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Toilet-bound Hanako-kun 2 地縛少年花子くん2

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Broadcast Date

Part 1 : 2025.1.12 - 2025.3.30
Part 2 : 2025.7.6 -

Episode / Duration

Part 1 : 30min × 12eps
Part 2 : TBD

Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is a popular comic book series that sold more than 10 million copies before being adapted into a TV anime in January 2020, followed by a short animated series: After-School Hanako-kun in 2023 and 2024. The latest in the series is Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun 2, to be aired in January 2025, given the great reception for the earlier anime both in Japan and abroad. The Seven Wonders of Kamome Gakuen, Hanako-kun and his occult-loving assistant, Nene Yashiro, spend their days trying to solve mysteries in their school. What is behind all the strange occurrences and creatures these unique students encounter?

Clockwork Planet

クロックワーク・プラネット   클락워크 플래닛   時鐘機關之星

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

A thousand years after the world was rebuilt with clockwork, machine-obsessed Naoto Miura becomes the master of an automaton named RyuZU. When this beautiful piece of machinery crashed into his apartment, Naoto’s superhuman hearing allowed him to fix her broken cogs—but little did he know it would land him squarely in the middle of a horrific government conspiracy! Teaming up with a pint-sized clock technician and her trusty bodyguard, they set out to fix more than just the broken gears of the world.

Crying out Love, in the Center of the World

世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ   세상의 중심에서 사랑을 외치다   在世界中心呼喚愛

75 min x 1 ep / 60min x 10 eps|11 episodes

“I thought I might be using a lifetime’s happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful.” A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It’s 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks “I have been in a world without her for 17 years.” Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then. Based on the bestselling novel that sold over 3 million copies, the past and present come together in this love story that is both pure and sad.

Girlish Number

ガーリッシュ ナンバー   걸리쉬 넘버   少女編號

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

University student Chitose Karasuma dives into the voice acting industry full of dreams, hope, and ambition - but what is the reality that awaits her? Young women with wildly different personalities and backgrounds find themselves friends and competitors at the same time, but may need to join together to find the fame and fortune they all crave in this entertaining look into the voice acting industry featuring a number of original pop songs.

Handa-kun

はんだくん   한다군   半田君

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

Handsome teenage calligrapher Sei Handa is worshipped by all his classmates as an aloof superstar… too bad Sei's inherent negativity makes him believe that everyone actually hates him...?! A youthful comedy of misunderstanding and melancholy unfolds in this hilarious prequel to “Barakamon”!

Kiko's Smile

きこちゃんすまいる   기코의 미소   酷妹當家

30 min. x 51 eps.|51 episodes

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of....well, except for this little girl. Take a liberal dose of smarts, stir in a cup of spunk, a heaping spoonful of independence, a whole lot of attitude and you get... KIKO: An adult mind in a five year old's body. She cooks, she cleans, she does the shopping, she operates complex machinery, she sculpts works of art, she's a Bonsai master- basically, she can do it all. The only problem is she still gets treated like a kid. And, boy, does it bug her! Kiko befuddles her father, mystifies her mother and terrifies her teacher. Other adults that Kiko meets consistently underestimate her, at their peril. Sure, she has friends her own age, but everyone knows that she's clearly in a league of her own. Even her nervous cat senses it.

Know Your Limits

限度ヲ知レ   한도를 알라   尺度知多少

Know Your Limits is a new kind of reality comedy -- a hidden camera variety show that explores the boundaries of everyday life. To find "limits," our hidden camera actors push ordinary people to the boundaries of what is considered normal. The further we can go, the funnier it gets.

OH! MY KONBU

OH! MY コンブ   OH! MY 콘부   美食小專家

30 min. × 22 eps|22 episodes

Fifth-grader Konbu Nabeyama is the son of a cook in a slice-of-life gourmet comedy that tries to add an element of adventure to slaving in the kitchen. Konbu helps his father solve problems in the world through the judicious use of seasonings, the right choice of menu, and the pleasing of fickle customers.

30min × 2eps

Featuring new, original episodes, not shown in the anime series, delving into the unspoken emotions of each sister.
Futaro, a part-time tutor, has taken on the task of guiding the Nakano sisters—quintessential beauties who are on the brink of flunking out of school and despise studying—until their graduation. With only six months left of their high school lives and the final summer vacation about to commence, he decides to take a break from his tutoring job during the summer break to focus on exam preparation.
While the quintuplets are disheartened by their inability to see Futaro, an unexpected phone call from him turns everything around! A 500% adorable romantic comedy, the summer vacation edition!

TIME IS MONEY

THE CELEBRITY LIFE HACK SHOW

Time is Money is the hilarious celebrity Life Hack show where your favourite stars share the time saving secrets of their success – and where viewers with the best life-hacks go home with a fat cash prize, proving once and for all that: Time is Money.

We live in increasingly pressurised times where much of our time is spent trying to save time! Take a quick look at your phone – just how many ‘time-saving’ apps have you got on it right now? Now ask yourself how many of them actually work? Right… then delete them then… I guess… how long would that take?

Time is Money is the show that really saves you time in your day to day life to free you up to do the things that you should be doing, like horse-riding, skiing, or something else you might see other people doing on the TV. Playing polo, maybe.

Time is Money is fiendishly simple. Our hosts introduce a panel of funny and crazy celebrities that show us their favourite life hacks. Little tips and tricks from the stars that have helped them get along and can now improve our lives by making things so, so much simpler. Some are fun, some are silly, some are extremely messy or dangerous, but most of them have the ultimate in ‘take-home TV’ – they can improve your life!

TOMICA Hyper Rescue Police DRIVE HEAD

トミカハイパーレスキュー ドライブヘッド 機動救急警察   드라이브 헤드   機動警察救援隊(機動救急警察)

30 min. × 37 eps.|37 episodes

A little bit in the future, the government has established a brand new organization with the purpose of rescuing lives to respond to the increasingly complicated and varied types of disasters, accidents and crimes that go beyond human comprehension. It is called the “Mobile Emergency Police DRIVE HEAD” force combining specialized police, firefighting and rescue skills. “DRIVE HEAD” is an advanced mobile device that transforms in form factor from car to humanoid walker vehicle. The drivers are high-aptitude, grade school students such as Go Kurumada who collaborate with mobile emergency police adults and rush to crisis situations to secure public safety and preserve the peace for all!