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FROM ANN (READ THIS!)

Burbank, CA and Long Beach, CA (June 21, 2005) â€“ Kidsâ€ WB!, the #1 broadcast network for kids, and Geneon Entertainment, a leader in introducing anime to North America, have joined forces to bring one of Japanâ€s hottest television series, VIEWTIFUL JOE, to kids in the United States on Saturday mornings beginning Fall 2005. The network has ordered 26 episodes of the action-comedy series, which will air during the 2005-2006 broadcast season on Kidsâ€ WB! The announcement was made today by Betsy McGowen, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Kidsâ€ WB!, and Yosuke Kobayashi, President/CEO, Geneon Entertainment. â€œWe are excited to partner with the innovative creative talent at Geneon Entertainment to bring viewers across the nation this extraordinary series in the fall,â€? said Ms. McGowen. â€œThis award-winning property, VIEWTIFUL JOE, introduces a fantastical world with high action and character-driven comedy starring a likable underdog who overcomes the odds to become a superhero. This series will be a wonderful addition to our programming slate and is sure to be Kidsâ€ WB!â€s next animÃ hit.â€?

â€œWeâ€re thrilled to be able to bring VIEWTIFUL JOE to Kidsâ€ WB!,â€? said Mr. Kobayashi. â€œThe characters have already been universally embraced and weâ€re sure that Joeâ€s super-stature will continue to grow on the number one kids broadcast network. This is a high-concept, high-profile series that breaks the mold of standard childrenâ€s animÃ; itâ€s exciting to have the opportunity to showcase this great property for an audience that is certain to appreciate all the fun and colorful innovation that Joe has to offer.â€? With breakout characters from the award-winning video game series developed by Capcom Co. Ltd., VIEWTIFUL JOE has become a global sensation spawning a successful television series and licensing program in Japan. VIEWTIFUL JOE features American comic-style character design that is ripe with action and loaded with comedy.

STORYLINE:
Joe is just a normal guy with two great loves: his girlfriend Silvia and Captain Blue, an action movie superhero. When Silvia is magically captured through a movie screen by a celluloid monster, Joe gets himself swallowed into the screen to save her. There, Joe meets Captain Blue just as the superhero is about to retire, exhausted from his lifelong battle against villains known as Jadows. With special superpowers bestowed upon him by Captain Blue, Joe transforms into Viewtiful Joe to vanquish the enemies in Movie Land.

Any thoughts or complaints?

Tony Tony Chopper

Hmmm.. no complaints. I'm actually looking forward to this. I've never played the game but I heard it was good. I wonder how the drawing will be. Hopefully like the game.

This sounds kool. -_-

Hm… WB Kids? Oh well.

Solar Knight

I love the game (Henshin a go-go baby! ), but I never even heard of an anime. I'll probably watch it, just for the sake of the gamer in me ^^ .

Dragon Warrior Steve

Saturday Mornings!! Now 82% all anime!!

Solar Knight

America seems to outsource everything nowadays :wacko: (yes, I'm american).

Caracal

I watched three eps of the anime. It was alright but nothing special.

Forte EXE

Viewtiful Joe is good watching.
But…I shudder at the thought of KidsWB dubbing it.
Do you think they will use the voices they had for the games?
If so...ohhh yeah.

Senshi Mizaka

The game is awesome! But, I'm not looking forward to the dubbed anime on behalf of the fact that it'll be edited. Geneon is dubbing it, so that should be good if they get Dee Bradley Baker to retain his role as Joe.

Borlz

well isnt Viewtiful Joe on the Morning in Japan too?

Dragon Warrior Steve

Originally posted by Borlz@Jun 28 2005, 06:50 PM
well isnt Viewtiful Joe on the Morning in Japan too?
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That's Japan, where those kids don't go shoot people.

Meh. I'm from Norway, where the possibillity of gettin' this is under 1 %.

But Viewtiful Joe seems like an exciting series based on the games, yep.

Shinagamithe3rd

Yeah, I really like the cheesy game voices. This should kick a litle ass because of the fact that Geneon (and not 4kids for once) is doing an anime for kidsWB….allthough they did do a lackluster job on Cardcaptor Sakura.

CaptainAWB1

I saw a clip of it at Comic-Con. Couldn't hear much because it because everyone was so loud.

I just saw a comercial for it the other day. The commercial said it's coming in November. Joe sounds the same, but I only heard the last few seconds of the commercial, & Joe sounded like it may have been someone other than Dee Bradley Baker. I'm not sure though.

nakama

i think you pepole have not heared that they are going to dub over all the music
and localize the content
yep america fucks up more anime
now insted of joe mocking america he will piss on japan

CaptainAWB1

Nope, I didn't know that.

silver griffin girl

My brother loves the Viewtiful Joe games, so I pretty much know the story… I heard that there was an anime of it from one of said brother's nintendo power magazines...

Well I have 2 hopes for this in America:

1. That it will get at least a decent dub,
&
2. That my brother will not get frustrated by the Anime (like he does at the video game) and yell at it...

CaptainAWB1

Did he try to beat up the TV, like I did?

captain sogeking

Anyone have a link of where I can download the sub

Zio

@nakama:

i think you pepole have not heared that they are going to dub over all the music
and localize the content
yep america fucks up more anime
now insted of joe mocking america he will piss on japan

Got any proof with that statement? And some localization would be nessecary for a bunch of anime series. Hell, Bo-bobo needed some because believe it or not, people like to laugh at jokes without having to go on the internet to find out what the hell two characters are talking about.

I have no complaints since I have not seen any previews of the dub nor the anime in Japan. I do love the games though so I am going to give it a shot. I like Genon's dubs, espically Paranoia Agent.

CaptainAWB1

Viewtiful Joe premieres on KIDS WB this Saturday at 10:30 AM. The episode is titled "Howdy, Partner"

Sandai Mera

Saw some parts of it and I don't like Joe & Blue's voices, the VA's try to hard to sound like the original actors I really trying to figure out what other characters like Alastor will sound like. And a quick question do they ever explain how Joe got the V-watch & winds up in Movieland in the anime.

Megadoomer

Even though I've never seen the Japanese anime, I can guess two changes that were made in the dub.
1. Bianko Billy's bullets were changed to lasers.
2. The cow pies were changed to mud pies.
My favourite part in the episode would probably be the detective guy who was always trying to disarm a bomb. Where did those things come from?