Rare footage of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure on CBBC

[Eggy]

Before the UK's universally-respected public broadcaster BBC's older-skewing CBBC Channel started airing visual balderdash such as the Pokémon series, Supertato and Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Whatever (yes, that's close to the actual title of an actual cartoon being broadcasted internationally), the free-to-air channel was prominent in being the worldwide linear TV premiere of Viz's American English dub of the remarkable JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation (which was split into the first two parts that were the adaptations of Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency respectively) starting from September 14th 2015 (a whole year before Adult Swim brought the hit anime to US airwaves in October 2016). After taking a long hiatus between the end of Part 1 and the beginning of Part 2, it had resumed in April 2016 (when CBBC retired its 2007 logo and expanded its hours) and concluded its run sometime in May 2016 before being yanked off the air entirely due to scores of OFCOM complaints about the series' graphic content and heavy censorship of some of the more controversial elements of Battle Tendency.
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ANN article on it (for more proof):
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-07-20/bbc-to-acquire-free-to-air-uk-tv-rights-to-english-dub-of-jojo-bizarre-adventure-anime/.90125

 

[RandomMe]

I remember watching this on an illegal cable line that had BBC One. CBBC on BBC One was still a thing and it had animes

 

[Eggy]

I remember watching this on an illegal cable line that had BBC One. CBBC on BBC One was still a thing and it had animes

Well, the version of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood that you may remember seeing on BBC One was actually the rare English dub of the 90-minute 2007 film adaptation (animated by the same company responsible for the Stardust Crusaders OVA) that the BBC had cleverly chopped up into a 4-episode miniseries for the since-discontinued afternoon CBBC strand that October. The BBC One block no longer exists due to the 2012 digital switchover making Freeview widely available.