{"id":870,"date":"2004-04-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/04\/07\/ask-john-how-will-initial-d-fourth-stage-be-released\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-how-will-initial-d-fourth-stage-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-how-will-initial-d-fourth-stage-be-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: How Will Initial D Fourth Stage Be Released?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nI have read in the news section of Animenation that Initial D Fourth Stage will broadcast on Sky Perfect pay-per view as two back to back episodes per week. What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nActually, since the first word of Initial D Fourth Stage appeared, new clarification of its Japanese broadcast schedule has appeared. According to the official Japanese <a href=\"http:\/\/avexmode.jp\/animation\/initial\/initial.html\" target=\"_blank\">Initial D Fourth Stage webpage<\/a>, two new episodes will air every other month from April 2004 until April 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning on April 17, 2004, Japanese viewers with access to the Sky Perfect TV satellite television network will be able to pay 840 yen ($8 American) to watch Initial D Fourth Stage episodes 1 &amp; 2.  Then beginning on June 19th, Japanese viewers will be able to pay another 840 yen to watch episodes 3 &amp; 4.  Episodes 5 &amp; 6 will then be available on a pay-per-view basis beginning on August 21st.  And so forth through April 16, 2005 when episodes 13 &amp; 14 become available.<\/p>\n<p>Initial D Fourth Stage is not the first anime series to be broadcast on a pay-per view basis, but it is the first to have such an extended broadcast schedule.  The Ghost in the Shell TV series is broadcast on a schedule of two new episodes becoming available for pay-per-view viewing on the first evening of every month. The R.O.D. TV series, the second pay-per-view anime TV series, aired two consecutive new episodes each week. One night each week, viewers could order the latest R.O.D. pay-per-view offering and watch the latest two episodes of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: I have read in the news section of Animenation that Initial D Fourth Stage will broadcast on Sky Perfect pay-per view as two back to back episodes per week. What does that mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}