NUMAnimation

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NUMAnimation

Network	TV Asahi
Launched	April 5, 2020; 6 years ago (2020-04-05)
Division of	ANN
Country of origin	Japan
Running time	Sundays 1:30 - 2:00 (JST)
Original language	Japanese
Official website	Official website

NUMAnimation (Japanese: ヌマニメーション, romanized: Numanimēshon) is a Japanese late-night anime programming block planned and produced by TV Asahi under the TV Asahi Animation label, and airing under the All-Nippon News Network affiliation. The block airs on Saturday nights from 25:30 to 26:00 JST (effectively Sunday mornings from 1:30 to 2:00 a.m. JST).

Prior to the creation of the block, the timeslot was used to rebroadcast Yuri on Ice, as well as In/Spectre. On January 22, 2020, TV Asahi announced launched the programming block, with Sing "Yesterday" for Me becoming the first program to air on the timeslot.^[1][2] On August 11 of the same year, it was announced that the timeslot would be converted from a local format to a networked format, and will air on all of TV Asahi's 24 channels under the ANN affiliation, becoming the network's first late-night anime timeslot, with The Gymnastics Samurai becoming the first program to air since the conversion.^[3]

• Late-night anime programming blocks in Japan
• Other anime programming blocks by ANN
  • ANiMAZiNG!!!, airing on Sunday mornings
  • IMAnimation, airing on Saturday evenings, and Wednesday evenings on the IMAnimation W block

• Official website (in Japanese)