weedle_mchairybug
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Sometimes I feel that some people confuse the overall rating with TV ratings and do not even know what TV ratings mean at all. Please do not confuse the time as it was then with today plus another country not compare with another country when it comes to TV ratings.
The entire point of having ratings is to measure viewership, and the only way to actually measure viewership is with TV ratings. And before you cite online ratings, let's make clear that Hulu/Netflix streaming services are defunct in Japan, and even regarding DVR streaming services, Pokémon's bottom rung. And for the record, I can name plenty of Japanese shows that had fairly high ratings, such as Shin-Chan or Detective Conan (and by "fairly high ratings", I mean ratings that are at least 7.0, if not within the double digits). And, in a prior post, I noted a few Japanese shows, especially those that were adaptations of mangas or, in the case of Star Force, games, that ended prematurely due to a lack of ratings. Heck, one of the examples included the Bleach anime, and that sold quite a bit of merchandise and still has enough popularity that they're actually making a new film as we speak.
And I know a couple of people who would be very familiar with TV ratings and what they mean. In fact, they're actually some of my Maternal Aunts and Uncles. Specifically, my aunt formerly owned an advertising agency, and current works as an advertising consultant at Disney, and my Uncle teaches advertising at the University of North Carolina.
And for the record, NCIS actually has very stellar ratings even today, about as high as back when it first aired back in 2003. I can probably cite any Japanese ratings from Detective Conan or Shin-Chan that had similarly high ratings if I must (I can definitely state that Famon, if he's still around, can vouch regarding those shows, since he pointed that out when calling out the Pokémon Anime's current sordid ratings).