Toei Super Hero Time Moves Time Slots this October

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.