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NEWS: Noitamina Garners Timeslot's Lowest Rating to Date

I absolutely love Fractale, and I really like Princess Jellyfish as well. Noitamina is kind of like the indie animation timeslot for Japan, so it doesn't surprise me that they aren't getting good ratings... I think the best thing they ever had was Eden of the East, but they seem to have screwed the pooch by not giving that a decent end.

It's just like any TV block - after awhile, it loses its freshness, and people get indifferent to it.
And then it's time to move on and think of something else new and fresh and capture people's attention again.
It has had a good long run.

Thanks, yuna49 (assuming your sources are giving you good data).

Graphing out the averages, there are two ways of interpreting this:

1) The time slot did really well (between 3.25 and 4.8) until Kuchuu Buranko/Trapeze, at which point the time slot started to nosedive. Nodame Cantabile: Finale was the exception because it was the conclusion of a very popular franchise.

2) Trapeze was the exception, on the grounds of its extreme weirdness, and the time slot only started nosediving once it expanded into a full hour.

I guess I lean towards the latter, because there's maybe an explanation for the nosedive (how many of the more mainstream viewers are going to stay up an extra half an hour?)

Do you have any data on the individual shows once noitaminA doubled, i.e. earlier vs later?

That's too bad that the slot is seeing a drop in ratings

TJR wrote:

ikillchicken wrote: So...what is this? Is this just a Fractale/Wandering Son thing or is this a general noitaminA problem? I haven't seen either yet so I'm not sure. Last I heard, noitaminA was doing great. Have their ratings began to slide more recently? noitaminA has gone on a downward slide over the past couple years. [...] Momentum from shows like Honey & Clover or Nodame Cantabile can only last for so long. They need new titles with equally broad appeal to keep people watching.

Hm interesting and good points. The niche/experimental nature of their shows is part of the appeal but it makes for a delicate balance.

I feel Fractale could have been better if it had a longer run. It presented a world with plenty of potential, but uneven pacing and some other issues hurt it. It's been a decent watch, though. I can't comment about Wandering Son yet.

I really enjoyed the other series of 2010 though; House of Five Leaves, The Tatami Galaxy, Shiki, and Kuragehime (haven't finished Moyashimon drama). Hakaba Kitaro is one of my favourites, along with Mononoke, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Ayakashi, Moyashimon...

Honestly, it may have been one of the most popular series, but I never got into Honey & Clover. It was too melodramatic. IMO Toshokan Sensou and Jyu Oh Sei were other weak titles. Actually, now that I think about it, a lot of series in the noitaminA slot could have really benefited from a longer run. Oh well, you could say that about a lot of anime. That's what manga/source material is for?

I don't understand:

Kit-Tsukasa wrote:

Ayakashi - Samurai Horror Tales: decent, but only good if you've seen Mononoke. Eden of the East - no one watching after the disastrous two movies

Mononoke was a sequel of sorts of Ayakashi (of Goblin Cat). The Eden of the East movies came out after the series had aired...

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Do you have any data on the individual shows once noitaminA doubled, i.e. earlier vs later?

As far as I know, the only data available since the time slot expanded are these combined figures. I have seen a couple of numbers that support your hypothesis of more viewing in the first half-hour, but it's hard to know whether that's a result of the times they aired or the relative appeal of the two programs. For instance, on 11/04 Kuragehime reportedly garnered a 3.7 while Shiki got a 2.4.

I guess if it's not a show about under age (or initially under age) moe girls with common anime personalities, it won't really garner exceptionally high ratings.