Saturday Anime

[Nick at Knight]

I'm just wondering (and hoping that this subject can go here) but I'm curious as to know who remembers that great ol' Saturday morning tradition known as Saturday Anime on the Sci-Fi Channel?

I'm sure a lot of people remember it.

I must say, it was a great idea for Sci-Fi to do something as great as this, but I wonder what ever happened to it.

Sci-Fi couldn't hold the license to show overseas products (due to costs)?
Or could it have been a bad time slot (spliting that into the fact that no one was watching, or the fact that given some of the material and the fact that it aired conveniently during a time where most youngsters watch their cartoons and yada yada equaling complaints from parents) ?

I just figured that it would be a sort of nostalgic sojourn for some avid anime fans.

[Sandoz]

Ahhh...Saturday Anime... *nostalgic sigh*

SA actually is what got me into those wonderful Japanese cartoons. I remember channel surfing one morning and landing on Demon City Shinjuku. My life would never be the same... ;)

I watched every anime they showed, from the classic (Akira) to the lame (Lily C.A.T.) and enjoyed every second of it. Somewhere along the lines, though, SCi-Fi stopped acquiring more anime to air, so they kept re-running the same films over and over again. That got old, and I suppose the ratings weren't that good, so Saturday Anime went belly up. It's a shame, they had some real rare gems (Robot Carnival, for example) that you can't really see anymore.