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Anime: 'Space Dandy' to blast onto Japanese TV in 2014

Posted by on Mon 23 Sep 2013 - 14:20 — Edited by GreenReaper as of 14:22
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Space Dandy poster Space Dandy is cuming (pun deliberate) in January 2014 – but not to America.

The news is spreading that it was announced at guest Shinichir? Watanabe’s panel at Otakon 2013, August 9-11 in Baltimore, that he is directing Studio Bones’ new TV anime space comedy, Space Dandy, scheduled for broadcast next January in Japan.

This is exciting news because Watanabe is the brilliant director of Cowboy Bebop, and two of the sequences in The Animatrix, among others. Though Dandy may be human, there are plenty of anthropomorphic aliens in it, starting with Meow, his partner.

Watanabe said that this will be "not an anime to be taken seriously." Oh, you think!?

Anime News Network's summary is:

The story revolves around Dandy, an alien-hunter. His job is to seek out new aliens never seen before, and receives a reward whenever he finds a new species. His mission is to find those new species faster than anyone else as he travels the galaxy. Together with the bucket-of-bolts robot QT and the dimwit alien Meow he picked up along the way, he comes into contact with new planets and their inhabitants.

Space Dandy may not be coming to American TV next January, but considering how fast American anime fans get the latest Japanese TV programs, it will be here soon enough. Here are the 2’01” trailer for Space Dandy, and the opening credits and first episode of Cowboy Bebop, which I consider the finest anime TV series ever made.

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Fred — Tue 3 Dec 2013 - 01:24
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The Cartoon Brew's Amid Amidi has announced that "Space Dandy" will debut on both Japanese and American TV simultaneously in January. This is the first time that an anime TV series has appeared on American TV at the same time as its Japanese playdate instead of weeks, months, or years later.

Here is Toonami's American trailer for it.

http://toonamifaithful.com

Fred Patten

Anon (visitor) — Sun 19 Jan 2014 - 13:50
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By the way, you can watch Space Dandy online, at this website: http://animeflicks.net/Space-Dandy/

Fred — Sun 19 Jan 2014 - 14:44
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Hoo-hah! Thanks exceedingly for this weblink! Watanabe is my favorite anime director, even over Miyazaki.

Fred Patten

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a retired former librarian from North Hollywood, California, interested in general anthropomorphics