AMBot | 02/13/2002 | Reading Time: 10 Min.
Here you can see what's currently on TV in Japan:

SHIMASHIMA TORA NO SHIMAJIROU

TV Tokyo

Monday

7:30-8 AM

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ROKUMON TENGAI MONKORE KNIGHT

TV Tokyo

Monday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: The world of the popular card game "Monster Collection" is turned into anime.

MEGAMI KOUHOSEI

NHK BS2

Monday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: In the far future, to protect the last surviving planet, the boy Zero becomes a pilot of the giant robot "Megami". From the eponymous popular manga title.

BIKKURIMAN 2000

TV Tokyo

Monday

6:30-7 PM

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KINDAICHI SHOUNEN NO JIKENBO

Nihon TV

Monday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: Based on the manga series in Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha), and the first half of what seems to be NTV's Monday Night Mystery Hour. Hajime swears on the name of his grandfather to solve any and every murder that comes across his path.

WILD ARMS TV

WOWOW

Monday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: Anime based on the popular PlayStation game. Shaian Rainstorm is on a quest to reclaim the body he lost using his ARMS, which are said to be the ultimate guns in the world.

MEITANTEI CONAN

Nihon TV

Monday

7:30-8 PM

Overview: Based on the manga series in Weekly Shonen Sunday. Shinichi was turned into a little boy by some mysterious drug, and is now on a quest to find a way to become normal again... but in the process solves one murder after another.

EARTH DEFENSE INDUSTRY DIE-GUARD

TV Tokyo

Tuesday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: The fights of Die-Guard, a giant robot, against the mysterious creatures called Heterodynes. What makes this show different is that the robot is "outdated" and therefore weak, and only the wits of the pilots (employees of a security products company) helps the robot defeat each enemy.

CARD CAPTOR SAKURA

NHK BS2

Tuesday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: Based on the manga series in Nakayoshi. Now armed with a full set of Clow Cards, Sakura magically fights the supernatural phenomenon that happen around her. Of course, they are not spontaneous events...

JIBAKU-KUN

TV Tokyo

Tuesday

6:30-7 PM

Overview: Based on the manga series in Fami-tsu BROS. In Twelve World, fairies and humans once lived peacefully. But now, fairies were turning into monsters, and only a Great Child that rules over each of the 12 lands can defeat the monsters. Many a child wish to be a GC, including Baku.

ANIME COMPLEX II

WOWOW

Tuesday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: The current lineup in this mini-show doubleheader is HAGANE TENSHI KURUMI, which is about a cute fighter android in the Taisho era; and SHINSHI MAHOU GEKIJOU: RISKY SAFETY, which is about a girl who encounters a spirit that is an angel half the time and Death the other half.

POCKET MONSTER ENCORE

TV Tokyo

Tuesday

7:00-7:28 PM

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RERERE-NO TENSAI BAKABON

TV Tokyo

Tuesday

7:28-7:55 PM

Overview: An animated series from this oldie-but-goodie manga by the legendary gag manga artist Akatsuka Fujio.

MUGEN NO RYVIUS

TV Tokyo

Wednesday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: In 2137, a flare from the sun's corona left the entire solar system in a sea of plasma and cosmic rays. Aspiring astronauts board the Ryvius to escape from an ailing space station to head back to Earth.

BEAST WARS METALS ~ CHOU SEIMEITAI TRANSFORMER ~

TV Tokyo

Wednesday

6:30-7 PM

Overview: Megatron got a hold of the Golden Disk, and plots to prevent the Cybertrons from ever being created by time-warping into the past to defeat the original Convoy.

KAZEMAKASE TSUKIKAGE RAN

WOWOW

Wednesday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: The adventures of the female samurai Ran Tsukikage and her sidekick "little sister", Miao, set in the Edo period.

ONE PIECE

Fuji TV

Wednesday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: Based on the Weekly Jump manga series.

BOOGIEPOP WA WARAWANAI (BOOGIEPOP PHANTOM)

TV Tokyo

Wednesday/Thursday

1:45-2:15 AM

Overview: A secret organization that protects the world from danger, Boogie Pop. Based on the grand prize winner of the 4th Dengeki Game Novel contest.

KYORO-CHAN

TV Tokyo

Thursday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: The adventures of the mascot character for the Morinaga Choco Ball.

POCKET MONSTER

TV Tokyo

Thursday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: POKÉMON. 'nuff said.

OH! SUPER MILK-CHAN

WOWOW

Thursday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: Milk-chan's job is to receive orders from the President, defeat the bad guys using courage or wits or the power of money, then go eat sushi... or something like that.

EXCEL SAGA

TV Tokyo

Thursday/Friday

1:15-1:45 AM

Overview: Excel and Hayat have to work for a living as part of a freemason's ploy to take over the world.

BLUE GENDER

TBS

Thursday/Friday

1:50-2:20 AM

Overview: 22 years after he is put to cold-sleep, Yuji wakes up in a world where a man-eating creature named BLUE rules the ruins of what was Earth... and is recruited up to Second Earth, a space station where people who escaped Earth live.

DISNEY TOONTOWN

TV Tokyo

Friday

7:30-8 AM

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TURN A GUNDAM

Fuji TV

Friday

4:55-5:25 PM

Overview: The latest in the GUNDAM saga. The advanced Moonrace, a group of long-lost settlers on the Moon, descends upon Earth to claim territory for themselves. Against this threat, a Gundam must stand, and our protagonist Rolan Seack defends his friends on Earth while trying to find a peaceful way to settle the conflict.

SOREIKE! ANPANMAN

Nihon TV

Friday

5:00-5:30 PM

Overview: The adventures of our pastry hero and his pastry friends.

MEDALLOTO

TV Tokyo

Friday

6:00-6:30 PM

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DONKEY KONG

TV Tokyo

Friday

6:30-7 PM

Overview: An animated version of the old Nintendo favorite. Kong fights the Cremlins who want to take over Congo Bongo Island.

DORAEMON

TV Asahi

Friday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: The old children's favorite, still going strong.

CRAYON SHIN-CHAN

TV Asahi

Friday

7:30-8 PM

Overview: The antics of a very troublesome young boy.

NINGYOU SOUSHI AYATSURI SAKON

WOWOW

Friday

7:30-8 PM

Overview: Based on the mystery series that ran in Weekly Jump a few years back. Sakon the ventriloquist is normally a quiet man, but when he is controlling his puppet Ukon, he can solve almost any crime by using his real head and his talkative wooden head.

TROUBLE CHOCOLATE

TV Asahi

Friday/Saturday

1:45-2:30 AM

Overview: A 45-minute show with 30 minutes of anime with 15 minutes of information and other "goodies" interspersed. The anime itself is about the hectic affairs of the students and teachers at Microgrind Gakuen.

MANGA NIHON MUKASHIBANASHI

TBS

Saturday

7:00-7:30 AM

Overview: A series of short animated versions of old folk tales from all over Japan.

MONKEY MAGIC

TV Tokyo

Saturday

7:00-7:30 AM

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MONSTER FARM ~ ENBANSEKI NO HIMITSU ~

TBS

Saturday

7:30-8 AM

Overview: An animated series based on the eponymous video game title.

CYBORG KURO-CHAN

TV Tokyo

Saturday

8:00-8:30 AM

Overview: An animated version based on the manga series in Comic BonBon (Kodansha). Kuro-chan the cat uses his cyborg body and state-of-the-art weapons to defeat evil.

SORCEROUS STABBER ORPHEN REVENGE

TBS

Saturday

5:00-5:30 PM

Overview: A sequel series to Orphen.

FUTURE BOY CONAN 2: TAIGA ADVENTURE

TBS

Saturday

5:30-6 PM

Overview: 21 years after the first series, a new adventure begins. (Despite the title, characters from the first series will not make appearances.) Taiga goes on a journey to find OOPArts (Out Of Place Artifacts) before the reawakened Obatz gets to them.

MU-PON

TV Asahi

Saturday

5:55-6 PM

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ZOIDS

TBS

Saturday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: An adventure in a world with living mechanic creatures.

HUNTER x HUNTER

Fuji TV

Saturday

6:30-7 PM

Overview: Based on the series in Weekly Jump.

MASHURANBOW

TV Asahi

Saturday

6:28-6:58 PM

Overview: A boy and a girl embark on an adventure, on an Earth where humanity has become a unified life form called the Matrixer. A "battle adventure" which adopts the motif of the famous Chinese Monkey tale.

KAIKAN PHRASE

TV Tokyo

Saturday/Sunday

0:20-0:50 AM

Overview: Based on the manga series in Shoujo Comic (Shogakukan). A growing-up story about a band called Lucifel from its humble beginnings to stardom... and the band's relationship with a girl with a talent to write erotic lyrics.

MIAMI GUNS

TBS

Saturday/Sunday

1:45-2:15 AM

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MU-PON DX

TV Asahi

Sunday

6:55-7 AM

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NYANI GA NYANDAR NYANDAR KAMEN

TV Asahi

Sunday

7:00-7:30 AM

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OJA-MAJO DOREMI # (SHARP)

TV Asahi

Sunday

8:30-9 AM

Overview: The further adventures of Doremi, Hazuki, and Aiko, who are three girls who were training to become witches.

DIGIMON (DEGIMON) ADVENTURE

Fuji TV

Sunday

9:00-9:30 AM

Overview: An animated version of the DigiMon handheld game. Seven kids, led by Taichi, were at a summer camp when they were mysteriously transported to a digital world. And there, Digital Monsters (DigiMon) awaited them. Will the kids be able to solve the mystery behind this new world and go back to their own?

GURUGURU TOWN HANAMARU-KUN

TV Tokyo

Sunday

9:30-10 AM

Overview: Based on a manga series in educational magazines such as Hanamaru Kids (Gakken). A story about Hanamaru-kun, a cute puppy-boy, and his friends as they live their young lives.

GOZONJI! GEKKOU-KAMEN-KUN

TV Tokyo

Sunday

10:00-10:30 AM

Overview: 40 years after retirement, the archnemesis of our hero Gekkou-kamen has resurfaced. However, the hero cannot make it to Earth again, and sends his trusty bike to choose a successor. The bike, however, chose Natoto, an elementary school child....

CHIBIMARUKO-CHAN

Fuji TV

Sunday

6:00-6:30 PM

Overview: Based on a manga series in Ribon (Shueisha). The day-to-day events around the Sakura family told from the perspective of the younger daughter, Momoko.

SAZAE-SAN

Fuji TV

Sunday

6:30-7 PM

Overview: An animated version of the comic strip by the late Hasegawa Machiko. A series of brief looks at the three generations of the ever-busy Isono family, and their neighborhood friends.

KOCHIRA KATSUSHIKAKU KAMEARI KOUENMAE HASHUTSUJO

Fuji TV

Sunday

7:00-7:30 PM

Overview: Based on the longest-running series in Weekly Jump. The colorful adventures of Kankichi ("Ryo-san") the un-policeman-like cop and his ultrarich coworkers.

GTO

Fuji TV

Sunday

7:30-8 PM

Overview: Based on the manga in Weekly Shonen Magazine. The antics of a "fake" teacher and all the commotions he and his students create in high school.

SOUTH PARK (yes, this is considered an anime there)

WOWOW

Sunday

approx.

10:00-10:30 PM (right after the MEGA HIT THEATER)

Overview: Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny's antics are enjoyed in Japan as well...

OJARU-MARU

NHK Educational

Monday to Saturday

7:46-7:56 AM (Mon-Fri)

5:30-5:40 PM (Sat)

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NINTAMA RANTAROU

NHK Educational

Monday to Friday

5:50-6:00 PM

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Courtesy of EX:Magazine, thank you very much! :)
This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.

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