Events in 2018 in Japanese television.
Events Date Event January 30 Nickelodeon's Japanese channel launches for the second time. April 8 AKB48 Show! changes its timeslot on BS Premium from Saturday 23:45 JST to Sunday 23:00 JST. May 3 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations changes its timeslot on TV Tokyo from Wednesday 17:55 JST to Thursday 19:25 JST. September 2 AKB48 Show! changes its timeslot once again in BS Premium and starts 10 minutes earlier, at Sunday 22:50 JST. October 7 Boruto: Naruto Next Generations changes its timeslot on TV Tokyo from Thursday 19:25 JST to Sunday 17:30 JST. Pokémon Sun & Moon changes its timeslot on TV Tokyo from Thursday 18:55 JST to Sunday 18:00 JST. The 2018 Formula One World Championship will be held at 2018 Japanese Grand Prix. October 21 The 2018 MotoGP World Championship will be held at 2018 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix.
Ongoing Show Type Channel First aired Source AKB48 Show! Variety Show, Music BS Premium, NHK World Premium AKBingo! Variety Show Nippon Television Black Clover Anime TV Tokyo Boruto: Naruto Next Generations Anime TV Tokyo Chibi Maruko-chan Anime Fuji Television Count Down TV Music Tokyo Broadcasting System Crayon Shin-chan Anime TV Asahi Detective Conan Anime NNS Doraemon Anime TV Asahi Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! Game-Show Nippon Television FNS Music Festival Music Fuji Television Music Fair Music Fuji Television Music Station Music TV Asahi NHK Amateur Song Contest Talent Show NHK-G, NHK World Premium Nintama Rantarō Anime NHK Ojarumaru Anime NHK One Piece Anime Fuji Television Panel Quiz Attack 25 Game-Show TV Asahi Pokémon Sun & Moon Anime TV Tokyo Sasuke Sports Tokyo Broadcasting System Sazae-san Anime Fuji Television Soreike! Anpanman Anime Nippon Television Super Hero Time Tokusatsu TV Asahi Utacon Music NHK-G, NHK World Premium With Mother Kids E-TV, NHK World Premium Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS Anime TV Tokyo
New shows and returning series Show Network Premiere Finale Status Source Ultraman Orb: The Chronicle TV Tokyo Series Ended Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card NHK, Crunchyroll Series Ended Idolish7 Tokyo MX Series Ended Segodon NHK Series Ended Yowamushi Pedal 4: Glory Line TV Tokyo Series Ended Violet Evergarden Tokyo MX Series Ended Beatless MBS Series Ended Dagashi Kashi – Season 2 TBS Series Ended Seven Deadly Sins: Revival of the Commandments JNN Series Ended Spring Has Come WOWOW Series Ended Princess Jellyfish Fuji Television Series Ended Seven Heavenly Virtues AT-X Series Ended Fate/Extra Last Encore Tokyo MX Series Ended Hugtto! PreCure TV Asahi Ending 2019 Lupinranger VS Patoranger TV Asahi Ending 2019 GeGeGe no Kitarō Fuji Television Continues 2019 Magic × Warrior Magimajo Pures! TV Tokyo Ending 2019 Half Blue Sky NHK Series Ended Uma Musume Pretty Derby Tokyo MX Series Ended Gundam Build Divers TV Tokyo Series Ended Lupin the Third Part 5 Nippon TV Seried Ended Aikatsu Friends! TV Tokyo Continues 2019 Inazuma Eleven: Ares TV Tokyo Series Ended Major 2nd NHK-E My Hero Academia – Season 3 Nippon Television Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Tokyo MX Series Ended Kiratto Pri Chan TV Tokyo Currently Airing Continues 2019 Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File Fuji TV Ending 2019 High School DxD: Hero AT-X Series Ended Yo-kai Watch Shadowside TV Tokyo Ending 2019 Cardfight!! Vanguard: DX Tokyo MX Continues 2019 Harukana Receive Tokyo MX Series Ended Ultraman R/B TV Tokyo Series Ended Shingeki no Kyojin – Season 3 NHK Kamen Rider Zi-O TV Asahi Continues 2019 Manpuku NHK Ending 2019 Inazuma Eleven: Orion no Kokuin TV Tokyo Continues 2019 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind Tokyo MX Continues 2019 Fairy Tail: The Final Chapter TV Tokyo Continues 2019 Sword Art Online: Alicization Tokyo MX Continues 2019 Senran Kagura Shinovi Master -Tokyo Yōma-hen- Tokyo MX Series Ended
Ending End date Show Channel First aired Replaced by Source Kirakira PreCure a la Mode TV Asahi Hugtto! PreCure Uchuu Sentai Kyuranger TV Asahi Lupinranger VS Patoranger Banana Zero Music NHK Arita P Entertainer Dragon Ball Super Fuji Television GeGeGe no Kitarō Idol x Warrior Miracle Tunes! TV Tokyo Magic × Warrior Magimajo Pures! Idol Time PriPara TV Tokyo Gundam Build Divers Aikatsu Stars! TV Tokyo Aikatsu Friends! Yo-kai Watch TV Tokyo Yo-kai Watch Shadowside Warotenka NHK Half Blue Sky Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! Fuji Television Sekai! Goku taun ni sunde miru Cardfight!! Vanguard G: Z TV Tokyo Kiratto Pri Chan Monster Hunter Stories: Ride On Fuji Television Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File Kamen Rider Build TV Asahi Kamen Rider Zi-O Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama TV Tokyo Kira Kira Happy Hirake! Cocotama
Sports Airdate Sports Network Source October 7 2018 Formula One World Championship Fuji TV Next October 21 2018 MotoGP World Championship G+
Special events and milestone episodes Airdate Show Network Source The 7th AKB48 Kouhaku Taikou Utagassen BS Sky Perfect NHK Nodojiman: Champion Taikai 2018 NHK Masashi Sada Midnight Special: SadaFes 2018 NHK TV Tokyo CDTV 25th Anniversary Celebration Special Tokyo Broadcasting System NNS Nippon Television FNS Uta no Natsu Matsuri 2018 Fuji Television Miitsuketa! – The Stage Show NHK-E & World Premium 50th Melody of Memories NHK-G & World Premium Teacher Itsuki's School of Songs: The Midsummer Special Lesson NHK-G & World Premium & 26 24 Hour Television 2018 Nippon Television & 9 FNS 27 Hour TV Fuji Television Music Station Ultra Fes 2018 TV Asahi BS Premium NHK Fuji Television BS Fuji Fuji Television BS Fuji BS Fuji Music Station Super Live 2018 TV Asahi The 60th Japan Record Awards Tokyo Broadcasting System 69th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen NHK Johnny's Countdown 2018-19 Fuji Television
Deaths Date Name Aged Notable Works Source 56 Voice actress; aortic dissection. 66 Supporting actor; cast of Crying 100 Times: Every Raindrop Falls and Back Street Girls: Gokudols. 82 Director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Studio Ghibli 63 Singer and songwriter, participated 18 times on annual NHK's Kouhaku Utagassen. 90 Original co-creator of Marvel's Spider-Man, a character that had a Japanese live-action series in 1978, and also a protagonic role in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers on 2014. 22 Performer and member from LDH's FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE. 78 Actor, film director and critic; Heart failure. 92 Actress, noctable for the role of the mother-in-law of the protagonist in NHK's Taiga drama series Inochi; Heart failure. 67 Actor, voice actor and director, most notably by providing the voice from Professor Oak in Pokémon, Monarca La Deus in Flashman and Heihachi Mishima in Tekken Series. 50 Animator, most notably for Gundam Series. 53 Manga artist, most notably for Chibi Maruko-chan. 83 Narrator from Super Sentai Series. 87 Voice actor. 56 Voice actor, most notably for InuYasha and Yu Yu Hakusho. 68 Voice actor, most notably for One Piece and Dragon Ball Super. 95 Original co-creator of many Marvel Comics characters that were adapted on many Japanese TV shows (both anime and tokusatsu). 73 Singer most notably for Denshi Sentai Denziman and Cyborg 009.
See also 2018 in anime 2018 in Japan 2018 in Japanese music List of Japanese films of 2018
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