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The new live-action series of ‘GTO’ has been in steady decline since its household rating of 6.4% for episode 1, sliding to a household rating of 3.0% and an individual rating of just 1.7% for episode 6, which aired last week. The original 1998 series averaged a household rating of 28.5% across its entire run — meaning this new version already started out at less than half of that in its premiere, and has only fallen further since. On 5ch, some defended the show by pointing to viewership on the TVer catch-up streaming service (‘ratings? in this day and age?’), while others dove into comparisons with the original series or revisited the history behind Fuji TV’s past ratings slump — opinions were all over the map.
From episode 1 through episode 6 (aired last week), household ratings ran 6.4%, 4.8%, 4.0%, 3.9%, 3.8%, 3.0%, while individual ratings ran 3.8%, 2.9%, 2.4%, 2.1%, 2.2%, 1.7%.
Considering the original 1998 series averaged a household rating of 28.5% across its entire run, the new version’s premiere rating of 6.4% was already pretty dismal — and last week’s episode came in at less than half of even that premiere number.
The individual rating also fell to less than half of its premiere figure last week, dropping into the dreaded 1% range.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
How did it feel getting zero replies?
I like it
I thought it was pretty good, honestly
Can't help it, Aibou's just good
If anything, more households probably have the TV on during the day than in primetime — old folks are probably asleep by 10pm
A million people are watching on TVer (TVer: Japan's major free catch-up streaming service)
Exhibit A: the original VIVANT
Case closed
VIVANT
That's under 1% though
That's Fuji TV for you
Did they go and desecrate Taira no Masakado's burial mound or something? (a famously 'cursed' site in Tokyo)
That's around when they got hammered for pushing Korean content too hard, then hammered again when comedians like Okamura kept saying 'if you don't like it, don't watch'
A wild stretch that basically ended with nobody watching anymore
Yeah, things really did go off the rails once they mysteriously started pushing Korean content so hard
It's just doing the same stuff as every other delinquent-manga story
The '98 version was good enough that I rewatched the reruns over and over
Go look up the manga's print run numbers
You'll be floored
What made it great was turning a delinquent-manga protagonist into a teacher for the sequel
Old people are exactly who watches GTO
You just don't realize you're old yet yourself
If old people were watching, the ratings would be higher
Can you even read the thread title? It says 'ratings'
The people who hyped up Sorimachi's original were just using him as a bludgeon against EXILE — now that they're doing it all over again, nobody's even looking
It was season 2 that flopped — season 1 was a solid hit, which is exactly why they made a season 2
Well, that was EXILE's peak era plus the GTO name recognition, so of course it pulled numbers
Plus there's the fun of comparing it to the original
All the girls playing students were cute — even the teacher roles had people like Takimoto Miori and Higa Manami
I mean, comparing it to something from 14 years ago is a bit much…
Honestly I think TVer is one of the real reasons more young people are going without a TV these days
A special-grade cursed object that charges you money just for owning it (joking about the NHK license fee)
NHK: 😡
NHK: 'We're pushing for a law change so you'll have to pay the license fee even with just a smartphone or PC 😁'
Even if it's trending, jumping in partway through kills the motivation to watch
That's why I end up paying for services that stream every episode instead
Background and Key Points on This Topic
Japanese TV ratings come in two types: “household ratings,” measured per household, and “individual ratings,” tallied per viewer, with the latter given more weight as a gauge of how well a drama reaches its core adult audience. The “1% range” cited for this new series refers to the individual rating. Some in the thread pointed to viewership figures from catch-up streaming services like TVer, but streaming views aren’t included in the current ratings surveys, so the two figures can’t be directly compared — a point that’s easy to misunderstand. There’s also roughly a 30-year gap between this series and the 1998 version used for comparison, and overall household ratings across terrestrial TV have been declining throughout that time, which also factors into the difference. It’s worth noting that the “AKIRA-led version” mentioned in the thread was a separate 2012 series/special, not part of this new series. While some commenters pointed to criticism of Fuji TV’s past programming decisions as the source of its ratings slump, pinning the cause on any single event is disputed, and no definitive conclusion has been reached.
*This article was compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Livejupiter) thread “[Sad News] ‘GTO’ Ratings Finally Hit the 1% Range lololololol.”
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