Modern people leading busy lives, this is the show for you! Please tell us what you would like to do in shorter time, then we will teach you the techniques that will enable you to achieve it.

For example, we will teach you how to;
- Cook a gorgeous dinner for your family in 20 minutes!
- Get your three children up and ready for school in 5 minutes!
After you watch this show, we promise you will be able to have two additional hours a day!

Discover the enchantment of Kyoto through four seasons.
Take a walk through history, shop and savor delicious treats in this thousand-year capital nobody can visit often enough, and explore the depth of this beautiful city.

Popular scenarist Reiko Misaki is a divorced mother. She is highly career-oriented and has men falling to their knees, but seems to have forgotten that she is a woman. Then one day, she falls deeply in love with her daughter’s boyfriend. The young man who has fallen for this “older woman,” is a college student who has been drifting along without any particular direction in his life or passionate interests. He slowly changes with each encounter he has with young women who are full of hope and friends who come to him for serious conversation.

University engineering student, Keiichi, has never been lucky in love. In fact, he hasn't been lucky with much of anything at all. He good-naturedly accepts being the gofer for his older dorm mates, but wishes something good would go his way. A strange twist of fate puts him in touch with the Goddess Technical Hotline, and Belldandy, a fully licensed Goddess, offers to grant him one wish! Keiichi decides what he really needs is a girlfriend just like her. But Keiichi ends up getting more than he bargained for when Belldandy herself comes to live with him!

Aim for the Bouquet asks the question "would you want to marry the mystery celebrity?" This format's unique feature is a "voice audience" made up of 100 single men when the guest celebrity is female, or single women when the guest is a man. After each question, the voting audience decides whether they approve of the celebrity's answer. While the viewer can see and hear the celebrity guest, the celebrity's identity is electronically hidden from the voting audience who, uninfluenced by any preconception, form their opinions based only on the answers given. Conflict, humor and surprising results build to the dramatic conclusion.

Over a thousand years ago in a time of royal courts, Samurai and magic, Kanna is held captive and exploited for her magical powers. When she sacrifices herself to protect her maid, Uraha, and guard, Ryuya, she is cursed by her pursuers, and her spirit is imprisoned in the sky for eternity. In return for Kanna's selfless act, Ryuya and Uraha vow to free her spirit no matter how long it takes. This quest is passed down through the generations, and now lies with Yukito, their present-day descendant. Although he retains the magical knowledge of his ancestors, he has found little use for it beyond earning himself a meager living as a performer as he drifts from place to place. But his outlook changes when he finds himself in a sleepy seaside town, where mysterious, supernatural events are unfolding. It is here that Yukito will begin to learn his ultimate destiny.

A lighthearted game of love featuring a continuous romantic triangle. Three strangers spend a day together and one of them is eliminated that evening. If the two remaining do not wish to become a couple, a new person is introduced into the triangle the next morning.

Prepare to be entertained and enlightened in this quiz show featuring the amazing lives animals lead. In-studio guests earn points by answering questions on why animals do what they do based on video segments featuring animals from all over the world. The footage includes examinations of animal behavior with fascinating and humorous results.

Non-Japanese nationals with an abiding love and knowledge of Japan often exceeding that of Japanese natives themselves, share their passion toward Japan with the world! Visit places they’ve learned about not found in travel guides, glean little known information about people and culture. Join foreigners residing all across Japan as they culture shock you and bring you the most intriguing and compelling discoveries they’ve made!

American competitors try to do what few others have, conquer Mount Midoriyama.
Seasons 1, 2 and 3 each begin with hundreds of hopefuls who compete for a chance to travel to Japan to prove themselves on the world's most difficult obstacle course. The latest season takes place entirely in America, beginning with competitions in six different regions and culminating in Las Vegas where an exact duplicate of the four stage Mount Midoriyama has been constructed.

★ Nominated Outstanding Reality-Competition in 2016 Emmys
★ Aired on G4 and NBC in primetime in the same season
★ #1 rating in adults 18-49 steadily increased in its timeslot throughout the season

Nominated for an Emmy four years in a row the worldwide phenomenon “American Ninja Warrior” has a broad fan base but the biggest among them is the KIDS. And now for the first time, the kids can actually be a part of “American Ninja Warrior” in the new program “American Ninja Warrior Junior”. “American Ninja Warrior Junior” features up to 200 boys and girls from 9 to 14 years old from across the country. Two players at a time from each of three age groups (9 & 10, 11 & 12, and 13 & 14 year s old) compete head- to-head on identical parallel obstacle courses, with the player who completes the course in the shortest amount of time advancing to the next round.

Clumsy Hotori Arashiyama is a girl with a love for mysteries and a knack for getting into trouble. Hotori works as a waitress in an unsuccessful coffee shop when the manager comes up with a plan to increase its fortunes by changing into a maid caf?. Unfortunately, no one knows how to make a successful maid caf? other than dressing everyone in a maid outfit! What follows is a wacky series of incidents involving Hotori’s many friends, mismatched love stories… and ghosts and aliens?

Everybody has theories that they personally cling blindly to regardless of proof or scientific validity. In this entertaining information program, a host of celebrities present their cases for pet theories to studio guests by any means be it academic argument or laughably “out there” logic. Can their theories gain acceptance? Or will they be discarded as pop science that only adds confusion to the world? Find out through exhaustive examination including on-location experiments!

Rival nations battle in a new twist on talent show competition. The best singers, dancers, magicians, chefs and more are on stage to amaze audiences and vie to see whose country will reign supreme. A team of impartial judges chooses a winner in each battle. Every battle is played out in a self-contained one hour format.

The world's greatest female athletes challenge Japan's top comedians in sports battles designed to amaze and entertain. World record holders, international stars and the nations best women from swimming, volleyball, soccer, golf and martial arts have their hands full as they battle funny men in real competitions.

Ninja Warrior Austria challenges the toughest contestants from all over the country to face the hardest competition of their life. Over 200 Austrian athletes will try their best – but only the best 25 will make it to the big finale.

Japan is a country rich in regional gastronomy where local people are only too eager to have visitors try what they view as the greatest gourmet food around. Join Tokyo ce-lebrity Bananaman as they travel the country door-to-door gleaning information known only to local citizens, making incredible gourmet discoveries and introducing the charms of each locale.

“Batsu Bidding” is a studio based entertainment program with big impact humor. An auction is held where contestants try to become the winning bidder for the right to humiliate themselves. The contestant with the most outrageous suggestion wins the bid. However, prize money is only awarded to those winning bidders who step outside the studio and successfully complete the stunt. Laughter is the goal and viewers are richly rewarded.

It all began quite suddenly. Akihito, who appears human but is actually half yōmu with the power to quickly heal himself, sees a freshman girl who appears ready to jump from the school rooftop. The girl, Mirai, who has the ability to manipulate blood, which is unique even among members of the spirit world, continues to fight her isolation. Akihito decides in that moment to save Mirai, but disturbing events soon begin to unfold.

A fanciful story of a tiny little girl who lives alone in the woods and travels to the local town for work. Otenba, who likes to invent things, Kunigitan, daughter of a wealthy family who lives in a mansion, Rentan, whose parents have the power to sense spirits, and Aroe, who loves to swim, are all her friends that join Binchotan on her adventures. This adorable series teaches us all the value of not taking the little things for granted.

Brain Survivor is the ultimate test of perception and memory. The studio contestants are bombarded with challenges and have very little time to answer. Each round involves different challenges and the elimination of competitors. The longer the game goes, the more difficult it becomes. To win requires concentration, great skill and the ability to perform under intense pressure. Who will be the next....BRAIN SURVIVOR?

★Airing on Nickelodeon USA as “BrainSurge”
★Airing on Discovery Kids Latin America as “Veloz Mente”
★Nominated for a 2012 Daytime Emmy.

In the tense political environment created by a war between the people of Earth and those who moved to the moon to create the Sphere Kingdom, young Tatsuya in Mitsurugasaki Central Port City finds himself host to a very special homestay guest, Lunar Princess Feena Fam Earthlight! Stunned by her beauty, Tatsuya is completely tongue-tied meeting her for the first time, but can't help feel a special connection between them...

Right now across the globe, Japanese culture is immensely popular. “Cool Japan” has become a moniker for a Japanese cultural charisma that even inspires imitation as “faux Japanesque” resulting in the rise overseas of “imposters” of Japanese culture who have had no training. Genuine stewards of Japanese culture venture around the world to investigate phonies and cheap knockoffs and teach them how it’s really done.

A trip around the world, traveling long distances to cross national borders, hopping on and off buses. We bring you a journey that you simply couldn’t experience just traveling by railway or airplane, grounded in the alleyways and lifestyles of people around the world.