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The marathon re-airing of the second season of the live-action A Solitary Gourmet series aired on TV Tokyo on Tuesday, September 29 at 5:45 p.m., and it earned a 4.3% rating.
The television ratings above are an estimate of the percentage of the population that watch a given program, based on data from a survey of households in Japan’s Kanto region. The ratings do not count recordings that viewers watch later.
Source: Video Research (Kanto region)
follow-up of Japanese Animation TV Ranking, September 21-27
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