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 Friday, May 2 at 8:00 a.m. and earned a 16.5% rating. A separate episode aired on Tuesday, April 29 at 12:45 p.m. and earned a 5.6% 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.
This week’s episode of the live-action series of Mikito Chinen’s Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte (Ameku Takao’s Detective Karte or literally, Ameku Takao’s Mystery Medical Record) novel series aired on Tuesday, April 29 at 9:00 p.m. and earned a 6.2% rating.
Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron aired on NTV on Friday, May 2 at 9:00 p.m. and earned a 12.4% rating.
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)
