Mangas (TV network)
| Mangas | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 2 April 1996 |
| Owned by | AB Groupe |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Broadcast area | France |
| Headquarters |
132, avenue du Président Wilson |
| Formerly called | AB Cartoons (1996–1998) |
| Website | www |
132, avenue du Président Wilson
93213 La Plaine Saint-Denis
Tel : (33) (0)1 49 22 20 01
Mangas is a French television channel dedicated to anime.
AB Cartoons was launched in 1996 as a youth channel on the AB Sat package. It showed Japanese animation (anime) already shown on Club Dorothée on TF1.
Due to the popularity of the genre with young adults and teens, and criticism of the violence shown in the programmes, the channel was renamed Mangas, on 1 September 1998 using the logo of the magazine D.MANGAS (the former Dorothée Magazine, although the show on TF1 had ended in 1997).
On February 15, 2011, the channel switched to 16:9 format. During the first few weeks after this change, programs in 4:3 format remain in their original format, before being quickly displayed in 14:9 format.
Since October 2013, the channel has been broadcasting anime the day after its diffusion in Japan to compete with the newly created channel J-One.
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Mangas is owned by AB Sat SA with a budget of €24 million, provided 100% by AB Groupe.
The programming is mostly classic reruns bought from the Club Dorothée era, such as Fist of the North Star, Ranma ½, Moero! Top Striker and Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. However, the channel also shows original programming such as One Piece and Wolf's Rain shown in the original version...etc.
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