Dragon Ball Super: TV Ratings Discussion Thread

[precita]

Ratings are remaining fairly good for what are essentially filler epsiodes. Nice that Japan isn't tuning out just because we're inbetween major arcs.

[Lord Beerus]

The TV ratings show that Yamcha is still a major draw and his new spin-off manga, which was planned months in advance, will outsell One Piece in two months.

[precita]

I would love to see Yamcha get a short spinoff anime of about 12 episodes where he goes off to be the hero on Earth while all the other major characters are off in other universes. Yamcha would be the sole protector of Earth with everyone else gone.

[LightBing]

The TV ratings show that Yamcha is still a major draw and his new spin-off manga, which was planned months in advance, will outsell One Piece in two months.

Agreed. In a couple of months Dragon Ball Super will be renamed The Yamcha-sama Show. Vegeta will be his butler and Goku will be his nerdy friend asking for fighting tips.
The old Dragon Ball manga will be recalled, all those who don't return their volumes will be arrested. The manga will then be modified, it will now serve as a prequel to The Yamcha-sama Show, ending with Yamcha defeating Goku in the desert and with his big heart forgiving the little monkey boy, allowing him to be his friend. Bulma will join his harem as hottie #127 and Oolong will be the dinner they all eat that nigh.

[Lord Beerus]

The TV ratings show that Yamcha is still a major draw and his new spin-off manga, which was planned months in advance, will outsell One Piece in two months.

Agreed. In a couple of months Dragon Ball Super will be renamed The Yamcha-sama Show. Vegeta will be his butler and Goku will be his nerdy friend asking for fighting tips.
The old Dragon Ball manga will be recalled, all those who don't return their volumes will be arrested. The manga will then be modified, it will now serve as a prequel to The Yamcha-sama Show, ending with Yamcha defeating Goku in the desert and with his big heart forgiving the little monkey boy, allowing him to be his friend. Bulma will join his harem as hottie #127 and Oolong will be the dinner they all eat that nigh.

Where is ekrolo2 when you need him? This must be made into a fanfic right fucking now!

[precita]

You know given that both Yu-gi-oh and Boruto (Naruto spinoff) just got announced for 2017, and these two franchises are never in the Top 10 and probably have ratings down in the 2.0's. I don't see why people are worried about Super.

How do anime that get ratings only in the 2.0's like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, Precure, etc. continually get new series every few years and air continuously when they never make the Top 10? I realize its because of merchandizing, so why are people worried about Super when its in the 6.0's most of the time and has tons of merch? It literally makes no sense if shows like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, can keep doing year after year with such low ratings.

[Baggie_Saiyan]

Bullza are you gonna use Toonami figures for the US broadcast too? Or is this purely just gonna be the Japanese figures?

[VejituhTheWarriorGuy]

You know given that both Yu-gi-oh and Boruto (Naruto spinoff) just got announced for 2017, and these two franchises are never in the Top 10 and probably have ratings down in the 2.0's. I don't see why people are worried about Super.

How do anime that get ratings only in the 2.0's like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, Precure, etc. continually get new series every few years and air continuously when they never make the Top 10? I realize its because of merchandizing, so why are people worried about Super when its in the 6.0's most of the time and has tons of merch? It literally makes no sense if shows like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, can keep doing year after year with such low ratings.

Because of the international audience

[precita]

You know given that both Yu-gi-oh and Boruto (Naruto spinoff) just got announced for 2017, and these two franchises are never in the Top 10 and probably have ratings down in the 2.0's. I don't see why people are worried about Super.

How do anime that get ratings only in the 2.0's like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, Precure, etc. continually get new series every few years and air continuously when they never make the Top 10? I realize its because of merchandizing, so why are people worried about Super when its in the 6.0's most of the time and has tons of merch? It literally makes no sense if shows like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, can keep doing year after year with such low ratings.

Because of the international audience

Yu-gi-oh isn't popular outside of Japan, and only the first series was really popular in America. The other 5 series aren't.

[Bullza]

Bullza are you gonna use Toonami figures for the US broadcast too? Or is this purely just gonna be the Japanese figures?

Yeah sure, as long as there's a regular and reliable source and someone posts it here like the Japanese one then I'll add those ratings to the OP as well.

[DragonHermit]

Yu-gi-oh isn't popular outside of Japan, and only the first series was really popular in America. The other 5 series aren't.

Yeah, the other spin offs. But the original was a HUGE hit outside of Japan.

[Lord Beerus]

Bullza are you gonna use Toonami figures for the US broadcast too? Or is this purely just gonna be the Japanese figures?

Yeah sure, as long as there's a regular and reliable source and someone posts it here like the Japanese one then I'll add those ratings to the OP as well.

Leave that to me. I'll be doing double duty with posting the ratings for Majin Boo Kai (for the respective Toonami Kai ratings thread as I have been doing for several months) and Super.

[HeroR]

Leave that to me. I'll be doing double duty with posting the ratings for Majin Boo Kai (for the respective Toonami Kai ratings thread as I have been doing for several months) and Super.

Toonami faithful keep up the the ratings. That is how I know the ratings for Kai on Toonami.

[Lord Beerus]

Leave that to me. I'll be doing double duty with posting the ratings for Majin Boo Kai (for the respective Toonami Kai ratings thread as I have been doing for several months) and Super.

Toonami faithful keep up the the ratings. That is how I know the ratings for Kai on Toonami.

They can be a day or so late with them sometimes.

[Bigivel]

You know given that both Yu-gi-oh and Boruto (Naruto spinoff) just got announced for 2017, and these two franchises are never in the Top 10 and probably have ratings down in the 2.0's. I don't see why people are worried about Super.

How do anime that get ratings only in the 2.0's like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, Precure, etc. continually get new series every few years and air continuously when they never make the Top 10? I realize its because of merchandizing, so why are people worried about Super when its in the 6.0's most of the time and has tons of merch? It literally makes no sense if shows like Yu-gi-oh, Naruto, can keep doing year after year with such low ratings.

And how do you think those anime sell that merchandize? And why are we considering a 2.0 rating a bad rating? Or one that doesn't bring much money? Because it doesn't make part of the TOP 10. You know in all kind of other industries there are a lot of "products" that are out of the TOP 10 and still are highly successful.

Also, other than this season, Precure was a frequent player in the Top 10 and didn't had only 2.0s in rating. In fact I don't think it ever happened a time where Precure appeared with 2.0s of rating or when it didn't appeared in the Top 10 and the lowest ranked series had 3.0s or below 2.0s.

In terms of franchise Yu-gi-oh and Naruto are big. And Precure is way bigger than those 2!

One Important think to understand is that what matters more isn't always the section that brings more money.

First we're forgetting an important aspect, Costs. There is nothing that costs more than producing merchandise. And if you're not making your merchandise than you're getting just a little royalty value from licenses. The money that is earned by TV anime sponsors cost the creation of one episode, but one episode doesn't earn its money only in TV airing and in just one airing.

Second we're forgetting the time the money comes. Merchandise money doesn't appear instantly in the hands of the animation studio(Toei Animation case). The money doesn't goes from 1 toy directly to the company safe. Its takes sometime for the money to arrive to the Animation Studio and then takes a little more time for that money to be again injected into the TV series, if it even is injected in there, and not used for other things instead.
In terms of Sponsors money for the TV series it is money directly given to be used for the TV series and the Slot! And the major way the sponsors can track if the investment they are making is working is by the TV ratings.
This means that a series that sells well in merchandise can end because is doing badly in Ratings making the sponsors leave(Though is rare, or almost impossible, for that to happen. Probably the sponsors would wait and see what the reason for the divergence between the two).

[Faisal Shourov]

Nobody has to worry about Super. Super is one of the most marketed show in Japan. It's being heavily promoted by all companies that's affiliated with Dragon Ball franchise (Toei, bandai namco, shounen jump etc in Japan; funimation, crunchyroll etc abroad). Super is gonna do well no matter how bad the quality is. By now Super has also created a devoted fanbase who're gonna watch every single future episode so there's that

[Araki]

Top 10 ratings, December 12 - December 18

Sazae-san 10.8
Chibi Maruko-chan 7.9
Crayon Shin Chan 7.4
One Piece 7.1
Detective Conan 6.9
Doraemon 6.8
Dragon Ball Super 6.7 (episode 71)
Time Bokan 24 4.6
Pokemon Sun & Moon 3.7
Shaun the Sheep 3.3

http://www.videor.co.jp/data/ratedata/top10.htm

[Lord Beerus]

Good rating. A steady increase from last week. Hit is a hit.

Doraemon and Shin Chan totally tumbled from last week.Conan also went down again. I wonder what happened?

[Bullza]

The past six episodes have had something of an uptick and half of them have just been filler .

[SaiyanGod117]

Super has been having some pretty good ratings these past couple of episodes. It makes you wonder, what the ratings would be like, if it had the proper preproduction time.