Animeism (Japanese: アニメイズム, Hepburn: Animeizumu) is a Japanese late night animeprogramming block airing on JNN-affiliate stations, including MBS and TBS. The timeslot was established in October 2006 with a Thursday night/Friday morning schedule, until April 2015, when it switched to a Friday night/Saturday morning schedule.
In its current form as of April 2024, the block airs as "Super Animeism Turbo" on Thursday nights/Friday mornings and the hour-long "Animeism" block on Friday nights/Saturday mornings.[1] "Super Animeism Turbo" replaced the "Super Animeism" timeslot that was on Friday nights/Saturday mornings since its creation in March 2019.
History
Logo used by the block until 2019
The block initially launched in October 2006 as a 30-minute programming block in order to broadcast anime titles which were co-produced by MBS, beginning with Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. The programming block later expanded to a one-hour block in April 2011, and in April 2012, relaunched as Animeism. In April 2015, the network reorganised the Animeism block from a Thursday night/Friday morning schedule to a Friday night/Saturday morning schedule, with MBS chief producer Hirō Maruyama stating that the change was done in order to prevent conflicts with FNN/FNS-affiliate Fuji TV's broadcast of Noitamina.[2]
On March 8, 2019, MBS introduced the Super Animeism programming block, which expands the Animeism block by a half-hour starting from July 2019.[1] The programming block has since been replaced with Super Animeism Turbo with effect from April 2024.
On March 23, 2019, it was announced at AnimeJapan 2019 that MBS, Kodansha, and DMM Pictures formed a two-year partnership to co-produce anime titles for the block, adapting works from Kodansha published manga or creating original works into anime, with Domestic Girlfriend being the first title produced through the partnership.[3] The partnership has since ceased after the release of Blue Period.
Partnership with Amazon Prime Video
From June 2017 to January 2019, Amazon signed a deal to stream Animeism's titles exclusively on Amazon Prime Video worldwide, with Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul and Altair: A Record of Battles becoming the first titles exclusive to Prime Video on June 29, 2017.[4] Since January 2019, the streaming deal was no longer in effect worldwide, with other distributors of Hidive, Crunchyroll and Funimation beginning to license titles from the block, leaving Prime Video to only exclusively stream titles in Japan.[5][6]
^Eureka Seven: AO went on a two-week hiatus due to the 2012 Summer Olympics, thus ending its run on the third-to-last episode. The two final episodes were broadcast on November 19, 2012.
^Senryu Girl and Ao-Chan Can't Study are series that consist of 15-minute episodes. As such, they shared the B1 timeslot for the Spring 2019 season.
^Starting in July 2019, the block expanded to three time slots.
^Get Up! Get Live! is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Rent-A-Girlfirend.
^With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Jujutsu Kaisen.
^Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Churutto! is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after The World Ends with You: The Animation.
^Ore, Tsushima is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X.
^"Deji" Meets Girl is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Blue Period.
^Mahjong Soul Pong is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Dance Dance Danseur.
^Ikimono-san is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Rent-A-Girlfriend 3rd Season.
^Starting in April 2024, Super Animeism changed its name to Super Animeism Turbo.
^ a bAll dates shown are reflective of the actual calendar date of broadcast.
References
^ a bHodgkins, Crystalyn (January 9, 2019). "MBS Creates New 'Super Animeism' Late-Night Anime Programming Block". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 9, 2019.
^丸山博雄 [@maru0322] (February 19, 2015). MBSで木曜深夜に放送しているアニメイズム枠ですが、４月より金曜日にお引越しさせて頂くこととなりました。裏の関西テレビさんとのアニメかぶりの解消と、関東＆中京地区と放送曜日を合わせて、全地域同日に楽しんで頂くためです。 (Tweet). Retrieved December 15, 2019 – via Twitter.
^"DMM pictures × Kodansha × MBS, "Animeizumu" waku de 2-nenkan no renkei happyō" DMM pictures×講談社×MBS、『アニメイズム』枠で2年間の連携発表 (in Japanese). Oricon. March 23, 2019. Retrieved December 15, 2019.
^Rafael Antonio Pineda (June 29, 2017). "Amazon Prime to Stream Animeism Shows Including Altair Worldwide". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 22, 2019.
