Japanese Animation TV Ranking, August 11-17
Studio Ghibli and Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies film aired on NTV on Friday, August 15 at 9:00 p.m. and it earned a 7.2% rating.An episode of Anpan, the newest entry in NHK's six-decade-long Renzoku Terebi Shōsetsu (Serialized TV Novel, also known as "Asadora" or Morning Drama) franchise, aired on Thursday, August 14 at 8:00 a.m. and earned a 17.3% rating. A separate episode aired on Thursday, August 14 at 12:45 p.m. and earned 6.2% rating, and on Friday, August 15 at 12:45 p.m. and earned a 6.0% rating.The new live-action weekday morning series is inspired by the life story of Anpanman manga creator Takashi Yanase and his wife Nobuo Komatsu. The television ratings above are an estimate of the percentage of the population that watch a given program, based on data from a survey of households in Japan's Kanto region. The ratings do not count recordings that viewers watch later.Source: Video Research (Kanto region)
