Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series

Rick Ellis writes "Sunday at the 2005 Tokyo Anime Fair in Japan, Cartoon Network unveiled the highly anticipated new series, IGPX. It's a co-production with Production I.G. and Bandai Entertainment and will be the Cartoon Network's first original 'Toonami' series."

Re:In other news....

[R.Caley]

Compared to a Hitachi press releas and some guy trying to get people to reqd his unfinished course-work, this is the high news of the day.

F that!

[Anonymous Coward]

I want a season 3 of Big O!

Re:why?

[ggvaidya]

Because CmdrTaco owns this site and your soul and you know it!!!

Search your feelings, or your browser history: you know it to be true. :)

Re:Feh

[CoffeeJedi]

Why do all these shows nowadays focus on some "competition" like a race, or a card tournament? The stupidest one I've seen is that kid's show on saturday morning where a giant arena of people gathered to watch kids fight with spinning tops! It was like ten-thousand people all looking down at a little 2 sq-ft board with little spinning tops smacking into each other, while prebuscent kids yelled at the top of their lungs to... I don't know... get the tops to hit each other harder or something. It made no sense.
There's never any real conflict in these shows, the 'evil' character is just another player in the 'tournament'. When Optimus Prime and Megatron fought, they didn't pull out little decks of cards or summon holographic monsters to fight for them, they went out there and beat the shit out each other! And it wasn't for some lame 'tournament', it was because the Decepticons were trying to take over the whole freakin' world! I tell ya... thank god for Justice League Unlimited, or kids today would have no sense of proper cartoon violence!
[end rant]

Re:Dorks

[Anonymous Coward]

I know, they need to get a real hobby, like D&D, frikkin' nerds.

Where do I donate...

[Anonymous Coward]

to the toonami relief fund?

Apparently someone at CN is drinking the Kool-Aid

[writertype]

From the press release:

"Cartoon Network first partnered with Production I.G. in 2032 to produce five 5-minute episodes of IGPX for an on-air Toonami event in 2003."

"Hideki -- we have no capabiliity to produce these episodes using current technology!"

"Aoki, any word from Project X on Titan?"

"No sir -- it was overrun by the Trog raiders!"

"Damn. Well, we'll need to turn to the Balrog Omega Ultra Option!!!!"

*gasps*

"No arguments! Fetch BoingBoing The Happy Fuzzball and prepare for integration! If we can't make these episodes now, we'll make them in the future! We're going through time!!!!"

Re:Feh

[Jherek Carnelian]

The stupidest one I've seen is that kid's show on saturday morning where a giant arena of people gathered to watch kids fight with spinning tops! It was like ten-thousand people all looking down at a little 2 sq-ft board with little spinning tops smacking into each other

Well, "Robot Wars" did so well, they figured "Dreidle Wars" was worth a shot!

Conflict

[talaphid]

Because it requires effort to come up with conflict to lead a narrative all the time. There are only so many little old ladies that can be kidnapped that the hero cares about and will feel a deep sadness when the villain... offs her! resulting in him breaking through and reaching Super Saijin Eleventeen.

It's also easier to come up with tougher villains. "Wow, that's Johnny Loadeddice, he ALWAYS ROLLS 20s." Just have him crush more kittens as he walks into the arena then the last guy, and you know he's a badder dude than the last.

But I think you're on to something there. Transformers: Final Deck, where the fate of the universe is in the hands of Yoshiro Someguy who must use his Autobot themed deck to defeat the many foes of Standard Highscool with their Decepticon decks or else the fate of teh universe is teh badsss!11. The more I think about it, the more I like it. Season two they could tap into the obvious expansion, Beast Wars. Season three they can get the Transformers who were all trains and stuck to the train system expansion. Then they can get autovices in season four when the fabric of reality begins to unwind, so that the protagonist and his converted from evil previous seasons' villains buddies can all summon their Autobot Force while searching for the legendary seventh autovice!

Re:Feh

[Mr. Slippery]

little kids love toy robots.

But chicks dig giant robots [tvtome.com].

Re:Subbing?

[The Archon V2.0]

The problem is that the FCC requires that if you use SAP for a second audio channel, that channel's closed caption track must be in the same language,

Hmmm. (Turns on NYPD Blue.)
(Turns on audio subcarrier. Spanish.)
(Turns on CC. English.)

(Turns on The Fairly Oddparents.)
(Turns on audio subcarrier. English with blind narration.)
(Turns on CC. English without blind narration. If there was blind narration on the CC, I'd be ready to smack someone.)

Ooh, so if I was blind and deaf, I could still watch! No, wait....

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