Anyone remember Saturday night anime on Sci-fi?

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Corra

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Does anyone remember the old saturday night anime block that was on Sci-fi a few years ago?

If I remember correctly it used to show mostly old Manga Entertainment movies and OVA series (usually cut together pretend they were films) for about 2 -3 hours a week.

I saw classics like Akira, Ghost in the Shell and Perfect Blue for the first time on it. I really enjoyed the original Vampire Princess Miyu and Blue Sonnet, but I was never able to get official copies, just my own taped straight from tv copies, now gone forever.

They showed some quite pervy stuff like Overfiend on a regular basis. I’m still scarred from seeing the opening scene of someting, I think it was Wicked City, in which a man has sex with a woman who turned into a Spider demon thingy. :eek:

I never managed to watch the Patlabor Movies, I always skipped them because I thought they would be dull, I think this was a mistake...

Does anyone else have any favourite bits/ scarring moments /nostalgic memoires of this?
 
Yeah, funnily enough, I thought of that one again the other day when Fabric mentioned Wind Named Amnesia, which I think played on Sci-Fi at around the same time.

It ran in my mind it was called 'Adventure Kid', although I could be wrong (maybe there were two of them?) because I can think of exactly two things wrong with that title.
 
Oh lordy... Yeah, I think that one actually stuck in my mind more than it should have, simply because of the weird shifts in genre. It started out with a sort of high-fantasy setup, shifted to time-travelling horror and then turned into a romantic comedy.

Were it not actually porn, it would be kind of interesting that they achieved all that within the one story.
 
Im sure I saw one in which somebody turned to the dark side and tried to
end the world because a male classmate didn't return a one sided gay crush. It had lesbians, murder and a Ninja chick in it.
 
Corra said:
Im sure I saw one in which somebody turned to the dark side and tried to
end the world because a male classmate didn't return a one sided gay crush. It had lesbians, murder and a Ninja chick in it.
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That sounds a bit like Tokyo Revelations, the Shin Megami Tensei movie.

I remember the saturday block well, like seeing trailers for Fist of the North Star and being a little freaked out when I was way younger (this was after my brother put me off anime for a while). I remember the thursday block they did afterwards with better memories, flicking across TV channels at 1 in the morning and coming across a purple giant robot with a emo pilot fighting some weird monster (guess what series it was :p). After that my thursday night viewing was pretty much sorted, was introduced to Blue Gender through that.

Of course more recently though admittedly some 7 years ago now, I remember they moved anime to a dead slot at 5 in the morning then it was gone.
 
there was a anime where everyone lives on the moon and there are 3 agents trying to investigate something, and the strangest thing was everything was in a yellow light. it was kind of oldish anime but not old old
 
Paradox295 said:
They're showing Akira on Saturday 25th. In HD, to boot.

If enough people tune in, they'll consider bringing it back.
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Every time Akira is shown on tv, an angel gets its wings.

animefreak17 said:
there was a anime where everyone lives on the moon and there are 3 agents trying to investigate something, and the strangest thing was everything was in a yellow light. it was kind of oldish anime but not old old
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I think that's probably Bounty Dog.
 
BlackWolf said:
I remember the saturday block well, like seeing trailers for Fist of the North Star and being a little freaked out when I was way younger (this was after my brother put me off anime for a while). I remember the thursday block they did afterwards with better memories, flicking across TV channels at 1 in the morning and coming across a purple giant robot with a emo pilot fighting some weird monster (guess what series it was :p). After that my thursday night viewing was pretty much sorted, was introduced to Blue Gender through that.
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Don't forget the Saturday morning show they had on sci-fi, Saiko-Exciting, which covered pretty much every key subject an anime/game/J-culture would want as part of a healthy breakfast.
 
Professor Irony said:
Paradox295 said:
They're showing Akira on Saturday 25th. In HD, to boot.

If enough people tune in, they'll consider bringing it back.
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Every time Akira is shown on tv, an angel gets its wings.

animefreak17 said:
there was a anime where everyone lives on the moon and there are 3 agents trying to investigate something, and the strangest thing was everything was in a yellow light. it was kind of oldish anime but not old old
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I think that's probably Bounty Dog.
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yeah that was it
 
actually how many animes can you remember thst came on sci-fi
i remember
riding bean
adventure kid
Urotsukid?ji ( loved that anime )
violence jack
tank police
appleseed
Tokyo Revelation( loved that )
evangelion
fist of the north star
bubble gum crash ( loved that )
akira
there was a anime that had a kid in it that turned out to be a general in a kids body that was trying to take over the world

anyway that was when sci-fi was awesome

i remember what my first anime was i was 7 and i think it was akira i only saw the part where these guy was being beaten up by this teacher but it looked different they seemed more calm.
 
I remember when I used to get up at 5 in the morning to watch whatever anime show was on until 6. The only shows I can remember where excel saga, evangelion (I think) and I'm sure I saw bubblegum crisis.
Hopefully if they do air some more anime it isn't on at ridiculous times.
 
Yep, watched it just about every Saturday from Summer 2000 to 2003 when they cancelled it (well they moved it to 5am then cancelled it). Got most of my formative Anime experiences from there (and a little with Fox Kids) including seeing my first full series when they showed Nadesico, Blue Gender and Eva in late 2002. Towards the end it became nothing but repeats mind, but my first watch of Wings of Honeasime, Orguss 02, and Ghost in the Shell made it a great time to be an Anime fan...before it died.

However in someways it was good it ended. It was 99% Manga Video stuff, and as I think we all would agree, there is much, much more out there than that, and deprived of that source of Anime, it for one got me looking further afield.
 
Hell, I remember further back still, when channel 4 used to have anime on. It was always manga video releases from the era, and usually not long after they came out on VHS.

Now you have to remember that in the early 90's getting access to anime was a LOT harder, not to mention expensive. No internet streaming, internet to buy off cheap, and dvd bargains. A 45 min vid would put you back almost a tenner (which was probably worth more back then)

So when they were on CH4 it was a huge boon, and I used to stay up for heroic legend of arislan (arslan), cyber city oedo, devilman, tokyo babylon and stuff like that from that era of manga video.

They also showed some other cool stuff, like the Australian spoof of 70's cop shows FUNKY SQUAD. You should youtube that, it was quite the show.
 
I can rememebr when they showed Bubblegum Crisis 2040 and Gasaraki back to back on weekday mornings between 9 and 10 am. Is there anyone
who actually liked Gasaraki? It was the Giant Robot version of watching paint
dry.

Im sure they showed all of Excel Saga at about 5 or 6 in the morning, even the last episode thats supposed to be 'to hot for tv' :D

I hated having to watch Eva one episode a week. I can't cope with watching one 23 minute episode a week, to this day I avoid watching things until I can see all of it.

If Sci-fi hadn't shown so much anime I don't know If I would still be a fan today. It kept going when I didn't have £20 to spend on a VHS or later a DVD, and let me see all sorts of shows that I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
 
that remains me,
when the dvd player started coming out and you guys had loads of videos did you have them transferred to dvdor did you buy the dvds
 
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