History Main / OtakuOClock

* When ''Anime/HelloSandybell'' was being rebroadcast on Italia 1, they put it on their "Orario Notturno!" (Nocturnal Hours) timeslot (3:00-4:00 AM).

* In Japan, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' is one of the absolute pinnacles of {{Shounen}} anime. But due to how violent it is, the 2012 TV anime adaptation is aired at 12:30 AM.

See also CueOClock (when clock dial numbers are replaced by a non-time-related cue or nonsense) and {{Watershed}}, UsefulNotes/SafeHarbor.

** ''Series/CuteyHoneyTheLive'' had a 1:00 AM broadcast time.

* Likewise, Creator/{{PBS}} tended to shove ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Series/RedDwarf'' and other British sci-fi to the midnight-5am slot. Good for insomniacs or those with a working VCR .

* This is the theory behind Creator/AdultSwim, which broadcasts nightly from 8 PM to 6 AM and devotes Saturday nights to anime (since May 2012 under the "revived" Creator/{{Toonami}} brand[[note]]This was originally an April Fool's Day joke, however. In actually, it's just the previous "Adult Swim Action" block running [[InNameOnly under a different name]].[[/note]]).

** In the Pacific Northwest, if you wanted to watch Doctor Who, you had to catch it on [=KVOS=] out of Bellingham, Washington. For decades, KVOS ran the the omnibus versions of the '63-'89 show on Saturday night starting at around eleven-to-midnight. That's not too late when you're watching a four part Fifth Doctor story, but heaven help you if that week it's a seven part Pertwee episode - or god forbid, the 10 parter The War Games.
* Likewise, Creator/{{PBS}} tended to shove ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Series/RedDwarf'' and other British sci-fi to the midnight-5am slot. Good for insomniacs or those with a working VCR

* Likewise, Network/{{PBS}} tended to shove ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Series/RedDwarf'' and other British sci-fi to the midnight-5am slot. Good for insomniacs or those with a working VCR

** In the Pacific Northwest, if you wanted to watch Doctor Who, you had to catch it on KVOS TV12 out of Bellingham, Washington. For decades, KVOS ran the the omnibus versions of the '63-'89 show on Saturday night starting at around eleven-to-midnight. That's not too late when you're watching a four part Fifth Doctor story, but heaven help you if that week it's a seven part Pertwee episode - or god forbid, the 10 parter The War Games.

See also {{Watershed}}, UsefulNotes/SafeHarbor.

* Preteen male-oriented cable network Creator/DisneyXD broadcasts a block simply named "The Anime Block" every Saturday morning which includes shows such as ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', ''Anime/BeybladeBurst'', and ''Anime/YokaiWatch''.

* Likewise, WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers also got hit with this, part because it was in syndication, part because it was not backed by a toy company (which was a rarity of the era), and part for the same reason as ''Robotech'' - the tone was far closer to ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' than ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}''. It was not uncommon for it to air at 4 or 5 am (which was the start of the broadcast day for stations at the time)

* ''Series/InvisibleGirlEa'' (Toumei Shoujo Ea) was shown during this timeslot, although it is a live action series (but based on a game).

* ''Anime/CodeGeass''' first season aired at 25:25 (1:25 AM), which apparently allowed them to get away with [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath bloody violence]], swearing, [[spoiler:a girl [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating]] with a table corner, and the massacre of a stadium full of people]]. The fact that the second season aired at 5 PM on Sunday, a timeslot typically reserved for news programming, required them to drastically alter the plot.

* ''Anime/Persona4GoldenTheAnimation'' got amazingly dead time slots after 1:30 AM on both channels it aired on, due to being an expansion on the original ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'', that only fans of the original show or the games would understand and want to see.