More Studio Ghibli movies on Film4 in August

I have these Ghibli movies on DVD. Film 4 really need to get some other anime on the go. Not like there's nop choice like. Also found quite strange the SAC was on Scuzz (music) channel a week ago? Was a random find. Shame that there's already a channel that allows me to watch it repeatedly already :S
 
Scuzz are owned by the same people as AC.

Would be nice to see some more anime on Film4, they've been showing Ghibli on and off for 2.5 years now!
 
Project-2501 said:
Scuzz are owned by the same people as AC.

Would be nice to see some more anime on Film4, they've been showing Ghibli on and off for 2.5 years now!
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Aaah, that would explain it. I still found it random like :p
Cheers
 
Miyazaki produced and directed Whisper Of The Heart, but The Cat Returns was directed and storyboarded by Hiroyuki Morita, and the character designs were by Satoko Morikawa, which is why The Cat Returns looks completely different to the usual Ghibli designs.
 
chaos said:
GiTS is too complex. Hard to get on the first time if you're sharp, if you're a regular viewer, it will take a few sittings and if you're not a fan in the first place you would just drop it.

Bebop would do great, I think, if they didn't have Eddy. It's an awesome character, but she adds too much randomness to the series and your regular viewer don't like much randomness out of a comedy show.
That's my two p's...
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I agree with the GITS part. If you're starting someone off with anime, I don't think giving something complex to watch would keep them hooked.
Something with an amazing first Arc... like Naruto perhaps, or One Piece. Though I don't think they'll go down too well with the adults... in that case, Outlaw Star would do the trick nicely.
 
Mohawk52 said:
Miyazaki produced and directed Whisper Of The Heart, but The Cat Returns was directed and storyboarded by Hiroyuki Morita, and the character designs were by Satoko Morikawa, which is why The Cat Returns looks completely different to the usual Ghibli designs.
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Actually, it was Yoshifumi Kondo who directed Whisper, Miyazaki's protege who sadly died of an aneurysm not long after. Very sad, as judging by that he could have become a great director in his own right.
 
Why don't they air the Studio Ghibli movies more often?
They repeat the same tired films almost every day yet they have the rights to almost the entire Ghibli library but only show a couple every few months.
 
LeeDless said:
Why don't they air the Studio Ghibli movies more often?
They repeat the same tired films almost every day yet they have the rights to almost the entire Ghibli library but only show a couple every few months.
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Licencing terms and ratings. Simple as that. If something is on a pay-per-play deal it makes more sense to show something more mainstream and get more advertising revenue off it. It's just cold hard business fact. Sure, you play the more artsy/foreign films occasionally but you do it as part of a "season" to get the most out of promotion rather than stick it on and have people ignore it on their TV Guide.

As for the suggestions on using Eva and GitS to expose anime I couldn't disagree more....from a purely TV standpoint. Eva isn't "accessible" by the mass market, being full of giant robots is a bad start, but when you add in some of the pseudopsychology and the OLD animation....it's going to turn off 90% of the Joe Q. Publics out there. GitS has too much high-brow politicking in it to really be mainstream, I mean, its target audience would be the audience of 24....but only the part that has more than half a brain (e.g. the bit not just watching for Elisha Cuthbert......mmmm.....Elisha Cuthbert.................). You're looking at very narrow fields there.

The ideal way to do it would be to simply look for genre cinema pieces inside anime that would fit inside film seasons of similar pieces. So, for instance, you run a thriller season and stick Perfect Blue inside it. You run an action season and you might consider Appleseed, for a fantasy season maybe Princess Mononoke.

The only way you'd ever break in anime on mainstream TV in even a medium size way is by trying to tie it to a concept existing audiences get, and already watch, then if that shows people WILL watch you move onto a broader range. Yes, it's sad that people won't just turn on TV and watch Fooly Cooly, but frankly them's the breaks.

Frankly TV's a dead loss right now anyway what with the constant Big Brother, Celebrity something-or-other, Nobody's Got Talent, Fame Academy, X-Factor, blah blah blah blah blah.
 
Bah. Whatever happened to the glory days of the early to mid nineties when Anime was shown on Channel 4 and BBC One?
The medium built up such a momentum in the early years, it's a shame it had to die out.
I wonder if anything could bring Anime back into the mainstream in that manner again?
 
It was BBC2.

The internet and a new generation of 'fans' who expect to get what they want, when they want it without paying for it and who think that seeing the latest anime as soon as they can is some sort of status symbol ;)
 
I used to read Super Play (old SNES magazine) that included news of the latest Anime released in Japan.

I'm not reminiscing in a nostalgic sense (given that I was only a kid in those days and therefore couldn't stay up to watch it most of the time), but for an era after the likes of Akira came out when Anime was suddenly mainstream and 'cool' to watch.
The trouble was they couldn't keep up interest from the general public, sadly Ghost in the Shell arrived too late and the medium was eventually consigned to being a fanboy pursuit.

It's ironic that these days we've never had it better regarding the easy availability of Anime to buy in stores, but things have never been worse when it comes to finding it on TV.
 
Who really cares about anime on TV. I barely watch TV for anything anymore anyway because of all the adverts they bombard us with. I'd rather just pay out for the DVD's. Besides if anime is ever on TV is never for the fans, it's in an attempt to make it more appealing to the masses and if they do put it on TV for fans then they're targeting the wrong audience if they want to stay afloat.
 
Well that's the vicious circle faced when deciding what shows to air.

Do you put on the most popular shows in the hope of attracting casual viewers knowing that most fans won't watch because they've already seen them, or air more obscure titles knowing that casual viewers will be turned away but hoping that fans will tune in?

I also prefer to watch my Anime on DVD, but it's vital that the medium gains a permanent foothold on television.
Regular TV viewings will result in the capture of more fans, which will in turn increase DVD sales which will then result in a cheaper and wider range of titles to buy.
 
Initial D would do great... I can also see Slam dunk as well. Why I think sports anime would do ok on TV? beats me.. it's more a feeling than anything rational.
 
chaos said:
Initial D would do great... I can also see Slam dunk as well. Why I think sports anime would do ok on TV? beats me.. it's more a feeling than anything rational.
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Ahh, sports anime, gotta love it. It'll never happen but I reckon some little kiddies would eat up Hungry Heart: Wild Striker. Got so much mockery for watching that, but I did love it to bits.

This reminds me.....I still have to watch the rest of Princess Nine.....
 
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