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We used to have a predominantly animé channel in the UK - CNX, which became Toonami a few years ago after ratings dropped. It showed martial arts movies in the evenings, Cowboy Bebop and Outlaw Star at midnight, and the usual Tenchi/Gundam/DBZ Cartoon Network purchases during the day.

What always gets me is that most animé DVDs have an RRP of £19.99 - and yet you often get less content than a £9.99 feature film. Four episodes of a series is barely 100 minutes, and there aren't usually any substantial extra features, so how the companies can justify this price tag is beyond...

Gunslinger Girl - "The Light Before We Land", The Delgados (opening) Burst Angel - "Underneath the Sky", Cloudica (closing) Excel Saga - "So You Want To Eat Me", Menchi (closing) Cowboy Bebop - entire soundtrack, Yoko Kanno .hack//SIGN - entire soundtrack, Yuki Kajiura

Consider yourself lucky that you have shelfspace at all.

Yes, I know I said I wasn't here just to plug my reviews, but one topic can't hurt... DVD Outsider focuses on foreign productions that have come to R2 DVD, and this naturally includes animé. I'm the site's animé specialist, and while we're only getting DVDs through from MVM and Manga at the...

The UK does have a film industry, thank you very much, but the problem with it is that its output very rarely gets shown in America, and that's where the big film industry is. Second only to Bollywood, as I recall. For example, I understand that Children of Men is out in cinemas in the US now...

Just wait; five years from now they'll be calling it a "cult classic". It's like the first Mortal Kombat movie.

I reckon they bit off more than they could chew by buying out MVC's stores; MVC was already a lossmaker, and Music Zone was an unknown name in the South (where many of the MVC stores were), which didn't help matters.

FF4.

I'm absolutely right... to an extent? How does that work? ^_^

The amount of X-2 hate in this topic saddens me. It's not the best, but it's certainly not the worst. Favourite: FF7... you're all going to jump on me for saying it, but it was a tough decision. I hold 8 and X in equal regard, and it was hard to choose between them. Least Favourite: FF4...

Dear lord... I suppose that must've taught them that cartoons aren't just for kids...

Eheh. One man's opinion can be different from another's... :) But yeah, I found it enjoyable at least, and I've always been drawn to series that let you jump in at any time without much prior knowledge of the plot. It's one of the factors that makes Cowboy Bebop so good.

Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad did have promise, but it was all too blatantly a rip-off of Power Rangers (based on a rival Tokusatsu series also - Gridman). At least it was better than "Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighers from Beverley Hills"...

Not exactly a rip-off as it was made by the same company, and they could hardly have ripped off themselves. But I know what you mean. BBB has a good reputation in Power Rangers fandom.