"Pierre Bancov" <banc2a01@uni-trier.de> wrote:
| 
| >but Eva wasn't "popular"
| >in the general sense.  I don't think it ever made the top 10
| >anime in viewer ratings, so it was probably near 10% at its peak.
| 
| It would depend of its airing time. 
| I read that it was aired Fridays at 22h 30. Is that right?

First run was at 18:00 or 18:30 on Wednesday.

| If that's the case, I guess it can't have gotten that much popularity, but 
for
 
| the time, it's quite incredible, isn't it?

Eva became popular after it ended.
It had a few late night runs after the first run was over.

| I mean, Trigun, Lain, and others running way after midnight never made it 
| to the 10 percents, but they were still considered as successes...

Those were not popular among anyone except otaku..
and they have viewer ratings around 1% to 3%.

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