Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-75.164.164.169-20140712190621/@comment-26391060-20140714035730

75.164.164.169 wrote:

C933103 wrote: .... LITERALLY Midnight in Japan? In the US if something airs premiers at midnight that's what's called a "Graveyard slot" for shows that don't have viewers. Just how poor are the ratings? Most anime air in midnight (except a few programs that target a larger part of audience, most anime won't have more than 3% total audience anyway), due to the extensive use of recording machine in Japan. In Tokyo, Tochigi, Gunma by 23:30,  Kanagawa by 24:00, Saitama and Chiba by 24:30,  Aichi by 25:50, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama by 26:28. (These are time used by Japanese TV schedules, just minus 24 hours to get the actual time but they are in the midnight of next day.) And it is 26:35 of 3 days later for Fukuoka and 26:05 of 4 days later for Hokkaido's channel. For other 60% regions of Japan not mentioned above, you could only use official internet streams to watch it or paying for satellite TV subscription.

And as a trivia, back in the last new year eve of Japan, which are traditionally the time every TV station putting out their best program to compete for audience. In Japan, each prefecture would have their own TV stations plus a nation-wide NHK station. And then there are five major VHF network exist across japan which each of them occupy the more board-reaching VHF radio frequency, and their local station in Tokyo include Nippon TV, TV Asashi, TBS Telev, TV Tokyo, and Fuji TV. Their also exist some small UHF stations which can only reach fewer people due to its higher radio frequency band allocation. In tokyo, there are Tokyo MX and Open University of  Japan. With the poorest performing VHF channel, Fuji TV, last year just simply re-broadcast the opening of 1968 Tokyo Olympic and then have somne actors interact in the name of prepare for the 2020 Tokyo olympic, which the attitude seem to others that they have given up the year end competition, which does reflect on stats that they have only 0.8-2.6% audience rating point during last few hours of year 2013, the worst-performing VHF station in Tokyo. But if you could recall, by the end of last year it is also the time when SAO Extra Edition air. how is the performance of SAO EE? (And together with Neppu Kairiku Bushiroad which air from 7 to 10 that day) At that day, Neppu Kairiku Bushiroad and SAO EE air via Tokyo MX the UHF station, and it is not accounted in the audience rating stats as usual and presumably lower than all other VHF stations including Fuji TV as usual.

And Trivia II: There  exist an anime called Puella Magi Maadoka Magica which being praised as 'social phenomenon' due to its influence and its movie edition have a box office of over 2 billion Japanese Yen or 20 Million USD which is the record for Japanese midnight TV anime, when it air back in year 2011, its last 2 or 3 episode was aired 1.5 months after the original plan/other episode due to the 3.11 earthquake. When those final episodes finally air, it's audience rating is 2.3% and account for 22.6%(less than 1/4) total people who are watching TV at that time (at the time of 3 o'clock) an dit is already exceptional enough to amaze people and be notable enough to be reported by some reports and write on wikipedia. p.s. Madoka magica air on VHF station