Free tool
Crunchyroll and HIDIVE simulcast new episodes a fixed delay after the Japanese TV broadcast. Pick a show, set your zone, and get the exact local unlock time plus a live countdown to the next episode.
One Piece
Simulcast on Crunchyroll
Next episode at 01:00 on Sunday, August 9, 2026 in UTC
New episodes air Sun 09:30 JST, then simulcast on Crunchyroll about 30 min later. Repeats weekly.
Anime airs first on Japanese television on a fixed weekly slot, measured in Japan Standard Time (Asia/Tokyo, UTC+9, no daylight saving). The streaming platform receives the broadcast feed, runs subtitle QC, and then unlocks the episode a set number of minutes later, usually 30 to 90. A late-night show listed as airing at "25:00" follows the Japanese broadcast convention where hours run past midnight: 25:00 JST means 01:00 the next calendar day. This converter takes the show's JST broadcast slot, adds the simulcast delay, and projects that single global instant into whatever zone you pick. The wall-clock time you see depends only on where you are, not on your platform region.
Crunchyroll holds the largest simulcast slate and most of the big shonen, One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, Solo Leveling, Frieren. HIDIVE runs a smaller but distinct catalogue, often picking up titles Crunchyroll passes on, and tends to publish a similar 30 to 90 minute post-broadcast window. The unlock instant is the same worldwide for a given platform; what differs is which titles each service has licensed in your country. That is why a show can be on Crunchyroll in one region and HIDIVE, or neither, in another. The converter labels each title with the platform that simulcasts it, so you know where to be watching when the countdown hits zero.
A simulcast lands at one fixed instant for everyone, so no VPN makes the episode unlock earlier. What it changes is which regional catalogue you can reach. Plenty of seasonal titles are licensed in some countries and missing in others, so viewers route through an exit node in a region where the show is available. Crunchyroll and HIDIVE both geo-restrict by IP and block well-known datacentre VPN ranges, so the services that invest in residential-grade rotating IPs are the ones that get through. Free VPNs are usually detected and refused.
One Piece airs Sunday at 09:30 JST and carries a 30 minute simulcast delay in this tool, so the episode unlocks at 10:00 JST. Japan sits at UTC+9 all year, making the unlock 01:00 UTC on Sunday: 6:30 AM in Mumbai, 1:00 AM in London in winter, and, across the date line, Saturday evening in the Americas, 8:00 PM in New York and 5:00 PM in Los Angeles during their winter months. Jujutsu Kaisen runs the opposite way: a Thursday 23:56 JST broadcast plus a 60 minute delay puts the unlock at 00:56 JST Friday, which is 15:56 UTC on Thursday, mid-afternoon in Europe and late morning in New York. Two shows on the same platform, one landing at dawn and one at teatime, purely because of where their Japanese TV slots sit in the week.
Japanese TV listings extend the clock past midnight so a late-night block stays attached to the evening schedule it belongs to. Wind Breaker's slot of Thursday 25:23 in this tool means 01:23 on Friday morning in Tokyo. The converter normalises that before doing anything else: hours of 24 and above roll the broadcast onto the next calendar day, then the simulcast delay is added, then the resulting instant is projected into your zone. Misread the convention and every step after it is off by a full day, which is exactly the mistake this page exists to prevent.
| Show | Japan slot (JST) | Delay | Platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| One Piece | Sunday 09:30 | 30 min | Crunchyroll |
| My Hero Academia | Saturday 17:30 | 30 min | Crunchyroll |
| Jujutsu Kaisen | Thursday 23:56 | 60 min | Crunchyroll |
| Solo Leveling | Saturday 24:00 | 60 min | Crunchyroll |
| Oshi no Ko | Wednesday 23:00 | 60 min | HIDIVE |
| Wind Breaker | Thursday 25:23 | 60 min | Crunchyroll |
The delay is set per show, not per platform, so two Crunchyroll titles airing the same night can unlock an hour apart. Daytime broadcasts like One Piece and My Hero Academia carry the shorter 30 minute window in this list; the late-night slots run at 60.
Japan does not observe daylight saving, so the JST anchor is fixed all year. If your own country changes its clocks, your local unlock time moves twice a year while nothing changes in Japan: One Piece unlocks at 1:00 AM Sunday in London in winter and 2:00 AM in summer, and New York flips between 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM Saturday. If your zone skips daylight saving entirely, as India and Japan both do, the time this converter prints holds for the whole season.
There is no single Crunchyroll hour. Each show unlocks a fixed delay, 30 or 60 minutes for the titles in this tool, after its own Japanese broadcast slot, so release times are spread across the whole week.
Viewers across the date line from Japan, mostly in the Americas, read the same instant as the previous calendar day. A Sunday morning Tokyo broadcast is a Saturday evening unlock in New York.
It is the Japanese late-night listing convention: subtract 24 and move to the next day. 24:30 is 00:30 the following morning and 25:00 is 01:00.
The Japanese side never changes because Japan does not observe daylight saving. Your local time shifts only if your own zone changes its clocks, in which case the unlock moves one hour twice a year.
Yes. The calendar export writes a weekly repeating event with an alert one hour before each unlock, so a single export covers the whole season in your own zone.