Talk:AnimeCentral

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[edit] Forum threads

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=662548&highlight=Anime+Central

00:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

...and your point is???? Astronaut (talk) 01:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I think he's trying to point out on a particular thread consisting of a "how-to" guide on tuning your Digital Satellite receiver to receive that channel.
88.105.26.93 (talk) 13:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
The original poster didn't pose a question or any info about why the link was important, just the link to a forum started a year before the channel began broadcasting. Sky boxes should just add the channel automatically. Astronaut (talk) 14:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No more than 26 episodes?

How come Anime Central can't broadcast more than 26 episodes of each series? Does that mean they can't afford to televise more than 26?

88.105.26.93 (talk) 13:18, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

They can and do broadcast more than 26 episodes, if more episodes are available. Many animes are based on mangas, and studios often adapt a series of manga books into a 26 episode anime, just like with the live-action series coming out of Hollywood having 24 or 26 episodes in a season. Very often however, there is no more original materiel in Manga form to make second season. That said, whilst .hack//SIGN, Cowboy Bebop, Planetes and Wolf's Rain only had one 26-episode season; Ghost in the Shell has had two 26-episode seasons (known as 1st GIG and 2nd GIG), Full Metal Alchemist had 51 episodes, and Bleach has 150 episodes made so far (though the channel has shown only the 50-something episodes which have been translated and dubbed into English). Astronaut (talk) 14:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Wolf's Rain had 4 OVA episodes which haven't been shown, although there have been requests on the forum. [Mind you, if and when when they are shown sales of Kleenex will rocket.]
Also, the series marked as ending on 20/12/2007 have not finished their complete reruns, and will hopefully resume from January 5 2008. Lee M (talk) 04:58, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm not so sure. New series are advertised as starting on 5 Jan, though admittedly not enough to fill the regular 3 hour schedule. I think it is unlikely they will finish off the incomplete series repeats (though it would be nice for them to do so). Astronaut (talk) 15:21, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, they've confirmed that they won't. I have no doubt that the series in question will be rerun at a later date, but it's still unprofessional to cut off a series in mid-run. Lee M (talk) 01:10, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Bleach "Seasons"

I removed mention of Bleach having seasons. Although Anime Central has referred to the broadcast of Bleach "Season 2" on-air, they have simply broadcast episodes 1-52 - which was as far as the english dub was available at the time. According to the List of Bleach episodes, that included the Agent of the Shinigami arc, the Soul Society: The Sneak Entry arc, and part of the Soul Society: The Rescue arc. I am not sure this anime is split into seasons in the usual sense. Astronaut (talk) 03:03, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Former series

The article currently lists former series and includes information about how many times a series has been repeated and when it was shown. When the schedule changes again in late Feb, and new series start to be shown, I can see this list becoming more and more difficult to maintain in a way that makes sense to the casual reader. I therefore propose that with the next major schedule change we drop the "shown x times, date - date" format in favour of a simple list of which series have been shown at any time. Astronaut (talk) 01:09, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Y Done Astronaut (talk) 17:30, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Programming Errors?

According to the What's On page at animecentral.com, as well as the Sky EPG, programming from Saturday March 1 will consist of double-bill episodes of just three series (GI Joe, Cowboy Bebop and GitS). This means that the scheduled reruns of Wolf's Rain, .hack//SIGN and Escaflowne will be chopped off after a ridiculously small number of episodes, and has led to speculation that the channel may be about to close. Discussion on the new schedule begins from the third post on this page. I hope it doesn't but this does look like a major kerfuffle. Lee M (talk) 12:47, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

I too hope this is just a simple error in sending out the programme guide to Sky and publishing to the website. It wouldn't be the first time the What's On page and/or Sky's EPG has been wrong - in the early days of Anime Central (Sept - Nov '07), there were a surprising number programming errors, with the guide info being wrong or missing for days on end, the wrong epidodes being broadcast, etc. Whilst Anime Network UK did close suddenly at the end of 2007, I think it is premature to speculate about Anime Central being about to close. Astronaut (talk) 18:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Well, now we know it wasn't an error. What it portends for the channel's future I can't say, but it doesn't look professional at any rate. Lee M (talk) 04:28, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
One can only hope the "error" will be corrected soon, or at least an explanation will be forthcoming. Anyway, I have updated the article to reflect the current situation. Astronaut (talk) 13:09, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New series for the winter season

The news of more upcoming series is open to two different interpretations. I think it is an announcement of new shows to be broadcast soon on Anime Central. However, it has been suggested that it could be general news in the world of anime - ie. that the new series are still being made in Japan and are unlikely to come to Anime Central for some considerable time. Astronaut (talk) 21:54, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Turns out to be general news in the world of anime (see the Anime Central Forums here), so sorry but Persona: Trinity Soul, True Tears, Spice and Wolf, Shigofumi and Hakaba Kitaro will not be coming to Anime Central after all. Astronaut (talk) 17:00, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] GI joe and the transformers

When I looked the articles of gi joe a real american hero and the transformers, they are the same company and both aim at the viewers that watch pop but GI joe is on anime central. GI joe is not a anime as such along with the transformers. GI joe had just been removed off anime central on 10/3/08. I think GI joe should go on pop not anime central. Do you agree with me? --Omegace (talk) 20:46, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Much the same has been said on the Anime Central Forums. Both shows appeared to be deeply unpopular with Anime Central's demographic. I did read somewhere that one of the stated aims of the channel was to bring more mature Japanese animation to the UK and that fits in with the 9pm - 6am time slot. However, one must appreciate that the channel is free to air and therefore relies on advertising revenue alone. For a long while the channel carried no advertising and money must have been tight. If the likes of Transformers and GI Joe were cheap filler that enabled the channel to get a good deal on the rights to better shows, then perhaps it's a good thing. On the other hand, I have a strong suspicion that some TV executives really don't understand the demographic, and frequently make the mistake of equating all animation with purely children's programming. One only needs to look at the early advertising which included a Dora the Explorer magazine spot, clearly aimed at pre-teen children despite being shown well after midnight!
One last thing: this page is not really the right place to have a general discussion of Anime Central's programming decisions. Perhaps this discussion would be better continued on the channel's Forum pages.
Astronaut (talk) 22:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Two more things, Dora the Explorer is not aimed at pre teens but at toddlers and I meant the transformers that air on pop not the headmasters etc. Did you get that! --Omegace (talk) 18:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, I missed that completely. I assumed you were talking about the various Transformers series that were shown on Anime Central. Astronaut (talk) 22:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
Have you been told that Dora the Explorer is for toddlers not pre-teens. Pre-teens would do anti-toddler programming humour on Dora the Explorer. Did you get that! --Omegace (talk) 20:33, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
Pre-teen is anyone under 13 - but that really doesn't matter. Editing the meaning of other people's comments really is frowned upon by the community, and edit summaries like "imbecile" breach wikipedia's policies on civility and personal attacks. Astronaut (talk) 21:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
I know that but pre-teens are anyone between 8 and 12. Babys and toddlers are between 0 and 7. Would a 10 year old watch Dora the Explorer. No. Did you get that!. --Omegace (talk) 08:34, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Just say Pre-school children next time if any pre-school related television appears. So I think that GI joe may appear on pop in the near future but just see if that will happen. --Omegace (talk) 18:42, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Audience Share

The following discussion is an copied from User talk:AJFurnell#Viewing shares and is included here for the sake of being easily available to others who may bring the subject up repeatedly. No further edits should be made to this section. If you wish to comment on this matter, please do so in a new talk section.

Please read the referenced source from BARB. It says:

* = figures are small but not zero For decimal figures, where the actual value for a statistic is greater than zero but less than the value which would round to the smallest decimal used for the set of figures, * indicates a figure between zero and the smallest figure shown. Where hour and minutes are shown, * indicates that the recorded figure is between zero and half a minute.

Therefore a channel with "*" in the columns, has a share between 0 and 0.1% Pleas stop providing inaccurate information. Astronaut (talk) 18:53, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

read your talk page,

I did. The information you are providing is inaccurate. A * indicates a share between 0 and 0.1%. Astronaut (talk) 18:57, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

You are trying to give the channel a better share than it deserves and trying to put it in the same league as Five Life +1 and others that can actually make a share of 0.0%, If BAAB thought it was worthy of 0.0% than they would put that, the fact they haven’t means that even putting it is being generous. Oh and stop putting times in next to the shows how many times do you need telling, Wikipedia is not a tv guide --AJFurnell (talk) 19:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

No I'm not trying to give the channel a better share than what you think it "deserves". There are channels with a 0.0% share (which looks a lot like zero viewers to me), but the footnote clearly states that * is a figure that is small but not zero. I suppose I am asking, why do you think 0.0% is in some kind of higher "league" than *?
I do know there are more than zero viewers. I have read elsewhere that Anime Central has attracted around 10,000 viewers per night though I don't know how accurate that figure is or whether that is some extraordinary peak in the viewing figures. but I make that around 0.015% (of 60 million potential viewers) ie. it is not 0.0%.
As for the times, I know Wikipedia is not a TV guide. However, the channel is sometimes unable to provide accurate information about the current schedule either on it's own website or through Sky's programme guide, therefore that information is useful to readers and I think it should stay.
Astronaut (talk) 19:44, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Having made a case to keep the times, I noticed you removed them again quoting policy. The policy is pretty clear, so lets leave it like that for a while and see if any other editors feel the times are useful. Astronaut (talk) 20:28, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Closure?

Comment moved here from my talk page Astronaut (talk) 13:21, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

hiyas reason first deleted the closure part then added more to it is that its pure speculation that AC will close ...it could be that they are just renaming the channel . so to say its closing is pure scaremongering...so should have the caviat that the nam change could be to extend the channels time slot or to show other anime like films etc ..so untill we know the reason shouldnt speculate.

(90.197.32.216 (talk) 12:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC))

I wouldn't classify it as "pure speculation" - it is supported by an official list of TV channels from the government regulator. The fact is, the channel is no longer listed by OFCOM and that definitly has fueled speculation on the Anime Central Forums. That speculation has typically ranged from "There's been no official announcement so let's not be premature", to "Oh no, the channel is closing :-(", to "It may yet be saved as a 'programming block' within True Entertainment". The idea is to report the "news" and subsequent speculation that appeared first on the Anime Central Forums. Astronaut (talk) 13:23, 5 June 2008 (UTC)