Wednesday 28 October 2015

Anime On UK Television!

Anime rarely comes on British television compared to, say, the US, in 2015.



Years back, several anime series/films would play in a few channels (around 5 channels?), but now it's been reduced to 2 (sometimes 3) channels, and the two channels only play a few anime series.


There's CITV which sometimes plays Pokemon episodes and in some occasions air the latest Pokemon films as well.
Currently the 28th of October, I noticed weeks back that Dinosaur King plays regularly on CITV, and still does, which is a good thing. Hearing Ash's voice actor in it really frightens me lool.


There's Kix which shows only one anime series, the legendary Dragon Ball Z Kai.
It plays starting from 10:30pm and ending at 12:00pm - three episodes every day.
Currently it's replayed the Cell Saga like three times, since the Buu Saga hasn't been dubbed yet.


The third channel isn't really a children's/cartoon channel - it's mainly a film-channel which plays several films every day, at times cartoons but most of the time 'latest' American films.
I'm talking about Film 4, which plays one or two Ghibli films everyday for around 20 days, thrice a year (or more). EDIT: These past few years they've only aired Ghibli marathons once a year or none at all in a year.


A couple of years back, Pokemon would play regularly on Disney XD and CITV, but now -XD no longer plays it and CITV's episodes of it have reduced.
Scratch that. I think that it's been completely wiped from CITV since I've been searching for it for a few days but haven't found any Pokemon episodes.

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