Japanese transcript

Long awaited, it's taken a long time for us to get it

here, but this

is the US television premiere of this program, and we are

delighted and proud to be bringing it to you.

I'll tell you this from my point of view, of all the anime we've looked at

now and everything I've seen, I have liked this series better than

anything else I have seen to date. It is really exciting,

and, uh, it is fantastic work as well as you will

see as you follow it along. Now, if you are one of the

people who has made a, a pledge of membership support around some

of

our past anime series, I'd like to thank you because

only because of you were we able to purchase this series.

We knew it was a long shot when we started out looking to see

if we could purchase

it, and only because we had the dollars in

hand were

we able, in the end, to purchase Neon Genesis

Evangelion. Uh, terrific, terrific series and one that,

uh, we're gonna have for you four episodes of

it tonight,

and then after our membership campaign ends, it will be every

Sunday night for the rest of the series.

And believe me, if you know KTEH, your public television

station, then you know that we will purchase, uh,

uh, anime as we can afford it and as you ask us to purchase

it in the ongoing futures. And we are delighted to be able to

be debuting a US television premiere.

You know as well as I do that this is the only station, not just in

the Bay Area, not just in California, but anywhere in the

United States of America that is doing the kind of anime

presence and presentation that we are here at KTEH.

If it is important, and I truly think it is because it

always takes a leader, there's always gotta be a wedge

driven if we're gonna see anime spread and become an ever more

popular art form, someone has to take the lead.

Well, we've stepped up and taken the lead, and we've not just taken the lead,

as Bill told you, uh, whether it's good or not, these are

English language. These are dubbed, uh, uh, versions on the video

cassettes. But because a majority of you have told us

over

the years that you would prefer to have subtitles and original

language, that's the way we're presenting it to you.

We had the option of going with the English language or going with the

subtitles.

It's what you told us you wanted, so that's the way we're presenting it this

evening, and we'll continue to buy anime

that way as long as that's

what you tell us you want. Is there more anime out there?

There sure is. There's lots more, and we'll tell you about that

as we go along and as we, as we work on it.

But, uh, remember that next week, uh, we would want you to come

back because Ranma 1/2 that we've been waiting a long time also

to

get on the air, the movie, not the series, but the movie, one of the movies will

be, uh, presented next week. And I don't know if that will be a US

broadcast premiere, but I'd be willing to bet that it is.

And the other thing that I would tell you right now is that,

uh, Kimagure Orange Road that, uh, we had hoped to acquire

a year ago and the distributor was just so out of sight in terms

of price is still out there on the table, and I think that distributor has come

down a little bit in price, so it may be that we can negotiate that

deal. Each one of these is an individual negotiation,

and in virtually every case, we have had to have the cash

in hand when we made the deal. These folks are not extending credit.

They're not being, uh, they're not saying, "Oh, since you're the first one in the

United States to do it, go ahead, we'll just give it to you." Uh-uh.

Believe me, this is top dollar stuff, and we've gotta be able to pay

for it. We are your public, nonprofit, non-commercial

television station. We're here to serve you, the viewer,

but we really need your help in order to do that.

So right now, get to your telephone, make that pledge of membership support.

If you can at that one hundred twenty dollar level or higher, help us meet the

challenge tonight and make sure that great anime, and

this is the best I've seen yet, continues here on your public television

station.