Where to find enddates for animes?...

Andemon · Post by **Andemon** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:56 am

I usually have no problems finding the enddates; they're usually listed on ANN, and if that fails, I use www.allcinema.net -- but I've recently ran across couple of troublesome cases. Samurai Champloo and Darkside Blues, for example.

I've spent quite a lot of time trying to find the enddates for those, but no luck so far. Are there any other good sites for finding the dates?

(Darkside Blues: all I've found is the year, which is 1994. ...and Champloo is even more problematic, because it was actually released in two seasons, but they're combined in the AniDB db -- all I can find is the enddate for the season 1...)

...actually, I wouldn't mind if someone else looked up the dates for those -- it's kinda annoying that I can't vote for them. -_-;

Post by **Der Idiot** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:45 am

http://www.anidb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3191

darkside blue: 08.10.1994
samurai champloo: 19.03.2005

Andemon · Post by **Andemon** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 2:18 pm

Hm, I've somehow managed to totally overlook whole General board -- sorry for making duplicate topic... -_-;

...anyway, thanks for finding those dates. I wasted nearly two hours on Google, trying to find them -- I had already given up hope that they can be found at all.

maguirer · Post by **maguirer** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:27 am

I'd love to be able to find the end dates for the Robotech series.

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:53 pm

Tried some time ago but couldn't find the dates for each part. That might be because Robotech is not made into "seasons" as it's entered in the db. -_-;

To be syndicated in the USA they had to join the three series (that are not related, I mean the japanese originals) and air them in one single "season". So there is no time for series start and finish.

egg · Post by **egg** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:02 am

How about this, that timeframe is about right IIRC. From this you could even put in the dates for every ep...

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:19 am

Yes, we can use that to fake the "three seasons".

For those completely unfamiliar with the show, Robotech was an animated space opera that aired in syndication in the mid-1980s. The show was noted for its mature themes, something virtually unheard of in North American cartoons at the time, and developed a strong following among teens and young adults. Robotech was the brainchild of Carl Macek who, working with the company Harmony Gold USA, wanted to do a faithful adaptation of a Japanese Animation import (as opposed to previous Japanimation shows which had been butchered down to kiddie-fare level when brought to North America). Macek began production of an English-language version of the Japanese animated series Super Dimension Fortress Macross, creating a pilot episode for the North American home video market. The pilot was a huge success and work continued on adapting the rest of the Macross series. Through a maze of partnerships and licensing agreements I won't go into, the project went from a home video release to a syndicated television series package. There was a problem, however. Macross only consisted of 36 episodes, far less than the 65-episode minimum commitment necessary to get a syndication deal at the time.

The episode problem was solved when Macek decided to pad the series with episodes from other shows. He selected two other animated series from the same producer as Macross (Tatsunoko), Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada, and proceeded combine the three distinct shows into a single multi-generational space odyssey. When it was all done Macek had a total of 85 episodes of the new series, Robotech, ready for the syndication market. (The Robotech name comes from the model company Revell, which owned the North American rights to many of the giant robots, or mecha, seen in the shows and had already been distributing them under the name Robotech Defenders).

Though Macek had to give up on producing the faithful adaptation he'd set out to make (obviously changes to the series would be required to integrate the three distinct storylines), he produced a whole product that in many ways was greater than the sum of its parts, a science fiction series that started a phenomenon that would go on to spawn toys, games, comics, and a host of other spin-offs and attract a following that is still going strong today, two decades after Robotech first debuted.

maguirer · Post by **maguirer** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:50 am

egg wrote:How about this, that timeframe is about right IIRC. From this you could even put in the dates for every ep...

Hey! I was there, like, a month or two ago, and those were not filled in. Whatever... works for me.