Geass episode 9 postponement

[kaine-maxwell.livejournal.com]

http://forums.narutofan.com/showthread.php?t=375155
Apperently episode 9 of Geass is being postponed from it's June 1st airing due to the earthquakes in China.

EDIT: more proof:
http://animehistory.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/code-geass-r2-episode-09-postponed-to-june-8th/

Comments

[arhel.livejournal.com]

I think the problem is that CG might be a hit to those people who buy and read anime magazines, but they're a fairly small percentage of the overall TV viewer audience. 2.7% for a night-time anime is perfectly acceptable, but for a Sunday afternoon slot the advertisers and sponsors expect higher turnout. The shows preceding and following that timeslot are mainstream general interest programs with much higher ratings.

I don't think there's anything wrong with how R2 has been progressing so far. It's just not really a family-friendly general interest program.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I confess now, I get very confused by all this, as I've read a lot about the ratings being poor this season but whenever I ask questions about it, I don't get answers. ^^;

I know previously someone posted that the Sunday afternoon slot was a "bad" time slot and a kiss of death for an anime. Your post makes it sound like it is a "good" slot, but for more family friendly anime. I'd really like to know which it is. ^^;

So for R1 were the ratings great for an anime airing at 1:30 am on a week night, or were they as high as say Gundam Seed or FMA or Get Backers with their former Saturday afternoon time slots?

I guess what I really want to know is, are the ratings for R2 bad for its time slot or bad compared to what they were for R1 or both or is there no real way of knowing?

BTW I saw on another of your posts about how on 6/1 it seems they're airing a re-cap episode, rather than no episode. Between episodes 8+9 was where the first R1 re-cap episode was so perhaps the fact we are getting a re-cap on 6/1 doesn't actually mean anything. ^^;

[arhel.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I didn't mean to confuse you there =)

Sunday afternoons have things like news, sports, and sometimes family shows. Children-oriented anime (Doraemon or something, maybe) wouldn't be out of place there (though I believe most of those are weekend mornings), but a teen/young adult series is a little out of the usual demographic. A late night anime can expect an average rating from 1% to 5% or so, whereas a mainstream program generally gets closer to 10%. I can get more detailed numbers later but I will resist surfing 2-chan at work right now ^^;

The original run wasn't as popular as Gundam Seed, certainly, but was quite respectable for a late night anime and sold a lot of DVDs and merchandise. It's a little too early to tell how R2 is doing in that department since the DVDs aren't out yet and there's the additional complication of people maybe waiting for Blu-Ray instead.

I admit to not really remembering whether the season 1 recap episodes were planned or not. This new one definitely wasn't (some of the TV magazines didn't get time to change the information, even), which worries me a little. The actual causes and eventual effects are just speculation right now, so we'll just have to hope for the best. I just hope they don't do weird things to the plot or have a drastic drop in production values because of the ratings.

[lulu-quality.livejournal.com]

I'm looking at a lot of different pieces of information right now and it doesn't seem like the ratings are that big of a deal. The main problem is with the time slot: Sundays are the main day off for people (Saturdays are half-days for students). It's really hard to come home at that time on a Sunday with jobs, friends, a life, etc. Instead, they can just watch it online on a site like Biglobe later (Biglobe posts the episodes 7 hours later after broadcast). Plus, the video-streaming services that provide R2 have it as the #1 anime watched online on their lists. All the videos of Geass on Biglobe basically make up the top 18 most watched anime vids with the one exception of episode 4 of Macross at #16 or #17. DVD sales are great, so it's not a problem. What could be a problem is using up one of the allotted episode slots. While I'm slightly disappointed about not seeing the episode sooner, It's perfectly understandable why and I respect their decision.

[arhel.livejournal.com]

I admit I do not know enough about the inner workings of Japanese public broadcasting contracts to say just how much the ratings affect a show. Some of the revenue has to come from commercial contracts with sponsors, but how much and whether strong merchandise sales can override low ratings is something else.

Don't get me wrong, I am certainly not complaining about the way they do things or even really mind the delay, I just hope it is a one-time delay rather than being a sign of further difficulties.

[zalem.livejournal.com]

I actually think it's actually doing worse or around the same as season one. But I think the time slot is just bad. Typically people aren't watching too much TV at that hour on Sunday. They were trying to make the equivalent of doroku, but on Sunday instead and basically the plan utterly failed. The better thing would have been to have kept it on Saturday, but before or after the usual 6pm doroku slot. Or they should have just kept it in the late night slot. I think the types of shows typically at that Sunday time also is a factor. CG is just not right for that time slot.

Late night anime typically don't get high ratings. But CG's ratings for the slot were pretty decent for the time slot. They were not anywhere near what old doroku slot shows like GS/D get. For instance...GS/D might get around 5.0, but CG in late night gets 2.5 or something like that. CG in this new slot is getting around 2.25, which is pretty awful. Though I'm not sure what the typical ratings are for other shows in that time slot, so I can't say whether it's typical or not. All I know is it's certainly not anything like doroku, which is what they wished for.