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Well, Fractale and Hourou Musuko are the worst NoitaminA anime I've ever seen. Yes, even worse than Shiki.

Hoping that C and Ano Hana, both next season, deliver and won't disappoint.

It's not like an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan that could be the cause of this. Nope, nope, nope.

Sure it had some effect, but the ratings were already very low before the earthquake:
*1.9%(--.-%) 01/13 24:45-25:45 CX* noitaminA - Fractale (2.5%, new) - Hourou Musuko (1.4%, new)
*1.8%(*1.9%) 01/20 24:45-25:45 CX* noitaminA - Fractale - Hourou Musuko
*1.6%(*1.8%) 01/27 24:45-25:45 CX* noitaminA - Fractale - Hourou Musuko
*2.1%(*1.6%) 02/03 24:45-25:45 CX* noitaminA - Fractale - Hourou Musuko
*1.5%(--.-%) 02/17 24:45-25:45 CX* noitaminA - Fractale - Hourou Musuko
*2.1%(*1.5%) 02/24 25:00-26:00 CX* noitaminA - Fractale - Hourou Musuko

Yeah, it's only a third of an entire county, lol.

I think this news posting is dumb, not only because it's measuring popularity of late-night TV programs when Japan is in the middle of a national crisis, but it's also comparing the ratings of single episodes. Every show has a blah episode occasionally, so we shouldn't be using the ratings of a single airing of anything to make assumptions on overall popularity or quality of an anime series.

Nodame Canabile and Eden of the East? Seriously, those were two very popular animes in Noitamina's collection. Bringing them up as examples of poorly recieved programs only shows how flawed this methodology is.

yeah pretty much

About one third of the country is in crisis; I'd expect TV shows to take a hit. In fact, it's a wonder that Fractale and Hourou Musuko are even airing, since I believe many anime were postponed due to extended coverage of the earthquake and tsunami.

But still, it's a shame. I don't wath HM, but Fractale is an interesting anime.

so WHAT?

You too dumb to realize that not every adaption has to go with the adapted work all the way? The anime creates a new story just BASED on the manga, instead of just copying it. That's all! And heck, I liked the fact that the first mangas were left off and they started with the plot without introducing the characters first, it became more interesting that way.

Fractale is shit, no surprise

H.Musuko well attracts only minimum , but i do like it

Can you post the viewing figures for Madoka Magica as a reference? Madoka's first airing overlaps with Hourou Musuko and has a massive following in Japan.

*2.5% 01/06 (Thu) 1:25am-1:55am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica (New)
*3.0% 01/13 (Thu) 1:06am-1:36am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*2.7% 01/20 (Thu) 1:35am-2:05am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*1.9% 01/27 (Thu) 1:35am-2:05am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*1.6% 02/03 (Thu) 2:01am-2:31am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*3.2% 02/10 (Thu) 1:25am-1:55am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*2.0% 02/17 (Thu) 1:25am-1:55am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*2.0% 02/24 (Thu) 1:25am-1:55am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*1.8% 03/03 (Thu) 1:25am-1:55am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
*2.5% 03/10 (Thu) 1:25am-1:55am MBS Mahō Shōjo Madoka Magica
-> these are the ratings for the 1st airing on MBS. After that there are several reruns on different channels and Niconico. A rating between 2-3 for a series broadcasted in a late-night timeslot means it's doing well.
The Noitamina ratings I posted earlier are the averages for the entire time-slot, the number between brackets being the rating of the week before. Fractale isn't doing that bad, but it's certainly not the hit Yamakan wanted it to be.

These are the average ratings of noitaminA shows to date.

Well, both shows have their anchors I think.
Fractale lacks in the animation department (they vary between shiny settings, and then some with no shine which is extremely irritable) and, in my honest opinion, some of its content. The show was really overrun by fanservice and everything's so nice and wonderful for the most part, that I can't help but think thats all of this is REALLY mauling the dark parts over. This show isn't suited for darkness like deaths and such, so its unbelievably out of place. Mind you I like the addition of the darkness, but it feels like its thrown in to me. Like 'Happy, happy, DEATH, more happy, I'm so overjoyed!' Its a bit unnerving to be quite honest.

Wandering Son on the other hand has fantastic animation, but I find it a bit lacking because its pace is somewhat slow to me, and honestly they shouldn't have started where they did in the show.
I started reading the manga and find it loads more addicting than the show. :s;

But I would've thought Fractale would be getting lower ratings than Wandering Son because of Fractale's director's comments. What a jerk. :|

The subject matter of Wandering turned many MANY people off even before watching it. The slow pace and skipping of 4 manga volumes killed off a lot of viewers too.

So will Yamakan retire?

The overlap with the first Madoka broadcast won't be doing it any favors either, even if subsequent airings of Madoka allow people to watch both. I can imagine viewers watching Fractale on Fuji, then switching to MBS for Madoka, seeing as Madoka probably has more appeal for Fractale watchers than Hourou Musuko does.

The figures posted are collective figures for both shows, though, so Hourou MIGHT have more viewers than Fractale, but it is highly unlikely, at least among the traditional "otaku" viewer base. The more casual base that noitaminA is supposed to target may prefer HM though if they don't mind the gender identity issues it deals with (Fractale can look like a generic fanservice anime if you switch to it at the wrong time).

Idd.

Man, after watching Hourou Musuko, I gotta say it really doesn't deserve to get such a low rating.. in my opinion. It's pretty good actually.

with everything going on in Japan, this is no surprise

Oh well, Fractale is still one of the best series from the winter season.
And it has the cutest girl from the season xD

HM is great too.

do yea think he might retire ?

the 2 best shows this season