October - Super Hero Time changes time slots
 

First time in 20 years for Super Sentai, it will now air at 9:30am Japanese time, while Kamen Rider will air at 9:00am.

For those of us in USA, it means.......

Eastern time zone - KR will be 8 PM Sat, Sentai will be 8:30 PM Sat
Western time zone - KR will be 7 PM Sat, Sentai will be 7:30 PM Sat
Mountain time zone - KR will be 6 PM Sat, Sentai will be 6:30 PM Sat
Western time zone - KR will be 5 PM Sat, Sentai will be 5:30 PM Sat

For everyone else not in Eastern Asian or USA with Coordinated Universal Time Zone (calculate your local time based on that),

KR will be 12 AM Sunday UTC, Sentai will be 12:30 AM Sunday UTC

That's like 1:am in the UK.

Interesting. I guess 7:30~8:30 is too early based on metrics and whatnot?

I'm surprise they change it to 9 AM? I would imagine after Kamen Rider is over at 8:30, the young boys would change to the channel to watch the Sunday anime like Dragon Ball Super and One Piece at 9-9:30 AM. 8-8:30 AM always work fine for SHT in my opinion.

They're changing it to this time because of a new television show that's airing in its place. This raises the question though, does this mean that Kamen Rider and Super Sentai have finally defeated their one true enemy, the one that preempts them every year, Sports?

I would imagine kids on Sunday morning in Japan are going to have a hard time picking on what shows to watch. I personally hope that competition won't each other (Even though they are all kids shows from Toei and Bandai).

The same time as One Piece and Dragon Ball Super also produced by Toie on a different channel

You know, this might mean no more sports pre-emptions.

That's a plus already...

Here is some more info on this change.

Kyuranger/Kamen Rider changing airing times in October

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm...00316000c.html

This is big news for Toku fans, as Sentai and Rider haven't changed airing times for a while:

Starting in October, Noriyuki Higashiyama (50 years old) of the idol group, Shonentai, will star in a brand-new Sunday news program, currently titled "Sunday Live." It will be the first time Higashiyama will act as a newscaster.

The show will start its airing at 5:50 AM Sunday Mornings, and run for 2 hours and 40 minutes as a live broadcast. The show is being advertised as a large scale project, with its theme being "easy to grasp" topics, as it airs early on Sundays.

Tv-Asahi seems to want to rally against shows like Nihon Terebi's "Juuichi" and TBS' "Sunday Morning", which air at 7 AM and 8 AM respectively. (The time of Tv-Asahi youth programming block.)

Higashiyama, having only acted in dramas before, is delighted to take up this challenge of a weekly live broadcast, and Tv-Asahi is aiming to make him the "face of Sunday mornings."

This new program means the kids block will be moved forward in air time.

The new Kamen Rider Series (Build, unnamed in the article) will air at 9:00.

Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger will follow Kamen Rider's lead in, at 9:30.

Daimei no nai Ongakukai (a music program) will move to 10:00 AM Saturday mornings. Both Heybot! and Tsumai no Diet will have ended their runs by then.


Big news indeed, as this puts Sentai and Rider up against One Piece and Dragon Ball, though I guess for Toei....if you have to compete against somebody, might as well be you.

This also means any future Super Sentai sub releases will not have the timestamp clock in 1 corner. They stop that at 8AM.

Why is there a timestamp anyway?

If what I heard is correct, its because being on time is very important in Japan and the clock is to help them keep track of time while they're watching TV early in the morning. You know, for school and work and stuff.

I wonder if the time change will have any impact on the ratings?

I am a bit positive about this since it could mean more people have the chance to watch the shows in Japan. And all it took was a high-profile 1970~1980s boy band member to make this happen. :lolol

While I don't think that Kamen Rider's ratings will change much, this might actually be a good move for Sentai. Since Kamen Rider's airing first, fans of that show might just stick around since they're already on the channel. Granted, its no secret that ratings don't matter all that much, but having better ones certainly couldn't hurt.

It's possible that given the new timeslot, they might try to pitch the next Sentai to a *slightly* older demographic, closer to the Kamen Rider demographic. It could also just as easily have nothing to do with content, but I'll hope it does.

Probably, considering Rider & Sentai both will now have to compete with DB Super & One Piece in their new timeslot in comparison their current timeslot where they are competing with the Pokemon programming block.

That'll be good news for Sentai if they take the tone a bit more seriously. I mean KyuRanger is doing a great job so far. I hope this helps both series.

Not really, I believe the 7th episode officially hit the lowest ratings a Sentai episode ever got

Wow, well I think Japan is just like every other country that has DVR/Streaming/and Other capabilities that people are watching TV other ways and Network Ratings are an archaic way of measuring right now.

The decline feels natural, still I hope that it helps.

Though to be fair, Toei couldn't give a rat's ass about Sentai or Rider ratings, toy sales are where it's at for them

Will this change in timeslot do for Sentai's target demographic? While I don't think Kamen Rider will be effect that much, just look at what they're getting away with in Ex-Aid, one of the main reasons for Sentai's choice to aim at younger demographic was because of the change from an afternoon timeslot to an early morning one. Do you think serious Sentai will start being a bit more common now?

I would imagine that Toei would end up changing the timeslots for those shows as well. From what I've seen, the kids that like Kamen Rider and Sentai in Japan also like the kids anime like Dragon Ball, One Piece, Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On, Pokemon and the other Sunday morning anime.

Imagine being a kid and you can't pick on which show you want to watch next since they both air on the same time.

So that means no more time clock during Sentai? I am okay with this.

Please tell me this means Sentai will go back to being 18 minutes longs instead of 23 like it was for most of the 80s and 90s. That would be a god send as we can then lose half of the stock footage and maybe bring back some originality to the shows.

Um... that's what DVR and streaming is for.

I had that happen all of the time when I was a kid. I had to record Gargoyles THe Goliath Chronicles and watch it later because it aired at the same time as Power Rangers. Voltron The Third Dimension would air at the same time as Beast Wars.

What streams? Does Japan even have catch up streams?

Not to mention we're talking about little kids here, not internet-savvy adolescents and above.

1: How would it mean shorter episodes?
2: Stock footage inherently isn't bad, and Jetman ABUSED stock footage for fight scenes for example with Gai and Ryu yelling Double Jet Beam or whatever every 2 episodes. Even then, if they want to have more screen time, they can! Ex-Aid used stocl footage for a bunch of the form transformation, yet had no opening for a few months because the writer wanted more screen time for his story
3: Originality isn't something limited by the time slot, it's something the writers have to come up with

Don't kids these days have better use of the Internet than most of us did in the 90's. Since most of us grew up with dial up Internet with no streaming websites (or at least major ones like Youtube).

As has been stated, Japan doesn't have catch-up streams like the US and UK do. Kids will have to choose between Kamen Rider and Dragon Ball Super. And, lets face it, it'll probably lose.

Sentai is still airing in the morning, so I doubt the episodes’ length will change.

It's been a long time since I read the explanation for that, but I believe it had something to do with advertising, not time slots. I don't think the 18 minute episodes are a thing for any shows at this point.

wait on all this talk about catching up, doesnt kr air the episode again on friday/sunday as said at the end of the episode?

Um... you know, going onto Toei's website and watching the episodes? Or going to Crunchyroll to watch them? Or going to any website period to watch them? Unless the Japanese government has blocked all internet access, I'm not sure why you are even questioning this.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Have you not seen kids today? THere are Kindergarteners with the current iPhone.

idk if Toei's site lets you do that, but not only does Crunchyroll not have Kamen Rider, it's but it's an American service

I was using Crunchyroll as an example for One Piece and Dragon Ball. :lol

Why wouldn't Toei have KR and SS for steaming though? They would be moro... oh wait... it IS Toei!

Which is why I asked if Japan even has streams. I'm not Japanese so I have absolutely no idea if they have media catch up the way other countries do. I also have never heard of Toei have episode catch up on their own website.

So unless you can prove to me they exist, my point still stands. If so then great.

A five year old in Japan still isn't all that likely to seek out a dodgy stream or go a Western site hosting them. Stop thinking like a Western consumer.

I don't think so. The change in one hour won't change that much to be honest. If you look at the anime that air at 9 AM like Dragon Ball Super, it is not very serious most of the time. People view Super to be more tone down and more kid friendly compare to DBZ.

The only difference in tone is that it follows the Boo saga in combining the tones of both DB and DBZ.

I know the DB series was never that violent, but Japan's standers have change in the last 20 years (People have bitch about the lack of blood in Super). Even the new Rider shows lack the blood that Kuuga and Agito had over 15 years ago.

Having it air at 9-9:30 AM probably won't change much.

Why is blood the first thing people think of when it comes to making a show more mature? This is nothing against you, just a generalization.