The Present Times
And we come to the last part of our tour in the history of animes here in the Philippines. To get an overview look, we'll look in this topic channel-wise:
ABS-CBN: Anime status has changed little but for the good. Most cartoons that they air today are anime but their time slots are still reserved for some of their own shows. They still air those dramatic animes. Lots of great animes aired though like Slayers, Saber Marionette J and Tenchi-Muyo.
ABC-5: Tried to get in the anime bandwagon with small results. After Sailormoon and Yaiba, no hits followed them. Slamdunk and Miku: the Metal Fighters were among those who got very little attention still ABC-5 continued the Sailormoon series(Sailormoon R,S and Super S) in hopes to get the Sailormoon magic back.
![]() | With some the greatest animes on the planet, GMA-7 is living up to its slogan, "We are Anime", really well. |
GMA-7: The channel that really changed the status of anime in Philippine TV. GMA-7 saw the potential of animes for high ratings ,so using their slogan "We are Anime", they brought back great anime hits in the Philippines like Ghost Fighter and put anime in primetime slots. We have yet to see other channels if they will try to emulate what GMA did. GMA-7 also aired the ever popular Gundam series (Gundam W and Gundam G).
RPN-9 and IBC-13: The two channels who first aired those anime hits that GMA-7 is slowly bringing back today. So far, these two channels have been quiet in the anime scene. RPN-9 aired Sweet tales of St. Tail but without success. IBC-13 tried with small time animes but also to no avail. We know they have taste in animes but only time will tell if ever they will air another anime hit here in the Philippines.
UHF channels: Not much to say here. One channel, SBN-21 once aired the Macross movie "Do you Remember, Love?". Only Studio 23(owned by ABS-CBN company) had initiative to air anime series. Studio 23 aired Samurai X(Ruroni Kenshin) which, to the dismay of viewers, they didn't finish.
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