Japanese television channel NTV announced on Friday that it is launching a new one-hour late night programming block called "AnichU" starting in July. The channel will reveal more information about the new programming block at its booth at the AnimeJapan 2017 event, which takes place on March 25-26.

NTV also revealed that the new programming block will air the Nana Maru San Batsu television anime series starting in July, and will then air the Infini-T Force full 3DCG series starting in October. NTV hasn't yet revealed what other shows will air in the block in July and October.

Other late-night anime timeslots include Fuji-TV's Noitamina programming block and TBS' "Animeism" programming block.

Sources: Anime! Anime! (Katsunori Takahashi), Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web