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Fuji Television is one of Japan’s national commercial broadcasters, and work of this kind generally reaches its schedule in a late-night slot rather than in prime time.
That placement matters more than it sounds. The late-night drama is a recognised production category in Japan, made to a shorter run and a smaller budget than a prime-time series, and it is where a good deal of the country’s genre television is commissioned. A Fuji Television broadcast is a domestic terrestrial signal, so an international viewer normally reaches the same title through the broadcaster’s own streaming service or through a separate licensee, both of which the title page records.