| Country | France |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | France Switzerland Belgium Luxembourg Monaco Morocco Algeria Tunisia Lebanon Madagascar Mauritius Overseas France Haiti |
| Headquarters | 132, avenue du Président Wilson 93213La Plaine Saint-Denis |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | French |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Mediawan Thematics |
| History | |
| Launched | 2 April 1996; 29 years ago (1996-04-02) |
| Former names | AB Cartoons(1996–1998) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
Mangas is a Frenchtelevision channel dedicated to airinganime. It has also airedtokusatsu.
AB Cartoons was launched in 1996 as a youth channel on theAB Sat package. It showed Japanese animation (anime) already shown onClub Dorothée onTF1.
Due to the popularity of the genre with young adults and teens as well as criticism of the violence shown in the programmes, the channel was renamedMangas, on 1 September 1998 using the logo of the magazineD.MANGAS (the former Dorothée Magazine, althoughthe show onTF1 had ended in 1997).
On 15 February 2011, the channel switched to16:9 format. During the first few weeks after this change, programs in4:3 format remain in their original format, before being quickly displayed in14:9 format.
Since October 2013, the channel has been broadcasting anime the day after its diffusion in Japan to compete with the newly created channelJ-One.[1]
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Mangas is owned byAB Sat SA with a budget of €24 million, provided 100% byAB Groupe.
The programming of the channel is mostly reruns of classic series from theClub Dorothée era, such asFist of the North Star,Ranma ½,Moero! Top Striker andDragon Ball andDragon Ball Z. However, the channel also shows original programming such asOne Piece andWolf's Rain shown in their original version.
Eventually, Mangas also aired several new programs which are now cancelled, such asGalaxie Mangas (hosted by Olivier Ligné and Olivier Fallaix) from 2000 to 2003,Défi Mangas a showcase of short films by young directors, andMangas à la carte, a program where viewers could vote for the way they wished the series to develop.
Today, the channel is the only French channel with a bimonthly news magazine entirely dedicated to the world of manga, (paper manga, anime, video games, etc.), which has been broadcast since September 2004 :Actu Mangas. The magazine is co-written byMylène Patou (for manga) andCédric Derancourt (for video games) who is also in charge of programming for the channel. The show is also shown in a shortened version on NT1.
Mangas is shown onAB Sat and is also available through a contract oncable and ondigital packages from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Francophone Africa, Lebanon, Overseas France and Haiti.
In 2020, the AB channels were removed ofStarTimes.
