That depends, are these an indication of rating shares, or millions? http://www.mediapost.com/publications/a ... l?edition=OWmyDragonBallz wrote:So then DBZ Kai has surpassed the original Z airings on Toonami? That's awesome. I also heard that it became the highest rated show on Nicktoons surpassing even Avatar the Last Airbender?Son Goku wrote:DRAGON BALL Z KAI HAS FINALLY BROKEN THE 2 MILLION CEILING
August 8th, 2015
12:00 Dragonball Z Kai - 2,105,000 HH (1.20) 1,250,000 A18-49 (0.99)
12:30 Akame Ga Kill - 1,822,000 HH (1.10) 1,186,000 A18-49 (0.93)
1:00 Michiko & Hatchin - 1,464,000 HH (0.87) 945,000 A18-49 (0.74)
1:30 Sword Art Online II - 1,190,000 HH (0.78) 807,000 A18-49 (0.64)
2:00 Naruto Shippuden - 1,049,000 HH (0.70) 710,000 A18-49 (0.56)
2:30 One Piece - 850,000 HH (0.59) 573,000 A18-49 (0.45)
3:00 Attack on Titan - 917,000 HH (0.62) 601,000 A18-49 (0.47)
Akame Ga Kill's premiere also garnered the second-highest ratings Toonami has gotten to date. Shame about One Piece though.
What's more is, that's probably not the height of Dragon Ball Z's run on Toonami. If we look at this: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... ps-ratings it's number one in quite a few demographics two years later. If I had to make an assumption, it'd be that from 2001-2002 Z had around 2-3.X million viewers. By 2003 DBZ was still receiving well over a million viewers, almost entirely from T9-14 and B9-14. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... nformation March 2001 gives us some additional information, with DBZ being #1 with B9-14, T12-17 AND M12-17. Dragon Ball Z is number one in its time period among boys 9-14, teens 12-17 and males 12-17. I think it's very likely DBZ broke 3 million, especially considering the only show as of 2007 to break DBZ's #1 spot was some shitty Ben 10 live-action movies, with 3.9 million viewers. http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2 ... cartoon01/ There's also this from late 2002 that gives DBZ 2.5: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/a ... l?edition= Time Warner also has some information from 2002: http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/pres ... -growth-in
Also, Toonami Reactor streamed DBZ episodes to "high-speed internet" users, which to my knowledge Nielsen never took into consideration. They've improved over the years, but their methods have always been inaccurate, so don't take these statistics as 100%, they're simply all we have.
Concerning Z Kai on Nicktoons, you're correct. Avatar didn't really compare. If we look at this post by FUNimation: https://web.archive.org/web/20100606031 ... 0-ratings/
and also the press release it mentions: http://biz.viacom.com/sites/nickelodeon ... &ItemID=88
We can see some really impressive stuff here:
If we look at Wolverine and the X-Men we can see that it premiered January 23rd, 2009.Nicktoons also posted its highest-rated and most-watched May with total viewers (+18%), K6-11
(+33% in rating), B6-11 (+27% in delivery), T9-14 (+32% in delivery) and B9-14 (+25% in rating).
Nicktoons record-setting performance was driven by the premiere of Dragon Ball Z Kai (Monday, May
24, 8–9 p.m. ET), which set a new record as the highest-rated series premiere in the network’s history
with total viewers, T9-14 and B9-14.
Based on the statements here: https://web.archive.org/web/20121011225 ... ews&id=184 this tells us that it received these figures during its premiere:
Part 1 - 3,436,000 viewers
Part 2 - 4,589,000 viewers
That means that Dragon Ball Z Kai received probably higher ratings during its premiere. It's important to note that the demographic they mention is T9-14 and B9-14. Wolverine's demographics mentioned are K6-11, B9-11 and B9-14. Kai obviously had viewers in those demographics, but it goes out of its way to say it's setting a record with those demographics. Prior it says it simply drove the ratings for the network, meaning there's still significant numbers from other demographics watching (e.g. K6-11 and B6-11).
There is another issue, however. This gives us completely different numbers for the X-Men: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/p ... ings/34034 roughly 500,000 for K6-11 and B6-11 and another 70,000 for tweens.
Additional reading:
Interesting information concerning Cartoon Network's rise at the end of 2001: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... ds-in-2001
VHS sales: https://books.google.com/books?id=8Q8EA ... 0z&f=false if anyone's interested in that.
