Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki‘s Princess Mononoke film aired on NTV on Friday, August 29 at 9:00 p.m. and it earned an 11.0% rating.
The Eiga Oshiri Tantei Saraba Itoshiki Aibō (Oshiri) yo anime film aired on NHK-E on Sunday, August 31 at 3:45 p.m. and it earned a 0.3% rating.
The Sing a Bit of Harmony anime film aired on NHK-E on Saturday, August 30 at 8:45 p.m. and it earned a 0.5% rating.
The live-action film adaptation of Katsutoshi Murase and Welzard‘s Karada Sagashi (Body Search) horror manga aired on TV Tokyo on Saturday, August 30 at 2:45 a.m. and it earned a 0.3% rating.
An episode of Anpan, the newest entry in NHK‘s six-decade-long Renzoku Terebi Shōsetsu (Serialized TV Novel, also known as “Asadora” or Morning Drama) franchise, aired on Wednesday, August 27 at 8:00 a.m. and earned a 17.1% rating. Another showing on Friday, August 29 at 8:00 a.m. earned a 17.2% rating. A seperate episode on Saturday, August 30 at 12:45 p.m. earned a 9.9% rating.
The new live-action weekday morning series is inspired by the life story of Anpanman manga creator Takashi Yanase and his wife Nobuo Komatsu.
The television ratings above are an estimate of the percentage of the population that watch a given program, based on data from a survey of households in Japan’s Kanto region. The ratings do not count recordings that viewers watch later.
Source: Video Research (Kanto region)