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| Title: | Naruto and The Future of the UK Anime Industry |
| Category: | Industry Commentary |
| Author: | Paul |
| Published: | Sat, 22 Jul 2006 |
Paul's article
Today sees probably the most important event the UK anime community has seen for many, many years; Naruto is launching on Jetix at 8pm. The glorious success or shameful failure of Naruto on UK TV will shape the future of the UK community- success means more anime on TV, more DVDs, more magazines, more fans, more everything; the unthinkable prospect of Naruto's failure will mark the end of the so-called "glory days" and see the UK community slump back into a decadent, poor-to-mediocre existence; an industry that scratches its living off of the hardcore DVD buyers. If Naruto fails to bring in the viewers for Jetix, you can forget about seeing anime on a high profile TV channel for a long time.
For those who are unaware of the Naruto franchise, all you really need to know is that it is a massive media phenomenon on the same level as Dragonball Z. It has the potential to become a trail blazing success story for the UK community, with its coming of age, action packed story effortlessly able to stretch across generations and appeal to viewers young and old.
Since debuting in Japan during 2002, Naruto has developed a sprawling worldwide fan base of rabid fans. Every week hundreds of thousands of anime fans downloaded episodes of this show and quickly it became obvious that Naruto out of every other anime currently being produced could hook in so many new fans. Now the time has come to see whether the anime industry's prodigal son has what it takes to revolutionise a country.
Naruto airs on Jetix UK at 8PM; as both a devoted fan of this show and excited supporter of the UK anime community, I urge you to check it out- or at the very least, cross your fingers and hope for its success. If you didn't already twig, it's important.
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1. Comment by Squall
Hopefully, by some miracle, Naruto will be cancelled and picked up by another channel. A man can dream.
Posted on Tue, 25 Jul 2006.
2. Comment by Cabbit-chan
I just bear in mind that there will be an uncut box set of the 1st 13 eps for sale the end of August and the Japanese version in all its glory will be there to watch.
As long as Naruto is gaining more fans and turning people onto anime, what Jetix is doing is fine. People may even get the box set and discover the true brilliance of the show if they like the dub.
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2006.
3. Comment by Konoha's Death God
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2006.
4. Comment by Squall
I seriously have no idea how they're going to handle the Zabuza arc, for example. Either Zabuza will be hitting people with thin air, or there will be so much scenes cut out that the episodes will be like 3 minutes long...
But yes, I do look forward to the DVDs.
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2006.
5. Comment by Elegantly-Asian
Posted on Wed, 26 Jul 2006.
6. Comment by Breana /melissa
Posted on Fri, 28 Jul 2006.
7. Comment by Linaka
Its the wrong channel for such a "violent" show.
Posted on Tue, 1 Aug 2006.
8. Comment by shindo
Posted on Thu, 3 Aug 2006.
9. Comment by N-Antichrist
I was hoping that the American dub would never come to England. ugh, and by the sounds of it, all the good stuff that makes Naruto is not there.
Hopefully ITV won't take it.
Posted on Fri, 4 Aug 2006.
10. Comment by Dragon_ninja
Posted on Sun, 6 Aug 2006.
11. Comment by Dragonfox
I think I'll stick with the repeats of Shaman King. That's much more exciting than watching a blonde ninja guy turning into a banana.
Posted on Mon, 7 Aug 2006.
12. Comment by KionaFog
I agree with Squall, Jetix IS probably trying to make it a failure for god-knows what reasons. First-of jetix put naruto on at 8:00pm! and since anime is pretty much watched by the younger audience in the UK (below the age of 12 or something like that) who will watch Naruto at THAT time?!
AND the ad for naruto totally sucks!
AND (of course) the editing is just horrible, i mean it was SO bad that i had to give up on watching the show on TV all-together.
All we can hope for is that Jetix will leave naruto alone and hand it over tho a channel like Toonami which copes better with "violent" shows that contain "blood and gore"
Posted on Mon, 7 Aug 2006.
13. Comment by AkiraSohma
Posted on Thu, 10 Aug 2006.
14. Comment by NoDub Sama
(excuse my english, i'm from Chile)
Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2006.
15. Comment by Fat_Gits_UNITED
Posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2006.
16. Comment by Fat_Gits_UNITED
Posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2006.
17. Comment by discopika
Cuts are always irritating, but this is a first step; Jetix are aiming at a new audience, not the hardcore fans who've already watched the whole thing off YouTube or wherever. First the new fans are brought in, eventually the momentum is there demanding a full release, which should in turn open up the market to more anime.
Posted on Thu, 17 Aug 2006.
18. Comment by ShihouinVann
if you watch the jap version of dbz the blood is all therex_X
and all the other stuff etc
so as for the "new audience", think of it like dbz all over again(the younger viewers dont even know if the scenes are cut out anyway autho some are more than apparent)
wellanyway it might hit a success but we allhave to hope lol
mabe the younger viewers will be suckered into watching it or jetix will change the times :D
we can only hope^^
Posted on Thu, 17 Aug 2006.
19. Comment by Emi
I think the people editing it think that only little kids watch this, but 12-18 year olds watch it too.
As for the new Uk anime industry. I hope it gat popular. I mean, If it does, fruits basket, DNangel, Inuasyha(sp?) will air here, Then i can take my FMA bag to school without looking like a total idiot.^_^
Posted on Sat, 19 Aug 2006.
20. Comment by teresa
if it wasnt cut then it probably would not be able to be shown look what they want to do to tom and jerry(yes i know its not anime but if thats too much then whats next)
and if you have even tried to watch anime on toonami lately thinking by its name there would be something new and exciting to be found
well i wont go there
by the way i am a human and if you want to know if i had the choice (which is rare in todays climate)to watch the original language versions of any media,prefer subs
Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2006.
21. Comment by no one
Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2006.
22. Comment by Lauren
So just be happy it's airing at all, and buy the uncut DVDs.
Posted on Wed, 23 Aug 2006.
23. Comment by Smuffy
So ratings will not be as much as first thought.
Personaly I would recommend more advertisement for Naruto on other channels e.g. Sky One and other most watch channels.
I only heard Naruto was on Jetix because of an internet friend and that was 1 week ago (24.8.06 today)
Posted on Wed, 23 Aug 2006.
24. Comment by discopika
If you can't wait that long, pick up the manga.
Posted on Tue, 29 Aug 2006.
25. Comment by ninja lord mic
the amount of stuff thats cut out if jetix wants to show it put it on late so we can watch the full show instead of edited garbage, also this crap now about showing the same episode seven days a week who came up with that crap idea
Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2007.
26. Comment by Anonymous
on jetix it would get 3/10 because i think they ruined it with all the editing and the way they have set it up the same episode all week come on.
and i would give it 3/10 for how long it takes to come out on dvd.
and is it tru it has over 200+ episodes
Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2007.
27. Comment by Minikimi-kaguya/future-mangaka
Posted on Sat, 28 Jul 2007.
28. Comment by ...
Posted on Sat, 16 Feb 2008.
29. Comment by chrissy
Posted on Fri, 25 Apr 2008.
Type the characters you see in the picture above.