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Not to be confused with Animism.

Animeism (Japanese: アニメイズム, Hepburn: Animeizumu) is a Japanese late night anime programming block produced by MBS, and airs on all JNN affiliate stations, including TBS, CBC TV, and BS-TBS.

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As of October 2025, the programming block airs on Friday nights/Saturday mornings that aired on MBS, TBS, CBC and BS-TBS on a local timeslot, as well as the "Super Animeism Turbo" block on Thursday nights/Friday mornings that airs on all affiliate stations on a network timeslot, replacing the "Super Animeism" block that aired alongside the aforementioned block.[1]

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History

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The programming block was launched in October 2006, initially as a half-hour programming block in order to broadcast anime titles which were co-produced by MBS, beginning with Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. In April 2011, the block expanded to a one-hour block, and relaunched in April 2012 as Animeism. In April 2015, the network reorganized the block from Thursday nights/Friday mornings to Friday nights/Saturday mornings, with MBS chief producer Hirō Maruyama stating that the change was done in order to prevent conflicts with FNS affiliate Fuji TV's broadcast of Noitamina.[2]

On March 8, 2019, MBS introduced the Super Animeism block, which expands the Animeism block by a half-hour from July of that same year.[1] The block has since been replaced with Super Animeism Turbo with effect from April 2024, and airs on Thursday nights/Friday mornings instead of Friday nights/Saturday mornings.

On March 23 of that same year, it was announced at AnimeJapan 2019 that MBS, Kodansha, and DMM Pictures formed a two-year partnership to co-produce anime titles for the block, either adapting works from Kodansha-published manga, or creating original works into anime, with Domestic Girlfriend becoming the first program to air with the partnership.[3] It has since ceased with the release of Blue Period.

Partnership with Amazon Prime Video

In June 2017, Amazon signed a deal to stream titles exclusively from the block, on Amazon Prime Video worldwide, with Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul and Altair: A Record of Battles becoming the first titles exclusive to Prime Video on June 29 of the same year.[4] Since January 2019, the deal was no longer in effect worldwide, with other distributors of Hidive, Crunchyroll and Funimation beginning to license titles from the block, leaving Prime Video to only exclusively stream in Japan.[5][6]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Eureka Seven: AO went on a two-week hiatus due to the 2012 Summer Olympics, thus ending its run on the third-to-last episode. The two final episodes were broadcast on November 19 of the same year.
  2. [2]
    Senryu Girl and Ao-Chan Can't Study are series that consist of 15-minute episodes. As such, they shared the B1 timeslot for the Spring 2019 season.
  3. [3]
    Starting in July 2019, the block expanded to three time slots.
  4. [4]
    Get Up! Get Live! is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Rent-A-Girlfirend.
  5. [5]
    With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Jujutsu Kaisen.
  6. [6]
    Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Churutto! is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after The World Ends with You: The Animation.
  7. [7]
    Ore, Tsushima is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! X.
  8. [8]
    "Deji" Meets Girl is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Blue Period.
  9. [9]
    Mahjong Soul Pong is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Dance Dance Danseur.
  10. [10]
    Ikimono-san is a five minute short that aired in the same timeslot after Rent-A-Girlfriend 3rd Season.
  11. [11]
    Starting in April 2024, Super Animeism changed its name to Super Animeism Turbo.
  12. [12]
    Starting in October 2025, the block is reduced to two timeslots.
  1. [a]
    All dates shown are reflective of the actual calendar date of broadcast.

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