It must be a big difference between watching anime piled up in your armchair, with loads of popcorn/drugs/booze/boobs at your side (depending on one’s preference), casually staring like an idiot in your monitor, and following a certain series on television. Come to think of it, it is. While you can manipulate your own, personal, collection, watch it any time of the day or night, giving it a pause to go take a huge dump or to refill that sad-looking, empty glass of beer, on TV, you are bound by a certain schedule. Which you will have to respect, if you ever want to see a show from top to bottom. Plus, let’s not forget about the imminent censorship, that plagues official distributions like women plague a man’s free time.

Probably that’s why the girls at Comcast, a huge cable TV operator in the United States, decided to close down AZN Television (a tiny little channel that broadcasted stuff like Tsukuyomi “I’m the hottest loli there is” Moonphase, Last Exile, Kakurenbo, plus a variety of live-action adaptations), due to the small revenues it generated. Started in 2005, AZN attracted around 14 million viewers, which, according to their owners, was not nearly enough to sustain the financial losses. With the last 15 employees waiting for Comcast to offer them other suitable jobs inside the company, AZN Television will go down the drain on April, 9th.

CNN scoop.