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Postby Anime Dad » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:36 am

Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex is coming to an end on Australia's SBS TV, and is being replaced with.......... Samurai Champaloo (dubbed). Looks like SBS is comitted to anime on thursday nights :) They wil be showing some movies too, by the looks of things, with Vampire Hunter D airing on March 30 after Samurai Champaloo.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:12 am

Sounds good! What's Samurai Champaloo though?
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Postby mitsuki lover » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:04 pm

Samruai Champloo.
It just ended here on Adult Swim yesterday.Rather good after you get past the first episode.It takes place in Edo Era Japan and is centered around a ditzy waitress named Fuu is on a quest to find a Samurai who smells of sunflowers.Two would be
samurais named Mugen and Jin accompany her and they have a lot of interesting
adventures and misadventures along the way.Can be a bit violent at times and one of the characters in one episode is a Gay Dutchman.
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Postby Tenshi no Ai » Thu Mar 09, 2006 1:07 pm

*wonders when Canada will get more anime like Samurai Champloo*. We're almost done GitS:SAC here as in... next week will be the last ep. Except for us, the new anime taking over is instead Full Metal Alchemist. *sigh* Sort of sad that here, a new anime doesn't really start till one ends :/ Well, except for many something ongoing like Inuyasha^^
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Postby Anime Dad » Thu Mar 09, 2006 3:47 pm

Bear in mind that GITS:SAC is the ONLY anime on Australian TV at the moment, unless Pokemon/Digimon/DBZ/Yugioh is getting reruns in the mornings....
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:30 pm

True. We aren't very lucky with our anime on free to air. Although since GITS:SAC and the Miyasaki films its been improving a little.
I don't believe Yugioh and Pokemon are still on, nor Digimon.

Wow, Samurai Champaloo is MA! I hope that's more for violence. I'm not keen on too much sex or references to it.
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Postby Tommy » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:36 pm

TV 14 here.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:40 pm

Family Guy is TV-14 in the US isn't it? Here its M (which is a rating lower than MA).
MA is like your heavy R movies. (An example of an MA program is '24')
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Postby Rexman64 » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:49 pm

Family Guy is TV-14 here, yes... And so is 24, actually.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:53 pm

Is that your highest TV rating in the US?
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Postby Tommy » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:54 pm

Nope, we have TV MA and TV 14 comes before.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:55 pm

Why on earth would '24' get an MA here then? It is quite violent at times, but it does have very minimal language and some adult themes.
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Postby Rexman64 » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:04 pm

It's also worth noting that in the US, networks rate their own shows. Everything is government-rated in Australia, correct?
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:09 pm

That's correct. The government controls our lives as well. (j/k)
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Postby Anime Dad » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:20 pm

On a semi-related note.......I went into Sanity last night, and they had outside a prominently-displayed display box with "Anime" printed at the top, and a whole heap of Studio Ghibli DVD's on sale for $24.95 each.
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Postby Warrior 4 Jesus » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:26 pm

Oooo! Is Princess Mononoke any good? I've only seen Nausicaa, Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rosso and Laputa: Castle In the Sky (they were very good -except Porco Rosso). Are there any others of his that you recommend?
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Postby Anime Dad » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:31 pm

I've seen Spirited Away, which I really liked. I taped some of those when SBS were showing them, but I haven't watched them yet.
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Postby GrubbTheFragger » Fri Mar 10, 2006 7:40 am

W4J wrote:Oooo! Is Princess Mononoke any good?


yes it is. It is one of my personal favs it can get a bit violent at points but nothing gratuitous. other than that if u can handle stuff about fake gods and stuff than it is a really good fantasy story.
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Postby mitsuki lover » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:19 pm

Despite the title the main character isn't really Princess Mononoke,in fact she doesn't even show up until half way through.
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