Astroboy-->Adult Swim 7/14 @2am?!

[jeffbert]

[QUOTE=jeffbert;74852]Briefly, but I always fast forward through commercials.
i did run a few ad at regular speed.

Did you see the Astroboy promo were the marooned doctor from the Mars episode threatens to blow astro and his space ship to pieces? [/QUOTE]
Briefly.

[cybotron]

[QUOTE=cybotron;74853][QUOTE=jeffbert;74852]Briefly, but I always fast forward through commercials.
i did run a few ad at regular speed.

Did you see the Astroboy promo were the marooned doctor from the Mars episode threatens to blow astro and his space ship to pieces? [/QUOTE]
Briefly.[/QUOTE]
Quite...

[jeffbert]

This week's episode 005 Cross Island (J: 012 Cruciform Island) ran about 25:02. I scrolled through my captured frames as I watched it, & did not notice anything missing from it.

[cybotron]

This week's episode 005 Cross Island (J: 012 Cruciform Island) ran about 25:02. I scrolled through my captured frames as I watched it, & did not notice anything missing from it.

No it was the same as the episode we spoke of before. It was taken from the DVD.

[jeffbert]

I got 25:07 for the Adult Swim SilverComet.

[cybotron]

I got 25:07 for the Adult Swim SilverComet.

Do you think silver comet was the inspiration for Speed racer?

[jeffbert]

I do. Just as there are too many similarities between Kimba & Lion King for them to be coincidental, there are just as many between the White Planet & Speed Racer.

First, the cars:

1. If you put one above the other, & viewed them from the side, their profiles are very similar.
2. Their canopies open the same way.
3. The Mach 5 jumps over obsticles in nearly the same way as the Black Falcon.

The races:

1. Over any terrain
2. dirty tricks
3. team owners who scheme to have their drivers win at any cost

I cannot say that Tezuka originated all or any of these elements, though; but it is quite clear that he had them before the Seahorse guys put them in Mach Go Go Go anime. Mach Go Go Go anime dates to 1967; of course, they might have had these elements in their manga, & since only a few are in the WP manga, who can say who originated them?

[jeffbert]

24:43 for Robot Land.

[astro-me]

How the heck could Astro Boy end up on Adult Swim? It's less violent than Hikaru no Go! (Well, not really, but you get my point).

[jeffbert]

In the tradition of showing parodies of 1960s cartoons, I suppose they decided to show a 1960s cartoon.