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Pokemon DVR Ratings Thread

JinksChow · 2020-05-08T14:27:09+00:00

With the Pokémon anime going on hiatus, I believe this is a good time to look at Pokémon's DVR viewership ratings and get a feeling as to the reception of the Japanese audience towards the new series. インターネットTVガイド First of all, you might be wondering what DVR is, and why should we be using this thing. Well, DVR stands for Digital Video Recorder; and as the name implies, this electronic device is used to record TV shows. However, since this is done digitally, this means data regarding viewership can still be obtained. What's better is since these are recordings, that means the timeslot of the show has little bearing on the viewership rating; as long as you watched the show within the week, your view would still be counted as part of the rating. (Actually, you might not even be constrained to the week of airing; as the rankings are usually published with a delay of around 2 weeks, that might mean they are waiting to get most of the views for episodes of that week before compiling the data) This is great news for us, since the new timeslot of the Pokémon anime means it is now competing with Chibi Maruko-Chan and Sazae-San, and thus it has very little chance of appearing within the top 10 of Video Research Ltd's viewership rating, meaning we get absolutely zero data. In addition, the way DVR presents viewership data is also pretty interesting. Rather than giving viewership ratings as a percentage of Japanese demographics, they give viewership ratings as a percentage of the most popular show of the category. For example, a show in first place would always get 100 pts; let's say a show in second place gets 80 pts, that means that show in second place has gotten 80% the amount of viewers that the show in first place has gotten. That means under this metric, while we aren't getting direct data, we can still get an idea of the relative popularity of shows compared to first place. I'm probably missing some stuff in my explanation, but this is basically the gist of it. Now, please don't come in here and tell me that viewership ratings do not matter because the Pokémon anime would keep airing regardless, that's not the point of this thread. I'm just trying to get a sense of how the Japanese audience is receiving the new series, and a quantitative method seems like a perfectly reasonable way to do things. Now that everything is out of the way, let's look at some ratings, shall we? Just for fun, I'll also be doing a side-by-side comparison of Pokémon (2019) to Pokémon SM. (I want to do a comparison for the XY series as well, but sadly we do not have data going that far back.) Pokémon (2019) DVR Ranking Pokémon (2019) DVR Ratings Percentage of Doraemon Percentage of One Piece Episode 001 N/A N/A N/A N/A Episode 002 4 70.4 70.4 100.9 Episode 003 5 64.7 64.7 102.5 Episode 004 5 63.8 63.8 98.8 Episode 005 4 59.1 59.1 106.3 Episode 006 4 66.2 66.2 118.9 Episode 007 4 60.5 60.5 N/A Episode 008 4 63.1 63.1 101.6 Episode 009 5 53.9 53.9 87.4 Episode 010 4 67.8 67.8 102.7 Episode 011 4 74.5 74.5 104.2 Episode 012 4 64.9 64.9 103.5 Episode 013 5 54.8 54.8 90.9 Episode 014 4 67.1 67.1 108.2 Episode 015 4 64.7 64.7 N/A Episode 016 4 66.3 66.3 N/A Episode 017 4 59.0 59.0 103.7 Episode 018 4 59.0 59.0 107.9 Episode 019 4 55.7 55.7 105.1 Episode 020 4 63.3 63.3 123.9 Episode 021 4 63.0 63.0 124.8 Episode 022 4 60.6 60.6 112.6 Episode 023 4 56.3 56.3 N/A Episode 024 4 60.3 60.3 N/A Episode 025 4 59.1 59.1 N/A Episode 026 3 54.9 54.9 140.8 Episode 027 3 50.9 50.9 110.9 Episode 028 4 50.7 50.7 107.4 Episode 029 5 54.1 54.1 99.8 Episode 030 5 53.9 53.9 98.2 Episode 031 5 57.1 57.1 96.3 Episode 032 5 60.4 60.4 93.1 Episode 033 4 54.5 54.5 102.8 Episode 034 5 49.4 49.4 76.8 Episode 035 5 60.7 60.7 98.9 Episode 036 4 50.1 50.1 82.8 Episode 037 6 57.7 58.9 94.3 Episode 038 6 50.9 54.5 81.7 Episode 039 5 53.5 53.5 81.1 Episode 040 Unranked <21.6 <40.9 <63.9 Episode 041 Unranked <34.1 <69.7 <100.0 Episode 042 10 41.3 45.4 68.7 Episode 043 9 45.5 45.5 66.5 Episode 044 9 44.3 44.3 69.7 Episode 045 7 58.0 58.0 83.8 Episode 046 7 49.6 49.6 70.3 Episode 047 7 56.7 56.7 86.6 Episode 048 7 50.4 51.8 76.7 Episode 049 8 51.5 51.5 81.1 Episode 050 8 51.0 51.1 72.9 Episode 051 10 34.5 41.2 57.4 Episode 052 9 38.8 46.8 71.6 Episode 053 9 39.4 47.5 75.0 Episode 054 8 42.2 52.8 86.7 Episode 055 9 34.9 51.9 72.4 Episode 056 9 35.6 49.5 76.9 Episode 057 8 32.8 50.8 79.4 Episode 058 9 33.8 52.3 77.9 Episode 059 7 38.7 54.2 N/A Episode 060 10 34.0 50.8 77.4 Episode 061 7 54.6 54.6 81.0 Episode 062 8 53.3 53.3 74.9 Episode 063 6 54.3 54.3 91.3 Episode 064 7 54.8 54.8 79.2 Episode 065 7 54.2 54.2 88.9 Episode 066 9 52.8 52.8 72.8 Episode 067 7 56.4 56.4 86.8 Episode 068 9 53.9 53.9 76.3 Episode 069 9 53.2 53.2 75.0 Episode 070 8 54.2 54.2 69.2 Episode 071 7 58.4 58.4 73.5 Episode 072 7 60.7 60.7 75.7 Episode 073 7 52.4 52.4 74.5 Episode 074 5 75.4 N/A 84.9 Episode 075 7 51.0 51.0 84.4 Episode 076 9 53.4 53.4 83.4 Episode 077 7 49.7 49.7 75.1 Episode 078 6 51.9 51.9 85.2 Episode 079 9 51.2 51.2 75.3 Episode 080 10 39.0 51.8 70.7 Episode 081 10 36.4 52.1 66.7 Episode 082 6 61.7 61.7 75.3 Episode 083 8 9.6 44.9 64.0 Episode 084 6 21.8 46.8 66.5 Episode 085 8 42.5 42.5 61.5 Episode 086 7 24.1 53.7 69.9 Episode 087 8 27.9 51.6 68.9 Episode 088 7 25.5 50.8 55.1 Episode 089 7 11.4 53.7 72.2 Episode 090 6 12.3 66.5 80.9 Episode 091 6 12.4 53.0 73.8 Episode 092 5 14.4 60.3 112.5 Pokémon Sun & Moon DVR Ranking Pokémon Sun & Moon DVR Ratings Percentage of Doraemon Percentage of One Piece Episode 001 N/A N/A N/A N/A Episode 002 N/A N/A N/A N/A Episode 003 6 41.4 41.4 102.2 Episode 004 6 41.4 41.4 102.2 Episode 005 4 54.0 54.0 123.3 Episode 006 6 46.3 46.3 111.3 Episode 007 8 37.4 37.4 90.1 Episode 008 3 66.9 N/A 106.5 Episode 009 5 73.1 N/A 109.4 Episode 010 8 38.2 38.2 99.2 Episode 011 5 48.4 ?48.4? ?125.7? Episode 012 5 42.5 42.5 108.7 Episode 013 7 40.3 ?40.3? ?103.1? Episode 014 7 45.9 45.9 110.1 Episode 015 5 43.1 ?43.1? ?103.4? Episode 016 6 35.4 35.4 95.4 Episode 017 3 65.6 N/A N/A Episode 018 7 39.3 ?39.3? ?105.9? Episode 019 5 68.4 N/A 101.6 Episode 020 6 35.1 35.1 98.0 Episode 021 6 35.1 35.1 98.0 Episode 022 9 38.5 38.5 96.7 Episode 023 9 36.5 36.5 88.6 Episode 024 9 34.9 34.9 83.5 Episode 025 7 68.4 N/A 94.9 Episode 026 9 40.7 40.7 96.0 Episode 027 9 40.4 40.4 91.8 Episode 028 8 36.0 36.0 95.5 Episode 029 7 42.8 42.8 112.3 Episode 030 6 51.9 51.9 113.8 Episode 031 5 40.2 40.2 105.0 Episode 032 6 42.9 42.9 106.7 Episode 033 7 40.1 40.1 105.0 Episode 034 6 54.3 N/A 98.0 Episode 035 5 41.5 41.5 111.9 Episode 036 6 40.0 40.0 102.3 Episode 037 4 80.3 N/A 103.5 Episode 038 6 39.1 39.1 100.0 Episode 039 8 40.7 40.7 103.3 Episode 040 8 33.7 33.7 94.1 Episode 041 6 44.9 44.9 N/A Episode 042 3 55.2 55.2 125.2 Episode 043 3 79.0 N/A 102.1 Episode 044 4 67.3 N/A N/A Episode 045 8 38.2 38.2 86.0 Episode 046 8 46.7 46.7 95.7 Episode 047 10 37.0 37.0 79.7 Episode 048 8 45.1 45.1 92.0 Episode 049 6 44.4 44.4 94.3 Episode 050 7 37.5 37.5 83.7 Episode 051 7 42.4 42.4 88.7 Episode 052 5 41.5 41.5 104.0 Episode 053 4 73.6 N/A 108.4 Episode 054 3 70.2 N/A 103.4 Episode 055 4 54.5 N/A 94.6 Episode 056 2 58.4 58.4 N/A Episode 057 8 39.7 39.7 81.9 Episode 058 10 39.5 39.5 74.5 Episode 059 7 40.5 40.5 91.0 Episode 060 9 39.4 39.4 82.3 Episode 061 5 53.5 53.5 107.9 Episode 062 8 39.9 39.9 77.0 Episode 063 5 48.1 48.1 N/A Episode 064 6 32.7 32.7 75.9 Episode 065 4 43.3 43.3 N/A Episode 066 4 63.8 N/A 88.1 Episode 067 5 55.4 N/A 86.8 Episode 068 4 47.6 47.6 100.0 Episode 069 8 44.0 44.0 81.5 Episode 070 9 40.8 40.8 73.9 Episode 071 8 39.0 39.0 75.4 Episode 072 8 39.0 39.0 75.4 Episode 073 6 65.3 N/A 75.6 Episode 074 10 33.2 33.2 67.5 Episode 075 8 38.4 38.4 74.3 Episode 076 8 39.3 39.3 71.6 Episode 077 9 34.3 34.3 64.2 Episode 078 8 41.6 41.6 78.9 Episode 079 Unranked <37.9 <37.9 <67.1 Episode 080 9 37.7 37.7 72.3 Episode 081 6 37.1 37.1 73.3 Episode 082 8 36.7 36.7 77.8 Episode 083 6 43.2 43.2 84.9 Episode 084 9 41.7 41.7 77.7 Episode 085 4 58.2 N/A 81.4 Episode 086 6 52.2 52.2 97.0 Episode 087 8 42.3 42.3 82.5 Episode 088 8 45.9 45.9 85.5 Episode 089 At Best 6 At Best 34.3 At Best 34.3 N/A Episode 090 8 38.3 38.3 79.3 Episode 091 8 51.2 N/A 69.8 Episode 092 10 29.8 No Data No Data

Thread starter JinksChow
Start date May 8, 2020

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Threadmarks Pokémon (2019) DVR Ratings RERUN EDITION

JinksChow

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May 12, 2020

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Since we don't know how long the hiatus will go on, I've decided to make a separate table for just the rerun episodes of Pokémon (2019), which began airing the week of 20/04/2020-26/04/2020.

Please note that the data is published around 2 weeks after initial airing.

	Pokémon (2019) DVR Ratings RERUN EDITION	Pokémon (2019) DVR Ranking RERUN EDITION
Episode 001	36.6	8
Episode 002	<29.8	Unranked
Episode 003	<37.0	Unranked
Episode 004	<31.2	Unranked
Episode 005	<31.9	Unranked
Episode 006	<34.1	Unranked

As it turns out, the Japanese audience isn't that interested in reruns either. Hopefully the situation in Japan gets better soon.

Last edited: Jun 12, 2020

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