8:32 AM
@EddieKal I don't think any Italian TV station has ever considered broadcasting a subbed version of an anime. Original language version are probably only available either as paid DVD box sets or on online streaming services (very few local ones from what I know.)
Also, keep in mind that basically you have only TWO companies that broadcast anime on "free" tv air time.
One is the country state-based TV station (basically the equivalent of Japan NHK) - very few animes, usualy "children stuff".... for a while, they where quite fond of Digimon. They have a story of buying distribution licenses and never use them.... I think they bought Patlabor and never aired it, and the same happened for Love Hina.
I guess I could understand them not realizing the amount of fanservice in Hina and never broadcasting it, I don't know what evil they saw in Patlabor....
Anyway, in the recent years they have almost stopped broadcasting anything new, and even re-air of old shows is close to 0.
They are also famous for doing Sony's Metropolis level of errors again and again.
For example, they apparently aired Popolocrois 2 times and both times they "forgot" to air the last episode.
(And if you don't get the reference, the original box version of Tezuka's Metropolis, published by Sony, didn't include the after credit scene. The one that changes the movie outcome...)
The second Tv station is a private company. They used to air quite a bit of anime in the past, even if the "localization" work was horrendous.
Notice that I say "localization" with the quotes because that was actually the anime-fan definition of butchering work: random censoring, name changes, cultural reference removal... just say a sin, they probably did it.
As a recap, they where the ones who tried to claim that the Uranus/Neptune were sisters.
The nerd normally looks ugly/unhealthy but looks good after pushing his hair back and shaving. The nerd works at a company and the girl falls in love without realising that the handsome guy and nerd are the same person.
