2014 in Japanese television

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Events in 2014 in Japanese television.

Debuts

Start dateShowChannelTypeSource
January 12 Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono Encore NTV Anime [1]
February 2 Happiness Charge PreCure! ABC TV Anime
February 16 Ressha Sentai ToQger TV Asahi Tokusatsu April 3 Go-Go Tamagotchi! TV Tokyo Anime
April 4 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders Tokyo MX Anime
April 5 Lady Jewelpet TV Tokyo Anime
April 6 Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V TV Tokyo Anime
April No Game No Life AT-X, Tokyo MX, Sun TV,
KBS, TV Aichi, BS11
Anime [2]
April Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii NTV, FBS, STV, CTV, SUN Anime [3]
April Selector Infected WIXOSS Tokyo MX Anime [4]
July 2 Bakumatsu Rock Tokyo MX
BS11
Anime [5]
July 3 Glasslip Tokyo MX, AT-X Anime [6]
July 5 Aldnoah.Zero Tokyo MX
BS11
Tochigi TV
Gunma TV
Anime [7]
July 6 PriPara TV Tokyo Anime [8]
July 10 Persona 4: The Golden Animation MBS, TBS,
CBC, BS-TBS
Anime [9]
July 15 Ultraman Ginga S TV Tokyo Tokusatsu
October 5 Kamen Rider Drive TV Asahi Tokusatsu

Ongoing

Returning Series

New Series

Ended

Deaths

DateNameAgeNotabilitySource
Jan. 17 Seizō Katō 86Actor and voice actor, was the dub voice for Megatron and later Galvatron in The Transformers and also played him in Transformers: The Headmasters [15] [16]

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