Father Geek here with a Latin-AICN Special Report on ANIME. Our Asia-AICN Anime editor Scott Green has been turning up some nice Spanish Anime news that we will be including in the regular Latin-AICN columns every Tuesday. I decided to turn this extra long one into a special all anime report for this week. First, Father Geek has this little treat for you...
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Have you seen this Atari-based Quicktime movie from Brazil? Very cool. Thought I'd send it since it has a (brief) Matrix reference. Enjoy.
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Now on to Scott's great report...
Spanish Language Anime News
By Scott Green
By Scott Green
Last Monday, Tv Azteca broadcast the episode 37 of "Las Aventuras de St. Tail" (Sweet tales of St. Tail), and the day after, begins to re-runs the entry series. There is some question as to whether there was supposed to be 37 or 40 episodes of the series, and whether episodes were edited out. Azteca also announces in the schedule for this weekend, an anime block with Sailor Moon R, Vision of Escaflowne, Yaiba and Captain Tsubasa J, on Saturday, and Slam Dunk returning to Sundays. There is a large animosity among anime fans towards Tv Azteca because they hold the rights to a large number of anime series, including Detective Conan, Mahoujin guruguru ("Los caballeros de Kodai"), Young Robin Hood, The Twins of St. Claire, Little Women, Three mousketers anime, Slam Dunk, Slayers, Ninja Kamui, Yat Anshin! ("Yat 1"), Dragon Quest, B't X, and Zenki, but retire series quickly (as little as less than a week) due to low ratings.
Mexico's Channel 5 of Televisa has replace Robotech with Woody Woodpecker and Scooby Doo, and a CGI bock of Best Machines, Max Steel, Voltron 3D, Starship Troopers with Dragon BallZ and Dragon Ball GT. The station also began airing Monster Rancher, in addition to its already running Digimon and Pokemon. Dr. Slump and Ranma1/2 still air mornigs.
Fox Kids in Spanish announced the premier of Dinozaurs on March 1st. On January 2nd the Spanish language Cartoon Network premiered new episodes of Pokemon, with Pokemon: the Johto Journeys starting a week later, and began re-running Card Captor Sakura.
Thanks to Cesar De la luz for sending along this information. Red Baron, and Virtua Fighter (based on the fighting game) will be air on Univision. Univision acquired the anime tv series 'The Red Baron' and 'Virtua Fighter' from Lain International. Both were produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and dubbed into Spanish in Los Angeles CA. The Red Baron or 'El Baron Rojo' in Spanish (49X30min.) will be in air on February 10th. Kent de la Rosa and his friend Sally, the protagonists of this story, are fans of the new sport of 2020, the metal fight, and Kent will participate with Sally's robot, The Red Baron.
TV Azteca is currently running Sailor Moon (they have 199 episodes except 89, the episode was 45 mins long and the dubber Intertrack didn't want to cut it), Magic Knight Rayearth, Captain Tsubasa J, but because of complaints they mov ed Escaflowne from weekdays to Sundays at around 11 AM. It is not known whether they will be showing the Escaflowne movie. The magical girl St. Tail series has replaced Escaflowne in its 1:30pm weekday time slot. St. Tail has been effect by dubbing chan ges byCentral-America having name changes and the "god please forgive me" transformation phrase changed. The rival national channel of TV Azteca: Televisa is rerunning Robotech and the first season of Virtua Fighter. They are premiering Digimon 01 and rerunning Pokemon. There are rumors they may get His or Her Circumstances and Evangelion this year. On the cable side of things Sakura Card Captors was premiered on Cartoon Network in November, but there is a strong demand for Tenchi to be aired.
Unicable (small channel associated to televisa canal 5) aired Revolutionary Girl Utena, renamed of El Anillo Magico, the Magical Ring in English, but took it off after deciding that the content was too strong for young kids. After seeing Utenas rati ng they decided to air Lost Universe, and have been very pleased with the show. There is currently a movement to convince the station to air the last 9 episodes of Utena.
Locomotion is actually not exclusive of the DirecTV satellite system, but it's also in Cablevision, but in the expensive packages only. It has many uncut anime, and on January 20 and then Jan 27, they will put a subbed version of AIKA in two parts. They will put this anime in their 2 hour long weekday anime exclusive "Japanimotion" slots. On January 21, they will premiere Ghost in the Shell in Spanish. They are planning to bring these anime later in 2001: rerun Blue Seed, Silent Möbius, Supermilk, Cybuster.
They had to remove Blue Seed after only one premiere run because they are currently getting new and better technology. "It's s bit bizarre, but it's a very good channel for the older anime fans, it even has "Those who hunt Elves II", which is not available in the USA. " Thank you very much to Nancy Foster Arzamendi for passing along this news. For More information see www.animedia.com.mx
Fox Kids latin america (a cartoon/kids channel like cartoon network) will make an 4 days anime marathon beginning in February 24th, premiering the movie "PatLabor 1 Mobile Police" and "DinoZaurs" the series. In the marathon also will be Super Cerdita (Super pig, a Saban's adaptation of Tonde Burin), Genki y los monstruos Cibernéticos (Monster Rancher, of BKN), Flint el detective del tiempo (the time detective, of Saban) and "Digimon Digital Monsters" (dubbed from original japanese version / in japanese with SAP). The announcement was made by Jacqueline Cantore, executive director of programming for Fox Kids.
