Has anyone watched adult swim on cartoon network. It shows anime from 11:00 to 2:00 in the morning. It was great shows, and sometimes moives that play on there.

You should check it out. Especially Cow Boy BeBop., and Inyu Yasha.

Yes Anime.......I like CB and YYH!

I can't even start to remember the last time I was still awake at those hours! LOL!!! Us old folks need our rest :)

Lol.............that's nothing. I stay up to 4 in the morning sometimes.

I like night because it's peaceful.

Yeah YuYu Hakuso Rocks. I can't wait till they put some new episodes on CN.

BTW Collector do you have pay channels. if you get tech tv they will soon be showing anime on tech tv.

Yeah I've seen adult swim on sat but I watch adult swim on sundays they have the best shows aqua teen hunger force is my personal fav along with the brak show gotta love toons :)
Stephanie

Sunday is more of the adult cartoons. Saturday is for anime.

Anime is for all ages! anime rules. the only thing better than anime is the 80's.

The anime they show on adult swim is hardly typical anime. Its anime produced and released for american television. There are two very different marketing strategies in anime- anime marketed for American is toned down, and appeals to younger ages. Japanese pop-culture though has a place for anime in the adult-lifestyle. In fact, in Japan, anime runs in theatres just as live-action films run here. The "mainstream" and publicized anime that filters to America though competes on the same level with disney and warnerbros (younger target audiences).

Because of the different marketing strategies theres currently two forms of anime frequently refer to. The children cartoons that have always been around but were never considered "anime" before (voltron, transformers, pokemon, sailormoon, etc) and the less popular japanese-style anime that would never run on syndicated american television unless it was re-worked (ranma 1/2, neon-genesis evangelion, plastic little, etc). So the "anime" on adult swim is really the same type of "anime" which you find on syndicated television in the early afternoon (children timeblocks). I always find it amusing when people claim to dislike anime when they indeed watch "anime" but on a different marketing scale.

What they may actually dislike is Japanese marketed anime which isn't designed for U.S. distribution or syndication. It really is a different breed. Thats what I always consider "anime" just to try to make some clear distinction people can follow...

The funniest part about adult swim is that the anime is hardly adult material (with maybe the exception of cobwboy beebop); but the american developed shows they run are VERY adult-oriented (family guy, futurama, aqua-teen hunger force, sealab). Funny because japanese marketed anime is usually geared for older audiences.

eh... marketing...

Marketing is everything.

Food for thought. Did you know that most companies produce and back cartoon series simply for advertising? Advertising merchandise of course. Toy lines and merchandising contracts are usually created before a cartoon series even begins development past a script or plot analysis. Cartoons (usually) only exist to drive merchandise sales. Thats the only way companies return a profit.

I think Adult Swim is garbage....

Just more of todays crap geared towards an OLDER AUDIENCE.. It doesnt make it any better....

I think 80s cartoons and before ARE MUCH BETTER!!

I am not crazy about Adult Swim. A lot of the so called humor is not funny. They try too hard to be on the edge of crude/funny.

Sorry, but I absolutely cannot stand Adult Swim or the Cartoon Network for that matter. I see Adult Swim as just another example of what sucks so much about pop culture today....all of this "hey let's be hip, irreverent, ironic, and edgy!" type b.s. Sorry, but all of that crap rubs me the wrong way totally.

Most of the garbage shown on Cartoon Network today NEVER would have been popular in the 80's. I truly do feel that as society has become more jaded and cynical and consumed with this new trendiness, our standards for entertainment have lessened.

That's the way I see it, and I mean no offense to you Cartoon Network fans. I just personally see it as a perfect example of everything the 80's wasn't.

EDIT: Although I did love when they were showing Pee-Wee's Playhouse last year. :)