Curated playlist
Fuji Television original programming
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)Ufotable announced the anime adaptation of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba in June 2018. Director Haruo Sotozaki and producer Hikaru Kondo led the project. Character designer Akira Matsushima shaped the visual style for the series. The…
- Vicky the VikingVicky the Viking is a German-Japanese animated television series that first reached audiences on the 31st of January 1974, when it debuted on the German TV channel ZDF. At its heart sits a single unusual question: what happens when the…
- Dragon Ball ZDragon Ball Z premiered on Fuji Television on the 26th of April 1989, and from that first episode it was chasing something its predecessor never quite reached. The creative team behind it had been drafted from Saint Seiya, a different show…
- Instant HistoryThe 1st of May 1961 marked the premiere of Instant History on Fuji TV. This black and white series mixed animation with actual film footage to teach viewers about past events. A character who did not know what happened on that specific day…
- Fist of the North StarFist of the North Star opens with a single phrase that would eventually conquer the internet decades after anyone first read it: "You are already dead." Kenshiro, the series' stoic warrior hero, delivers that line to enemies just before…
- Astro Boy (1963 TV series)On New Year's Day 1963, a Tuesday, the first episode of Astro Boy aired on Fuji TV. This broadcast marked the beginning of Japan's first popular animated television series that would eventually define anime for global audiences. The show…
- Speed RacerSpeed Racer began not as a television show, but as a comic book rooted in two films that captivated a young artist in Japan. Tatsuo Yoshida saw Viva Las Vegas and Goldfinger and was transfixed by two very different images: Elvis Presley…
- Ashita no JoeAshita no Joe begins with a young drifter wandering through the San'ya slums, an encounter that will set in motion one of the most debated endings in manga history. When Joe Yabuki stumbles into Danpei Tange, an alcoholic former boxing…
- Tetsujin 28-goTetsujin 28-go arrived in 1956, the creation of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, and it asked a question that would echo through decades of Japanese popular culture: what happens when a child inherits a weapon? The premise is stark. A ten-year-old boy…
- Sakigake!! OtokojukuSakigake!! Otokojuku has sold over 26 million copies, yet outside Japan almost no one has heard of it. That single number places it among the best-selling series in Weekly Shonen Jump history, alongside titles that became household names…