What this is
How often the regular Pokémon TV episode made Video Research's weekly top ten anime in the Tokyo area, year by year from 2015 to late October 2026, and its average household rating in the weeks it was listed: 21 of 52 weeks at about 4.0% in 2015, one week in 2025, and none in the first 42 weeks of 2026.
How it’s built
- Every weekly anime top-ten table Video Research published for the Tokyo area from the start of 2015 to late October 2026, 619 pages in all, was read and the Pokémon rows picked out.
- Only regular half-hour episodes were counted; specials, finales and reruns were left out.
- For each year we counted the weeks Pokémon was listed and averaged its rating over those weeks.
What we assumed
- The average covers only the weeks the show was listed.A week is printed only when the show is in the top ten, so the listed average sits above the true yearly average, by more in years with few listed weeks.
- Years can be compared even though the table's ranking basis changed.Video Research ranked by household rating until 2021 and by individual rating from 2022; the count of listed weeks still measures presence on the list either way.
Sanity check
The fall in listed weeks lines up with the show's moves to a Sunday slot in 2018 and a Friday slot in 2020, and with the falling level needed to make the list.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
Show the working
- From (619 weekly VR pages, parsed by archive-R/vrparse.py, summarised by vrstats.py)
- Regular 30-minute episodes only (finales, specials, reruns excluded)
- Listed means are upper-biased: a week is printed only when Pokémon is in the top 10, so in years with few listed weeks the true average i
Where it’s used
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