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After War Gundam X ( Japanese : 機動新世紀ガンダム X ( エックス ) , Hepburn : Kidō Shin Seiki Gandamu Ekkusu , lit. Mobile New Century Gundam X ) , is a 1996 Japanese anime television series and the seventh installment in the long running Gundam franchise that started in 1979, but takes place in an alternate timeline called After War ( A.W.; アフターウォー or 戦後 , Sengo ) . The series has 39 episodes, aired in Japan from April 5, 1996, to December 28, 1996, across TV Asahi 's ANN stations. It was directed by Sunrise veteran Shinji Takamatsu ( Mobile Suit SD Gundam , The Brave of Gold Goldran , School Rumble ), and the screenplay was written by Hiroyuki Kawasaki.

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62-442: The year is A.W. 15. 15 years after the end of the 7th Space War which led to the catastrophic destruction of much of the world, the surviving residents of Earth try to make a living as best they can in the post-apocalyptic landscape. Mobile Suits and weapons left over from the war fall into the hands of civilians as well as other organizations on the planet. In an effort to keep the past from repeating itself, Jamil Neate brings together

124-565: A humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Tama is 14.0 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1647 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.3 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.8 °C. Per Japanese census data,

186-598: A Newtype pilot from the 7th Space War named Kai, as well as a mysterious organization that has rebuilt D.O.M.E. after its destruction at the end of the After War Gundam X anime. Originally planned as only a short series in Gundam Ace , the popularity of the series caused it to be expanded and compiled into a four-volume manga series published by Kadokawa Shoten . A one-shot sequel manga Next Prologue: If I Am With You ( Anata to, Issho nara ) supervised by

248-456: A Saturday morning 6:00 AM timeslot starting with episode 27. The show lasted 39 episodes of its intended 49. Reception to After War Gundam X in the West has been mixed, with Lauren Orsini of Anime News Network stating, "Getting cancelled just might be the best thing that could have happened to After War Gundam X, because the difference in entertainment quality between its first and second halves

310-783: A crew of Vultures to search for Newtypes and protect them from being exploited. As they try to carry out this task, an old government rises from the ashes to try and unify the Earth as other forces slowly fan the flames of war once more between the newly formed New United Nations Earth and the Space Revolutionary Army. Now the crew of the Freeden face a multitude of enemies as they try to prevent another catastrophic war. The series 39 episodes aired in Japan from April 5, 1996, to December 28, 1996, across TV Asahi 's ANN stations. It

372-472: A different way. Gundam X focuses on nothing but despair...and as such, fails utterly to keep this reviewer's interest. Whereas Gundam, though at times saddening, was exciting, suspenseful, and full of life, Gundam X is completely bleak and inhuman, and loses the point that Gundam is actually less about the mecha than about humanity itself. Then again, when neither the mecha or the humans inspire anything ... why should we care?" He concluded that After War Gundam X

434-532: A limited number of hours every morning. In 1967, NET TV launched the Minkyokyo to strengthen the production of educational programs. In April 1967, they started to broadcast in color TV, and by 1969, all of its programs were broadcast in color. After 1968, many regional broadcasters in Japan began to pop up. This led to the broadcaster launching the All-Nippon News Network on April 1, 1970,

496-407: A month earlier (February 1, 1959). On Christmas Eve 1958, NET began its test transmissions. On January 9 of the following year, their broadcast license was approved, and test transmissions continued every night throughout the month. At 9:55a.m. on February 1, 1959, NET signed on, airing at least 6.5 hours of programming per day. By April, this figure was extended to 10 hours. With the launch of

558-424: A news-talk format on daytime Japanese TV, causing other networks to follow suit, it was the first Japanese morning program in its format. Hyōten, NET TV's drama in 1966, had a 42.7% ratings in its finale. The success of the drama made the network to adjust its target audiences to single and married females. Despite heavily focusing on entertainment programs, they continued to broadcast educational programs, albeit on

620-491: A partnership with Turner -owned CNN and Capital Cities/ABC -owned ABC News from the US. In 1987, ANN had a total of 14 regional affiliated stations, much smaller than the other 3 networks ( JNN and FNN / FNS had 25 each and NNN / NNS had 27). However, affected by the economic bubble at that time, Kikuo Tashiro (then president of TV Asahi), announced that it wouldn't open more regional stations which resulted in protest from

682-494: A rise in ratings for TV Asahi and lifted the TV station from its popularly ridiculed "perpetual fourth place" finish into second place, right behind Fuji TV , by 2005. Disney -owned ABC signed a strategic alliance with former rival commercial broadcaster Fuji TV due to sluggish viewership ratings. The station also launched its own mascot , Gō EX Panda ( ゴーエクスパンダ , Gō Ekkusu Panda ) , also known as Gō-chan ( ゴーちゃん。 ) Gō-chan

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744-414: A satisfying conclusion. Had it not been canceled, Gundam X might have risked overstaying its welcome. Instead, it showed itself out at the perfect time." John Oppliger of AnimeNation gave a more negative review saying, "The biggest flaw of Gundam X was in simply creating a series with absolutely no likeable characters. Every character in the series was simply so self-absorbed and ill-tempered that watching

806-489: A threat. Toei's successful pitch was seen by its staff as a resurgence of their influence following the removal of Hiroshi Ogawa as president in 1964. In November 1973, the Ministry of Posts revised its plans on how TV broadcasters would operate, including abolishing education-focused TV broadcasting. Therefore, NET's transformation into a general-purpose television station was complete by that same month, when NET, along with

868-657: Is a city located in the western portion of the Tokyo Metropolis , Japan . As of 11 March 2021 , the city had an estimated population of 148,285 in 73,167 households, and a population density of 7,100 inhabitants per square kilometre (18,000/sq mi). The total area of the city was 21.01 square kilometres (8.11 sq mi). Tama is located in the foothills of the Okutama Mountains of southwestern Tokyo, known as Tama Hills , which spans Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture . The entire region

930-411: Is currently seen on TV Asahi's opening sign-on ID. TV Asahi's current branding were created by British design collective Tomato (some members work as the electronic music group Underworld ) along with TV Asahi's in-house design department in 2003. It comprises a set of computer-generated "sticks" in white background, which changes in colour and movement along with the background music that accompanies

992-516: Is historically referred to as Tama; therefore there are many place names scattered throughout the area with references to the name "Tama" which are not within the city limits. The Tama River marks the city's northern boundary, and Kanagawa Prefecture is to the south. Its southern half forms part of the Tama New Town project, Japan's largest residential development, constructed in the 1970s. Kanagawa Prefecture Tokyo Metropolis Tama has

1054-432: Is like night and day. When the show begins so sluggishly, there's simply no option but to pick up the pace for it to wrap up by the end of the year as ordered." However, she did praise the later half of the show for "adapting into a master juggler, balancing the conflict's complexities in both the Earth and space theaters from the perspective of an increasingly likable main cast, with a concise final arc resolving neatly into

1116-399: Is the sequel manga to the After War Gundam X anime and was released between 2004 and 2006. The manga takes place seven years after the final episode in the series. The four-volume series stars a new cast of characters different from those in the anime, but includes the same designs and mechanical drawings of the ships and mobile suits featured in the anime. The series focuses on Rick Aller and

1178-492: The Mainichi Broadcasting System and Kyushu Asahi Broadcasting on March 1, 1959, NET programming started airing on those mentioned broadcasters. Shortly after the start of broadcasts, NET broadcast their first live program, which is the wedding of Crown Prince (now Emperor Emeritus) Akihito and Empress Michiko held on April 10 of the same year. At the time, its broadcasting license dictated that

1240-674: The Roppongi area. While the new HQ was under development, TV Asahi temporarily moved to the newly built studios in Ark Hills . In 1985, the Ark Broadcasting Center was officially completed. As Japan entered into the economic bubble era, local residents around the Roppongi area had a negative perception towards the redevelopment of the said area, which resulted into delaying the redevelopment plan. The old headquarters

1302-472: The lower house of the Diet of Japan . In 2018, an activist named Michihito Matsuda ran for mayor in the Tama city area of Tokyo as a human proxy for an artificial intelligence program. While election posters and campaign material used the term robot , and displayed stock images of a feminine android , the "AI mayor" was in fact a machine learning algorithm trained using Tama city datasets. The project

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1364-513: The ANN network in April 1971. These programs ended the long-standing tokusatsu duopoly TBS and Fuji Television held with the then hit Ultra Series franchise for almost half a decade ago on TBS. Since 1958, TBS and Fuji were the only Japanese TV stations to air tokusatsu productions. With its hit premiere, a rivalry was began to start between the three, with TBS seeing NET's tokusatsu programming as

1426-788: The Japanese Section of the International Department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Koshiji Miura was able to meet with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and help TV Asahi obtain exclusive broadcasting rights for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow . This was the first time that a private TV station in Japan was exclusively granted the broadcasting rights of the Olympic Games, but this

1488-508: The Japanese home video market with 200,000 cassettes sold beyond the threshold of 10,000. As part of the airing of the series, TV Asahi organized an "extensive promotional campaign" on the same month with a convention in Tokyo featuring screenings of episodes yet to release on home video and appearances by celebrity fans, Japanese translations of The X-Files books and an X-Files Mystery Tour to

1550-596: The anime was released in Comic BomBom . The manga by Kōichi Tokita ran from April 1996 to March 1997, outlasting the anime by three months, and was collected in three volumes. It was re-released on January 26, 2022, as After War Gundam X Re:Master Edition . After War Gundam X: Under The Moonlight , also known as New Mobile Century Gundam X: Under the Moonlight , written by Chitose Oojima and illustrated by Yutaka Akatsu, with design cooperation from Takyuki Yanase,

1612-580: The board of NET and was responsible for licensing Laramie and Rawhide from the US, gaining high ratings for the network. This would give them their first advantage over rivals NHK and Fuji TV . He would eventually go on to serve as an Executive Vice President and eventual founder of Japan Cable Television . In November 1963, NET joined forces with NHK General TV for the first live via satellite telecast in Japanese TV history. The switch to general programming also led to an infighting among

1674-664: The bottom rank of other rival broadcasters, it has greatly narrowed the gap between it and the other three. The station began adding primetime programming in April 1961. Two years later, NET announced its arrival into the anime race with the Toei produced Wolf Boy Ken . The first of many Toei Animation productions, its premiere began a long line of animated cartoons and series that the station has aired until today. Kenichiro Matsuoka , born in America and fluent in English, joined

1736-509: The bottom. The fonts used by TV Asahi for the written parts are Akzidenz Grotesk Bold (English) and Hiragino Kaku Gothic W8 (Japanese). From 1991 to 2001, TV Asahi was unique among the national television networks for its English language theme song, Join Us , which was used for both the startup and closedown sequences. Before that, from 1977 to 1987, another song was used for these (instrumental only from 1978, formerly with vocals). Since 2004,

1798-632: The call sign JOEX-DTV (channel 5), is a Japanese television station subsidiary of certified broadcasting holding company TV Asahi Holdings Corporation , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company serving as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network . Its studios are located in Roppongi , Minato , Tokyo . TV Asahi is one of the "Big Six" broadcasters based in Tokyo, alongside Nippon Television , TBS , TV Tokyo , NHK General TV , and Fuji Television . After NHK General TV , Nippon TV , and TBS TV were launched in 1953 and 1955, TV has become an important medium in Japan. However, most of

1860-673: The city: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education operates Nagayama High School  [ ja ] , the one public high school. The Tama city government operates 17 public elementary and nine public junior high schools. Municipal junior high schools: Municipal elementary schools: There is also one private elementary school and one private junior high school, and two private combined junior/senior high schools. [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keiō Line [REDACTED] Keio Corporation - Keiō Sagamihara Line [REDACTED] Odakyu Electric Railway - Odakyū Tama Line [REDACTED] Tama Monorail Tama

1922-501: The company changed its name to TV Asahi Corporation , with the name presented as TV asahi on-screen, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the launch. As part of digital broadcasting, TV Asahi started to broadcast on digital TV, being designated to channel 5. In 2004, TV Asahi's ratings reached 7.5% ranking third among the commercial broadcasters in the Kanto Region after a lapse of 32 years. The ratings would further improve by

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1984-447: The company headquarters moved to a new building designed by Fumihiko Maki currently located at 6-9-1 Roppongi , Minato, Tokyo , Japan. Some of TV Asahi's departments and subsidiaries, such as TV Asahi Productions and Take Systems, are still located at TV Asahi Center , the company's former headquarters from 1986 to 2003. It is located at Ark Hills , not far from its headquarters. Tama, Tokyo Tama ( 多摩市 , Tama-shi )

2046-602: The country's 4th national network, with NET producing national news and other nationally produced programming for the regional channels that had joined the network. With the continuous network expansion, NET TV shifted its focus on its target audience again, this time from females, to being family oriented similar to the US PBS. But the best was yet to come. One year after ANN was launched, ground-breaking superhero series such as Kamen Rider , Metal Hero Series , and Super Sentai were produced by Toei, premiering on NET TV and

2108-463: The educational channel "Tokyo Channel 12" (now TV Tokyo ) in Tokyo applied and received a general purpose television station license. In March of the following year, both ended their broadcasts of educational programming, completing the transition. Japan's major newspapers are also sorting out their holdings in TV stations. The Nikkei transferred its ownership of NET TV to The Asahi Shimbun , making

2170-483: The existing stations. As a result, the decision was reverted and decided to open 10 more stations. In response to the arrival of satellite TV, TV Asahi established TV Asahi Satellite Corporation in 1991. On November 22, 1995, TV Asahi premiered the American series The X-Files at an 8:00 pm prime time slot, the first since Knight Rider . The station began airing the series due to the success of The X-Files in

2232-409: The filming locations of the series. After Iwate Asahi Television started broadcasting in 1996, the number of ANN stations reached 26, announcing that the broadcaster has already completed the establishment of its national network. In June of the same year, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and investor Masayoshi Son planned to buy a large stake of TV Asahi, jeopardizing the status of Asahi Shimbun as

2294-522: The first time with 12.3% in primetime, 12.7% in evening time, and 7.9% for whole day. On May 10, 2011, TV Asahi launched its mascot "Go-chan" which was designed by Sanrio . On April 1, 2014, TV Asahi became a certified broadcasting holding company " TV Asahi Holdings, Inc. ", and newly founded " TV Asahi Corporation " took over the broadcasting business. The transmission of international aquatics competitions, FIFA World Cup football matches, and creation of popular late-night TV programs contributed to

2356-469: The following year, ranking first in late-night TV ratings. However, in 2008, affected by the global recession, TV Asahi recorded its first annual loss of revenue. In 2009, Hiroshi Hayakawa became the president of the broadcaster, being the first president of TV Asahi who had been serving the broadcaster since its inauguration. Between April and June 2012, TV Asahi won in the Triple Crown ratings for

2418-646: The following years, the channel contains not only original anime but also foreign cartoons dubbed into Japanese and some subtitled). So as not to run afoul of the educational TV license requirements, NET justified the airing of these programs under the pretext of "nurturing a child's emotional range" ( 子供の情操教育のため , Kodomo no jōsō kyōiku no tame ) and "introduction of foreign cultures" ( 外国文化の紹介 , Gaikoku bunka no shōkai ) . In December 1960, NET also changed its common name from Nippon Educational Television to NET TV (NETテレビ). The change also made its ratings to reach about 10% after 1963. Although it still ranks at

2480-617: The funding of this station is through sponsorship . (until July 24, 2011, only for 44 out of 47 prefectures) JOEX-TV – TV Asahi Analog Television (テレビ朝日アナログテレビジョン) JOEX-DTV – TV Asahi Digital Television (テレビ朝日デジタルテレビジョン) TV Asahi also occasionally broadcasts a number of foreign animated series, dubbed into Japanese ( Police Academy , The Smurfs , Adventures of the Gummi Bears , CatDog ) and some in their original language with subtitles ( Bonkers , Freakazoid! , Iznogoud , The Wacky World of Tex Avery ). In 2003,

2542-452: The idents. TV Asahi also uses a brief eyecatch of its sticks animation at the top-left of the screen after commercial breaks. The background music used for TV Asahi's sign-on and sign-off videos are Underworld's Born Slippy .NUXX 2003 and Rez . TV Asahi later updated its sign-on and sign-off video in 2008 with a revised version of computer-generated "sticks" animation and new background music. TV Asahi's slogan New Air, On Air. appears at

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2604-499: The latter the largest shareholder of NET TV. On April 1, 1975, the ANN affiliation in the Kansai region changed hands, from Mainichi Broadcasting System , Asahi Broadcasting Corporation assumed the network affiliation slot. Days later, the channel debuted another Ishinomori creation, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger , yet another Toei production, and it would be a stunning success (this was

2666-473: The major shareholder. In this regard, Toshitada Nakae personally went to the US to meet Murdoch and asked him not to increase his shareholding to TV Asahi. By the following year, Asahi Shimbun purchased the shares of Asahi TV held by Murdoch and Son. TV Asahi is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since October 3, 2000. Multiple changes happened since 2000 after TV Asahi had been staying in

2728-547: The management. In contrast to the then-president of NET TV, Hiroshi Ogawa (from Toei Company ), who was actively promoting entertainment programs, Yoshio Akao (from Obunsha) thought that too many entertainment programs were against the original purpose of the educational TV station and was strongly dissatisfied with the vulgar programs that filled NET TV's program schedule at that time. In November 1964, Akao, together with shareholders other than Toei and Nikkei, Inc. , succeeded in its major reorganization, forcing Ogawa to resign from

2790-516: The name of its channel changed to TV Asahi . This also symbolizes that the Asahi Shimbun has the right to operate TV Asahi both in name and in essence. Since December 17, 1978, TV Asahi has been broadcasting programs with stereo audio. The corporation also started entering into different ventures such as publishing in the late 70s to gain revenue other than advertising. In 1977, thanks to his close relationship with Ivan Ivanovich, head of

2852-453: The network was required to devote at least 50% of its airtime to educational programming, and at least 30% of its airtime to children's educational programming. However, the for-profit educational television model eventually proved to be a failure. In July 1959, average ratings of the network were less than 5%. In 1960, NET began its transformation into a general-purpose television station. It began to broadcast anime and foreign movies (in

2914-527: The original anime's director Shinji Takamatsu, written by the anime's series composition writer Hiroyuki Kawasaki and illustrated by Kōichi Tokita was included as a bonus material for the Blu-ray release of the series on March 23, 2018. It focuses on Garrod and Tiffa after the end of the series. It was later included in the volume 3 of After War Gundam X Re:Master Edition manga, released on January 26, 2022. According to Japan's Weekly The Television magazine,

2976-522: The population of Tama increased very rapidly in the late 20th century but has plateaued in the early 21st. Tama has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 26 members. Tama, together with the city of Inagi, contributes two members to the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between Tokyo 21st district and Tokyo 23rd district of

3038-453: The presidency. Since then, Toei's influence in NET TV has been gradually replaced by Asahi Shimbun . The following year, the Asahi Shimbun appointed to the post of station director Koshiji Miura (former Deputy Minister of Political Affairs). In the 1960s, NET TV also started airing foreign films as part of its schedule. The NET TV premiere of The Morning Show in 1964 created a trend for

3100-544: The programs that were aired at that time were vulgar which caused well-known critic Sōichi Ōya to mention in a program that TV made people in Japan "a nation of 100 million idiots"; those criticisms already gave birth to the idea of opening an education-focused TV station. On February 17, 1956, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued frequency allocations, and the Kantō region obtained three licenses in total. Among

3162-488: The same 4th place for 10 consecutive years in TV ratings. In April 2000, major changes in its schedules, such as starting its programs a few minutes before the top of the hour and improving its entertainment programming at late-night. TV Asahi launched its satellite channel BS Asahi in December 2000. On September 29, 2003, TV Asahi moved back its head office from its Ark Hills Studio to Roppongi Hills . On October 1,

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3224-499: The same month when Kamen Rider jumped ship to rival TBS with the season premiere of Kamen Rider Stronger , the franchise would return to what is now TV Asahi in 2000). The series marked the beginning of the Super Sentai franchise and established NET as a force to be reckoned with regarding tokusatsu productions and anime. On April 1, 1977, the corporate name of NET TV was renamed to Asahi National Broadcasting Co., Ltd , with

3286-451: The series was simply an exercise in aggravation tolerance that most fans quickly decided to forgo." Carlos Ross of THEM Anime gave a mixed review calling the series "bland" and that "The plot seems like a drab retelling of a post-apocalyptic Gundam Wing as told by the recently lobotomized. As the only emotions really expressed are rage, desperation, and, oh yeah, angst, Gundam X strikes me as being just as anti-Gundam as Gundam Wing was, but in

3348-403: The series' terrestrial broadcast ratings peaked at 6.2% with the first episode, then declined drastically over the first ten episodes, and averaged 4.3% during the first two quarters. A decision was made to cut the series short from the planned full year run to the final 39-episodes. In the key Kanto region , the show was moved in its TV Asahi broadcast from a Friday afternoon 5:00 PM timeslot to

3410-482: The three, one of them is used by NHK Educational TV , while the other two were open for private bidding. Among those bidders are film production companies Toho and Toei Company , radio broadcasters Nippon Cultural Broadcasting and Nippon Broadcasting System , and educational publishing group Obunsha . On July 4, 1957, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications later decided to unify those applications into Tokyo Educational Television (as its tentative name) which

3472-400: The top of its name. It can be seen on TV Asahi's YouTube channel, which in 2011–12, was replaced by its mascot, Go-Chan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi , in its logo and public-image materials. Normally, the station branding on-screen appears as either "/tv asahi" or "tv asahi\". The station's watermark appearance is the stick at the top with the station's name at

3534-845: Was "not an absolutely terrible anime, but it's downright mediocre." TV Asahi Tama, Tokyo Analog: Channel 57 Chichi-jima, Ogasawara Islands Analog: Channel 59 Mito, Ibaraki Analog: Channel 36 Digital: Channel 17 Hitachi, Ibaraki Analog: Channel 60 Utsunomiya, Tochigi Analog: Channel 41 Digital: Channel 17 Maebashi, Gunma Analog: Channel 60 Digital: Channel 43 Chichibu, Saitama Analog: Channel 38 Narita, Chiba Analog: Channel 59 Tateyama, Chiba Analog: Channel 60 Yokohama Minato Mirai 21, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 60 Yokosuka-Kurihama, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 35 Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Analog: Channel 41 Digital: Channel 24 Kitadaitō, Okinawa Analog: Channel 48 TV Asahi Corporation , commonly abbreviated as Tere Asa ( テレ朝 ) , with

3596-559: Was backed by high-profile executives Tetsuzo Matsumoto of Softbank and Norio Murakami of Google . Michihito Matsuda came third in the election, being defeated by Hiroyuki Abe . Organisers claimed that the 'AI mayor' was programmed to analyze citizen petitions put forward to the city council in a more 'fair and balanced' way than human politicians. In 2022, Michihito Matsuda made the campaign pledge to install THXU token into Tama city's further development as one of Government by algorithm . Several companies have their headquarters in

3658-601: Was controversial as rival broadcasters including NHK opposed the move. Japan followed the Western countries in boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics . As a result, TV Asahi only aired high-profile Olympic events and the broadcaster had significant losses in its revenue. As the broadcaster expanded its business, its HQ ran out of space. Since its HQ was located in a residential area, it became difficult to expand its existing infrastructure. TV Asahi collaborated with property development firm Mori Building Company to redevelop

3720-473: Was demolished in 2000. Prior to the new headquarters being built on the site, offices of TV Asahi were located in multiple locations around Tokyo, including the studios in Ark Hills. The launch of the evening news program "News Station" and "Super J Channel" in 1985 and 1997 helped TV Asahi establish its positive viewership advantage at 5pm and 10pm on weekdays, strengthening its position in news programs as

3782-505: Was directed by Shinji Takamatsu , and the screenplay was written by Hiroyuki Kawasaki. Character designs was by Nobuyoshi Nishimura while mecha designs were done by Kunio Okawara & Junya Ishigaki. Masaru Sato directed the art and the music was composed by Yasuo Higuchi. The series was released on DVD in North America in 2016 and had a special edition Blu-ray release in 2018, and a wider release on Blu-ray in 2020. An adaptation of

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3844-439: Was later obtained on July 8. On October 10, 1957, Tokyo Educational Television held its first shareholders meeting and changed its company name to Nippon Educational Television Co., Ltd. (NET) . In November 1 of the same year, the broadcaster was later established. After Fuji Television obtained their broadcast licenses, they set an official start date of broadcast on March 1, 1959. NET advanced their start date of broadcast

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