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== Animax International Channels Examples ==

* [[Animax]] (supposed to be a 24-hour [[Anime]] channel), in its Latin American side, both Brazilian and Spanish-speaking versions, is this:

* [[Animax]] (supposed to be a 24-hour [[Anime]] channel), in its Latin American side, both Brazilian and Spanish-speaking versions, became this:

** The first slip and the most [[Egregious]] example — its cycle of movies appropriately named "Reciclo", since it recycled all the action flicks already worn by repetition in other channels of the Sony Group, like AXN. The only remotely anime-related movie shown there was ''[[Tokyo Godfathers]]''... and they had repeated ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' and ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' each six weeks or so since its inception. Then they added series such as ''[[Lost]]'', ''[[Blood Ties]]'', and ''[[The Middleman]]'' (with the Brazilian side also having infomercials at odd hours), canned a slew of top-rated series, such as ''[[Death Note]]'' and ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', and inserted a concert block for Latin American performers. Then in May 2010, the channel announced that it would shift its focus to an overall youth programming, thus warranting its place in Total Abandonment. After that they were still broadcasting 12 hours of anime (13 during weekends). Five months later, anime was only 5 hours, starting at 2 AM. And just five months later (March 2011) they announced a name change that occured in May - the channel becamen then known as "Sony Spin". [[In Name Only|Animax]] RIP 2005-11.

** Before Animax LA was owned by Sony, it had other name, Locomotion. Originally was a children oriented channel, but became a youth oriented channel a year later to avoid competition with Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. Shortly after it became an adult oriented animation channel (it showed things like ''[[Aeon Flux]]'', ''[[The Maxx]]'', ''[[The Head]]'', the ''[[Prince Valiant]]'' movies and ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'' shorts, along with experimental animation, among others), and eventually it evolved into an anime channel (showing more than 10 anime series a day), so it started calling itself "the anime channel". The problem is that after a while it stopped showing animes at all, crowded with other programs (of quality) like ''[[Duckman]]'', ''[[South Park]]'' or ''[[The Critic]]''. Eventually, it created an advertisement that said ''"The good anime, takes time. Anime-station"''. Did this mean they were going to add more anime in the future? Watchers were really confused by this. It turned out they had sold their rights to Sony to become a full Anime channel. Eventually this lead to the channel being rebranded to Animax, and later to Sony Spin.

** As Sony Spin, the channel still aired anime at early morning hours, even airing new series like ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'', ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] Brotherhood'' and new episodes of ''[[Bleach]]''. This changed in March 2012, when the slot was replaced by live action shows, thus abandoning its renmants of anime programming completely. Even with the elimination of anime, the channel itself couldn't make out what public they really wanted to aim, mixing musical spaces, old series discontinued from the Sony channel ~~and~~ some newish teenage-oriented series, but the audiences continued to shrink. Sony Spin languished for a couple more of years until it finally died around ~~October~~ of 2014, being substituted by an Spanish feed of [[Lifetime]] on most cable companies.

** As Sony Spin, the channel still aired anime at early morning hours, even airing new series like ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'', ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] Brotherhood'' and new episodes of ''[[Bleach]]''. This changed in March 2012, when the slot was replaced by live action shows, thus abandoning its renmants of anime programming completely. Even with the elimination of anime, the channel itself couldn't make out what public they really wanted to aim, mixing musical spaces, old series discontinued from the Sony channel, some newish teenage-oriented series, and even a latin soap opera, but the audiences continued to shrink. Sony Spin languished for a couple more of years, having its newest series being moved to the other channers of the Sony brand, until it finally died around July of 2014, being substituted by either History 2 or an Spanish feed of [[Lifetime]] on most cable companies and endong a legacy of almost 18 years.

* Animax Spain followed the same disastrous way as Latin American's. Japanese animation found itself in the minority (they only broadcasted either very old series like ''[[Kochikame]]'' or ''[[Lupin III|Lupin III]]'', or commercial successes like ''Inuyasha'' or ''Naruto''). 90% of Animax Spain consists now of low-budget live-action series like ''Primeval'', ''Samurai Girl'', ''[[Torchwood]]'', or ''[[Reaper]]'', or bland, soulless "young adult" TV shows like ''In The Qbe'' or ''Insert Coin''. They even earned the moniker of "Yankeemax" amongst Spanish otakus (similarly, the LA version has been called "Gringomax" by Mexicans and other South American folk). Eventually, even their non-anime programming was moved to other channels, and by the time they closed on December 2013 it only aired a loop of ''Kochikame'' and ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' (the latter having the honor of being the last show shown before the end of tansmission), which at least was still more hours of anime than its latinamerican counterpart.

* Animax South Africa followed the same disastrous was as Latin America's and Spain's. Japanese animation became almost in the minority and were few and far between, as reality shows took over the schedule, and was soon closed down to make way for a new channel, Sony Max, which basically airs the same reality shows that aired on Animax South Africa.

* In the Southeast Asia feeds, blocks of [[Korean Drama]]s were added. Thankfully, no further slipping has happened, but given the above precedents...

* In general the Animax brand has been very luckless outside of Japan and Eastern Asia. With the exception of Germany, who as of 2016 is still on ~~airareare~~, almost every attempt to establish the brand ended with the channel irremediably decaying, or turning into a programming block into the local AXN channel before eventually dissappearing (and having caused decay in said AXN channel too).

* In general the Animax brand has been very luckless outside of Japan and Eastern Asia. With the exception of Germany's feed, who as of 2016 is still on air, almost every attempt to establish the brand ended with the channel irremediably decaying, or turning into a programming block into the local AXN channel before eventually dissappearing (and having caused decay in said AXN channel too).

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