Naruto Leads the Pack on Toonami During Week 2

Posted by Natalie Robinson on December 13, 2012 at 3:39 PM
Tags: Bleach, Information, Naruto

The viewership numbers for North America’s Toonami block on December 9th are in! Naruto, in it’s second week on Toonami with episode 2: “My Name Is Konohamaru”, led the the pack, with 908,000 viewers!

Overall, viewership for Toonami was down on December 9th as more people enjoyed Naruto on December 2nd, even though the show ended up being second in viewership.

Below are the viewership rankings for Toonami’s December 9th showing. The time listed is the time the show aired in the Eastern and Pacific timezones. It’s worth noting that in their marketing, Toonami mentions Naruto airs on Saturday night (December 8th in this case), but in actuality the air day is Sunday (December 9th in this case). As you already may know, the new calendar day begins at 12:00 AM (midnight).

  1. Naruto – 908,000 viewers (12:30 AM)
  2. Bleach – 880,000 viewers (12:00 AM)
  3. Tenchi Muyo! GXP – 743,000 viewers (1:00 AM)
  4. Thundercats – 678,000 viewers (1:30 AM)
  5. Samurai 7 – 582,000 viewers (2:00 AM)
  6. Eureka Seven – 578,000 viewers (3:00 AM)
  7. Sym-Bionic Titan – 575,000 viewers (2:30 AM)
  8. InuYasha – 549,000 viewers (5:30 AM)
  9. Cowboy Bebop – 533,000 viewers (4:00 AM)
  10. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood – 521,000 viewers (3:30 AM)
  11. Cowboy Bebop – 475,000 viewers (4:30 AM)
  12. InuYasha – 441,000 viewers (5:00 AM)

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/C53C7ESFJISK2LICRWI55YUTWI Hamlet

    that was to be expected…

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/C53C7ESFJISK2LICRWI55YUTWI Hamlet

    i can’t wait for the chunnin exams!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FFCRVIFR3JTGAMDA3AQI3XQQ3E Cloud S

    Not a fan of the line-up on Toonami since it defeats the purpose of the whole process of the re-establishment of Toonami, and what it truly was put on back for from the people who helped get it back on’s view, but if Naruto helps, them I’m all game. I’m just going to need to see some Panty and Stocking, Madoka, K Project, Evangelion, and some new anime. And hopefully these guys can yank Shipuuden from Disney’s hands, too.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/ENRWH6PGHSJ274LYJOEMUZXHDM LiL JJ

    Well,I don’t wanna say “First” because what are we 8 yrs old. But I would like to say that I am no the Emperor of the “First” Committee starting now and…jk jk Good for Naruto and this is just the start of the epic Part 1.

  • DeiDei180

    Go naruto!

  • NarutoUchiha1

    They should air 2 episodes of naruto and take that techi mundo crap off…

  • http://blackstar2661.deviantart.com Taijutsu-Joshua

    But they’d lose Tenchi Muyo viewers… and you can’t assume people who watch Tenchi Muyo will watch Naruto…

  • Shuran

    cant wait for one piece to be in toonami it will get 3 times more then naruto xD

  • Shuran

     they should take btoom and k project when there done but i hope k project last until 100 or something

  • Heero Yuy

    Just change Thunder Cats to One Piece or Fairy Tail, and replace current InuYasha w/ Final Act.
    And there you have it, a good line up until they finish showing kid Naruto and decide to replace that w/ Shippuden

  • Amanuel Sisay

    Lmao One Piece may be big worldwide but it definitely wont beat out Naruto on Toonami. Sorry Brother

  • thatchinkykid

    Lol not al ot of people watch One Piece in the U.S so no it would never get more views than Bleach and Naruto.

  • yujizzsakai

    one piece would be a great addition to the line  up or dragon ball z since it was on their back then puting it bak on now will be great

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003324106695 Feliciano PlayboyPasta Vargas

    DO’NT TAKE OFF TENCHI MUYO!!!!!!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7MU5OUS7FIH575VT4PNZNIDXU jermar

    it is true that one piece is more popular in japan; however, in the u.s. naruto is more popular 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7MU5OUS7FIH575VT4PNZNIDXU jermar

    I’ve been watching shippuden for so long, I forgot how good Naruto used to be.

  • Rayson

    LOL i told ya naruto zooms pass with ease 

  • http://twitter.com/CerebralKing4ev Captain Vizard

     The reason why naruto passed bleach in views is because right now on toonami they stop giving new bleach eps, so their taking a break, and giving old eps, but anyways we still rewatch both naruto and bleach because their awesome.

  • Guest

    world wide > toonami 
    One piece > shippuden

  • Guest

    So win by default 

  • *Super~Sayian*

    I hate it when people compare Naruto’s brilliant success to that dog pile called shippuden , it’s like comparing dragon ball Z to freaking dragon ball GT. it’s a insult, I never seen a anime drop so low since bleach, the only thing keeping naruto shippuden in the top 5 in manga’s and anime is because of part 1, why? cause veteran naruto fans want’s to continue the story, even if it means they have to suffer through it. ( 4th war ) 

    Theirs a reason why naruto is shown and not shippuden, sure disney is the one who own shippuden but do you honestly think it was canceled or hiatus because of the ” violence” ? oh please, disney knew darn well what they were getting into, they only canceled it because of lack of views, and the 100+ fillers after part 1 canon forcing everyone to watch shippuden (sub) is the main cause of that. ugh…theirs a reason why 90% of OP fans were once naruto fans, you naruto only supporters who hate one piece for being so popular in japan and the #1 selling manga? then BLAME shippuden! 

    Don’t even get me started on storm games, you wanna know why we have barely any storm 3 articles? because they’re hardly have anything new, most of the stuff we seen were just about 90% of the game’s content. all that’s left is rosters and the plot. if you really think the plot will reach up to madara let alone obito.. keep dreaming, if that stupid matuyasama guy wasn’t so greedy and kept his promise, we will be waiting till the manga/anime ends in 2013-14, ugh.. I sware that guy is no different from COD games. that’s why he is doing all these dumb market sales and limited edition crap, while leaving us american’s out of it just so he can get more money without spending more money for us. you really think storm 3 is going to be epic? LOL, yeah will see when storm 4 is confirmed, and I bet you most of you guys will say storm 3 will be slightly better than generations only because they re-added story mode. I’m done talking about this. end 

  • Aldridge517

    That right there is just math Lol

  • http://twitter.com/devaughn92 devaughn chambers

    they really need to bring back Outlaw Star. They need to replace it with either full metal alchemist or cowboy bebop. Outlaw Star came out BEFORE Cowboy Bebop did. Many people don’t know this.

  • http://Youtube.com/Jmeny14 Killer Popo

    I doubt it since Nicktoons now has a license for DBZ Kai(It will probably come back since Toei just confirmed that they’re making Buu Saga), DBGT, and all of the DBZ movies

  • AdrianH20

    u sound dumb as shit

  • thatchinkykid

    The reason it went on hiatus is because of low ratings wanna know why they had low ratings because they censored mostly everything and that makes people not watch it. I didn’t watch it when it was on Disney XD.

     You’re blaming Shippuden for the fillers? Bro, that’s why everyone prefers the manga. I like how you said “90% of OP fans were once Naruto fans” where did you get this information? Did you interview every OP fan? Stop making random numbers.Are you really hating on the Storm SERIES? They’re one of the best anime games ever, don’t argue. Do you ever think that Storm 3 is only going this far because maybe just maybe there is going to be another Naruto including the whole war? Don’t say it’s stupid, because by then we are going to have a new console therefore more disk memory which means more data for games.
    Just stop, lol

  • thatchinkykid

    This is just the beginning of Naruto. When I first started watching Naruto I never even seen the first 20 episodes while Bleach is already in its climax.
    Start of Naruto >>>>>> Climax of Bleach
    Get me? It doesn’t matter if its on break, Bleach has more fans that know the channel that it is on while Naruto barely got on Toonami so its regaining NEW fans and old ones :)

  • thatchinkykid

    Who said OP is bigger worldwide? LOL

  • http://twitter.com/MrEpicFailed A.Z.

    Does it bother people if people don’t try to hate nowadays?  What evidence do you have to prove that 90% of OP fans were Naruto fans? What makes you think that Naruto supporters hate One Piece? 

  • http://twitter.com/MrEpicFailed A.Z.

    So happy for Toonami and Naruto! :)

  • Bleach12

    WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????????????????????????????????? BLEACH IS A MILLION TIMES BETTER THAN NARUTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Bleach12

    Well, I do like Naruto too, but Bleach is better.

  • Bleach12

    Because OP is the worst Anime/Manga ever created!

  • Shuran

    we dont know that for sure i havent seen anything proving that recently show me one

  • Shuran

    but world wide one piece is better then naruto you cant tell me wrong about that and also if one piece is in toonami overtime the ppl who start watching it will begin to like it and it will bring more ppl to the point that on piece will become more popular then naruto dont forget it toonami everyone knows about roonami so alot of ppl will see it

  • Bleach12

    I agree with you

  • Alli840

    Bleach is getting pretty boring now. One Piece isn’t even bad. Have you ever even seen it. I have seen anime the is just terrible beyond belief. Try watching school days and tell me what you think.

  • James

    pssh that crap sucks

  • Guyman

    No bleach is bad now, It got bad after Ichigo defeated Aizen. Everything afterward became pointless and unnecessary.

  • Bleach12

    I have watched OP now and now it’s one of my top 5 animes.

  • Bleach12

    I totally agree!

  • Bleach12

    No it is still awesome!

  • nicholas deo

    Bleach sucks ass

  • nicholas deo

    It is repetitive and it sucks

  • Bleach12

    No as I said before, IT IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • nicholas deo

    Naruto part 1 was like: chunin exams= hunter x hunter. It got interesting, when sasuke left the village, before that it was some childish crap like one piece. Naruto shippuden is much better then part 1, well if fillers weren’t counted. It gives a much better mature feel to it then bleach or one piece. Storm 3 was flipping epic, the story mode gets a massive 10/10, character roster is 7/10 and they where able to do what they can with the budget they had.

  • nicholas deo

    Dbz>>>>>>>>>>>>>>naruto>>>>>bleach>>>one piece. All I can say, if they release Dbz instead of one piece then views would be more then naruto.

  • nicholas deo

    Why is it awesome? Ichigo can defeat enemies with little hard work at all, he has defeated enemy’s 1000 years older then him. What kind of logic is that? Yes fights are epic, but all I see Is Ichigo spamming the anime.

  • xXToshiroXx

    Well that’s your opinion.

  • xXToshiroXx

    Yay! :D

  • Bleach12

    Do you want me to keep repeating my self? BLEACH IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!