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One Piece's New Premiere on Toonami Gets 995,000 Viewers

posted on 2013-05-21 15:00 EDT

Premiere sees highest ratings on Saturday's six-hour late-night block

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The TV Media Insights website reported on Tuesday that One Piece's new premiere on Adult Swim's Toonami block early on Sunday morning garnered 995,000 viewers. According to the website's listings, One Piece received the most viewers during the Toonami block from 12:00a.m. - 6:00 a.m.

TV Media Insights also released ratings for the rest of the programming block:


12:00 - Bleach - 977,000
12:30 - Naruto - 961,000
01:00 - One Piece - 995,000
01:30 - Soul Eater - 981,000
02:00 - IGPX - 597,000
02:30 - Eureka 7 - 634,000
03:00 - Thundercats - 634,000
03:30 - Sym-biotic Titan - 558,000
04:00 - Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 563,000
04:30 - Cowboy Bebop - 493,000
05:00 - InuYasha - 546,000
05:30 - InuYasha - 560,000


The Funimation dub's new television run started on Sunday with episode 207, "Great Adventure At Long Ring Long Land!"

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