Like a fresh-baked hero rising at dawn, Anpan—NHK’s latest morning drama venture—premiered with a 17.8% viewership surge on Wednesday, July 2 at 8:00 a.m., while its midday counterpart on Tuesday, July 1 at 12:45 p.m. captivated 5.5% of early risers. This real-life adaptation of NHK‘s storied Renzoku Terebi Shōsetsu tradition stitches together the love story of Anpanman creator Takashi Yanase and his wife Nobuo Komatsu, unfolding like a delicate origami of memory.
Meanwhile, the small screen crackled with tension as Chiaki Kisaki‘s DOPE Mayaku Torishimari-bu Tokusōka blasted onto TBS with a 6.0% debut rating on Friday, July 4 at 10:00 p.m., its gritty narrative snaring viewers like a carefully laid investigative trap.
These viewership numbers—precise as a katana’s edge—measure the pulse of Japan’s Kanto region through sampled households, capturing only the live heartbeat of television consumption, not its delayed echoes.
Source: Video Research (Kanto region)