japanese service videoresearchwhich is in charge of measuring the weekly audience ratings for all programs broadcast on television in Japan, shared the annual ranking with the most watched series in general through terrestrial broadcast in 2022. Here the presence of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yuukakuhen (Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc) in the first position in the anime category.
videoresearch it conducts daily studies on individual television audiences in the 32 broadcast areas throughout the country, covering not only real-time audiences, but also pre-recorded audiences. The global audience is an indicator of the diffusion of one program to another, both in real time and in deferred (that is, if the show was watched within seven days after it first aired).
According to the listing, the second season of Kimetsu no Yaiba got first place with an average of 18.43 million viewers for each issue, and a maximum of 25.5 million for the tenth episode (penultimate) and 25.97 million for the eleventh episode (last of the second season). Whereas the movie Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Resha-hen attracted more than 28.96 million viewers, it can be safely said that Kimetsu no Yaiba’s fan base has not diminished at all since then.
The figure of 18.43 million almost equaled the number of spectators that the match of Japan vs. Spain in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
which rose to 18.60 million people, but paled before other sports events such as the matches of Japan vs. Costa Rica; Japan vs. Germany; and Japan vs. Croatia of the same World Cup.
Regarding other animes, sazae-san, a children’s program that has been broadcast every Sunday afternoon for more than twenty-five years. This legendary series amassed an average of 10.41 million viewers per episode in 2022, thus lagging far behind Demon Slayers.
Synopsis of Kimetsu no Yaiba: Yuukaku-hen
The devastation of the Infinity Train incident still weighs heavily on the members of the Demon Hunter Corps. Though they have been given time to recuperate, life must go on as the wicked never sleep: a vicious demon is terrorizing the seductive women of the Yoshiwara Entertainment District. The Pillar of Sound, Tengen Uzui, and his three wives take charge of the case. However, when he soon loses contact with his wife, Tengen fears the worst and enlists the help of Tanjirou Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, and Inosuke Hashibira to infiltrate the most prominent houses in the district and track down the depraved High Rank demon.
Fountain: Press release
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