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NEWS: Crunchyroll Ranks Fall 2010 Simulcasts by Popularity

Super Robot Wars viewing numbers is indeed unexpected given how poor the 2006 series was. The Inspector currently better than Divine Wars, but my guess is that it's because it's labeled as "Super Robot Wars", which the game franchise is quite known to many, hence many people going "hey my favorite game franchise is being animated" or something along those lines. Similar results occurred when Persona -trinity soul- aired in 2008 if I recall correctly.

If anything, I'm surprised to Tantei Opera Milky Holmes on the top 10, unless of course there are only 10 shows airing on Crunchyroll this season.

If it's "comparable" than I would say that Crunchyroll is probably not getting that many more viewers as is. There are 2 problems I currently see:

Over on Twitter this morning, Rob Pereyda, the VP of Licensing and Senior Director over at Crunchyroll, revealed a bit about how the new fall season of simulcasts are ranking up. No real statistics are given, but in talking about what's actually being watched and what titles are getting more views than others, it's certainly interesting to see. A lot of the discussion centered on how well Super Robot Wars OG The Inspector is doing and a lot of it is attributed to its access worldwide outside of Japan. While the show likely isn't doing too well with American audiences who haven't had a lengthy relationship with the games that they come from, or many of the shows associated with it, it's certainly going to play well to the Asian market in general.

1. World God Only Knows
2. Otome Yokai ZAKURO
3. Sora No Otoshimono Forte
4. Fortune Arterial
5. Super Robot Wars Original Generation: The Inspector
6. Squid Girl
7. Yumeiro Pâtissière Professional
8. Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt
9. Tegami Bachi (Reverse)
10. Tantei Opera Milky Holmes

There are things worth noting here with all of this beyond just the ranking order itself. According to Mr. Pereyda, if you looked at the numbers last year, the tenth place show this year would have been in second or third place back then. Panty, Stocking & Garterbelt would have been their top show any other season but is ranked eighth this time around. The viewership is definitely increasing and it's interesting to see how the charts are changing in this regard. What was once considered a hit is now a good solid performer as those numbers are getting surpassed, seemingly significantly. As overseas viewership increases as well, with more UK/Ireland licenses being acquired when possible, it's only adding to it and to the diversity of tastes. What gets American audiences won't grab European audiences or Asian audiences sometimes.
How does your personal ranking compare to what the overall Crunchyroll audience is watching these days?

Kit-Tsukasa wrote:

If anything, I'm surprised to Tantei Opera Milky Holmes on the top 10, unless of course there are only 10 shows airing on Crunchyroll this season.

Yes, that is the 10 new simulcasts they have. So Milky Holmes is like. at the bottom of the new ones.

Kit-Tsukasa wrote:

If it's "comparable" than I would say that Crunchyroll is probably not getting that many more viewers as is. There are 2 problems I currently see:

That's not exactly true. Here's the original article where the info came from

CR simul rankings (new): TWGOK, OYZ, SnO2, SRWOG, FA, SG, YPP, PSG, TB, TOMH -- SRWOG may be the surprise hit of the season!!

What's incredible, though, is that the "baseline" level of hits for a simul this season is so huge compared to then that even the so-called "last place" simul now would be 3rd or even 2nd place if you compared the hits to a year ago!

... Eh, the Super Robot Wars games still aren't all that well known in the English speaking world (certainly nowhere near something like Persona). ...
... If anything, I'd figure it's simply because it's a gorgeously animated mecha show with cool designs and an emphasis on ass kickings, which we don't get all that much of anymore these days.

garfield15 wrote:

Quote: Pereyda said that the "baseline level of hits" for this season is comparable to the top levels in previous seasons. Excellent news, more people are going to watch the new season on Crunchyroll.

If it's "comparable" than I would say that Crunchyroll is probably not getting that many more viewers as is. ...

The primary reason I see Tegami Bachi Reverse being so low is that the about half way through the first season, it got relatively dull for many.

I was sad to see P&S near the bottom. I though it would have been a lot higher up on the list, but I guess everything can't be a hit.

asimpson2006 wrote:

I was sad to see P&S near the bottom. I though it would have been a lot higher up on the list, but I guess everything can't be a hit.

That's assuming people watch it on Crunchyroll. Outside of subscribers, most people watch the show off-site, because the streams are a weak off.

v1cious wrote:

asimpson2006 wrote: I was sad to see P&S near the bottom. I though it would have been a lot higher up on the list, but I guess everything can't be a hit. That's assuming people watch it on Crunchyroll. Outside of subscribers, most people watch the show off-site, because the streams are a weak off.

Not in the case of Panty and Stocking. CR launched the first episode on October 1st, pretty much right after it first aired in Japan on TV Kanagawa.

But, um, wouldn't that be the case with any show on that list?

-Squid Girl at #6? And beat out by robits and boobfests? That's disappointing geso.

-Squid Girl at #6? And beat out by robits and boobfests? That's disappointing geso

-Squid Girl at #6? And beat out by robits and boobfests? That's disappointing geso.

-Panty & Stocking deserved much lower than #8. It was traumatizing! All my fond memories of nicktoons trampled on, ridiculed, and fetishized.