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NEWS: Japan's Animation TV Ranking, October 24-30

Surprised to see Detective Conan comfortably on that list, as is Suite Precure.

It would be much more useful to 95% of fans to have listings more related to what comes in streams, etc.

Cour! Pokemon just squeaks in at 10, but looks close to relegation, where One Piece is still up there in the top 5. Could Pikachu's batteries be starting to run low?

Surprised to see Detective Conan comfortably on that list, as is Suite Precure.

Whether for these or for other reasons, the members of Japan’s younger generation are fast losing their interest in viewing the boob tube. Networks across the board are noticing that even the shows capturing the highest viewer ratings in any given time slot report increasingly lower figures.

Among teens and people in their 20s, the declines were startling. Teens in 2005 had viewed TV for an average of 106 minutes per day; in 2010, the figure had dropped to 70 minutes, a decline of over 30%. For the 20 to 29 age group, viewing time fell from a daily average of 104 minutes to 76.

Japan’s younger generation, long criticized for “watching too much TV,” had apparently managed to pare half an hour a day from their viewing time without further nagging from their elders.

It also appears that after the switchover to digital broadcasting last July 24, a considerable number of households ceased watching TV entirely.

A survey by the Cabinet Office saw this coming. In 2005, the number of all TV units, including analog models with cathode ray tubes, per 100 households was 255—in other words, 2.5 TVs per home. In March of this year, the number had declined to 239. When the switchover from analog arrived, some people made the decision to “graduate” from TV and dispense with their sets entirely. Some 98,000 households notified NHK that they were canceling their subscriptions.