Dragon Ball Super: TV Ratings Discussion Thread

[sintzu]

After 5 years I think the show might end unless it gets really popular for some reason.

When that happens I'll be very surprised if another one doesn't start soon after.

I mean as a Toy Selling franchise for kids it's doing good.

From a serious point of view not many anime fans are interested in Super as they are in other shows.

That's all that matters to the companies incharge of it.

If they're not inot DB (are they ?) why would they be ? I doubt people who aren't into One Piece are going to decide to start after 800 episodes.

After Super story ends people claim how they were right and it is “cancelled”

Never mind that a new series will start a week after.

Dragon Ball Franchise now is all about selling Merchandise than story telling like it was in older days.

I miss those days. They could've done so much more by being completely original. It shows that once something's been done for a long time, trying to get it back the same as it was won't happen as the people behind it will have developed diffrent views on things.

[Ripper 30]

After 5 years I think the show might end unless it gets really popular for some reason.

When that happens I'll be very surprised if another one doesn't start soon after.

I mean as a Toy Selling franchise for kids it's doing good.

From a serious point of view not many anime fans are interested in Super as they are in other shows.

That's all that matters to the companies incharge of it.

If they're not inot DB (are they ?) why would they be ? I doubt people who aren't into One Piece are going to decide to start after 800 episodes.

After Super story ends people claim how they were right and it is “cancelled”

Never mind that a new series will start a week after.

Dragon Ball Franchise now is all about selling Merchandise than story telling like it was in older days.

I miss those days. They could've done so much more by being completely original. It shows that once something's been done for a long time, trying to get it back the same as it was won't happen as the people behind it will have developed diffrent views on things.

Dragon Ball currently is no different than Pokemón and its adding new transformations and forms to sell toys and add new Rosters in Video Games.

[Kinokima]

Dragon Ball overall is a thing of a past in Japan now, they hardly care for it.

It’s still in the top 10 of ratings and there is tons of merchandise. Dragon Ball is definitely still a beloved franchise in Japan. You don’t know what you are talking about.

And as for serious anime fans I consider myself a “serious anime fan” so I know all the late night shows too. They are a completely different demographic from Dragonball & One Piece too for that matter.


The doom and gloom in this thread is completely ridiculous.

[sintzu]

Dragon Ball currently is no different than Pokemón and its adding new transformations and forms to sell toys and add new Rosters in Video Games.

The difference is that Pokemon started that way. DB's main source (the manga) is a story with merchandise revolving around it. Now however, the stories revolve around the merchandise which is a shame cause I think DB still has the potential to still be a story first with the right people behind it.

[HeroR]

BNHA is more popular oversees than it is in Japan.

You got any evidence? Just curious.

Mostly that BNHA doesn't do as good in its time slot compared to other shows in that same spot. That is compared to the massive success BNHA is oversees with it being one of the higher viewed shows on Crunchyroll. I am not saying BNHA isn't popular in Japan, just that it is kind of like Naruto.

[Ripper 30]

Dragon Ball overall is a thing of a past in Japan now, they hardly care for it.

It’s still in the top 10 of ratings and there is tons of merchandise. Dragon Ball is definitely still a beloved franchise in Japan. You don’t know what you are talking about.

And as for serious anime fans I consider myself a “serious anime fan” so I know all the late night shows too. They are a completely different demographic from Dragonball & One Piece too for that matter.


The doom and gloom in this thread is completely ridiculous.

I was mainly referring to Dragon Ball and Z and as far as Super is concerned there is hardly anyone talking about it other than Kids. One Piece airs right after Super still you will see a lot of them not talking about Super but fanboy One Piece that's what I am talking about, they aren't just enthusiastic about Dragon Ball now. But outside Japan it's going great this doesn't mean in Japan it's going bad but it's just that outside Japan it's a big thing currently.

[alakazam^]

as far as Super is concerned there is hardly anyone talking about it other than Kids.

And this is a negative thing because...?

[HeroR]

as far as Super is concerned there is hardly anyone talking about it other than Kids.

And this is a negative thing because...?

Kids have terrible opinions.....this is a fact.

[Lord Beerus]

Dragon Ball overall is a thing of a past in Japan now, they hardly care for it.

It’s still in the top 10 of ratings and there is tons of merchandise. Dragon Ball is definitely still a beloved franchise in Japan. You don’t know what you are talking about.

And as for serious anime fans I consider myself a “serious anime fan” so I know all the late night shows too. They are a completely different demographic from Dragonball & One Piece too for that matter.


The doom and gloom in this thread is completely ridiculous.

I was mainly referring to Dragon Ball and Z and as far as Super is concerned there is hardly anyone talking about it other than Kids. One Piece airs right after Super still you will see a lot of them not talking about Super but fanboy One Piece that's what I am talking about, they aren't just enthusiastic about Dragon Ball now. But outside Japan it's going great this doesn't mean in Japan it's going bad but it's just that outside Japan it's a big thing currently.

How did you come to that conclusion?

[Asura]

It's true, the Manga may be big there but most of current anime fans don't care about Dragon Ball and find it too old show to watch.

Do you actually have a source for this?

Both One Piece and Dragon Ball Super have been selling well still One Piece was mentioned in Top 100 anime list but Dragon Ball Super hasn't even mentioned in it and neither of Dragon Ball Series made it in top 100 this shows that they have moved on to Better things and it's mostly the kids who are watching Super not really the Anime fans.

Dragon Ball overall is a thing of a past in Japan now, they hardly care for it.

If that was the case it wouldn't be making more money each year than the previous one.

In terms of the ratings, they mean nothing for a merchandise show like DB. Also keep in mind that with over 100 episodes, any show no matter how popular will have episodes that don't do great in the ratings.

IF the ratings continue to drop or remain as they are then all it means is that there's a number of people who are simply tired of it (very understandable) and most likely moved on to something else. also, as far as I know this isn't the first time this happened before things went back to normal so it'll most likely happen again.

I mean as a Toy Selling franchise for kids it's doing good but from a serious point of view not many anime fans are interested in Super as they are in One Piece, Gintama or any other shows. Ask any Japanese fan about anime and I highly doubt they will mention Dragon Ball specially this generation.

So basically you have no source and you're, pardon my french here, talking out your ass?

What is the Top 100 anime list? Who makes this list? Is there some universal Top 100 anime list we should all know about? Is this list made of opinions somehow evident of who watches the show, kids or "anime fans"? Where does your claim come from that people are more interested in One Piece and Gintama or "any other show" than Super? Have you personally asked Japanese fans what they think about anime and Super? All of your talking points sound like you made them up in your head and now believe them as truth.

[Kinokima]

For no Japanese fans of Dragon Ball I am certainly finding a lot of Japanese accounts on twitter that are clearly fans of the franchise

[sintzu]

All of your talking points sound like you made them up in your head and now believe them as truth.

He's basing them off the ratings which is fine to do but not this early. Super is a long running show so there are going to be episodes that get low ratings which happened before and will happen in the future. Now, if the ratings continue to go down week after week then he'll have a good point but personaly I think things will go back to normal with tomorrow's episode.

[Kinokima]

All of your talking points sound like you made them up in your head and now believe them as truth.

He's basing them off the ratings which is fine to do but not this early. Super is a long running show so there are going to be episodes that get low ratings which happened before and will happen in the future. Now, if the ratings continue to go down week after week then he'll have a good point but personaly I think things will go back to normal with tomorrow's episode.

Unfortunately the problem is the Sentai shows. I hope it doesn’t continue to be this low but it might if that is going to steal ratings from Dragonball

But as the show is still in the top 10 I don’t think it’s in any danger of being cancelled.

[sintzu]

Unfortunately the problem is the Sentai shows. I hope it doesn’t continue to be this low but it might if that is going to steal ratings from Dragonball

But as the show is still in the top 10 I don’t think it’s in any danger of being cancelled.

Regardless of what's the reason, it'll show that people prefer other things over DB which is the point he was making. What I'm worried about is that this'll push them to do some major fan favorite thing to bring people back which will only make things worse.

Even if it leaves the top 10, its life depends on the sale figures and so far they're amazing and will hopefully continue to be.

[Kinokima]

Unfortunately the problem is the Sentai shows. I hope it doesn’t continue to be this low but it might if that is going to steal ratings from Dragonball

But as the show is still in the top 10 I don’t think it’s in any danger of being cancelled.

Regardless of what's the reason, it'll show that people prefer other things over DB which is the point he was making. What I'm worried about is that this'll push them to do some major fan favorite thing to bring people back which will only make things worse.

Even if it leaves the top 10, its life depends on the sale figures and so far they're amazing and will hopefully continue to be.

Well no because the Sentai shows still have lower ratings than DB. Obviously when another show is competing against it in the same exact demographic it’s going to steal some ratings that’s common sense.


And what he said is Japanese fans do not care about Dragonball anymore which is clearly not true.

[sintzu]

What he said is Japanese fans do not care about Dragonball anymore which is clearly not true.

Obviously not, DB is one of the faces of mainstream Japan and that'll most likely continue for years to come, especially as long as they have Toriyama on board.

[Theophrastus]

Do you actually have a source for this?

Both One Piece and Dragon Ball Super have been selling well still One Piece was mentioned in Top 100 anime list but Dragon Ball Super hasn't even mentioned in it and neither of Dragon Ball Series made it in top 100 this shows that they have moved on to Better things and it's mostly the kids who are watching Super not really the Anime fans.

I mean as a Toy Selling franchise for kids it's doing good but from a serious point of view not many anime fans are interested in Super as they are in One Piece, Gintama or any other shows. Ask any Japanese fan about anime and I highly doubt they will mention Dragon Ball specially this generation.

So basically you have no source and you're, pardon my french here, talking out your ass?

What is the Top 100 anime list? Who makes this list? Is there some universal Top 100 anime list we should all know about? Is this list made of opinions somehow evident of who watches the show, kids or "anime fans"? Where does your claim come from that people are more interested in One Piece and Gintama or "any other show" than Super? Have you personally asked Japanese fans what they think about anime and Super? All of your talking points sound like you made them up in your head and now believe them as truth.

I would assume the top 100 they're referring to is the NHK poll that was done earlier this year, which I made a thread about:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=38523

[Kinokima]

I don’t really think this supports his theory though. I expect if this poll was done at a different time the results would be different. And I wonder if this poll actually was just Japanese fans or was it a web poll?

Though I am surprised Tiger and Bunny got No 1. Tiger & Bunny was a very big seller in Japan but not necessarily a top tier seller.

I don’t really think these results say anything about Dragon Ball’s popularity in Japan or about anime popularity in general. There are so many factors to look at it and it’s definitely not so clear cut.

[Asura]

All of your talking points sound like you made them up in your head and now believe them as truth.

He's basing them off the ratings which is fine to do

No, it's not fine to do. This nonsense about any Japanese anime fan not even knowing/caring about Dragon Ball anymore is just that, nonsense. You're going to base that solely off of TV ratings? Cable TV? The dying medium that people use less and less every day?

I would assume the top 100 they're referring to is the NHK poll that was done earlier this year, which I made a thread about:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=38523

This poll is a joke and anyone who has taken a statistics class or knows anything at all about polling can tell you that. How many people were polled? What was the age range of the people polled? Are they casual viewers, or hardcore anime viewers? How was the polling done? Did they walk around and ask people on the street? Was it a mail-in form? Online form? What's the margin error? How was this poll spread and made available for people to know about? Were there multiple commercials airing for months? What is literally ANY information other than Male/Female results?

I have a hard time believing any poll that doesn't even have a single one of those elements, let alone most of them (which it should have).

[precita]

Eventually Dragonball will have to be rebooted with a new younger cast or a reimaginng.

At this point I think they'll just go ahead and make Trunks, Goten, Pan, Uub, and maybe Bra or Maron the next major characters. It will be called, "Dragonball: The Next Generation" and focus on all the kid characters.