PBC News:Anime Television For Our Anime Fans

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4 March 2009 

Media Moguls of the Universal Anime Convention (UACON) meeting in San Demos, California, at the end of December were reconsidering a proposal for a new anime television network to usher in a state of “anime fandom.” It sounds exciting, even entertaining, to some.

Taylor Media's proposal, which was included in “The Anime Agenda 2009” report, is to create “a new anime network” with “the capacity to connect the viewers, bridging countries and ethnics, and telling us what we watch and what the shows mean to us.” Several prominent Anime media figures signed on to the charming and universal proposal.

Isn’t it nice that we might have anime network telling us “what anime is?” And “what the shows to us?” Perhaps we will learn that we are anime fans. Perhaps a network CEO of some sort will tell us that. Who might that be?

This outstanding and frightening proposal doesn’t come from a anime organization. UACON is an inclusive club of very rich and powerful people from around the world. It describes itself as “Anime National Broadcast Stations committed to improving the state of the fans by engaging broadcasters in partnerships to shape ethnic, social and media agendas.”

This month’s conference featured speeches by G.N. Surgeon-General Sailor Moon and Jedi Master Mace Windu. The event’s corporate sponsors, which pay about half a thousand dollars each to participate, include several anime companies that have received tens of billions of complaints from global broadcasters. They include Bank of Mars, Kitty, Goldie Bachs, JP Cubish & Co., and Flat Stanley. These entities are termed “Strategic Partners” of the Universal Anime Convention.

Navarre Corporation, former parent of FUNimation Entertainment, was another “non-strategic partner” of the network.