Japan's Weekly Anime TV Rankings

Yay for Pokemon DP XD

I can't believe Naruto is up there. This must be a first lol

Yay for One Piece! ^^

I can't belive that kinda stuff is on top >.>

:P

i think one piece deserves that spot

Yea I remember how it works, just a general remark about how can half of the series be unknowns or not even popular here.

The system they use is alright for now but hopefully once they might just add an extra component to tv's which send what you watch to some company that could be federally funded. Plus the people they usually get to have these are "growing" familys. You really dont see many college students having them which show a different type of genre, which could be why these are the types on top.

b.o.t...// Although i want to check out half of the ones I havn't watched yet, I just feel like its more sarcastic series types which isn't my style.

Fixed

Sazae-san? Never heard of it, im going to have to check it out...

Now that's an interesting question.

Essentially, there's one company in Japan that measures TV ratings -- Video Research. Nielsen, the company responsible for the most famous US ratings, used to have a presence in Japan, but backed out in the mid-90s leaving VR all to itself.

VR has a system called "People Meters" (they're not unique -- most other audience measurement companies use them) which is basically a device hooked to a TV which logs everything watched. The key is that everyone watching has to "log in" (usually by pushing an individualized button). This allows VR to drill into the demographics of viewers. In the old days they used to have one box for the entire household and you never knew who was watching what. They relied on handwritten logs for that. But now the advertisers can know precisely which demographics they're appealing to.

But to get back to the point, they use these boxes and then extrapolate from percentages how much of Japan is watching.

Now, here's the kicker. The numbers in this thread and usually posted are based on the Tokyo area boxes in service. Bear in mind that the metro area around Tokyo has roughly 30 million people, so how many boxes do you think Video Research has out there measuring?

600.

That's right. When you see an anime go up or down a point in the ratings, you're essentially talking about 6 or so households in all of Tokyo that were unable to watch the show that week.

There are two other sets of 600 boxes in Osaka and Nagoya. They also run smaller, long-term ratings studies in multiple other locations, although you never see these ratings since they come out months after the fact. This is really in line with US and other practice though, as there are only 5,000 similar boxes run by Nielsen in the entire USA. That's one of the reasons I'm somewhat skeptical of the reported ratings and value the DVD sales numbers much more, since they are somewhat more representative of what "typical" MAL-people watch (i.e., not most of what's in the Ratings Top 10.)

The English dub slightly amuses me.

But it's not THAT funny.

Crayon Shin-chan is massively overrated.:x

Only decent on in my option is one piece, which i totally love <3



Yea.... I wonder how they actually count who watches what.



I would be very depressed the day the nauto anime actually does good which is now :(

omg! yay~ Crayon Shin-chan, Doraemon, Chibi Maruko-chan & Keroro Gunsou ftw! n__n

Lol @ Naruto and Pokemon P:

One Piece is the best up there. (My opinion)

One of the weirdest Lists so far.. >.<

Suddently very glad to be able to watch fansubs.

yeah..Pretty stupid series on this top..-_-

Nothing surprising, but once again, props to One Piece.

It's interesting how the most popular are always the longest running, the Japanese have no problem with stretching out a good thing forever.

One Piece beat Naruto?? Holy crap.