Liquid crystal panel, liquid crystal display unit, and television receiver equipped with the same

A liquid crystal panel performing display in a vertical alignment mode, the liquid crystal panel comprising:

• an active matrix substrate on which pixel electrodes, scanning signal lines, and data signal lines are provided;
• a counter substrate that faces the active matrix substrate;
• a liquid crystal layer provided between the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate;
• a first polarizing plate;
• and
• a second polarizing plate,
• the first polarizing plate having a polarization axis perpendicular to a polarization axis of the second polarizing plate,
• the liquid crystal panel further comprising:
• alignment control structures on at least one of the active matrix substrate and the counter substrate, the alignment control structures controlling alignment directions of liquid crystal molecules,
• the alignment control structures respectively having an outline shape in a region in which one or more of the pixel electrodes are located when viewed from a direction perpendicular to a surface of the active matrix substrate or of the counter substrate, the outline shape being constituted by continuously arranging a plurality of unit patterns each having a side in parallel with the polarization axis of the first polarizing plate and a side in parallel with the polarization axis of the second polarizing plate.