For almost twenty years, being a devoted fan of the “One Piece” anime in Japan has meant you’ll want to rise up early on Sundays. That’s as a result of since October of 2006, broadcaster Fuji TV has aired new episodes of “One Piece” within the Sunday 9:30 a.m. time slot.
As of subsequent month, although, even the toughest of hardcore “One Piece” followers can begin sleeping in on Sundays, though they could now must take care of sleepiness on Monday mornings, as “One Piece,” for the primary time in its historical past, goes to be a late-night anime. The change comes because the anime enters “One Piece’s” Egghead Arc, and beginning April 6, “One Piece” will air at 11:15 on Sunday nights.
The change is critical for quite a lot of causes, most of all as a result of “One Piece” is persistently some of the standard anime collection amongst younger kids in Japan. Yes, it has loads of older followers too (the anime has been occurring since 1999, in any case), however like many long-running leisure franchises in Japan, “One Piece” hasn’t actually aged up its content material or in any other case tried to have the collection develop up with its authentic viewers. Sure, the stakes could also be larger and the plot extra advanced than when Luffy first set sail, however very like Pokemon, “One Piece” has remained accessible and acceptable for youths, by Japanese requirements.
Prior to its 18-year stint within the Sunday 9:30 morning block, Fuji TV confirmed “One Piece” at 7 and seven:30 on Sunday evenings, and initially it aired at 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, all instances when youngsters might be anticipated to be residence and awake. 11:15 at night time, although, is probably going going to be previous quite a lot of youthful “One Piece” followers’ bedtimes, particularly since they’ve bought faculty the following morning. By distinction, anime in late-night blocks have normally been stuffed with programming geared toward older viewers, particularly otaku, who’re setting their very own sleep schedules and prepared to surrender just a little shuteye in an effort to watch new anime ASAP.
Fuji TV isn’t shifting away from broadcasting anime on Sunday mornings fully, both. Replacing “One Piece” within the Sunday 9:30 a.m. slot is a brand new authentic anime (i.e. not tailored from a preexisting work) titled “To Be Hero X,” which, satirically, seems just about precisely just like the kind of factor one would think about when listening to the time period “late-night anime.”
Fuji TV hasn’t made any official touch upon why it’s shifting “One Piece” to a late-night slot. When the shift was first introduced again in December, although, throughout a presentation at manga writer Shueisha’s Jump Festa fan occasion, revealing the transfer displayed the on-screen textual content “Jump soon after watching the anime.”
The new challenge of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump, the journal by which the “One Piece” manga runs, goes on sale each Monday morning, so maybe shifting “One Piece” to a late-night slot is an try to have the most recent “One Piece” anime episode be the very last thing followers see earlier than they fall asleep on Sunday nights, in order that they’ll nonetheless be overestimated sufficient within the morning to go purchase Jump and browse the most recent manga chapter.
Source: Sponichi Annex by way of Livedoor News by way of Jin, Fuji TV, Oricon News
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