How Popular is Pocket Monsters?

Yaoilovertash

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How Popular is Pocket Monsters?

I'm sorry, this is a silly question, but how popular is pokemon in Japan? They made all these movies for Pokemon so, I always wondered is there a huge pokemon database there and a huge studio just dedicated to making pokemon cartoons and coming up with movie? I mean Disney's animations took hundreds of artists, animators, etc... So I always wondered to make something like Pokemon, how much work must get involved? I remember looking up shows on anime news network and I found out case closed anime or detective Kohan had over 400 episodes and I thought that's a lot of cases. Pokemon been going on for 10 years and I just was just wondering how strong is the love for pokemon in Japan? Is there going to be pokemon-related themes being sold like pokemon favored consoles like the wii?
 

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How popular? The only thing that beat the movies in theaters was Star Wars. It's friggin' huge.
 

MugenSeiRyuu

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Okay, checked again, it is not always in the Top 5.

The following are always in the Top 5 ( expecte for when they don't air )
Sazae-san
Chibimaruko
Doraemon
Crayon Shin-chan
 
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Here's the ranking in Japan so far.

16.7% Sazae-san (13/07 18:30 Fuji)
11.8% Chibi Maruko-chan (13/07 18:00 Fuji)
10.8% Crayon Shin-chan (11/07 19:30 Asahi)
8.9% Doraemon (11/07 19:00 Asahi)
7.9% Meitantei Conan (07/07 19:30 NTV)
7.8% One Piece (13/07 9:30 Fuji)
7.7% Yatterman (07/07 19:00 NTV)
7.5% Gegege no Kitaro (13/07 9:00 Fuji)
6.0% Pokemon DP (10/07 19:00 TV Tokyo)
5.8% Yes! Pretty Cure 5 GoGo! (13/07 8:30 Asahi)

Source: AnimeBlade​
 

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Shin-chan? How the hell is that popular? I change the channel each time it comes on! I can't stand it!

Someone go to japan and slap them upside the head for me.
 
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Ranking in Japan

14.4% Lupin III Especial (25/07 21:03 NTV)
10.1% Crayon Shin-chan (25/07 19:30 Asahi)
9.2% Doraemon (25/07 19:00 Asahi)
6.7% Pokemon DP (24/07 19:00 TV Tokyo)
4.8% Naruto (24/07 19:30 TV Tokyo)
4.7% Keroro Gunsou (26/07 10:00 TV Tokyo)
4.6% Anpanman (25/07 16:30 NTV)
4.3% Blue Dragon (26/07 9:00 TV Tokyo)
4.2% Ohacolosseum (26/07 8:30 TV Tokyo)
4.1% Shugo Chara! (26/07 9:30 TV Tokyo)

Yeah, Shin-Chan is in 2nd place:D
 

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Still don't see how shin-chan is popular. Maybe it's just the retarded humor appealing to them.
 

Yaoilovertash

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I can understand the appeal

I can understand the appeal of Pokemon, I'm 21 but I still have fondness of pokemon, I even paid a whole lot of money to get pikachu special edition of gameboy SP and the pikachu version of DS lite. There is something about Pikachu that I truly love. The dubbed versions of Pokemon here doesn't really do the show justice but I love watching the original Japanese episode with english subs. I find myself being able to watch Pokemon better in Japanese than English as weird as that sounds. I guess in the long-run, pokemon kept the kid in me. I didn't realize that Pokemon was so high-rated in Japan though, I guess it's true what they say, everyone loves pokemon.
 
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GaustKaizer

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But I think Pocket Monsters will never beat Crayon Shin-Chan:D

I'll show last week's ranking as soon as AnimeBlade presents.
 
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GaustKaizer

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Ranking is up now.

9.8% Chibi Maruko-chan (10/08 18:00 Fuji)
8.3% Crayon Shin-chan (08/08 19:30 Asahi)
8.0% Doraemon (08/08 19:00 Asahi)
7.8% Meitantei Conan (04/08 19:30 NTV)
6.2% Pokemon DP (07/08 19:00 TV Tokyo)
5.7% Gegege no Kitaro (10/08 9:00 Fuji)
5.6% O*ne Piece (10/08 9:30 Fuji)
5.5% Yatterman (04/08 19:00 NTV)
5.4% Keroro Gunsou (09/08 10:00 TV Tokyo)
4.7% Blue Dragon (09/08 9:00 TV Tokyo)

Yay for Shin-Chan is in 2nd place:)
 
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Ranking are always updated on my website. And the ranking will be by Sunday if possible.
 

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Here's the New Ranking from last week:D

14.2% Sazae-san (17/08 18:30 Fuji)
10.9% Chibi Maruko-chan (17/08 18:00 Fuji)
8.7% Crayon Shin-chan (15/08 19:30 Asahi)
8.2% Doraemon (15/08 19:00 Asahi)
7.7% Meitantei Conan (11/08 19:30 NTV)
6.8% Gegege no Kitaro (17/08 9:00 Fuji)
6.6% Yatterman (11/08 19:00 NTV)
6.6% One Piece (17/08 9:30 Fuji)
5.4% Pokemon DP (14/08 19:00 TV Tokyo)
5.1% Yes! Pretty Cure5GoGo (17/08 8:30 Asahi)

Awww.... Shin-Chan is in 3rd place.
 
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