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RIP Animax Latin America... WTF happened to this channel?

Posted by VicHD - May 1st, 2011


OK, for those who don't know what I'm talking about, Animax is a 24 hour animation channel dedicated to anime.

Before all this, In Latin America, the channel was originally known as Locomotion from 1996-2005, which had more variety in terms of animation with American cartoons for Teens and adults, foreign short films,experimental animation,Stop motion, 80s cartoons(like He-Man, G.I. JOE and G-Force), even introducing South Park to the Spanish speaking viewers. It was a great channel full of so much nostalgia.

Then around 2000-2001, the channel started showing more Teen and Adult anime series and films like Robotech, Cowboy bebop, Evangelion, Saber Marionette J and many others, including OVAs. The channel was my main source of anime back then. By the time the channel grew, it became more anime oriented and it was around 2005 that Sony bought the channel and re-branded it as Animax. Now, the channel in it's early years introduced me to other anime shows like Shin-Chan, Full Metal Alchemist, Get Backers ,Samurai X and DeathNote to name a few and I'd tune in frequently to check out the new stuff.

However, in late 2008, the channel started changing it's lineup by adding more American Programming instead, like Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 and other shows from the 90s onwards....What the fuck were they thinking!? This is Animax! The channel was practically built for Anime! Where's the anime? Well sadly, the anime programming was now reduced to a late night Time slot from 1AM-6AM. A load of bullshit.

Seriously, what's the point of calling this channel Animax now when the channel hardly shows any animation? That's like saying that MTV is focusing less on Music Videos and more on Reality shows(oh wait...) or Cartoon Network showing more live action Programming (OK, another bad example...).

Well the channel clearly went downhill over the years, with viewers going as far as calling it "Gringomax" because of it's American programming and now today the channel is shutting down because of this fuck up and is being re-branded over here as another generic American channel full of old sitcoms that nobody watches.

This saddens me that a channel with so much potential was reduced to a pile of shit. Now I have no choice but to search for this stuff online until a spiritual successor of this channel decides to appear in Latin America.

RIP Animax.

RIP Animax Latin America... WTF happened to this channel?


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eh i stopped watching anime years ago

pues el canal cambio radicalmente cuando dejo de ser locomotion y se transformo a animax, tambien creo que dejaron de enfocarse "en animes", simplemente sintonizaban lo que pudieran, es como lo que paso con adult swim

Sii pana, mi hermano y yo cambianos canales y vimos que meirda es esta de SPIN???????

Si tuviese la oportundad, me dedicaria a estrenar mi propio canal de animacion y revivir lo que era Locomotion.

know what you're talking about here in south africa it was cancelled but you'll get something like sony max to replace it

I feel your pain. :'(

So that's what happened to Locomotion... I missed that channel really much...
Apart from the actual content, I loved their original eyecatches and curtains...
In loving memory:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geMRO235tMY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geMRO2 35tMY</a>

tienes razon, de hace ratos que animax dejo de ser weno y yo todavia me preguntaba que por que el animax latino era el mas basura de todos, en animax japon dan anime las 24 horas y en el americano solo estupideces que dan en sony channel, ahora hay 2 canales de sony, el normal y este nuevo "sony spin" animax murio, requiescat in pace T-T OH y ahora quien podra defendernos? xDDDD
que lastima ahora no hay un canal en el que puedo ver anime :(

It's a shaem. Locomotion was a great channel (it was like a "tv Newgrounds", you could see there animations that you didn't see anywhere) and Animax was good at the beginning, but before it became "Gringomax" it went down the drain just broadcasting the same old anime (I get tired of the FMA and Death Note reruns pretty fast) and nothing too new or grounbreaking.
And btw, it was just the name change, I was watching my Directv guide and it's the same programming, even the Anime slot it's the same.

Saludos desde Colombia.

Si , es una terrible lástima. Yo sentía lo mismo desde hace 1 año. Por que mierda se llama Animax si apenas muestra animación?

Aunque debo admitir que me reí al leer "Gringomax" Hahaha , muy buena esa!

But let's not miss the point , this channel has been damaged by american cliches and live shows. And the new channel coming for it doesn't really seems exciting.
Where did the originality go? Before every channel had something different. Right now : Pure live action shit or stupid pop music.

G4TV went from beeing a game channel to barely talking about games.
Anyway , today , it's all about the money...It really saddens me what the TV has tourned out to be nowadays.

And to colonel-Reginald : Nothing , i repeat , nothing will replace Locomotion as it was before. One of my favorite channels back then.

Now I have a reason to hate Sony.

First they make PS3 security bypassable as fuckin' hell (As seen from GeoHot and Anon)...

Now this?

yeah, I guess you can say that Sony takes the blame for almost everything nowadays.

Yea, kinda sounds like what happened/ is happening to G4, they expanded their programming with hopes to catch a larger audience but the whole thing collapses on them since no one watches the new stuff they put up and they lose their original fan base.

Yeah, Animax is full of bullshit now, the only decent thing that I watch there is Gamers TV or something like that...

Those old sitcoms are getting me mad. lol

Pasaban un par de cosas copadas en Animax, de Locomotion no tengo muchos recuerdos pero tambien me iba. En los 90 tenia Magic Kids que me proporcionó casi todo el anime que necesité, desde Slayers hasta Beta X.

Animax tenía Shin Chan... Ese programa es excelente.

amaba locomotion.. como dijo otro compañero de este sitio... "era como un Newgrounds TV"... era genial crecí viendo ese canal. fue el que me inicio mi interés en otro tipo de animación y abrió mis fronteras, con su paso a animax ya sentí un gran cambio, intentaron estilizarlo más para atraer a una mayor cantidad de publico, en vez de mantener su target anterior que había logrado atraer a un gran numero de personas... para mi el locomotion-animax murió hace mucho tiempo... era uno de los pocos canales que veía, ahora ya ni siquiera veo televisión.. siempre es la misma basura.. todos prefieres prestar más atención a un estúpido reality show antes que a las realidades de el país o dar algún espacio cultural para la gente, al menos se que en esta pagina y en el basto mundo que ofrece la Internet jamas me decepcionare y veré lo que quiera y lo que se acomode a mis gustos.. descansa en paz.. animax %u2665.. me despido de ti co un noble pésame...

Quiero llorar... yo me crie con locomotion :(

I remember when it was "ANIMAX, 24 hours of anime" and I was like YAY :D. Then "ANIMAX, 22 hours of anime, 1 movie" and I was like well, anyways i'm tired of lots of anime, and some time after, "ANIMAX, we fucked all the anime putting them at midnight, you must enjoy shitty series >:D" and since then, I never watched ANIMAX again >.<

yo miraba en animax cosas como full metal alchemist,,,
pero aora solo hay mierda

no me atrevo ir a la pagina oficial para qejarme personalmente...en todo caso
estoy muy decilucionado... T_T

no puede ser a los 4 años que tenia sacaron animax i se me cago la vida mierda

al carajo con sony queiro animeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee sabes deberias hacerlo abril tu porpio canal de anime con muchos buenos animes como high school of the dead

al carajo con sony queiro animeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee sabes deberias hacerlo abril tu porpio canal de anime con muchos buenos animes como high school of the dead

I can't find anime any where anymore. All I can get is bleach and cowboy bebop on adult swim, Naruto Shippuden on disney, and Dragon ball Z "kai" on Nickelodeon (The're reruning the series with the word "kai" at the end of the title with a new English opening and calling it their "original series" so it's more like Nickeloadofshit).

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