Curated playlist
Fuji Television original programming
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)In a 2020 poll, Japanese schoolchildren admired a fictional demon slayer more than their own mothers.
- Vicky the VikingRammstein's keyboardist took his nickname, Flake, from a cartoon Viking village. He watched Vicky the Viking as a kid.
- One Piece (1999 TV series)One Piece, the Japanese anime television series made by Toei Animation, first aired on Fuji Television in October 1999. Since then, more than 1,100 episodes have gone out, and they were later exported to over 80 countries. The series…
- Ranma ½Ranma ½ is a Japanese manga by Rumiko Takahashi about a teenage martial artist whose body changes with the temperature of the water that touches him. Ranma Saotome has trained in fighting since early childhood. He spends the series hunting…
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z got its name because its creator wanted the series to end.
- Instant HistoryInstant History was a black and white Japanese anime series that aired from 1961 to 1964. Together with Astro Boy, it is counted as the oldest anime television series. That places a little-known history program at the very beginning of…
- Fist of the North StarAn editor's used-bookshop find led to the manga Fist of the North Star.
- Dragon Ball DaimaDragon Ball Daima is a Japanese anime television series from Toei Animation, and it reached viewers just after the death of its creator, Akira Toriyama, on the 1st of March 2024. It is the sixth televised animated installment of the Dragon…
- Astro Boy (1963 TV series)A grieving scientist built a robot boy, then sold it to a circus. The robot was renamed Astro.
- Samurai ChamplooSamurai Champloo opens with a coin toss that decides whether two swordsmen keep trying to kill each other. Heads, and their duel goes on. Tails, and they must first help a young woman search for a samurai who smells of sunflowers. This…
- Initial DInitial D is a Japanese street racing manga written and illustrated by Shuichi Shigeno, and its hero starts each day delivering tofu. Takumi Fujiwara is a high school student. For years he has made those early morning runs in his father…
- HellsingHellsing is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. Its central vampire is Alucard, the original and most powerful of his kind. He serves the family of the man who defeated him one hundred years before the story…
- Speed RacerSpeed Racer began as a Japanese comic inspired by Elvis and James Bond. Tatsuo Yoshida merged two films into one hero.
- Ashita no JoeDid boxer Joe Yabuki survive his final fight in the manga Ashita no Joe?
- Tetsujin 28-goIn the manga Tetsujin 28-go, a ten-year-old boy inherits his dead father's giant war robot.
- Sakigake!! OtokojukuThe manga Otokojuku has sold over 26 million copies, yet few outside Japan know it.