On Animax in December:
MOVIES
MetropolisDate: Saturday
December 8, 2007
Time: 16h00
In the late 1940s, long before Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion established Osamu Tezuka as one of the most influential animators of all time, the legendary illustrator created the classic manga Metropolis.
The retro-futuristic cautionary tale, is spectacularly rendered, combining the best in Japanese cel animation with the latest in digital technology.
Set in the future, Metropolis is a grand city-state populated by humans and robots, the cohabitants of a strictly segmented society. Detective Shunsaku Ban and his sidekick Ken-ichi search for a rebel scientist, to arrest him and seize his latest creation, Tima, a beautiful young girl. But when they locate him, Shunsaku
quickly realizes that the eccentric genius is protected by a powerful man and beyond their reach.
Starring the voices of Robert Axelrod (The Blob), Scott Weinger (Aladdin), Dave Mallow (Gate Keepers), Tony Pope (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Simon Prescott (Akira). Directed by Rintaro (2001).
NEW SERIES
Black Lagoon
Premiere date: Friday December 7, 2007
Time: Monday - Fridays 23h00
Rokuro Okajima is meek, mundane and metropolitan. His business trip to South East Asia turns from pleasure-cruise to festival of pain when modern day pirates board the ship and take him hostage.
Revy, Dutch and Benny are merciless, maniacal and mean and together they make up the crew of the Black Lagoon. Making a living in a city where the most villainous of villains make themselves at home isn’t without its risks, but they take on any job available.
Smuggling guns, drugs, kidnapped children and stolen goods is all part of a hard days work. Directed by Sunao Katabuchi
(2006).
CONTINUING SERIES
Hellsing
On: Mondays to Fridays at 22h10 and Saturdays and Sundays at 23h00
Hellsing follows the antiheroic vampire, Alucard, and a police girl-turned-vampire, Seras Victoria, two vampires employed by the vampire-extermination group of England, the Hellsing Organization. Slowly but surely, through their active duty, they find a new breed of vampires beginning to arise.
Last Exile
On: Mondays to Fridays at 21h15 and Saturdays to Sundays at 20h50
Last Exile is a “steampunk” animé directed by Koichi Chigira for the animé studio Gonzo Digimation. Claus Valca is from the world of Prester where he and his long-time friend, Lavie, live and work as sky couriers.
They pilot a van-ship left to Claus by his father and dream of making the journey their fathers were never able to complete - flying across the notoriously dangerous stretch of space known as the “Grand Stream.”
One day, after Claus and Lavie agree to shuttle a mysterious girl named Alvis Hamilton to their airbattleship, Silvana, they become involved in a war that shakes their world.
Speed Grapher
On: Mondays to Sundays at 00h20
Ten years after the Bubble War, the dichotomy between the world’s rich and the poor becomes more prominent and Japan is no exception. With the rich selfishly focused on satisfying their desires, Tokyo has emerged as a materialistic metropolis.
Saiga, once a war photographer, works for Hibara Ginza and is tasked with infiltrating Roppongi Club, a secretive base located in Tokyo’s red light district area, to collect information about them. However, when he is caught in the process and brought forward to a girl called Kagura, she awakens his special
ability: the power to make things explode once photographed. In order to unravel the mystery behind the Roppongi Club and Kagura, Saiga begins his solitary battle.