Harper Kingsley blog

WHY ISN’T THERE DIFFERENT ANIME ON TV?

I love to watch anime, but there’s very little of it that I want to watch on TV. Everything lately just seems geared toward dudes and there’s very little girls programming.

I enjoy watching mechas and battling toys or whatever sometimes, but after you’ve seen “Fullmetal Alchemist,” “Death Note,” “Dragonball Z,” and “Yugi-oh” all the way through, you start craving a new show line up. You want to see something in a different genre.

I remember when I was a kid, rushing home from school to watch “Sailor Moon.” It was like the girls version of Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles — the can’t miss show — which I also watched. There were pretty princesses having girl problems, arguing with each other, winning through the day with the power of friendship, and they got to beat up beautiful baddies. It actually kind of seems like an early rendition of the last season of Buffy when there were a bunch of Slayers, only they were planetary space princesses that killed youkai.