Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Each fall season brings a new set of cartoons to children's television, and over the past several years more and more of these cartoons are coming from Japan. While Japanese animation serves as the medium for television series and movies aimed at everyone from very young children to adult men and women, the primary American animation audience is still considered to be young boys, even with the advent of animation blocks aimed at older viewers. As a result, anime that is aired on American television has often been edited in order to appeal to that audience and to keep from offending their parents, with the Standards and Practices office of American television networks serving as the arbiter of American values. However, since the creation of the Adult Swim block by Cartoon Network in 2003 and the decision of other networks to show anime skewed to older audiences, editing of anime has diminished on cable networks, even for series and networks aimed at children. By 2007 anime had been nearly eliminated from traditional over-the-air networks, resulting in a less Americanized and less sanitized presentation of anime to American television viewers.
Repository Citation
Cubbison, Laurie. "Not Just for Children's Television: Anime and the Changing Editing Practices of American Television Networks." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1–18. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss2/4