The Best TV Shows on Kansai TV

Every Kansai TV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Across the timeline from 1973 to 2025, Kansai TV has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows. Notable series such as Zero Tester and Galaxy Express 999 from Kansai TV first graced the screens in 1973 and 1978. Dive into our updated selection of Kansai TV’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of August 2025.

  • Touch
    Touch (1985)9.3

    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...

  • 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)8.5

    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

    Follows the humorous adventures of the little girl robot Arale Norimaki, her creator Senbei Norimaki, and the other residents of the bizarre Penguin Village.

  • 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.

  • Informa
    Informa (2023)7.6

    A Japanese tabloid reporter tired of working simply as a celebrity scandals writer accepts a new challenge when he is assigned to make contact with a former Yakuza informant.

  • Galaxy Express 999
    Galaxy Express 999 (1978)7.5

    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)7.2

    High school freshman Hiro Amanokawa activates a mysterious device left behind by his father called a "Digivice" that makes unknown creatures that cannot be seen by ordinary people, the Digimon, visible to his eyes. This is the story of this other side of the world that nobody is aware of. With their friends, Hiro and Gammamon dive into the mysterious world where these creatures live.

  • When Spring Comes
    When Spring Comes (2024)7.0

  • The Dinner Table Detective
    The Dinner Table Detective (2025)7.0

    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.

  • 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.

  • Ghostly Girl
    Ghostly Girl (2013)5.0

    Junior high school teacher Koyama Akira has the ability to sense ghosts, and his new school has a ghost named Akane who used to be a teacher.

  • Zero Tester
    Zero Tester (1973)N/A

  • グータンヌーボ
    グータンヌーボ (2006)N/A

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

  • School Lawyer: Finding the Colors of the Stars
    School Lawyer: Finding the Colors of the Stars (2025)N/A

    A shy, awkward school lawyer with a unique perspective tackles students' complex struggles at a co-ed high school shaken by declining enrollment, navigating heartfelt challenges beyond legal rules.