2020 in Japanese television
Until end of May, most of anime series and drama series were forced to decide to suspended producing the series due to the massive impact of COVID-19 outbreaks on television in Japan since COVID-19 pandemic in Japan interrupted the production of television series for several weeks to ensure safety of various people who have been involved the previous process of filming.
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Events in 2020 in Japanese television.
Events
| Date | Event | Source |
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| January 20 | Anime creator Shoji Kawamori is named chief creative officer of the Small Worlds theme park. | [1] |
| February 14 | Voice actress and singer Yui Ogura announced that the 'Valentine's Day Party' event had its visitor policy changed due to the spread of the coronavirus. | [2] |
Ongoing
| Show | Type | Channel | First aired/Japanese period | Source | |
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| NHK Amateur Song Contest | Talent Show | NHK-G, NHK World Premium | March 15, 1953 (TV) | Showa | |
| With Mother | Kids | E-TV, NHK World Premium | October 5, 1959 | Showa | |
| Nintama Rantarō | Anime | NHK | April 10, 1993 | Heisei | |
| Ojarumaru | Anime | NHK | October 5, 1998 | Heisei | |
| Utacon | Music | NHK-G, NHK World Premium | April 12, 2016 | Heisei | |
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| Soreike! Anpanman | Anime | Nippon Television | October 3, 1988 | Showa | |
| Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!! | Game-Show | Nippon Television | October 3, 1989 | Heisei | |
| Detective Conan | Anime | NNS | January 8, 1996 | Heisei | |
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| Music Fair | Music | Fuji Television | August 31, 1964 | Showa | |
| Sazae-san | Anime | Fuji Television | October 5, 1969 | Showa | |
| FNS Music Festival | Music | Fuji Television | July 2, 1974 | Showa | |
| Chibi Maruko-chan | Anime | Fuji Television | January 8, 1995 | Heisei | |
| One Piece | Anime | Fuji Television | October 20, 1999 | Heisei | |
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| Black Clover | Anime | TV Tokyo | October 3, 2017 | Heisei | |
| Boruto: Naruto Next Generations | Anime | TV Tokyo | April 5, 2017 | Heisei | |
| Kiratto Pri Chan | Anime | TV Tokyo | April 8, 2018 | Heisei | |
| Ace of Diamond Act II | Anime | TV Tokyo | April 2, 2019 | Heisei | |
| Pokémon (2019 series) | Anime | TV Tokyo | November 17, 2019 | Reiwa | |
| Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y: Encounter with N | Anime | TV Tokyo | December 27, 2019 | Reiwa | |
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| Super Hero Time | Tokusatsu | TV Asahi | September 28, 2003 | Heisei | |
| Panel Quiz Attack 25 | Game-Show | TV Asahi | April 6, 1975 | Showa | |
| Crayon Shin-chan | Anime | TV Asahi | April 13, 1992 | Heisei | |
| Doraemon | Anime | TV Asahi | April 15, 2005 | Heisei | |
| Music Station | Music | TV Asahi | October 24, 1986 | Showa | |
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| SASUKE | Sports | Tokyo Broadcasting System | September 26, 1997 | Heisei | |
| Count Down TV | Music | Tokyo Broadcasting System | April 7, 1993 | Heisei | |
New series and returning shows
| Show | Network | Premiere | Finale | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteroid in Love | Tokyo MX | January 3, 2020 | March 27, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Darwin's Game | Tokyo MX | January 3, 2020 | March 20, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Magia Record | Tokyo MX | January 4, 2020 | March 28, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| ID - Invaded | Tokyo MX | January 5, 2020 | March 22, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Marumaru Manul | Tokyo MX | January 5, 2020 | Series Ended | [3] | |
| Laid-Back Camp (Heya Camp) | Tokyo MX | January 6, 2020 | Series Ended | [4] | |
| Pet | Tokyo MX | January 6, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Seton Academy: Join the Pack! | Tokyo MX | January 7, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Sorcerous Stabber Orphen | Tokyo MX | January 7, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. | Tokyo MX | January 8, 2020 | March 25, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Hulaing Babies☆Petit | TV Tokyo | January 8, 2020 | March 25, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Drifting Dragons | Fuji TV | January 8, 2020 | March 26, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Plunderer | Tokyo MX | January 8, 2020 | June 24, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Laid-Back Camp (Television drama) | TV Tokyo | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | [5] | |
| Show by Rock!! Mashumairesh!! | Tokyo MX | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die | TBS | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama? | Fuji TV | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Hatena Illusion | BS NTV | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Nekopara | Tokyo MX | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Somali and the Forest Spirit | Tokyo MX | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun | TBS | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Infinite Dendrogram | Tokyo MX | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| The Case Files of Jeweler Richard | Tokyo MX | January 9, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Oda Cinnamon Nobunaga | TV Tokyo | January 10, 2020 | March 27, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| A Certain Scientific Railgun T | Tokyo MX | January 10, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Smile Down the Runway | TBS | January 10, 2020 | March 27, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It | Tokyo MX | January 10, 2020 | March 13, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| 22/7 | Tokyo MX | January 11, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| In/Spectre | TV Asahi | January 11, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Ultraman Chronicle Zero & Geed | TV Tokyo | January 11, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Interspecies Reviewers | Tokyo MX | January 11, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| A Destructive God Sits Next to Me | Tokyo MX | January 11, 2020 | Series Ended | ||
| Dorohedoro | Tokyo MX | January 12, 2020 | March 29, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Kirin ga Kuru | NHK | January 19, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Wasteful Days of High School Girls | TV Asahi | January 24, 2020 | March 6, 2020 | Series Ended | |
| Healin' Good PreCure | TV Asahi | February 2, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Followers | Netflix | February 27, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Mashin Sentai Kiramager | TV Asahi | March 8, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Kakushigoto | Tokyo MX | April 2, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Gal to Kyōryū | Tokyo MX | April 4, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Arte | Tokyo MX | April 4, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Sing "Yesterday" for Me | TV Asahi | April 4, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori | NHK | April 5, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| White Cat Project | Tokyo MX | April 6, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Princess Connect! Re:Dive | Tokyo MX | April 6, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU Fin | TBS | April 9, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Argonavis from BanG Dream! | TBS | April 10, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Appare-Ranman! | Tokyo MX | April 10, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Hakushon Daimaō 2020 | ytv | April 11, 2020 | Ongoing | [6] | |
| Woodpecker Detective's Office | Tokyo MX | April 13, 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Yu-Gi-Oh! Sevens | TV Tokyo | April 2020 | Ongoing | [7] | |
| Tomica Kizuna Gattai Earth Granner | TV Osaka | April 2020 | Ongoing | [8] | |
| Digimon Adventure: | Fuji TV | April 2020 | Ongoing | [9] | |
| Tsugu Tsugumomo | Tokyo MX | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Wave, Listen to Me! | TBS | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Olympia Kyklos | Tokyo MX | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| BNA: Brand New Animal | Fuji TV | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Tamayomi | Tokyo MX | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Listeners | TBS | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Sakura Wars: The Animation | Tokyo MX | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Shadowverse | TV Tokyo | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Shachō, Battle no Jikan Desu! | Tokyo MX | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Komatta Jii-san | Nippon TV | April 2020 | Ongoing | ||
| Fugō Keiji Balance: Unlimited | Fuji TV | April 2020 | Upcoming | ||
| Mewkledreamy | TV Tokyo | April 2020 | Upcoming | ||
| Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! | July 2020 | Upcoming | |||
| Fire Force (2nd season) | TBS | July 2020 | Upcoming | [10] | |
| The Irregular at Magic High School (2nd season) | Tokyo MX | July 2020 | Upcoming | [11] | |
| Peter Grill and the Philosopher's Time | Tokyo MX | July 2020 | Upcoming | ||
| Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World (2nd season) | TV Tokyo | July 2020 | Upcoming | ||
| Gibiate | July 2020 | Upcoming | |||
| Ex-Arm | July 2020 | Upcoming | |||
| Great Pretender | Fuji TV | July 2020 | Upcoming | ||
| The Quintessential Quintuplets (2nd season) | October 2020 | Upcoming | |||
| Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table | NHK | October 2020 | Upcoming | ||
| To Your Eternity | NHK | October 2020 | Upcoming | ||
Ending
| End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Replaced by | Source |
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| January 26 | Star Twinkle PreCure | TV Asahi | February 3, 2019 | Healin' Good PreCure | |
| March 1 | Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger | TV Asahi | March 17, 2019 | Mashin Sentai Kiramager | |
| March 28 | Aikatsu on Parade! | TV Tokyo | October 5, 2019 | JAPAN COUNTDOWN | |
| Scarlet | NHK | September 30, 2019 | Yell (TV series) | ||
| March 29 | GeGeGe no Kitaro | Fuji TV | April 1, 2018 | Digimon Adventure: | [9] |
Special events and milestone episodes
| Airdate | Show | Episode | Network | Source |
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| January 19 | Chibi Maruko-chan | 30th anniversary 1-hour special:"The Adventure of Maruko and Tama-chan"/"Tarō on a Particular Day" | Fuji TV | [12] |
| July 24 - August 9 | Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics | NHK (Japan Consortium) | [13] | |
| August 25 - September 6 | Tokyo 2020 Summer Paralympics | NHK (Japan Consortium) | ||
| December 31 | Johnny's Countdown 2020-2021 | Fuji Television | ||
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notable Works | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2 | Shōzō Uehara | 82 | Screenwriter (Ultraman) | [14] |
| January 9 | Yūji Yamaguchi | Anime director (AM Driver, Smile PreCure) | [15] | |
| January 11 | Takeo Tabata | 81 | Actor | [16] |
| January 19 | Chisako Hara | 84 | Actress | [17] |
| January 20 | Izumi Tanaka|ja| | 88 | Television company president (TBS) | [18] |
| January 31 | Katsumasa Uchida | 75 | Actor | [19] |
| February 6 | Kitamura Saburo | 82 | Run! K100 | [20] |
| February 13 | Ai Kidosaki | 94 | Chef on the Kyō no Ryōri cooking programme. | [21] |
| Yoshisada Sakaguchi | 80 | Actor, voice actor (Alexander Senki) | [22] | |
| March 29 | Ken Shimura | 70 | Comedian, television personality | [23][24] |
| April 23 | Kumiko Okae | 63 | Actress, voice actress, television presenter | [25][26] |
| May 23 | Hana Kimura | 22 | Former japanese wrestler, acted on Netflix original series Terrace House: Tokyo 2019–2020. | [27] |
| July 18 | Haruma Miura | 30 | Actor |
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- "Yu-Gi-Oh! Franchise Gets New Anime Series in 2020 for 20th Anniversary". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
- "Takara Tomy's Tomica franchise gets Earth Granner TV anime in April". 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- "Digimon Adventure gets new TV anime reboot in April". 2020-01-20. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
- Sherman, Jennifer (December 27, 2019). "Fire Force Anime Gets 2nd Season, Stage Play in Summer 2020". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
- "The Irregular at Magic High School Anime Season 2 to Premiere in July". Anime News Network. January 4, 2020. Retrieved February 17, 2020.
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