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Normally, anime is about 23 minutes long. With the addition of ads, it will
take about 30 minutes for one episode to air which is what one time slot
normally is. Yet, some anime like Miss Monochrome and Tonari no Seki-kun are
not 23 minutes long. They are just around 6 minutes long, approximately a
quarter the length.

How are these shows scheduled? Do they air along with other short anime so
that they can make a total of 30 minutes in a time slot?


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How are short anime scheduled to be broadcast in Japan?


Bundling multiple shorts into a 30-minute block is reasonably common, yes.
[Ultra Super Anime Time](http://us-at.tv/) is perhaps the best known block of
this sort, bundling three ~8-minute shorts into a contiguous 30-minute time
slot. It was home to seasons 2 and 3 of _Miss Monochrome_. A couple seasons
ago, both _Sekkou Boys_ and _Kagewani Shou_ were on USAT together, which
resulted in this bit of hilarity:

[![St. George, Medici, and... Dr.
Banba???](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TPkdGl.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/TPkdGl.jpg)

However, it's also fairly common for shorts to just be squeezed in between
other shows. Japanese television programs don't tend to be rigidly slotted
into exact 30-minute time blocks, so you can just kind of put shorts wherever
there happens to be room. To use _Tonari no Seki-kun_ as an example - when it
aired on TX back in winter 2014, [its slot was on Sundays from
26:35-26:45](http://kakaku.com/tv/channel=12/date=20140106/). It was preceded
by _Saki Zenkoku-hen_ from 26:05-26:35, and followed by _Ichiyazuke_ (some
sort of infomercial) from 26:45-26:55.

Same deal with _Miss Monochrome_ season 1 - on TX, its slot was Tuesdays
25:35-25:40, preceded by [_Bijo no Kareshi ga Mitai! Osusume_](http://www.tv-
tokyo.co.jp/program/detail/22941_201310012530.html) (I don't know what this
is) from 25:30-25:35 and followed by [_Gifuu
Doudou_](https://myanimelist.net/anime/18771/Gifuu_Doudou__Kanetsugu_to_Keiji)
(which is [unintentionally hilarious](http://thecartdriver.com/gifuu-doudou-
episode-1-butts/), by the way) from 25:40-26:10.


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