User blog:The Testcardiologist/The Simpsons in Hokusei

General

 * The same rules apply to the IRL Japanese dub of The Simpsons.
 * This includes the ban of Thirty Minutes over Saikyo, even though here the episode was dubbed in Japanese.
 * It was reportedly seen twice on Mega Terebi in 2000, until they realized this episode caused a scandal.
 * There was an incident in Murakami in the summer of 1998 regarding disrespect of the Emperor of Hokusei at the time, so they were allowed to air it there? Did they predict The Simpsons by nearly a year?
 * MegaNews 7 eventually opened with an open letter from Mega's head of programming apologizing for the incident.
 * Little Big Mom also aired on Mega Terebi. Both episodes are banned from the Murakamese Fox channels too.
 * More seasons were dubbed in Japanese here compared to Japan.
 * The way the show was syndicated in Hokusei makes it feel more widespread. (kinda)
 * All episodes dubbed until now are available for streaming on Disney+, save for the banned ones and Stark Raving Dad due to being pulled from circulation.
 * Yet, you can opt to watch it in English with Japanese subtitles as well.
 * KAKOI HOKUSEI ANIME

Hokusei

 * The series used to air on WOWOW.
 * Later satellite rights moved to the subscription Fox channel. After some time it moved to Fox BS258 (later Fox Sports and Entertainment). When it was replaced by a subscription clone of ESPN Hokusei, it moved to Dlife.
 * There was a terrestrial run, similar to the Atlansian/Hisqish method of first-run syndication.
 * Stations that ran selected episodes: Kamigawa Television, Sun TV, MBS Miyako, Saikyo MX, Hokkaiji Television Broadcasting, TV Shinsho, CBC TV, Hiroshi HOME Television, Maoka Broadcasting, Rurikyu Ashita Broadcasting, Ashikawa Telecasting, etc.
 * Other Atlansian and Hisqish series had terrestrial runs in this regime.
 * Some stations throw them up at 2am.

Murakami

 * The show is often erroneously labeled as a family-friendly series, even if's rated 12+ anywhere it airs, incuding the DVD releases.
 * The fact it's now on Disney+ doesn't help either.
 * But when compared to sister series Futurama and other shows like South Park and Family Guy, it's sorta understandable why.
 * The series was one of the first foreign shows to air on Mega Terebi as part of an exclusivity deal signed by the network with News Corporation.
 * It traditionally aired at 8pm following MegaNews 7 as a strategy to lure viewers from rival channels as they were airing their evening newscasts by that hour.
 * By the time Big Brother premiered, Mega did an experimental schedule change and aired a Big Brother diary at 8pm, throwing The Simpsons to 8.30pm in hopes that viewers would tune earlier and eventually watch the program.
 * Something similar happened when AHK premiered the 60-episode saga that is Nonaggression! in 2002, on Friday nights at 9pm. The series even lampooned the mere concept of putting Simpsons reruns after the news.
 * Nonaggression! got summer reruns every weeknight in 2005, so was it a way to counter even though it started at 9?
 * After Disney acquiring most of 21st Century Fox's assets, terrestrial airings moved to AHK (Disney's longtime FTA home) in 2019.
 * While Mega usually aired it after the evening news, AHK did the opposite and airs it before.
 * AHK started with season 29 in October 2019.
 * Reruns of older seasons (especially the Golden Age ones) also air regularly.
 * By the way, when is Disney+ coming to Murakami? They need to air seasons 30 and 31 ASAP
 * Wait, Disney+ is adding two seasons every few months.
 * On cable, it aired for most of the 1990s and 2000s on Star East TV, eventually moving exclusively to the newly-launched Fox in 2008.
 * Fox currently airs the show during lunchtime/early afternoon and before prime time programming.
 * Star East reportedly aired Thirty Minutes over Saikyo once (in April 2000, during the second Emperor incident). Reports say that the dub actors were annoyed at the episode's plot, especially its depiction of Hokusei.
 * However Mega had a larger share of the story.
 * Apparently, the infamous panda rape scene from Homer vs. Dignity triggered a little diplomatic incident with Xi'Ang.
 * The Simpsons Movie is currently the highest-grossing non-Disney traditionally-animated film in the country.
 * That is if you don't count any animated movie made in Hokusei and if you count the fact Space Jam had animated sequences on it.
 * The film had its terrestrial premiere on Mega on Christmas Eve 2010 following a Big Brother Christmas special.
 * DVDs used to be a thing until Simpsons World launched in the Republics and changed everything worldwide.