SASUKE 36 (officially,「SASUKE2018大晦日」) has been officially announced by TBS on Twitter, on the 29th of June, 2018. It is the fifth tournament after Morimoto Yūsuke's kanzenseiha. It aired on New Year's Eve, first-time SASUKE has aired in that date on 6 pm JST as the last New Year's Eve and possibly the last SASUKE tournament of the Heisei era. The broadcast is scheduled to last approximately 6 hours and will share its airtime with a boxing match featuring Kazuto Ioka and Donnie Nietes for the vacant WBO super-flyweight title. This tournament has also introduced SASUKE's new logo for the first time ever.