is a Japanese

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airing on

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. The timeslot was established in October 2006 with a Thursday night/Friday morning schedule, until April 2015, when it switched to a Friday night/Saturday morning schedule. In its current form, the block airs as "Super Animeism" and the hour-long "Animeism" block on Friday night/Saturday mornings.

History

The block initially launched in October 2006 as a 30-minute programming block in order to broadcast anime titles which were co-produced by MBS, beginning with '' Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion''. The programming block later expanded to a one-hour block in April 2011. In April 2012, MBS relaunched the programming block as ''Animeism''. In April 2015, the network reorganised the ''Animeism'' block from a Thursday night/Friday morning schedule to a Friday night/Saturday morning schedule, with MBS chief producer Hirō Maruyama stating that the change was done in order to prevent conflicts with

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's broadcast of ''

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''. On March 8, 2019, MBS introduced the ''Super Animeism'' programming block, which expands the ''Animeism'' block by a half-hour starting from July 2019. On March 23, 2019, it was announced at

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2019 that MBS,

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, and DMM Pictures formed a two-year partnership to co-produce anime titles for the block, adapting works from Kodansha published manga or creating original works into anime, with ''

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'' being the first title produced through the partnership. The last title under this partnership is '' Blue Period'' and as of January 2022, the partnership has completely ended.

Partnership with Amazon Prime Video

From June 2017 to January 2019, Animeism signed a deal with

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to stream their series exclusively on

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worldwide, with '' Rage of Bahamut: Virgin Soul'' and '' Altair: A Record of Battles'' becoming the first titles exclusive to Prime Video on June 29, 2017. In January 2019, the streaming deal was no longer in effect worldwide, with other distributors

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and

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beginning to license titles from the block. Prime Video only exclusively streams titles in Japan.

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MBS anime - Animeism - Anime Shower
{{Animation industry in Japan 2012 establishments in Japan Anime television

Partnership with Amazon Prime Video

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