There used to be a ton of anime on tv when I was younger, and even not so long ago. There was Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Dragonball Z, YuGiOh (the ORIGINAL series), Shaman King, Beyblade, all kinds of stuff. Some of them were even on mainstream channels, and had prime-time slots. Now, look at the mainstream channels and all you'll see are educational little baby shows or crappy cartoons in the daytime, and documentaries, dramas and the news at night.

And it's not just the mainstream. Anime on Sky is decreasing faster than you can say 'bullsh*t shows about kids going through school'. Sky has always had anime on it - all the shows mentioned at the start of this rant were on Sky channels. However, they've been struck off one by one. Some of them I didn't watch or wasn't too keen on, like Beyblade, but I was real angry when stuff like DBZ and Shaman King were taken off, 2 anime which still hold places in my favourite shows ever today. I didn't realise how bad things were getting until earlier today though.

Naruto, as you probably know, is possibly THE most popular anime in the world, and so of course it reached England. But it reached here only a couple of years ago, when anime started diminishing faster than ever, and so it didn't even get given a good channel. What channel did it get? Jetix. JETIX. A channel for 8 year olds and home of 4Kids. I don't care how edited it was, it's a disgrace to put something like Naruto, which is not intended to be for little children with overprotective parents, on a channel such as that. What's more, they put it on at 9 and 10 o'clock at night. Seriously, they put a show on an INFANT'S channel, at 10 at night. The only thing I can deduce from this is that tv producers here have a combined IQ of about 12, or they just don't want kids to watch stuff like that. Since the first is physically impossible, I'll go with the latter.

I didn't particularly mind this, as the Naruto eps here only go up to 80 or so, and I watch way past that on the internet. I find the internet a lot more convenient and I can watch the Shippuden series on there. But that's not the end. Oh no. I was bored an hour or so ago and so I was checking out what was on tv tonight (why, I don't know, there's NEVER anything decent on) and it caught my attention that Naruto was no longer on Jetix. Curious, I went on the A-Z thingy to see which channel it had been moved to. But it hasn't been moved. It's been taken off completely. Not even a show with a status such as Naruto could withstand this 'anime assasination', as I will now refer to it.

The only, and I repeat, ONLY anime still on ANY kind of tv here are YuGiOh GX (ugh), Pokemon and Beyblade - if you look through the channels hard enough. Why??? Why do they first make anime near impossible to gain ratings and then dispose of it completely? What does this achieve? I don't know the answer to that, but I'm going to go with three options: 1, anime is deemed to be too violent and unsuitable for kids to watch (life's not full of rainbows and butterflies, get used to it), 2, thay want to give stuff like 'Zoey 101' and 'H20' more screentime (like they need anymore, they're on about 50 times a day already) and 3, the tv companies are just total d*ckwads. I personally think all three.

EDIT: One thing I missed out. Anime Central. It had 2 (yeah, 2) anime on it - Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell. Programmes started at 9pm and ended at 6am. Crappy time slots and a stupid number of shows, but at least it was anime on tv in england. But no, a few days ago, Anime Central got cut. Now there is no anime channel at all. Ghost in the Shell has not been moved so I can only assume it's just gne with the rest of them. Cowboy Bebop, however, has been moved to some channel that's name escapes me (Shockwave tv or something?), and the time slots are amazing. Because, I mean, who ISN'T downstairs watching tv at 2am?

Yes, its time for me to have another rant :) this time its about people who flame your reviews not because they are going against the TOS, but simply because they don't agree with what you are saying.

Newsflash for you people - you could just press disagree, instead of making the person who wrote the review receive a warning and have their review taken off. This happened to me very recently with a review I wrote about Zac Efron. I deemed this review to be very fair - although I criticized him, it's not like I went and made up a load of crap about him and said I thought he should die or anything. There was nothing wrong with that review, but then some over-sensitive fan of his went and flamed it. Why? Because they couldn't take anyone saying anything negative about their precious hero. How sad.

Everybody can have their views, and I don't think it's right that your views can be taken away like that because someone else thinks that they're wrong. To all you people out there who do this: stop being douchebags and only flame people's reviews if they are genuinely bad.

I know a lot of you out there think that anime is just for little kids, but the only reason you can think this is because you clearly don't have a wide experience of it. Please, don't base your opinions merely on shows such as Pokemon and Digimon, both of which have a target audience of about 10 yrs old and are (were) extremely mainstream. Nearly every anime is different - some are, I agree, for little kids, some are for audiences of 16 yrs and above, some are mainly for boys, some are mainly for girls, some are action-packed, some are romantic and some are downright gory. My point is that you can't base a whole genre on a few shows you've seen which, if you've seen them on mainstream tv, were probably censored by 4kids (the absolute worst tv company in the history of the world :evil: ).

Yep, I'm done ranting now :) just thought I'd try to make people question their prejudices.