An app referred to as TV Time on January 3, 2023 published a list It’s among the many TV sequence most watched by its person base in 2022. Regardless of its large airplay, “Stranger Issues” solely landed at quantity two. Within the first place, it was none apart from the long-running shonen anime mega-hit “One Piece.”

Whereas the truth that this record is predicated solely on information TV Time has collected means its information is considerably skewed – for instance, as a result of it is an app, TV Time’s person base might be youthful than TV-watchers on the whole – “One Piece” ranks within the high six spots of the record. The one anime that will get it. It appears that evidently anime is not inherently extra widespread on TV Time than live-action sequence. Quite the opposite, “One Piece” is a very talked-about TV present, anime or not.

One potential cause why “One Piece” can be so massive in 2022 is that “One Piece Movie: Pink” had a massively profitable theatrical premiere (by way of Anime News Network), presumably attracting new viewers to the present. In the meantime, many individuals who’ve already invested within the present in some unspecified time in the future in its greater than 20 years on the air undoubtedly nonetheless watch it. “One Piece” animator Henry Thurlow He claimed that 2023 would be the greatest in sequence historical past, so 2022 might be one other massive 12 months for the primary TV present.