Anime News Network
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Type of site | Anime |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Headquarters | Canada[citation needed] |
| Created by | Justin Sevakis and others[citation needed] |
| Website | www.animenewsnetwork.com |
Alexa rank |  4,585(Global, March 2019[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required for use of forums or contributing information |
| Launched | August 21, 1998 (1998-08-21)[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Anime News Network (ANN) is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, South East Asia and Japan. The website offers reviews and other editorial content, forums where readers can discuss current issues and events, and an encyclopedia that contains a large number of anime and manga with information on Japanese and English staff, theme songs, plot summaries, and user ratings.[2]
Founded in July 1998 by Justin Sevakis, the website claims to be the leading English-language source for news and information about anime and manga on the Internet.[citation needed] The site operated, until 2008, the magazine Protoculture Addicts.[citation needed] The website has separate versions of its news content aimed towards audiences in four separate regions: the United States and Canada, Australia[citation needed] and New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Ireland,[citation needed] and Southeast Asia.[citation needed]
Contents
1 History
2 Features
3 References
4 External links
History
The website was founded by Justin Sevakis in July 1998.[citation needed] In May 2000, current CEO Christopher Macdonald joined the website editorial staff, replacing former editor-in-chief Isaac Alexander. In July 2002, Anime News Network launched its Encyclopedia, a collaborative database of anime and manga titles also including information about the staff, cast, and companies involved in the production or localization of those titles. In January 2007, ANN launched a separate version for Australian audiences.[citation needed] On July 4, 2008, ANN launched its video platform with a library of anime trailers as well as its own news show ANNtv.[citation needed]
In the fall of 2004, the editorial staff at ANN became formally involved with the anime magazine Protoculture Addicts; the magazine began publishing under ANN's editorial control in January 2005.[citation needed] On September 7, 2004, the Sci Fi Channel online newsletter Sci Fi Weekly named the site the Web Site of the Week.
Features
Anime News Network stories related to anime and manga that are researched by the ANN staff. Other contributors, under staff discretion, also contribute news articles.[citation needed]
The website maintains a listing of anime and manga titles, as well as people and companies involved in the production of those titles, which it dubs an "encyclopedia".[2] The site has hosted several regular columns, including a question-and-answer column "Hey Answerman", a review column entitled "Shelf Life", a column on old and forgotten media called "Buried Treasure" written by Sevakis,[citation needed]and a listing of claimed differences between edited and original versions of anime series titled "The Edit List".[citation needed] Staff members of ANN also publish their own blogs hosted on the site.[citation needed]
ANN also hosts forums,[2] and includes threads to accompany each news item for purposes of discussion. Anime News Network hosts an IRC channel on the WorldIRC network, #animenewsnetwork.
On August 7, 2017, a hacker took control of Anime News Network's domain (animenewsnetwork.com), and compromised some of the site's Twitter accounts, including the personal accounts of ANN's CEO Christopher Macdonald and Executive Editor Zac Bertschy. The site was temporarily live at animenewsnetwork.cc until the staff regained control of the original domain.[citation needed] In an article a few days after the loss of the domain, Macdonald published the full story on how the domain was stolen.[3]
References
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^ abc Dellamonica, A.M. (2004-09-07). "Site of the Week - Anime News Network". Sci Fi Weekly. SciFi.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-16. Retrieved 2007-12-16.
^ Macdonald, Christopher (August 11, 2017). "How ANN Was Hacked". Retrieved August 14, 2017.
External links
Anime News Network
Anime News Network at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
