12-10-2003 Adult Swim is Wussified.

Going back to remembering when Adult Swim was new, remember all the controversy that came along with it? I remember when parents were all up in it and complaining about how to the contents were going to scar America's children! What ever happened to that edgy cheesy goodness? None of the original Adult Swim shows were as good in their second seasons, and that's with the exception of some of the Oblongs episodes.
Cowboy Bebop is all fine and well, but if Adult Swim had the rocks it had when it began, they would have shown the Bebop movie on Halloween night. Now, THAT is well adjusting.
Shows on network television say and do worse things than this cable network during the same time slot... and even earlier, before the kiddies have gone to bed *gasp* They even show blood!
I hope in the next year I can be proven wrong. I would like to see things that AREN'T popular and might be thought provoking without being afraid of the repurcissions.
Bebop and Trigun are too overhyped, all the real otaku got over it years ago. Bring out something different, more FLCL type things. No, not Evangelion. Evangelion has already saturated and tainted a good portion of the anime population. Bring me Saishuuheiki Kanojo (She, the Ultimate Weapon), Fist of the North Star Movie, His and Her Circumstances, or even something like Chobits and Hand Maid May for all the geeks like me.
Having something not licensed in the United States is NO excuse. I'm SURE an AOL Time Warner company that helped get the second season of Big O and possibly Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex made just for us can surely get a few bucks together to bring decent stuff over the pond.