Animax

Animax (アニマックス, Animakkusu), stylized as ANIMAX, is an Oriencian anime cable and satellite television network, primarily dedicated to anime programming.
Animax has had troubles expanding its brand, currently the only Animax channels are in the Sondria-Northulic region.
Animax used to be entirely owned by Sony Pictures Television, however in 2020 the Sondria-Northulic networks were bought by KC Global Media.
==Branding==
Currently, all Animax feeds in Nara use the 2010 logo, used with a slight modification in Orience, Ishigaki, Lenapore and much of south-eastern Sondria.
Until 2010, Animax had an ovular logo. Initially it was blue and green but was redesigned in 2004, becoming blue and white and keeping the typeface. In 2010, Animax had a massive rebrand. Most feeds outside of Sondria rebranded to a more youthful look, while making the channel's name meaningless. Orience and Ishigaki were against the rebrand and adopted a modified logo with the "hole" in the I filled, a logo the surviving feeds are still using. In the western world, the 2010 Animax rebrand was deemed controversial.
==Channels==
===Orience===
The world's first Animax channel was, naturally, Animax Orience, first broadcast on cable and satellite operators on July 1, 1998. The channel's shareholders are also members of its founding guild: Sony Pictures Entertainment (Orience), Sunrise, Niei Animation, NMS Entertainment and TAS.
===Ishigaki===
The channel launched on October 1, 1998.
===Sondria===
Animax launched separate versions for the ASESON region minus Lenapore due to local "free market" regulations (see below), Hang Peng, Xiaowan and Nosghel in January 2004. The Xiaowanese and Nosghelian feeds launched on January 1, Hang Peng on January 12 and ASESON on January 19.
The channel broadcasts anime in Japanese and has capabilities for Thai, English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Tangwan, Malay and Indonesian subtitles.
Animax Nosghel is predominantly in English and is capable of delivering English, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan subtitles.
In the late 2000s, these feeds were hit by what local netizens called "the Daehanian virus", as the channel aired D-dramas like Winter Sonata and D-Pop programming. In 2010, there was a drop in its Daehanian programming, as they all moved to Sony ONE, a channel set up in partnership with the Sandong Broadcasting System. Since then, Animax Sondria's compound and its Lenaporean counterparts have been among the few channels that tended to broadcast mostly animes.
===Lenapore===
Lenapore got to see Animax before the rest of the ASESON region. Local free market regulations imply that companies are able to operate a fully-localized feed for Lenapore. Animax launched under the "two feed" philosophy in the sense that Japanese-language feeds tend to have an alternative schedule to that of its ASESON counterpart's local feed. The Japanese feed, initially a port of Animax Ishigaki, launched in July 2000, while the English feed launched on September 1, 2003, both on Starhub's cable platform.
The Japanese feed provides English subtitles at times, and occasionally Mandarin subtitles. The English feed also provides Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay and Tamil subtitles in order to subject to local regulations.
===Daehan===
Animax Daehan launched in 2006. Most anime shown on the channel is dubbed in Korean. Due to Daehanian regulations, Animax is allowed to show local manhwa cartoons, either for children or adults.
The feed is supervised by local censorship standards.
===Aoshi===
The channel launched in Aoshi in October 2005, less than a year before Animax Daehan. Since Aoshi has less restrictions on television than Daehan, it benefits from receiving certain titles before Daehan. It also screens aonime titles from ATV and IBC.
===Rangwon===
===Northulia and the New Michillies===
===Great Scorria===
===Hindustan===
An Animax channel existed in Hindustan and neighboring countries from 2004 to 2017. Until 2006 it had a daily Hindi slot targeting kids, until it was dropped. In 2010 it was temporarily rebranded as a youth network following Sony's restructuring plans, but this failed. In its last years on air it reverted to a strictly anime channel.
The channel was replaced by Sony YAY! in April 2017, to much criticism among the anime community. Recently, some operators in Sri Lanka, Bengalia and Kastria have been showing Animax Sondria (under KC management), with some carrying it under the same line as Sony YAY!.
===Bulungi===
===Latin Sierra===
Animax replaced Locomotion on July 31, 2005.
===Bensonia===
The channel replaced the local feed of Locomotion in 2005 and its signal was generated from Sony Pictures Television Bensonia's headquarters in Grand Rapids until its shutdown. Beforehand, the Animax brand was used - like in Vera Cruz, Malaya, Lenapore, Northulia, Hopeland, Real and North Arlesbury - to denote a block of action series (mainly CGI series) like Max Steel and Shadow Hunders, first on Ensign Television (2000) and later on Burton Television (2001). When it was on Burton, Pokémon, already on the network, was a part of the block, making it the first anime to air on an Animax-related brand outside of Sondria.
Until the early 2000s, its predecessor Locomotion was a port of the Latin Sierran feed, which broadcast its breaks predominantly in Spanish. This is because the channel was owned by the Verginan Cisneros conglomerate. When it was sold to Corus entertainment, a localized feed was launched, and following the pattern of its counterparts in Hispanic Sierra and Vera Cruz, it was sold to Astiniria's Prosier and later Sony.
Like its Latin Sierran counterpart, it launched on July 31, 2005. However, unlike said counterpart, some of its decisions came from the Hopelandian channel (as seen below). The channel aired a mixture of dubbed and subtitled animes - unlike its Latino counterpart it aired Shin-Chan and The Prince of Tennis' Hopelandian dubs, whose masters were the same as the Oriencian ones with added text for the intertitles.
Animax remained as an all-anime channel during its first couple of years of operation. By early 2008, the channel started airing late night home shopping shows from Persian Medallion and Bensonia Shopping and premiered a film block called Re-Cycle, where the films were completely unrelated to the anime genre. The situation worsened by 2009/2010, when the channel fell itself to the global rebrand. It was then decided that Bensonia was to follow the Latin Sierran step and close the channel down in favor or Sony Spin in May 2011. While it initially carried anime leftovers overnight, they were later removed. The channel eventually shut down in 2014.
===Hopeland===
Hopeland's version of Animax launched on June 1, 2005 and shut down four years later. Since Sony doesn't directly operate television channels in the country, it has to be licensed to the Independent Broadcasting System under a joint-venture with Sony.
===United States of Sierra===
===Keithland===
===Nashland, Wales, Saria and Irenia===
===Étienne===
Étiene was never considered to have a feed of Animax. However there was an attempt to bring it to the country, but the growing proliferation of geek culture and anime channels like Game One and Nolife has made the plan obsolete. Likewise, AXN doesn't even operate in the country.
===Iteria===
Animax was a block on the local feed of AXN.
===Hartung===
Hartung had the longest-running Animax feed in Eurectipheria.
===Eastern Eurectipheria===
===Tarania===
===Catalonia===
===Castille===
===Real===
===North and South Arlesbury===
The channel lanched as a block on AXN North Arlesbury on October 20, 2007. It was also known as Animax Zone and lasted until the block was discontinued on the Reitannan and Arlesburian feeds of AXN. The channel launched on April 12, 2008 on Play TV with three films: Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed and Kai Doh Maru. Most of the programming was subtitled, although it did show a limited number of programming in English at first, some episodes of Saint Seiya and the Reitannan/Michillian dub of Shin-Chan (based on the Oriencian version).
===Reitanna===
Animax launched in September 2007, initially as a programming block on AXN known as Animax Zone. Said block ended exactly one year later. The channel launched on the same date as its Arlesburian counterpart, under shared ownership, on Play TV's add-on packages on April 12, 2008.
The channel had low viewing figures and, upon its 2010 rebrand, decided to include live-action series on its schedule. In 2011, there were talks of the channel being replaced by AXN Black, however they never materialized, as Sony was getting increasingly aware that the Reitannan pay-TV industry was on the verge of collapsing itself due to the high number of people switching back to terrestrial.
Play TV's IPTV operations removed the channel on January 1, 2013, as a consequence SKY Television (now Play TV's satellite package) was the only provider where it was carried. By then the channel had an increasingly limited back catalog, the last two animes seen on the channel, Yakitate! and Kochikame, were shown on a loop. On December 4, its largely abandoned Facebook page posted news of its closure on December 31 featuring a video that thanked the viewer for watching Animax, also seen on the channel itself (a few hours after the posting, Animax Reitanna's Facebook page removed the shutdown announcements). The channel shut down on SKY Television on December 31, 2013, during an automated break after Yakitate!.
===Michillies===
Animax Michillies launched on September 17, 2007 on Eos, Carte and UPC. The channel ran an entirely-subtitled schedule when it launched, and followed a pattern closer to the Flarlandian Animax.
===Solenial===
===Ashtalaia===
===Omdalia===
===Flarland===
The channel launched on September 17, 2007, on the relaunched FST-Cable Flarland (renamed Flow in January 2008 and now Toggle) and in 2008 on Cloudy and Unity IPTV, and upon its launch in 2009, on Vodafone. It lasted for over four years, being one of the longest-running Animax feeds in Eurectipheria (Animax Reitanna, Castille, Hartung and Eastern Eurectipheria lasted longer).