| Eilavel wrote: |
| WatcherZer wrote: | | Thats strange, I dont believe the BBC has ever shown an anime series before (outside Pokemon during kids block and picking up the Dragon Ball Super series when Pop! lost the rights). |
Certainly very rarely. I think this must reflect the BBCs concern that its audience is aging and so it thinks if netflix thinks One Piece is a good bet with young people, lets buy some One Piece.
Well, it'll be interesting. Among fandom circles I've been in in the UK One Piece has not been very popular; but no idea how it cuts through to a younger and less involved crowd. |
Yeah anime's always been a hard sell in the UK other than Pokémon and Digimon. Something to do with having to justify the cost of the licence from the US, so most import shows for kids channels are often European cartoons and not anime.
But off the top of my head as a 90s kid (and through asking my parents), here's what we've had. I'm only counting the kid-friendly shows BTW, that aired on TV. (And yes, I know some of these are co-productions with other countries.)
- Marine Boy
- Some robot show my dad doesn't remember the name of, but did look like anime
- Battle of the Planets (the re-edited American version of Gatchaman)
- Star Fleet (more like a Thunderbirds style of show than an anime)
- Ulysses
- Mysterious Cities of Gold
- Willy Fog
- Thundercats
- Transformers (various versions over the years of course)
- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
- Dogtanian
- Moomins
- Pokemon
- Digimon
- Sailor Moon
- Card-Captors
- Beyblade
- Monster Rancher
- Dragon Ball Z
- Dragon Ball GT
- Ultimate Muscle (4kids version of Kinnikuman Nisei)
- Yu-Gi-Oh
- Super Pig
- Medabots
- Hamtaro
- Shaman King
- B-Daman
- Dinosaur King
- One Piece (4kids)
- Naruto (very edited for Fox Kids/Jetix)
- Mew Mew Power and Kirby (aired years after it had originally finished in the US... I think it was on Tiny Pop)
- Pretty Cure (I think FWPC? the saban dub?)
- Inazuma Eleven
- Bakugan
- Spider Riders
- Dragon Ball Kai and Super
...And pretty sure that's about it.
