Teletoon anime

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I've beenwondering.A lot of criticisim from teletoon comes from it's limited anime selection(without getting into the debate of weather or not Bakugan and Spider rediers counts as anime). So I was wondering just what anime someone would want on it. My picks:

Gurren Lagann: It's overall style seems to fit in with the detour more than bionix. I could see Gurren Lagann going back to back with tripping the rift or leading to a movie.

FCFL: Same reason as gurren lagann really.

Ghost in the shell and Hellsing seem like they'd fit, but those are more or less afterthoughts.
 
YTV (owned by the same people who own teletoon) is where the anime fix is in Canada so besides Bakugan there is not that many anime on Teletoon:sweat:
 
Gurren Lagann won't be airing on The Detour since Super Channel has it, along with most of the anime that aired on Sci-Fi; and what anime is FCFL;)?



I was commenting on the mis-spelling/typing of FLCL.
 
I believe YTV holds the Canadian broadcast rights to this.

I always thought other channels wanting to run anime should go a different route to YTV. Instead of the hip, edgy anime, they should give some of the older, "populist" anime a try. You know, "easy to understand" anime that can be enjoyed by a broad demographic. Imagine if, say, Maison Ikkoku ran two episodes a day, 5 days a week? You get some teenagers or "housewives" to tune in, and you'll likely build a cult following.
 
Of course this isn't Japan, so I doubt many teenagers would like non hip anime and I know house wives wouldn't like anime period, especially on a channel like YTV.
 
FLCL aka Furi Curi aka Fooly Cooly.(I've got a teeshirt somewhere) Only 6 episodes but it's on My "must have" list,,, and I do have it. It's not usual anime and you really need to go out on a limb to wrap your mind around this one.
 
FLCL never aired in Canada so that would be great. :)

Gurren Lagann airs on Super Channel (an obscure channel no one gets) and GiTS aired on YTV.

YTV only premiere two anime shows currently, Bleach and Naruto. I've heard rumors that they won't acquire Anime anymore, and with Razer rebranded to MTV2 the selection of anime airing here is abysmal. :crying:
 
Teletoon just doesn't have the space.

First you got the contractual obligations that Nelvana and Cookie Jar, the founding parties of Teletoon, have to get a certain (equal) % of the schedule all to themselves, then you got the liscence stipulation that limits the ammount of non-canadian content (count from Monday to Sunday I believe, and not Sunday to Saturday, which does apparantly make a difference) and all the CN hits they want to air (which are NOT Canadian content and thus fall off the CanCon %) and you're not left with a lot of hours for anime. We're even lucky to get Bakugan.

I kinda feel sorry for the programming VP over there :p

Also like what was mentionned, Corus Entertainement, owners of Nelvana, have a stake in both Teletoon and YTV so they shove what little anime they have over to YTV instead. Only the more kid and merchandising friendly ones get shown on Teletoon.

Now on the French side a few OTHER problems arise. Namely because of dubbing. Strangely enough, while Vrak.TV doesn't belong to Corus it feels like T?l?toon and Vrak have the same relationship as YTV and Teletoon in that one specialise in CN toon and the other on Nick toon but that's a matter for another discussion.

In French, beside Bakugan, we get Naruto in both cut and uncut version (I think its a trade off because they don't waste programming hours on live action movies)

I remember not too long ago Card Captor Sakura and its loveable uncut French dub was raking in MAD ratings for Teletoon. They also used to air Pok?mon and Digimon. And later they got the Beyblade shows.

Problem was the Digimon dub was ATROCIOUS! A BAD dub of the Saban dub (its like photocopying a BnW photocopy or a color piece on a worse photocopier). The Pok?mon dub, made from the 4Kids dub, was decent but the French distributor was very very lousy at delivery, making the then young network wait insane ammount of times for new episodes. It also didn't help that the French had to always make essentially two version of the show because their version didn't have names that matched the north-american merchandise we had here!!

T?l?toon seems to have learned from their mistakes. Beside the huge hit that is Naruto, the only anime they show now are Nelvana properties dubbed in French in Montreal (incidentely we ALSO provide French dubs of movies to most of the French speaking world beside France and thankfully so, the French have the BAD tendency to gum up their dub with their hideous and nearly hermetic SLANG. Sadly there is still a few studios that don't get that and don't get a second dub commisionned in Canada. Those bastard!)

As you can see, getting anime on Teletoon is not quite as easy as just asking for it. However Teletoon doesn't have anything against Japanese animation. It just happens to usually be either too expensive, be sold to another network, or be a pain in the behind to fit on the air.
 
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