Japanese Animation TV Ranking, September 22-28
- Jean-Carlos Matellan
- Oct 4
- 2 min read
Yaiba: Samurai Legend finale earns 2.3% rating, Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube earns 2.0%
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 Friday, September 26 at 8:00 a.m. and earned an 18.1% rating. Another showing on Tuesday, September 23 at 12:45 p.m. earned a 6.5% 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.
A rerun of the first live-action series of Kaiji Kawaguchi's The Silent Service manga aired on Fuji TV on Thursday, September 25 at 9:00 p.m. and earned a 4.6% rating. A separate episode aired on Friday, September 26 at 9:00 p.m. and earned a 4.4% rating.
A marathon rerun of the 10th season of the live-action A Solitary Gourmet series aired on Tokyo TV on Tuesday, September 23 at 5:50 p.m. and earned a 4.0% rating.
Title | Station | Date | Time | Length | Average Household Rating |
Fuji TV | September 28 (Sun) | 18:30 | 30 min. | 6.7 | |
September 27 (Sat) | 18:00 | 30 min. | 5.8 | ||
Fuji TV | September 28 (Sun) | 18:00 | 30 min. | 4.7 | |
September 28 (Sun) | 08:30 | 30 min. | 3.0 | ||
Fuji TV | September 28 (Sun) | 23:15 | 30 min. | 2.6 | |
NTV | September 26 (Fri) | 23:00 | 30 min. | 2.5 | |
TV Asahi | September 27 (Sat) | 17:00 | 30 min. | 2.3 | |
Yaiba: Samurai Legend (finale) | NTV | September 27 (Sat) | 17:30 | 30 min. | 2.3 |
Fermat Kitchen (finale) | TV Asahi | September 27 (Sat) | 23:30 | 30 min. | 2.3 |
Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube (finale) | TV Asahi | September 24 (Wed) | 23:45 | 30 min. | 2.0 |
TV Asahi | September 27 (Sat) | 16:30 | 30 min. | 2.0 | |
Animated O-saru no George (Curious George) | September 27 (Sat) | 08:35 | 25 min. | 1.7 | |
NHK-E | September 27 (Sat) | 09:00 | 20 min. | 1.6 |
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)




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