see where that goes way down the road. I'm hoping for Shaman King to get a suitable spot as I tend to miss it often. Bleach is hopefully going to be good and if so that'd be Toonami, or maybe AS if the distributor let's us go along for a ride. Flame of Recca if Viz is feeling like it, basically just watch that if you're in the mood for a fight...or rather, to watch one. Do I dare speak of Windy Tales?

[Zach]

I was expecting Love Hinahardy har har. No. It would have to be on Adult Swim and even then it could get rejected for... um... inappropite materials, even for adult swim... let's just leave it at that.:nurse: :nurse: :nurse:

[Mek]

What about F-Zero GP Legend?

Or would that be more suitable for Toonami? >.>;; (It would be if they aired it uncut...)

[Sketch]

F-Zero would air Miguzi if CN did pick it up. I don't think it's gonna be a break out success though. Not like Sonic X anyway. If CN picked it up it would probably be after the series is over... but frankly I'd rather it get burried. It's just not that good of a show and 4kids dub sure doesn't help.

Love Hina is out the question, but it's constantly being brought up on the boards. But dang if they'll go with something like Super Milk Chan on Sunday's you'd think Love Hina could make it. Whatever...

GunGrave and Samurai 7 are meh to me I suppose but I don't know much about them. What I do know is FUNi will try to get Samurai 7 on Adult Swim next year (well I don't "know" but I can assume they would) and AS is probably hoping to cash in on Trigun's success and fanbase with GunGrave. Not to mention it was the highest voted show on that poll of theirs (not that it means anything).

I'd also like the second hands to be limited. Pokemon and YGO are a given... which is a shame really since they get plenty of air time. I'd rather have the lesser shown KWB shows like Mega Man: NT Warrior and the Fox Box shows that have no where else to air and stand a chance to being pre-empted (like they were for me last week).

CN will pick up Shaman King and One Piece for no other reason than they are in Shonen Jump and SJ animes have always done well for them. Both would fit Miguzi quite nicely... or prime time instead of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Sonic X is a little more questionable but it has also been more successful on the Fox Box so it seems like a shoe-in.

Tokyo Mew Mew may suck. In that case don't touch it CN. But if it's half decent then slap it on Miguzi... Seriously anything is better than Totally Spies "one more time" (except for Baby Looney Tunes of course).

[Karl Olson]

Love Hina is out the question, but it's constantly being brought up on the boards. But dang if they'll go with something like Super Milk Chan on Sunday's you'd think Love Hina could make it. Whatever...

No, Milk-Chan != an opening for Love Hina. The styles of humor are *radically* different. Milk-Chan might = an opening for a comedy like Cromartie or Keroro Gunzo or even Kodocha. But Milk-Chan does nothing to help the otaku that seem desperate to have Love Hina on air, though it's beyond me why they'd want it on air in the first place. I think of better shonen romantic comedies that are more worthy of airing on CN (Midori no Hibi, Onegai Teacher, Tenchi GXP, even Mahoromatic.)

Tokyo Mew Mew may suck. In that case don't touch it CN. But if it's half decent then slap it on Miguzi... Seriously anything is better than Totally Spies "one more time" (except for Baby Looney Tunes of course).

Totally Spies should be cycling in new episodes by the time TMM would be a possibility on CN, and if HiHiPuffyAmiYumi goes to Miguzi, I'd say Miguzi would be doing pretty good content-wise. I'd bet that Atomic Betty gets cycled on to Miguzi too, so to wedge TMM in the same time frame into Miguzi, might be easier said than done.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

Pokemon Advance - Summer 2005 (already picked up, but not airing yet)

what of the 116 episodes before Advanced that CN hasn't gotten to yet? :confused:

[Sketch]

There are 116 episodes before Advanced that CN hasn't aired yet? I thought they were mid way through Johto by now... If that's the case then they should air a big block of episodes in the begining of the year and then another in Summer. CN owns up to Advanced, we know this much from the promos. KWB is probably keeping them from airing more for now.

They're probably wait for TMM to be done on the Fox Box before they decide to pick it up.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

yeah johto league champions is 52 and master quest is 52 + 12 more which led into the 40 episode Advanced season :eek: it would be great to get all of these episodes into the rotation soon :) the morning run would just mess things up again though unless they restarted it from the beginning while new episodes stayed on evenings

[Bubblegum Girl]

I'll be waiting SGT Frog to air on CN.:D

[Sketch]

I want it licensed right away! Those fansubbers are taking forever.

[Karl Olson]

Yeah, Keroro's an obvious pick up that would do well on any block, even Fridays. I'm really surprised Bandai hasn't jumped on it, unless there is some kinda bidding war for it maybe... I can only hope.

[Sketch]

Bandai probably wanted to wait until there were some more episodes back logged. Maybe they'll pick it up next year. But for all we know... Tokyo Pop might be going for it. There was a rumor about Media Blasters.

I'm thinking Ocean Westwood is the most likely VA studio for it if it goes to Bandai (or Viz). Scott McNeil would make an excellent Giroro and maybe Jillian Michels or Saffron Henderson for Keroro (they both sound very similar to the Japanese voice actress, one could be Keroro and the other could be Tamama).

[009Style]

CN prob. won't take FoR cause of all the wonderfully graphic killing which is the basis of Flame of Recca. And if you disagree well then you might as well burn in an entire flame filled bath tub. Anyway the original Recca anime wasn't quite up to par as many had hoped so it made need some remodeling anyway.

[Sketch]

I haven't heard Recca was based around graphic killing. But lest we forget YYH and Rurouni Kenshin on Toonami and Case Closed, Inuyasha, GitS: SAC, FMA, and Wolf's Rain on Adult Swim... plus plenty more.

I'm still not sure it will air on CN. It'll probably just be on DVD. So... whatever.

Honesty I didn't expect to see this thread pop up again. :anime:

Looks like I was off a bit on my Shaman King prediction. But it'll probably become a regular in Winter 2005 (as well as Mega Man NT Warrior). Though I wonder what would be keeping CN from putting them on the schedule right away... We can assume they just don't want to mess with a "good thing".