Curated category
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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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."…
- 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…
- 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.
- Ashita no JoeThe 1st of January 1968 marked the beginning of a new era in Japanese comics. Ashita no Joe appeared in Kodansha's Weekly Shonen Magazine that day.
- 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…
- 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…