| abstract | - As a side note, Super Hero Time is a subset of the Nichi Asa Kids Time block that lasts from 7:00 a.m. with a Shounen show. Currently this show is Battle Spirits Heroes (a card game anime) and concludes at 9:00 a.m. after the screening of a Pretty Cure episode. Currently the show is Smile Pretty Cure.
- Starting in the late 1960s, the hour was originally meant for educational children's programs. Over the years the hour began including henshin hero programs, one of the first being Warrior of Love: Rainbowman (愛の戦士レインボーマン Ai no Senshi Reinbōman?). In 1987, Toei's Choujinki MetalderImage:Icon-crosswiki.png was moved from a Monday evening 19:00 JST time slot to a Sunday morning 9:00 JST time slot, followed by a move of Kidou Keiji JibanImage:Icon-crosswiki.png to 8:00 JST Sunday morning in 1989. Similarly, in 1997, Denji Sentai MegarangerImage:Icon-crosswiki.png was moved from a Wednesday evening 17:00 JST time slot to the Sunday morning 7:30 JST time slot, pairing it up with B-Robo KabutackImage:Icon-crosswiki.png. The Super Sentai Series programs would continue to air at 7:30 JST after the Metal Hero Series ended and Moero!! Robocon aired in its slot in 1999 and was followed by the premiere of Kamen Rider KuugaImage:Icon-crosswiki.png in 2000. Although a Super Sentai Series and a Kamen Rider Series aired side-by-side, the Super Hero Time branding of the shows did not begin until the 2003 broadcast season (known as SUPER Hero Time (SUPERヒーロータイム SUPER Hero Time?) until the 2005 broadcast season). As a part of the Super Hero Time block, actors from the programs often interact with each other to promote each other's shows, films, and perform skits. Satoru AkashiImage:Icon-crosswiki.png (Mitsuomi TakahashiImage:Icon-crosswiki.png) and Souji TendouImage:Icon-crosswiki.png (Hiro MizushimaImage:Icon-crosswiki.png) talked about each other's franchises, and Master Sha-FuImage:Icon-crosswiki.png (voiced by Ichirō NagaiImage:Icon-crosswiki.png) often showed up on the Den-LinerImage:Icon-crosswiki.png to talk with the ImaginImage:Icon-crosswiki.png and Ryotaro NogamiImage:Icon-crosswiki.png (Takeru SatohImage:Icon-crosswiki.png) in cartoonish caricatures. For the 2009 television season, Kamen Rider DecadeImage:Icon-crosswiki.png only aired for 31 episodes, allowing for the broadcast of Kamen Rider WImage:Icon-crosswiki.png for a full 49 episode run. This has introduced an offset of 5 months between the series premieres of the yearly Super Sentai Series (which premieres in mid February) and Kamen Rider Series (now premiering in late September or early October), instead of an approximate month long offset that had existed before (Kamen Rider Series premiered in mid-January). The Super Hero Time block is part of the larger Nichi Asa Kids Time (ニチアサキッズタイム Nichi Asa Kizzu Taimu?, "Sunday Morning Kids Time") block, which begins at 7:00 JST with a shōnen anime (beginning with Crush Gear Turbo, then Dinosaur King, the Battle Spirits series, Brave Beats and currently repeats of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn all of which are produced by NBN Nagoya) and ends at 9:00 JST after the airing of a shōjo anime (beginning with Ojamajo Doremi, then Ashita no Nadja, and, since 2003, the Pretty Cure franchise (Currently airing Mahoutsukai Precure), all of which are produced by ABC Osaka). All shows are properties of Bandai Entertainment.
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