Sazae-san Anime Regains Corporate Sponsors to Discontinue 11-Week Drought

Anime Records Network’s Japan-essentially essentially based workers confirmed the April 6 episode of Sazae-san aired with two corporate sponsors, Geo and OIC Group. Here’s the principle time that the long-working anime had corporate sponsors in nine weeks. (Some sponsors already began searching down their commercials just a few weeks earlier in late January.) ANN confirmed this previous Sunday’s episode aired Geo and OIC Group commercials together with commercials for Fuji TV productions and non-profit public provider announcements from AC Japan. The Fuji TV productions incorporated the contemporary drama series Hitomi no Jinji and Zoku Zoku Saigokara Nibanme no Koi, and characteristic-length films Ya Boy Kongming! the Movie and Shadowy Showman.

Other anime series airing on Fuji TV are restful struggling to kill corporate sponsors, even with the originate of the spring season. Fuji TV stalwart Chibi Maruko-chan changed into with out corporate sponsors for a third week after the cram college chain Kobetsu Shidō Campus pulled its commercials on March 16. The cram college tag backed Chibi Maruko-chan for 5 weeks between February 15 to March 16. Nevertheless, characters from the anime series are restful appearing in commercials for the Jap thrift store chain Buy Promote, break free the anime’s Fuji TV declares. The characters moreover began appearing in stay-motion commercials plight twenty years later for SUNTORY‘s Top class Malt’s beer tag in February.

GeGeGe no Kitarō Watashi no Aishita Rekidai Gegege, a rerun of chosen GeGeGe no Kitarō episodes from that anime’s 60-twelve months history, inherited Bandai and Bandai Namco Leisure as corporate sponsors from Tousouchu: The Gigantic Mission.

The Dinner Table Detective, To Be Hero X, and One Share aired with partial sponsorships; the principle half of of the capabilities had corporate sponsors, however the 2nd half of did no longer. Sponsors encompass Sony Music and Aniplex for The Dinner Table Detective, Sony Music, Aniplex, and Bandai for To Be Hero X, and Bandai and Bandai Namco Leisure for One Share.

Fresh anime series The Starting up After The Discontinue aired without a corporate sponsors despite Honey Lemon Soda, which aired in the similar timeslot all the draw thru the Cool weather 2025 season, keeping mobile sport producer Grams as an organization sponsor for the entire lot of the Cool weather 2025 season.

Fresh Chinese tantalizing series Manufacture no longer Give Up moreover aired with out any corporate sponsorships. Nevertheless, the series it changed, one other Chinese animation manufacturing, Ringing Destiny, moreover had no corporate sponsors all the draw thru the Cool weather 2025 season.

Gegege no Kitaro Watashi no Aishita Rekidai Gegege and One Share were the supreme series to retain corporate sponsors going into the Spring 2025 season. Equally, The Dinner Table Detective and To Be Hero X were the supreme contemporary series to catch corporate sponsorships.

Several assorted commercials for events and more than just a few merchandise aired together with the backed commercials. As these commercials were no longer sponsoring any anime aired on Fuji TV, they were seemingly phase of the broadcaster’s customary sponsorship pool.

Fuji TV‘s sponsorship drought got here after the Weekly Bunshun journal reported feeble SMAP member Masahiro Nakai engaged in nonconsensual sexual actions with a woman in June 2023, ensuing in a 90 million yen (about US$580,000) out-of-court settlement. Weekly Bunshun moreover reported Fuji TV workers changed into alive to with the incident, even supposing the journal later said the girl changed into no longer first and main invited to the gathering by a Fuji TV authentic because it had reported in December. In the aftermath, Fuji TV president Koichi Minato and Fuji Media Holdings Inc. chairman Shuji Kano resigned their positions.

As of press time, no announcements maintain been made referring to future sponsorships for anime programming on Fuji TV.