Monster - Q & A
 

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hey all..im new to the monster scene and i was wondering when it airs in japan... im pretty hooked man...thanks

It airs every wednesday morning at 0:40pm JST (Japanese Standard Time, GMT +9).

It's actually Tuesday morning (in Japan it's labelled Monday Night 24:40)

EDIT: I appear to have been given erroneous information, the other people in the thread are right.

EDIT AGAIN
[01:27] <ChrisKern> sorry if I made it seem like it was monday night
[01:31] <flyingrobots> yeah somebody on animesuki was asking when they aired and somebody said tuesday 24:20 and i was all like "nuh uh you're WRONG it's monday 24:40" and then i was consequently proven wrong several times
[01:31] <ChrisKern> :(
[01:31] <ChrisKern> sorry

it's wednesday morning 12:40 am (labeled in japan tuesday 24:40) here is the tv schedule in tokyo area http://east.sakura.ne.jp/aniba/ae040529.htm

man i need me some monster :twitch: startin to crack out hahah anybody else gettin antsy?

soldats just released 6-9.. going to watch all four right now :)

monster 10 should be airing in a couple of days

hehehe, don't feel so bad about it, anybody can make a mistake especially with those weird after midnight tv schedules

Something is bothering me... <Spoilers>
 

If I'm not wrong, Johaan and Anna are adopted by the Liebert couple? If so, everything starts to makes sense..

But then again, when Johaan and Anna disappeared from the hospital, why didn't anyone inform the officials about them? Considering they ended up at the Fortner couple...

Just wait and learn, my friend :D

O.. Ok. So it'll be revealed later in the series? Ooooo
*Kicks BT*
Download faster god dammit >_>

:heh: That's why I love Naoki Ursawa stories, the simplist questions have the biggest spoilers. But every question you'll ever have will get answered... eventually.

Like, in 20th Century Boys...

When is monster shown in Japan?
 

Just curious, which day?

Tuesdays at 12:40 am on Nippon TV (or something like that).

12:40 am.... ouch, not quite primetime.

Hey, that is primetime... for anime. Lots of great anime shows air in the middle of the night. At least it is better than Wolf's Rain. Wolf's Rain aired at 2:25 am, or as it is known in Japan 26:25. Horrible, eh?

VCR is pretty much the only way to watch anime in Japan.

Eh! Only time I watch anime is before bed. 2am - 4am....... :D

For awhile now, "Monster" has been pushed back by 30 minutes here in Tokyo, so it sometimes airs at 01:10 instead. Doesn't happen every week - think it's baseball-related - though, and the TV schedules don't show the time change. Try setting up your recorder on a schedule, and finding out that you recorded a variety show instead. Not a bad show, however.

But a VCR? Too 20th century... ;) :D

Bah, silly baseball games. But going by anime I"d still say this is a perfectly normal slot for anime to be in, heh... Though of course 2-3am is a worse slot.... You still get some anime with good slots though, though they're mostly uber-popular anime...

Just based on moonphase lemme see what has primetime slots..

Onmyou Taisenki - looks like another kid's show blah thingy... Just click the link and you'd understand. 6:00 TV Tokyo
Bouken-ou Beet - popular (and IMO, rather stupid-looking) Jump manga -> anime. 6:30 TV Tokyo

School RUmble - Okay, I don't know what this is doing at 6:00, also on TV TOkyo
Bleach - I imagine that it's hugely popular. Anotehr JUMP manga -> anime, isn't it? 6:30 TV Tokyo

Yugioh Duel Masters GX - duh. Again at 6:30 on TV Tokyo. (Note all this 6:00 and 6:30 stuff is on different days!)

Gundam Seed DESTINY - again, kind of obvious. 6:00 on TBS. Though I'm a bit surprise.d..

Black Jack - Osamu Tezuka manga. 7:00 on Nippon TV...

Yakitate Japan - if I'm not wrong it's fairly popular too. 7:00 TV Tokyo.

MAJOR, Shounen Sunday manga on baseball now an anime. If it's got a whopping 49 volumes I imagine it's popular. 6:00 on NHK Kyouiku...

Other currently running anime with what I think are primetime slots would be FMA (6:00 TBS), SD Gundam Force (6:00 TV Tokyo), Kenran Butou Sai (6:30 TV Tokyo), Shura no Toki (6:00 TV Tokyo), Mujin Wakusei Survive (7:30 NHK Kyouiku), Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Marple & Poirot (7:30 NHK Sougou and NHK-Hi - that explains the hi quality raws and perhaps the very high popularity it got on its first airing)...

Of course I'm largely making predictions and assumptions, I've never lived in Japan so what do I know....

I suppose Monster doesn't have such a primetime slot because the manga ended some time ago? They really should have made it earlier... and reduced the number of eps... oh well, let's all hope for a 20CB movie or something...

Monster doesn't have a primetime slot because it is neither a huge merchandising gimmick (Yugioh), nor a hot Jump or Sunday title (Bleach, Beet, Yakitate, Major), nor a legendary anime franchise (Gundam), nor a classic work known to several generations (Black Jack).

Most all mature/sophisticated shows end up being shown after midnight.