MG Project: Timeslots continued
Dec. 29th, 2011 04:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_sun_is_upI'm really glad I figured out that timeslots can indicate an anime's intended audience (TV Tropes calls this phenomenon Otaku O'Clock) because I was having a hell of a time figuring out the target demographic of some of these Magical Girl shows. I was especially excited when I discovered that Japanese Wikipedia often lists a show's airtime on its page, even if the show is really old, so I was able to fill in the gaps of my knowledge. Here's what I discovered:
Shows I already knew would be late-nighters:
Nanoha (the big fish in the male-aimed-MG pond)
Uta Kata (basically Madoka Magica without the gore)
Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo (fanservice-tastic)
Magical Canan (based on a hentai)
Ultimate Girls (barf)
Magical Pokaan (4-girl moe comedy)
Papillon Rose (full name is Lingerie Fighter Papillon Rose)
Moetan (lolicon)
Milky Holmes (4-girl moe comedy, again)
PSG
Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise (jiggle jiggle bouncety bounce)
Shows I strongly suspected of being late-nighters, which JP Wiki confirmed:
Ground Defense Force Mao-chan (it's by Ken Akamatsu)
Happy Seven
Rakugo Tennyo Oyui
Saint October (the heroines each have "Loli" in their name and the henshins make them look like they're getting jizzed on)
Black Rock Shooter
Seeing Happy Seven and Rakugo Tennyo Oyui in the late-night slots really made me punch the air because I'd been very suspicious of how moe-ish their art styles and character types were, even though they're Sailor-Moon-esque girl-posse magic-warrior type shows with not much fanservice. Ha, my demographic-detecting powers are improving.
Shows that surprised me by being late-nighters:
Jubei-chan Ninja Girl
The only tip-off in Jubei that I noticed was the hand-to-hand combat and high level of violence, and there are plenty of girl-aimed MG shows that have that.
Shows I thought might be late-nighters, but they weren't:
Fushigi Mahou Fan Fan Pharmacy
Magical Meow Meow Taruto
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou
Pharmacy was honestly too early to qualify as a male-aimed show — it was made the same year as Cardcaptor Sakura, before the producers noticed the male periphery demographic and started catering to it on purpose — but its particular brand of cutesyness still made me wonder. Meow Meow Taruto I have no explanation for — it's a show about magical cosplaying catgirls for Christ's sake! But it aired at 6 pm. Idk, maybe they were trying to appeal to multiple demographics. Yoku Wakaru aired on one station at midnight but on two other stations at 11:30 am and 12 noon. I have no idea what that means. However given the demographic of the light novels it was based on (male) and the tie-in manga (shonen) and the type of stations it aired on, I'm still pretty sure it's a male-aimed show.
Shows I already knew would be late-nighters:
Nanoha (the big fish in the male-aimed-MG pond)
Uta Kata (basically Madoka Magica without the gore)
Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo (fanservice-tastic)
Magical Canan (based on a hentai)
Ultimate Girls (barf)
Magical Pokaan (4-girl moe comedy)
Papillon Rose (full name is Lingerie Fighter Papillon Rose)
Moetan (lolicon)
Milky Holmes (4-girl moe comedy, again)
PSG
Twin Angel: Twinkle Paradise (jiggle jiggle bouncety bounce)
Shows I strongly suspected of being late-nighters, which JP Wiki confirmed:
Ground Defense Force Mao-chan (it's by Ken Akamatsu)
Happy Seven
Rakugo Tennyo Oyui
Saint October (the heroines each have "Loli" in their name and the henshins make them look like they're getting jizzed on)
Black Rock Shooter
Seeing Happy Seven and Rakugo Tennyo Oyui in the late-night slots really made me punch the air because I'd been very suspicious of how moe-ish their art styles and character types were, even though they're Sailor-Moon-esque girl-posse magic-warrior type shows with not much fanservice. Ha, my demographic-detecting powers are improving.
Shows that surprised me by being late-nighters:
Jubei-chan Ninja Girl
The only tip-off in Jubei that I noticed was the hand-to-hand combat and high level of violence, and there are plenty of girl-aimed MG shows that have that.
Shows I thought might be late-nighters, but they weren't:
Fushigi Mahou Fan Fan Pharmacy
Magical Meow Meow Taruto
Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou
Pharmacy was honestly too early to qualify as a male-aimed show — it was made the same year as Cardcaptor Sakura, before the producers noticed the male periphery demographic and started catering to it on purpose — but its particular brand of cutesyness still made me wonder. Meow Meow Taruto I have no explanation for — it's a show about magical cosplaying catgirls for Christ's sake! But it aired at 6 pm. Idk, maybe they were trying to appeal to multiple demographics. Yoku Wakaru aired on one station at midnight but on two other stations at 11:30 am and 12 noon. I have no idea what that means. However given the demographic of the light novels it was based on (male) and the tie-in manga (shonen) and the type of stations it aired on, I'm still pretty sure it's a male-aimed show.
