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Originally posted by SCDawg:
Same here but add Thundercats and remove Robotech from that list. Somewhere I recently read Thundercats was anime, should have guessed at the time and hopefully that information was correct.
I used to watch Thundercats too! =D I didn't know that it was anime either though until you just mentioned it.
THUNDER...THUNDER...THUNDER CATS...HOOOO~
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Originally posted by Benoit:
Myself, I think I'm the youngest here. I'm 18, and haven't even seen Robotech. It might partly be because I live in Europe, though. I don't know if Robotech was ever broadcasted over here.
Even if Robotech was released over in Europe (which I don't know, but I wouldn't count on it, since Harmony Gold had enough problems going for it in America), it was a good twenty-plus years ago, and there hasn't been a tendency (that I've seen) to rebroadcast the thing, so it's no wonder you haven't seen it...
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Originally posted by Wolfson:
Well, it wasn't just the singing... As a song writer, I can assure you that the lyrics she was singing were absolute c**p. They should have had a guy with a poop-scoop right behind her to clean the stuff up... And the melody sucked, too. The whole thing was designed to grate on the ears and nerves, and I'm sure that it could be used as a novel form of torture somehow...
Maybe that's why it was used as a weapon against the zentradi [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by Princess Bleh:
I used to watch Thundercats too! =D I didn't know that it was anime either though until you just mentioned it.THUNDER...THUNDER...THUNDER CATS...HOOOO~
Thundercats was cool. Though I don't think it was anime. I think it was developed here and part of the animation was done in japan or korea. Anyway it was cool when it was on CN and cheetara was hot [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by wanfu2k1:
Maybe that's why it was used as a weapon against the zentradi [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
LOL... I hadn't thought about that, but there may be more truth to that than one thinks...
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Originally posted by Wolfson:
Even if Robotech was released over in Europe (which I don't know, but I wouldn't count on it, since Harmony Gold had enough problems going for it in America), it was a good twenty-plus years ago, and there hasn't been a tendency (that I've seen) to rebroadcast the thing, so it's no wonder you haven't seen it...
In Italy, Robotech's rebroadcast has been a constant for 20 years (this was due to the particular -and lucky, for us - situation of Italian TV channels), but I don't know the present situation (the computer has replaced the TV, for me!).
Twenty years of Rick Hunter blasting the Zentradi: Good.
Twenty years of Lynn Minmei singing: Bad.
But it’s nice to know that somewhere the legacy has continued…
Wow, 20 years?? Well good for you guys but i’d be sick to death of it if I had to watch it for 20 year
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Originally posted by wanfu2k1:
Wow, 20 years?? Well good for you guys but i'd be sick to death of it if I had to watch it for 20 year [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/tongue.gif[/img]
The answer lies in history. In the September of 1978, the Italian State monopoly of TV channels (exerted using RAI, the RAdiotelevisione Italiana state channels) was officially abolished... with pratically NO limits (a glitch in the law, and other factors). In December, 1978, the number of private TV channels with more-or-less national diffusion was 20-30 (I don't remember anymore the exact number). In 1981, this number was risen to 600 (today, the number of TV channels with truly national diffusion is 20-25, but still exist a few hundred of local and regional channels).
Almost from the beginning, the various TV managers, in search of an edge over the competition, began broadcasting, among other things, mysterious and exotic cartoons (the Japanese Anime, obviously, very inexpensive in those times), which became an instant success (turning Italy into the first European nation with a big nucleus of Otaku fans, and favouring the subsequent invasion of Manga).
Today, the big networks don't transmit Anime anymore (or, at least, not like in the past), but many minor channels rebroadcast the "old glories" (for a list of Japanese cartoons transmitted in Italy, consult the link. Please note that most titles are adapted/Italianized -and 107 are still waiting catalogation- : http://www.listacartoni.it/index/idx_ant.htm ).
Interesting.
Indeed interesting.
I have to note, though, that despite all that, France is still the second European country in anime/manga sales, surpassed only by Germany. Italy is third, maybe?
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Originally posted by Benoit:
I have to note, though, that despite all that, France is still the second European country in anime/manga sales, surpassed only by Germany. Italy is third, maybe?
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Originally posted by Benoit:
Really? I thought the seat was in the UK, because of their co.uk address (I think).
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Originally posted by Baldo:
[quote] Originally posted by Benoit:
[b]Really? I thought the seat was in the UK, because of their co.uk address (I think).
They had actually announced an agreement with Age? Funny, I don't remember that. That sucks! What happens to that now?
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Sorry.
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Originally posted by Benoit:
...Sorry.
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Originally posted by Princess Bleh:
I used to watch Thundercats too! =D I didn't know that it was anime either though until you just mentioned it.THUNDER...THUNDER...THUNDER CATS...HOOOO~
It's one of those that I have been waiting a long time to see come out on DVD, still waiting.
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Originally posted by wanfu2k1:
Thundercats was cool. Though I don't think it was anime. I think it was developed here and part of the animation was done in japan or korea. Anyway it was cool when it was on CN and cheetara was hot [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/wink.gif[/img]
I saw one of those lists that said something like "Anime of the 1980's" and it was on the list, could have been wrong but that was where I read it was anime when they talked a little about those on the list. I think it was in, geez, one of those magazines I picked up in Barnes and Noble just to flip through one day.
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Originally posted by Nandemonai:
They had actually announced an agreement with Age? Funny, I don't remember that. That sucks! What happens to that now?
I don't either but damn that sucks if it was true. Heard Kimi ga Nozomu Eien was a great game and good anime [img]http://princess.cybrmall.net/ubb/frown.gif[/img]