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Anime News Community’s Japan-essentially based workers confirmed on Monday that reruns of Assassination Evaluation room and Call of the Evening are also airing on Fuji TV without sponsors. ANN confirmed the commercials that did air all the contrivance in which thru these reruns were predominantly for Fuji TV‘s in-house productions, collectively with are living-action assortment (Hitomi no Jinji, Anata o Ubatta Sonohikara, Dr. Ashura, Zoku Zoku Saigokara Nibanme no Koi), the feature-length movie Dim Showman, and publicizes of Eastern baseball team Yokohama DeNA BayStars.
Other anime assortment on Fuji TV are tormented by a decline in company sponsors as properly. Significantly, Chibi Maruko-chan, which is celebrating its Thirty fifth anniversary with particular programs between April and May possibly possibly additionally, has been without company sponsors for four weeks, after cram college chain Kobetsu Shidō Campus pulled its commercials from the program on March 16.
Some Fuji TV anime programs with company sponsors are airing a handful of commercials for these sponsors. However, most commercials across Fuji TV anime are for Fuji TV‘s dangle are living-action assortment, films, and theater productions. Several other adverts for events and other products aired along with the subsidized adverts. As these adverts weren’t sponsoring any anime aired on Fuji TV, they were doubtless phase of the broadcaster’s customary sponsorship pool.
Fuji TV‘s sponsorship drought got here after the Weekly Bunshun journal reported passe SMAP member Masahiro Nakai engaged in nonconsensual sexual actions with a girl in June 2023, resulting in a 90 million yen (about US$580,000) out-of-court settlement. Weekly Bunshun also reported Fuji TV workers became enthusiastic with the incident, even supposing the journal later acknowledged the lady became no longer initially invited to the gathering by a Fuji TV official because it had reported in December. Within the aftermath, Fuji TV president Koichi Minato and Fuji Media Holdings Inc. chairman Shuji Kano resigned their positions.
As of press time, no bulletins were made relating to future sponsorships for anime programming on Fuji TV.
Assassination Evaluation room first aired on Fuji TV in January 2015. The assortment received a 2d season in January 2016. Call of the Evening aired on Fuji TV between July to September 2022. The assortment 2d season is determined to air on Fuji TV in July.
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