The Best TV Shows on Kansai TV

Every Kansai TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

From 1978 through to 2025, Kansai TV has accumulated a diverse collection of over 20 television shows. For top-tier entertainment, Kansai TV delivered Galaxy Express 999 and Dr. Slump in 1978 and 1981. As of October 2025, our compilation of Kansai TV’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows.

  • Kuruneko
    Kuruneko (2009)10.0

    Based on a manga about cats and their sake loving owner.

  • Digimon Beatbreak
    Digimon Beatbreak (2025)10.0

    "e-Pulse," which is generated by human thoughts and emotions, was used as the energy source for the AI support device "Sapotama." From the shadows of this remarkable development, terrifying monsters appear. Digimon are living beings that evolve by consuming e-Pulse. Tomoro Tenma is drawn into an extraordinary experience after meeting Gekkomon, who suddenly appears from his Sapotama. While living together with Kyo Sawashiro and other members of the bounty hunting team "Golden Dawn," Tomoro renews his resolve. What new future will be forged by humans and Digimon?

  • Touch
    Touch (1985)9.2

    Twins Kazuya and Tatsuya, and their neighbor Minami have played together since they were children and built an unbreakable bond. But with puberty, the twins realized something: Minami is a girl, and three is a crowd. As the trio tries to preserve their relationship, Kazuya's pledge to make Minami's dream come true by taking her to Koshien with his baseball pitching skills makes the slackerish Tatsuya wonder about himself, and his own goals. But Minami has another dream she wants fulfilled, and as the twins continue to push themselves, with Minami in the middle, a life-changing tragedy leads one twin down a path he once never would've considered...

  • Moshimo Kono Yo ga Butai nara, Gakuya wa Doko ni Aru no Darou
    Moshimo Kono Yo ga Butai nara, Gakuya wa Doko ni Aru no Darou (2025)9.0

    In 1984 Shibuya, four quirky young souls navigate life’s struggles while chasing joy in a city bursting with hope.

  • Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
    Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019)8.6

    It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon herself. Though devastated by this grim reality, Tanjiro resolves to become a "demon slayer" so that he can turn his sister back into a human, and kill the demon that massacred his family.

  • SMAP×SMAP
    SMAP×SMAP (1996)8.5

    SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.

  • GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka
    GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)8.4

    Eikichi Onizuka, former gang leader, becomes a teacher of a class of students who torment their teachers and fellow students. Of course they do not do this out of whim, they have their reasons. Onizuka is charged by the chairlady to help these troubled students into a more healthy adulthood, and help rehabilitate the teachers in the process as well.

  • Dragon Ball DAIMA
    Dragon Ball DAIMA (2024)8.2

    Mysteriously transformed into mini versions of themselves, Goku and his friends travel to the Demon Realm to uncover the truth and find a cure.

  • Dr. Slump
    Dr. Slump (1981)8.0

    Dr. Slump creates a little android girl, Arale, who is very stong, happy, and totally common senseless. They live in Penguin Village where the strangest things happen (e.g., the dawn is announced by a little pig wearing a basquee).

  • Astro Boy
    Astro Boy (2003)7.8

    Astro is a robotic boy created by Dr. Tenma to replace his late son. When Tenma destroys his laboratory and shuts down Astro, the Ministry of Science revives him and tries to give him a normal life as a 6th-grade student who occasionally helps keep renegade robots from causing harm.

  • Higurashi: When They Cry
    Higurashi: When They Cry (2006)7.7

    After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had occurred in Hinamizawa. From this point on, horrific events unfold in front of Keiichi, as he soon learns his close friends may not be all that they seem.

  • Call of the Night
    Call of the Night (2022)7.6

    Ko's new companion, Nazuna, could offer him dark gifts and a vampire's immortality. But there are conditions that Ko must meet before he can sink his teeth into vampirism, and he'll discover just how far he's willing to go to satisfy his desires.

  • Galaxy Express 999
    Galaxy Express 999 (1978)7.4

    In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.

  • Digimon Ghost Game
    Digimon Ghost Game (2021)7.4

    On social media, rumors of a mysterious phenomenon, known as Hologram Ghosts, are spreading. Hiro Amanokawa, a first-year junior high school student, activates a mysterious device left behind by his father, and encounters a Digimon called Gammamon.

  • The Dinner Table Detective
    The Dinner Table Detective (2025)7.4

    Rich heiress Reiko Hosho lives a double life as a novice detective, fighting crime under Inspector Kazamatsuri—also from a wealthy family. After work, Reiko sheds her pantsuit to don a lovely dress for dinner each day. Difficult cases force her to confide in her butler Kageyama, who proceeds to savagely ridicule her inability to solve mysteries, all while brilliantly unraveling each case himself.

  • Naked Dining
    Naked Dining (2023)6.6

    Office worker by day, naked diner by night. Souta's secret gets out when a local boy stumbles upon him mid-meal.

  • My Host Club Inheritance
    My Host Club Inheritance (2023)6.0

    Kumiko, who works in the sales department at an advertising agency, unexpectedly inherits “MAJEST”, a host club in Kabukicho on the brink of collapse. She decides to revive the host club to its full glory, while working alongside a quirky ensemble of male hosts.

  • iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia
    iDOLM@STER Xenoglossia (2007)5.6

    107 years ago, the Moon was destroyed in a massive cataclysm that shattered Earth's former satellite into 81 quintillion tons of orbital debris. However, thanks to super-science, the Earth itself was saved and today no one really thinks much about that century-past disaster. Which is why when teenage Haruka Amami auditions for something called the Idolmaster Project, she THINKS she's trying out to be a singing idol. Instead, Haruka finds herself at a secret school run by the Mondenkind Agency, living with a group of other girls who have also been selected as candidates to pilot an iDOL - an advanced robot specifically designed to intercept falling chunks of moon rock. Except, the people who run the Mondenkind Agency aren't exactly knights in shining armor. And then there's the question of whether the iDOLs are really JUST robots. Because from almost the first moment, Haruka starts to feel emotions resonating from within the iDOL called Imber.

  • Is a Family Like This Worth Keeping?
    Is a Family Like This Worth Keeping? (2024)N/A

  • Extreme Married Couple
    Extreme Married Couple (2024)N/A

    The wives take down the worst husbands who trample on their wives' dignity! A new, "at-home" revenge story that depicts the extreme situations of three couples at the end of their marriages and their condemnation of their husbands in an omnibus format!