Ani-Monday Feb. & Mar. Schedules (Gundam 00, Gurren Lagann, Rave Master & More)

Hmm, it's in TV Guide for my area too. Odd.....I'm betting it's an error, unless they're going to shock us all by premiering season 2 after all in the 11th hour.
 
If it's uncut, I'll give Rave Master a try. If it's the edited one I won't, because I gave it a chance a few years ago on Toonami and it really didn't work for me at all.

I'm pretty confident Gundam 00 will be back. My earlier speculation notwithstanding, it was overly optimistic to think that they'd be dubbing it so fast that they could just air the second season at two episodes a week without interruption at this point.

I'm fine with Gurren Lagann coming back and then having another show or two get some time, after which 00 returns. There are really quite a few interesting possibilities for Ani-Mondays that I'd like to see get on the air. I'm glad significant titles like Gundam and GL have a home there, but I also like how the block gets relatively obscure titles on the air. Sometimes that gets us questionable things like MD Geist, Tokko, and Street Fighter Alpha Generations, but it also gets us Macross Plus and the Street Fighter II movie and Now and Then, Here and There. I'd really like to see them continue that while also making a little room for some really solid SF shows, one of which would certainly be Ergo Proxy.
 
I'm honestly surprised that Rave Master is on the block. It just seems like a weird addition into the line up IMO. But I'll watch it to see how it turns out to decide whether to re-watch it again.
 
Well, Gurren Lagann will likely end sometime in July . . . if Rave Master's ratings hold up it'll be on the air until October or so.

My guess is that after GL completes its 2nd run they'll rerun Gundam 00 season 1 and then start up season 2 after the season 1 reruns stop. Gundam 00 season 2 will then run with premieres of another show behind it (possibly a FUNi title?).

This is not including the possibility of Ani-Mondays expanding to three hours or getting Tuesdays back.
 
You know what show I want to see get a new shot: Eureka Seven. Seriously, the show never really got a fair shot to succeed (heading to Adult Swim was more of a "sentence to death" than anything else). Running two episodes a week, uncut except for ERAB, would allow E7 to find the audience that escaped it during its languishing on AS.

Mecha action, splendid characterization, awesome soundtrack, and one of the few happy endings seen in modern anime, gives it a chance to find a great audience. Granted, it's another youth-leaning show, but it's a violent one at times, and it suits Ani-Mondays more than Rave Master.

Not to mention E7 is influenced by music just as much as Rave Master, but makes better use of it (there's a frickin' BLUES tune in the soundtrack, all of the episodes are named after songs and albums from The Beastie Boys to the classic nuraber "When You Wish Upon A Star", top-of-the-line electronica, the OPs and ERAB go all over the place genre-wise, and the orchestra dives into every mood and tone possible) than Rave Master ever does.
 
I know how you got four. With me never watching the series until now, I was assuming that all episodes were only 30 minutes. (I just divided the 2 hour blocks....) So yeah, 4 episodes if you don't separate(seperate....?)
 
Rave Master? This better not be the dub that aired on CN but I don't see why it would be a different dub... I mean would FUNi redub Rave Master and if they did... why give the broadcast rights to MANGA Entertainment? This is some really bizzare stuff but if Rave Master makes the cut then FUNimation's One Piece should.
 
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