Nearly One Million Tune in For Toonami's "Evangelion 1.11" Airing
Ratings leave door open for more "Eva" movies in the future
On March 17th. Toonami celebrated the programming block's return by airing Evangelion 1.11. The ratings are now in, and the 1:00am event did pretty alright with almost a million viewers tuning in to see the first "Rebuild" movie.
| 12:00am |
Bleach |
1,197,000 |
| 12:30am |
Naruto |
1,196,000 |
| 1:00am |
Evangelion 1.11 |
959,000 |
| 3:30am |
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood |
802,000 |
| 4:00am |
Cowboy Bebop |
748,000 |
| 4:30am |
Cowboy Bebop |
702,000 |
| 5:00am |
Inuyasha |
622,000 |
| 5:30am |
Inuyasha |
619,000 |
Toonami also responded to a Tumblr question as to whether they were satisfied with Eva with "We were. It was a solid showing that gives us something to build off of as we think about what our NEXT movie might be…"
via Toonami Faithful and @calimike1
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
