It was announced on the local news, MediaCorp and Odex Pte Ltd confirmed a collaboration to offer Japanese anime programmes on MediaCorp’s Arts Central channel and a new online anime channel AnimeTrix, available on MediaCorp’s internet video on demand - MOBTV.sg.
Under this new partnership, certain animes that are currently showing in Japan will be aired on the same time in the channel as well. Some of the confirmed series as mentioned are -
Titles available on MOBTV AnimeTrix channel
1. D.Gray-man
2. Neo Angelique Abyss
3. Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
4. Tokyo Majin
5. Seto no Hanayome
6. Domo
Titles available on Art Gentral
1. Neo Angelique Abyss - every Wednesday 1 130pm
2. Zero no Tsukaima: Princesses no Rondo - every Thursday 1130pm
3. D.Gray-man - every Friday 11pm
Good news or bad news? :)
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July 23rd, 2008 at 11:48 pm #nutcase23
Never again will I watch their censored crap on TV.
I say “again” because I was too young to know better then >_<
I WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU DID TO NANOHA AND NANOHA A’S YOU *******S!!!
July 24th, 2008 at 5:32 am #DrmChsr0
…Whatever.
Isn’t it time to start pondering about the implications of such a move?
July 24th, 2008 at 7:08 am #Mediacorp partners with Odex to launch anime channel : Anime News Updated
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July 24th, 2008 at 9:42 am #nutcase23
@DrmChsr0: Indeed. Quite a few online forums are already buzzing with the news.
Obviously one of the biggest concerns I that this would imply that they would have more ammunition to throw at the anime community.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:33 pm #wenwen
No…I’m not watching them… Their dubs are horrible and they EVEN censored the SUBS!!! And that’s right nutcase23, Nanoha and Nanoha As were damn censored! Even the OPENING SONG is censored!
July 24th, 2008 at 8:35 pm #Hiyuu
What’s censored?
Did they like censor everytime a character or sentence uses the syllable “ね”?
July 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pm #TP
@Hiyuu:
Odex intended to market the Nanoha series as a “kids show”, targetting audiences aged between 10-14 years, as seen in my impression of their broadcast. Also, they feared a backlash against the Media Development Authority for showing shows “with explicit nudity” during normal broadcasting hours (i.e. during daytime hours, before 10 p.m.), so they took a pre-emptive action and censor those scenes instead.
(Nanoha, if anyone else is interested to know, is a magical girl show that does have nude transformation scene, something that even in the liberal US of A, will have trouble with.)
Back to my own 2 cents’ worth:
In response to drmchsr0, the implications is directed against any opposition to Odex.
With this move, Odex has pre-empted all negativity about them not bringing in newer shows as soon as possible. It also gives them a “moral edge” in that they had delivered on the promise of a video-on-demand service for anime shows, including the newer “imported directly from Japan, same week telecast” shows like D.Gray-Man and Neo Angelique Abyss.
In my opinion, all the negative talk about “the wholesale copying of fan-made subtitles,” the MAFIAA-styled “love letters” and their rapping of by the Board of Film Commission, has been negated by this news.
So this strikes very hurtful for those either affected by the “love letters,” or are simply angry at Odex for being naive that this “one-uppance” is a one-all, be-all form of “apology” for their actions in the past.
To sum up my overall opinion:
If you feel that anime, as a subcommunity, has been tainted with mainstream popularity and massive commercialization, time to move on to another, alternative, non-mainstream, and possibly more healthy, hobby.