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| The anime will premiere on April 7 on the Tokyo MX and BS NTV channels at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT), then on Yomiuri TV at 25:59 JST (effectively, April 8 at 1:59 a.m. JST). |
This practice puzzles me -- a network station in just one region, and independent stations and pay channels elsewhere -- but it seems to be reasonably common. There's something like half a dozen spring anime that are airing on MBS in Kansai, while Tokyo viewers are going to be tuning in to Tokyo MX.
(Me and the Alien MuMu, Black Butler: Emerald Witch Arc, Miru: Paths to My Future, and the
Anime Tokku block -- Aharen-san wa Hakarenai S2, Sword of the Demon Hunter, and Summer Pockets, which are replacing Unnamed Memory Act.2, Bogus Skill <<fruitmaster>>, and Promise of Wizard.)
In America, I can imagine a show being syndicated to a different station in every market, some of which may be affiliates of one network or another, some of which may be independent. But I don't know what the logic is behind just
one network station airing the show. I guess there's cases where that station is on the production committee, like how Yomiuri TV co-produces MHA, but I don't understand why that happens either. (Does it have to do with why a committee might list Fuji TV or TV Tokyo, but not All-Nippon News Network or TX Network? Is this just how network TV programs in Japan work? Are they all funded by specific stations rather than the network as a whole?)
