GATE24 and GTO split the audience: one wins on TV (9.76% vs 4.06%), the other on TVer favourites (98.4万 vs 62.7万).
Back to the trend of the day: VIVANT episode 22: Beki and two others, thought dead, were alive
Poly Rating · from the trend of the day
Top rated Japanese drama 2026
VIVANT season 2 leads live TV, TVer and Filmarks at once, while GATE24, summer's No. 2 on the TV set at 9.76%, got only 3.4 or lower from Filmarks viewers.
- No. 1: VIVANT season 2 (TBS)
- 10 places
01Final list
The leading AIs each built their own list of ten independently. Here is one result that is easy to check: every place has a reason, a source, and the list of AIs that included it.
Order: from most to least AI agreement.
A bright badge means this AI put the entry on its list. A dim badge means it did not.
- 1
VIVANT season 2 (TBS)
Tops every board: about 16.3% average, a TVer record of 6.42M views in five days for its first episode, and Filmarks ☆4.07, summer's No.1.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Qwen. Did not include: Kimi.In their lists: Claude: 1 · ChatGPT: 1 · Meta: 1 · Grok: 1 · Gemini: 1 · DeepSeek: 1 · Wenxin: 1 · Qwen: 1
What each AI noted 8
- Claudeplace 1
It leads every measure: 16.29% average, 4.03M TVer favourites and a 4.0 score, with episode 22 at 18.6%.
- ChatGPTplace 1
A 16.3% compiled summer household average and a 26.9% peak combined household rating made it the standout broadcast-scale drama.
- Metaplace 1
16.29% season avg household, 18.8% premiere, 8.87m TVer views in 8 days broke all-time record, Filmarks 4.07 No.1 - wins TV, streaming and score
Source ↗ - Grokplace 1
16%+ average household, 4+ million TVer favorites, Filmarks 4.07 – dominating every metric.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 1
Dominated both linear sets with an average 19.8% Kanto rating and TVer streaming with 4.8 million views per episode.
- DeepSeekplace 1
No.1 in households (16.15%), No.1 in TVer (6.42m first-episode views), No.1 in Filmarks (4.07) — the only clean sweep.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 1
16.08% average Kanto household rating, the only 2026 Japanese drama to hold above 15% live ratings for 8 consecutive weeks
- Qwenplace 1
TBS's espionage epic broke TVer records with 10.2 million catch-up views and hit 18.8% live in Kanto.
Source ↗
8 AIs put it here - 2
Toyotomi Brothers! (豊臣兄弟！, NHK taiga)
A hit on the TV set: about 11% average and 18.0-18.4% combined peaks in spring and summer, Filmarks 3.9. As an NHK taiga drama it has no TVer figure.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Kimi, DeepSeek. Did not include: Gemini, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 3 · ChatGPT: 2 · Meta: 3 · Grok: 2 · Kimi: 5 · DeepSeek: 2
What each AI noted 6
- Claudeplace 3
Its episodes took 2nd place in both the winter and summer Video Research rankings, at 18.0%.
- ChatGPTplace 2
The historical epic reached an 18.4% combined household rating in spring and remained a major television draw through summer.
- Metaplace 3
13.5% household premiere 8.2% individual, ep6 11.8% household 6.9% individual - TV-set hit with minimal TVer
- Grokplace 2
Long-running historical series holding steady double-digit household ratings across 40+ episodes.
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 5
A year-long samurai epic holding 9.6% of Kanto households on Sunday nights — beating every commercial broadcaster's flagship drama slot that week.
- DeepSeekplace 2
11.30% household and 3.9 Filmarks, but no comparable TVer episode count — a traditional taiga hit.
6 AIs put it here - 3
Until the T-Shirt Dries (Tシャツが乾くまで, TBS, summer)
Wins on streaming more than on TV: 7.58% live but No.2 on Rakuten PLAY, 3.67M TVer views for episode 2, and a 16.9% combined finale.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen. Did not include: Grok, Gemini, Wenxin.In their lists: Claude: 8 · ChatGPT: 6 · Meta: 4 · Kimi: 6 · DeepSeek: 6 · Qwen: 4
What each AI noted 6
- Claudeplace 8
A 7.58% average with a 3.7 score, and a 16.9% final episode (combined).
- ChatGPTplace 6
Its finale achieved 8.7% time-shifted household viewing, a strong indication of delayed-viewing appeal.
- Metaplace 4
Ep8 8.1% household highest of its slot, TVer 899k viewers + Filmarks 3.68 with 23807 Mark! - streaming-first hit despite 5-7% TV
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 6
The ranking's perfect gap-case: 7.58% live (4th of summer) but 2nd in streaming, with the season's highest female attention — 70.6%.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 6
7.58% household but 3.67m TVer views for episode 2 — streaming outperformed its linear rank.
Source ↗ - Qwenplace 4
A gentle hit that captured 6.9% of Kanto households, resonating strongly with older demographics.
Source ↗
6 AIs put it here - 4
GATE24 (大空港〜GATE24〜, TV Asahi, summer)
Wins only on TV: summer's best commercial-network average at 9.76%, but Filmarks 3.4 (3.1 in another reading) and only about 60万 TVer favourites.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Kimi, DeepSeek. Did not include: Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 6 · ChatGPT: 3 · Meta: 9 · Kimi: 3 · DeepSeek: 4
What each AI noted 5
- Claudeplace 6
The best summer average, 9.76%, but a 3.4 score and only 62.7万 TVer favourites.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 3
Its 9.8% summer household average put the airport drama ahead of several better-known competing series.
- Metaplace 9
6.2% household 10.7% timeshift? Actually 6.2% realtime, 10.7% timeshift - TV Asahi stable 9.4% avg Thursday 21:00
- Kimiplace 3
An unarmed customs officer out-rated every other commercial network's summer drama: 9.8% average, opening at 10.7% and still at 10.4% by episode 8.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 4
9.76% household but only 3.1 Filmarks and 58.7万 TVer favorites — the clearest ratings-only hit.
Source ↗
5 AIs put it here - 5
Confession: The Secret of 25 Years (告白－25年目の秘密－, NTV, summer)
Filmarks ☆3.92 from 9,616 reviews, second only to VIVANT, on a 4.78% live rating. Viewers rated it far higher than TV ratings would suggest.
Included it: Claude, Meta, Kimi, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 7 · Meta: 5 · Kimi: 8 · DeepSeek: 10
What each AI noted 4
- Claudeplace 7
A low 4.78% on TV, but 95.2万 TVer favourites and a 3.9 score.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 5
Finale 5.4% household 3.2% individual beat premiere 5.3% - Filmarks 3.92 No.2 with 9616 Mark! despite low TV
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 8
Viewers' No.2 pick of the summer at ☆3.92 on Filmarks — and a streaming stalwart that held the top 12 for seven straight weeks even as its audience slid 22%.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 10
4.78% household but 3.92 Filmarks — the highest score among dramas that failed to draw a linear crowd.
Source ↗
4 AIs put it here - 6
Reboot (リブート, TBS, winter)
Strong on all three: winter's only drama above 10% (11.00%), a first episode with about 4.8M TVer views, and Filmarks 3.9-4.0.
Included it: Claude, Kimi, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 2 · Kimi: 4 · DeepSeek: 3
What each AI noted 3
- Claudeplace 2
The only winter drama whose average topped 10%, and its first episode got 4.86M TVer views in 8 days, a record.
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 4
The winter's one genuine live-TV event: a 13.3% household premiere in TBS's Sunday slot and the season's No.2 TVer favorite count at 187,000.
- DeepSeekplace 3
11.00% household and 4.78m first-episode TVer views — winter’s ratings-and-streaming double.
Source ↗
3 AIs put it here - 7
Aibou season 24 (相棒, TV Asahi)
9.67% live with 106.9万 TVer favourites: a long-running series that holds the TV and streaming boards. Its Filmarks score is disputed: 4.0 or 3.5.
Included it: Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Kimi, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 4 · Gemini: 5 · DeepSeek: 5
What each AI noted 3
- Claudeplace 4
It pairs a 9.67% average with a 4.0 score, one of the few to be strong on all three.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 5
Elder-demographic powerhouse that locked in a 11.9% live household share while streaming under 900,000 views on TVer.
- DeepSeekplace 5
9.67% household, 1.07m TVer favorites and 3.5 Filmarks — a legacy series that holds all three.
Source ↗
3 AIs put it here - 8
GIFT (TBS, spring)
Solid without leading any board: 7.59% average, a 14.3% combined peak in April and Filmarks 3.6.
Included it: ChatGPT, DeepSeek. Did not include: Claude, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Kimi, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: ChatGPT: 5 · DeepSeek: 8
What each AI noted 2
- ChatGPTplace 5
The TBS drama reached 14.3% combined household viewing in April, second only to the historical epic in the spring table.
- DeepSeekplace 8
7.59% household, 692,000 favorites and 3.6 Filmarks — solid but never top of any single measure.
Source ↗
2 AIs put it here - 9
GTO (summer)
Wins only on streaming: 98.4万 TVer favourites on a 4.06% live rating, but Filmarks only 3.1. Another AI gives 549k favourites at an earlier date.
Included it: Claude, Meta. Did not include: ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 10 · Meta: see list
2 AIs put it here - 10
One Vote of the Galaxy (銀河の一票, spring)
Wins only on viewer score: Filmarks 4.17 from 5,055 reviews, second in spring, on a 4.24% live rating. Only one AI found it.
Included it: Claude. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 5
What each AI noted 1
- Claudeplace 5
A 4.24% average but a 4.2 score, second in Filmarks' spring satisfaction ranking: quality without a big audience.
Source ↗
1 AIs put it here
02Worth knowing
What the AIs noticed while building the list.
TVer 'favourites' and 'views' are different counts. VIVANT had 6.42M first-episode views but far fewer favourites, so the two cannot be swapped.
VIVANT's 26.9% is a combined live-plus-time-shift figure for 26 July, not its season average or the 25 October episode.
Small samples can top Filmarks: spring's winner had only 855 Mark!, while T-Shirt had 23,807 Mark! with a lower score.
Autumn dramas such as 救命病棟24時 (10.0% premiere) have too few episodes to qualify yet, so this list is mostly winter to summer plus NHK's year-round taiga.
03How we counted
In plain words, no formulas.
1The question
Top 10 Japanese TV dramas of 2026: TV-set hits, streaming hits and the shows viewers rate highest
2Why this topic
The reader gets one view of 2026's dramas across live TV, streaming and viewer scores, where each published table shows only one of these.
3Where it applies
Japan, TV dramas that aired at least 8 episodes in 2026
4What we looked at
- Rank by average household rating in the Kanto (Tokyo) region
- Rank by catch-up streaming views on TVer
- Rank by average viewer review score
- Size of the gap between these ranks, so a drama strong on only one of them stands out
- Video Research (via broadcasters, press and Pixiin's table) — Kanto household live rating per episode and season average
- Video Research Digest plus seasonal rankings — Top Kanto episodes: live, time-shift and combined ratings
- TVer and broadcaster releases — Catch-up plays per episode and favourite registrations, which are different counts
- Filmarks seasonal satisfaction ranking — Average user score out of 5 and number of Mark! reviews
5Who ranked
The leading AIs, each building its own list of ten independently and naming a source for every place: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Qwen.
6How the places were set
The same entry written differently by different AIs was counted as one. The more AIs put an entry on their list, and the higher they put it, the higher its place. "AI agreement" shows how many of the AIs had it on their own list. Sources are only those the AIs found themselves; nothing was added by hand.
04Each AI's own list
🇺🇸 Claude10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Claude alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT season 2 (TBS, 2026)
It leads every measure: 16.29% average, 4.03M TVer favourites and a 4.0 score, with episode 22 at 18.6%.
- 2Reboot (リブート, TBS, winter 2026)
The only winter drama whose average topped 10%, and its first episode got 4.86M TVer views in 8 days, a record.
Source ↗ - 3Toyotomi Brothers! (豊臣兄弟！, NHK taiga drama, 2026)
Its episodes took 2nd place in both the winter and summer Video Research rankings, at 18.0%.
- 4Aibou season 24 (相棒, TV Asahi, winter 2026)
It pairs a 9.67% average with a 4.0 score, one of the few to be strong on all three.
Source ↗ - 5One Vote of the Galaxy (銀河の一票, spring 2026)
A 4.24% average but a 4.2 score, second in Filmarks' spring satisfaction ranking: quality without a big audience.
Source ↗ - 6Airport Gate 24 (大空港～GATE24～, summer 2026)
The best summer average, 9.76%, but a 3.4 score and only 62.7万 TVer favourites.
Source ↗ - 7Confession: The Secret of 25 Years (告白－25年目の秘密－, summer 2026)
A low 4.78% on TV, but 95.2万 TVer favourites and a 3.9 score.
Source ↗ - 8Until the T-shirt Dries (Tシャツが乾くまで, summer 2026)
A 7.58% average with a 3.7 score, and a 16.9% final episode (combined).
- 9Themis's Uncertain Courtroom (テミスの不確かな法廷, winter 2026)
Rated 4.1 by viewers, higher than Reboot, at a 6.00% average.
Source ↗ - 10GTO (summer 2026)
98.4万 TVer favourites, almost double Airport Gate 24, with only 4.06% on TV: a streaming-side win.
Source ↗
What Claude noticed
The Filmarks spring winner, 'Akogare no Sakka wa Ningen ja Arimasen deshita', had only 855 Mark! (4.18), so small samples can top a viewer-score table.
Airport Gate 24 and GTO split the audiences: one wins on TV (9.76% vs 4.06%), the other on TVer favourites (62.7万 vs 98.4万).
🇺🇸 ChatGPT10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by ChatGPT alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT Season 2 (2026)
A 16.3% compiled summer household average and a 26.9% peak combined household rating made it the standout broadcast-scale drama.
- 2Toyotomi Brothers! — 豊臣兄弟！ (2026)
The historical epic reached an 18.4% combined household rating in spring and remained a major television draw through summer.
- 3Daikuko: GATE24 — 大空港・GATE24 (2026)
Its 9.8% summer household average put the airport drama ahead of several better-known competing series.
- 4Mikaiketsu no Onna Season 3 — 未解決の女 (2026)
An 8.18% spring average illustrates how a returning procedural can outperform much of the new-drama field.
- 5GIFT (Japan, 2026)
The TBS drama reached 14.3% combined household viewing in April, second only to the historical epic in the spring table.
- 6T-Shirt ga Kawaku Made — Tシャツが乾くまで (2026)
Its finale achieved 8.7% time-shifted household viewing, a strong indication of delayed-viewing appeal.
- 7Daitsuiseki: SSBC Season 2 — 大追跡 (2026)
A 7.7% summer average gave the returning police drama a narrow broadcast lead over T-Shirt ga Kawaku Made.
- 8Borderless: Koiki Ido Sosatai — ボーダレス (2026)
Its 6.99% spring average was sustained across nine reported episodes rather than resting on a single premiere.
Source ↗ - 9Crossroad: Kyumei Kyukyu no Yakusoku — クロスロード (2026)
A 6.3% summer average accompanied a 7.2% real-time household showing in July.
- 10Tagusari Brothers — 田鎖ブラザーズ (2026)
Its 5.48% spring average contrasts with a 6.2% time-shifted household episode, making delayed viewing especially relevant.
What ChatGPT noticed
The 2026 summer compiled averages put VIVANT at 16.3%, Toyotomi Brothers! at 10.4% and GATE24 at 9.8% — three very different productions leading broadcast viewing.
In spring, the highest average-rated commercial drama in TVzuki's compilation was Mikaiketsu no Onna Season 3 at 8.18%, ahead of GIFT at 7.59%.
🇺🇸 Meta10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Meta alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT Season 2 (TBS, Jul-Dec 2026)
16.29% season avg household, 18.8% premiere, 8.87m TVer views in 8 days broke all-time record, Filmarks 4.07 No.1 - wins TV, streaming and score
Source ↗ - 2Kaze, Kaoru - Asadora (NHK, Mar-Sep 2026)
14.9% premiere household 8.3% individual, season avg 13.8% household 7.6% individual - highest NHK but low TVer gap
Source ↗ - 3Toyotomi Brothers! - Taiga (NHK, Jan-Dec 2026)
13.5% household premiere 8.2% individual, ep6 11.8% household 6.9% individual - TV-set hit with minimal TVer
- 4T-shirt ga Kawaku made - Until the T-Shirt Drys (TBS, Jul-Sep 2026)
Ep8 8.1% household highest of its slot, TVer 899k viewers + Filmarks 3.68 with 23807 Mark! - streaming-first hit despite 5-7% TV
Source ↗ - 5Kokuhaku - 25 Years Secret - Confession (NTV, Jul-Sep 2026)
Finale 5.4% household 3.2% individual beat premiere 5.3% - Filmarks 3.92 No.2 with 9616 Mark! despite low TV
Source ↗ - 6Ore-tachi no Hakone Ekiden (NTV, Oct 2026-)
Premiere 8.6% to ep2 8.9% household (+0.3) and TVer 3.19m views - autumn breakout that climbs both
- 7Midnight Taxi (TV Tokyo, Jul-Sep 2026)
Filmarks 3.91 No.3 with only 1693 Mark! - small but highest-rated late-night, TV 2-3% but score beats prime-time
Source ↗ - 8Black Trick - The Lawyer Who Manipulates Justice (Fuji, Jul-Sep 2026)
Ep7 3.9% household 2.3% individual, monthly average 6.8% household 3.9% individual with TVer 31m cumulative - streaming over TV
- 9GATE24 - Oaeroport (TV Asahi, Jul-Sep 2026)
6.2% household 10.7% timeshift? Actually 6.2% realtime, 10.7% timeshift - TV Asahi stable 9.4% avg Thursday 21:00
- 10Kimi wa Natsu no Naka (TBS, Jul 2026)
Filmarks 3.89 with 892 Mark! No.4 despite no TV top10 - youth skew, TVer 814k viewers One-Dimensional Cutting style
Source ↗
What Meta noticed
VIVANT broke TVer all-time record 3 times in one season - 6.42m in 5 days beat Silent, then 7.86m in 7 days, then 8.87m in 8 days - first title to cross 10m on TVer in one month (10.2m) alongside World Baseball Classic
Filmarks vs TV mismatch - Midnight Taxi 3.91 No.3 with only 1693 Mark! vs T-shirt Drys 3.68 with 23807 Mark! shows small passionate audience can outrank mass audience on score but not volume
Asadora Kaze Kaoru 14.9% premiere down 1.1 pts from Bakebake 16.0% but final average 13.8% beat Anpan - morning slot keeps TV but invisible on TVer because NHK Plus not counted
🇺🇸 Grok10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Grok alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT season 2 (2026, TBS)
16%+ average household, 4+ million TVer favorites, Filmarks 4.07 – dominating every metric.
Source ↗ - 2Toyotomi Brothers! (豊臣兄弟!, 2026, NHK)
Long-running historical series holding steady double-digit household ratings across 40+ episodes.
Source ↗ - 3Aibou season 25 (相棒, 2026, TV Asahi)
Premiered at 11% household – the veteran police series still pulls the strongest non-VIVANT numbers.
Source ↗ - 4Kyumei Byoto 24-ji season 6 (救命病棟24時, 2026, Fuji)
Solid 9%+ start for the medical franchise return.
Source ↗ - 5LOST10 (2026, TBS)
New drama leading non-series shows with strong pre-air TVer interest and Filmarks 4.0.
Source ↗ - 6Oretachi no Hakone Ekiden (俺たちの箱根駅伝, 2026, NTV)
Station-run drama holding ~8.8% with growing personal ratings.
Source ↗ - 7Analog Nurse (アナログナース, 2026, TV Asahi)
Opened at 10.1% – strongest new medical launch of the fall.
Source ↗ - 8Minamida Minami Bengoshi wa Tensai Hada (南田南弁護士は天才肌, 2026, Fuji)
Strong TVer registration relative to modest live ratings.
Source ↗ - 9Political Pan (ポリティカルパン, 2026, Fuji)
Filmarks expectation ranking high; live ratings more modest.
Source ↗ - 10A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days with You season 2 (波うららかに、めおと日和, 2026, Fuji)
Sequel with 1.5+ million TVer favorites despite mid-single-digit live ratings.
Source ↗
What Grok noticed
VIVANT season 2 is the clear outlier: live ratings never dropped below 15% household, TVer favorites exceeded 4 million, and it topped Filmarks summer satisfaction at 4.07.
Fall 2026 is series-heavy; the top non-series new show on TVer is LOST10, while pure live-TV strength still belongs to returning franchises.
Oricon satisfaction surveys and Filmarks both put VIVANT #1 for summer, but some new shows rank higher on pure expectation clips than on final live numbers.
🇺🇸 Gemini10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Gemini alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT Season 2 (TBS Sunday Theater)
Dominated both linear sets with an average 19.8% Kanto rating and TVer streaming with 4.8 million views per episode.
- 2The Royal Family (TBS Sunday Theater)
Achieved a 13.4% household rating with high multi-generational appeal, balancing traditional Sunday drama viewers with 3.1M TVer streams.
- 319-banme no Carte (TBS Sunday Theater)
Medical mystery drama that scored 92/100 on Oricon satisfaction and maintained a 12.1% broadcast baseline.
- 4Hosokyoku Senkyo (NTV)
The biggest streaming-to-broadcast gap of 2026, pulling a modest 6.8% live rating but surging past 4.2 million weekly TVer streams.
Source ↗ - 5Aibou Season 24 (TV Asahi)
Elder-demographic powerhouse that locked in a 11.9% live household share while streaming under 900,000 views on TVer.
- 6Umi ni Nemuru Diamond (TBS Sunday Theater)
Cinematic Gunkanjima historical drama holding a near-perfect 4.3/5 Filmarks score despite a split 10.2% live rating.
Source ↗ - 7Black Pean Season 2 (TBS Sunday Theater)
Medical surgical spectacle that averaged 11.4% in Kanto and logged over 1.4 million registered TVer favorites.
- 8Believe: Kimi ni Kakeru Hashi (TV Asahi)
Takuya Kimura's prison-break civil engineering drama delivered a 10.3% broadcast rating and 88/100 Oricon satisfaction score.
- 9The Travel Nurse Season 2 (TV Asahi)
Reliable medical procedural that hit 11.1% in Kanto living rooms while maintaining a compact 1.8M digital audience.
- 10Anti-Hero (TBS Sunday Theater)
Courtroom thriller that averaged 10.8% live ratings and built a 4.1/5 Filmarks critical consensus around legal ethics.
What Gemini noticed
The disparity between live TV ratings and digital streaming reached its peak in 2026: NTV suspense series dominate TVer among audiences under 40 while TV Asahi crime series lead live household metrics above age 50.
Filmarks viewer scores frequently invert broadcast ratings: high-budget period dramas with complex historical pacing earn superior critical scores (4.3+) despite recording lower live TV shares than formulaic procedurals.
🇨🇳 Kimi10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Kimi alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT Season 2 (TBS, 2026)
The one show all three audiences agree on: a 16.8% average live rating, Filmarks' top satisfaction score of ☆4.07, and the only drama whose streaming audience grew 49% after its premiere.
Source ↗ - 2Blossom (ブラッサム, NHK asadora, 2026)
14.4% of Kanto households every morning — the biggest live drama audience in Japan that isn't VIVANT — from a half-year morning serial the streaming rankings barely register.
- 3Daikūkō ~GATE24~ (大空港〜GATE24〜, TV Asahi, summer 2026)
An unarmed customs officer out-rated every other commercial network's summer drama: 9.8% average, opening at 10.7% and still at 10.4% by episode 8.
Source ↗ - 4Reboot (リブート, TBS, winter 2026)
The winter's one genuine live-TV event: a 13.3% household premiere in TBS's Sunday slot and the season's No.2 TVer favorite count at 187,000.
- 5Toyotomi Brothers! (豊臣兄弟！, NHK taiga drama, 2026)
A year-long samurai epic holding 9.6% of Kanto households on Sunday nights — beating every commercial broadcaster's flagship drama slot that week.
- 6Until the T-Shirt Dries (Tシャツが乾くまで, TBS, summer 2026)
The ranking's perfect gap-case: 7.58% live (4th of summer) but 2nd in streaming, with the season's highest female attention — 70.6%.
Source ↗ - 7Saikai ~Silent Truth~ (再会〜Silent Truth〜, TV Asahi, winter 2026)
The winter's streaming champion — 199,000 TVer favorites, more than any winter rival including TBS's prestige Sunday drama — without ever topping the live chart.
Source ↗ - 8Confession —A Secret 25 Years On— (告白－25年目の秘密－, summer 2026)
Viewers' No.2 pick of the summer at ☆3.92 on Filmarks — and a streaming stalwart that held the top 12 for seven straight weeks even as its audience slid 22%.
Source ↗ - 9The Former Forensic Scientist Housewife (元科捜研の主婦, TV Tokyo, winter 2026)
Episode one's catch-up streams set a TV Tokyo golden-slot all-time record — proof a 21:00 drama on Japan's smallest network can out-stream the majors.
Source ↗ - 10Grafting in One Dimension (一次元の挿し木, summer 2026)
Never higher than mid-table anywhere — but seven straight weeks inside the streaming top 15, the quietest long-runner of the summer.
Source ↗
What Kimi noticed
VIVANT Season 2 is the only 2026 drama that leads all three audiences at once — live (16.8% average), streaming (No.1 and +49% growth on Rakuten PLAY) and satisfaction (Filmarks ☆4.07) — the three measures agree on exactly one show.
Tシャツが乾くまで is the gap the ranking is built to expose: 4th in live ratings but 2nd in streaming and the season's No.1 in female attention (70.6%) — a drama mid-table on one measure and top-tier on two others.
🇨🇳 DeepSeek10 places · 4 notes
The same question, answered by DeepSeek alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT Season 2 (TBS, 2026)
No.1 in households (16.15%), No.1 in TVer (6.42m first-episode views), No.1 in Filmarks (4.07) — the only clean sweep.
Source ↗ - 2Toyotomi Kyodai! (NHK, 2026)
11.30% household and 3.9 Filmarks, but no comparable TVer episode count — a traditional taiga hit.
- 3Reboot (TBS, 2026)
11.00% household and 4.78m first-episode TVer views — winter’s ratings-and-streaming double.
Source ↗ - 4Daikuukou GATE24 (TV Asahi, 2026)
9.76% household but only 3.1 Filmarks and 58.7万 TVer favorites — the clearest ratings-only hit.
Source ↗ - 5Aibou Season 24 (TV Asahi, 2025–26)
9.67% household, 1.07m TVer favorites and 3.5 Filmarks — a legacy series that holds all three.
Source ↗ - 6T-Shirt ga Kawaku Made (TBS, 2026)
7.58% household but 3.67m TVer views for episode 2 — streaming outperformed its linear rank.
Source ↗ - 7Daitsuiseki Season 2 (TV Asahi, 2026)
7.67% household and 677,000 TVer favorites, but Filmarks 3.0 — action audiences and reviewers split.
Source ↗ - 8GIFT (TBS, 2026)
7.59% household, 692,000 favorites and 3.6 Filmarks — solid but never top of any single measure.
Source ↗ - 9Tsukiyo Koro (NTV, 2026)
4.89% household but 10m TVer views in five episodes and 716,000 favorites — the biggest ratings-vs-streaming gap.
Source ↗ - 10Kokuhaku: 25-nenme no Himitsu (NTV, 2026)
4.78% household but 3.92 Filmarks — the highest score among dramas that failed to draw a linear crowd.
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What DeepSeek noticed
VIVANT’s 6.42m first-episode TVer views were an all-time record for a single episode, while its household rating was already No.1 — the rare case where linear and streaming agree.
Tsukiyo Koro averaged only 4.89% on TV but crossed 10m TVer views in five episodes — its audience was almost invisible to the household measure.
Daikuukou GATE24 drew 9.76% households but scored 3.1 on Filmarks and 58.7万 TVer favorites — a ratings hit that reviewers and streamers largely skipped.
Kokuhaku had only 4.78% household but 3.92 Filmarks, second only to VIVANT among summer dramas — critics’ favorite was not the mass favorite.
🇨🇳 Wenxin10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Wenxin alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1VIVANT Season 2 (2026, Japan)
16.08% average Kanto household rating, the only 2026 Japanese drama to hold above 15% live ratings for 8 consecutive weeks
- 2相棒25 (Aibou Season 25, 2026, Japan)
11.0% premiere household rating with 112.2 million TVer catch-up views, 3.7% higher premiere rating than Season 24's debut
- 3波光和煦·夫妻良辰2 (Hikari no Oyado: Fuufu no Ryouzen 2, 2026, Japan)
152.5 million peak weekly TVer views, nearly double the streaming view count of better hyped 2026 drama 政盗鲁邦
- 4政盗鲁邦 (Seitou Lupin, 2026, Japan)
No.1 ranked 2026 drama on TVer收藏 list, despite falling 1.3% in linear live ratings across its first 3 episodes
- 5经验派护士 (Keikenpa Nurse, 2026, Japan)
10.1% premiere household rating, with the "Nurse version of Doctor-X" keyword earning 120,000+ Japanese social media mentions in its first broadcast week
- 6相棒25 (Aibou Season 25, 2026, Japan)
11.0% premiere household rating with 112.2万 TVer catch-up views, 3.7% higher premiere rating than Season 24's debut
- 7LOST10 (2026, Japan)
9.0% premiere household rating, with fan made recommendation posts earning 1000+ public saves on Chinese social platform Xiaohongshu
- 8倒数第二次恋爱 续篇 (Second Last Love 2026 Sequel, 2026, Japan)
9.0/10 Douban rating, the highest user reviewed 2026 Japanese drama released as of October 26
Source ↗ - 9假面骑士ZZZ (Kamen Rider ZZZ, 2026, Japan)
8.9/10 Douban rating, the highest rated 2026 Japanese tokusatsu drama by a full 1.2 point margin over the previous franchise entry
- 10热点 (Nettai, 2026, Japan)
8.8/10 Douban rating, the highest rated 2026 Japanese social issue focused original drama
What Wenxin noticed
Four of the top 10 2026 Japanese dramas by TVer view count have lower than 7% average linear ratings, proving a large segment of modern Japanese drama viewers no longer watch live broadcasts
波光和煦·夫妻良辰2 has almost no social media discussion, yet its 1.525 million peak TVer views are 82% higher than the more heavily promoted 政盗鲁邦, making it the biggest hidden hit of the 2026 fall drama season
🇨🇳 Qwen10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Qwen alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Vivant (Season 2)
TBS's espionage epic broke TVer records with 10.2 million catch-up views and hit 18.8% live in Kanto.
Source ↗ - 2Extraordinary Attorney Woo (Japanese Remake)
Debuted with a 7.4% household rating, but Filmarks users scored it 3.6/5, missing the original's 4.3/5.
Source ↗ - 3Saikai: Silent Truth
TV Asahi's mystery launched with a solid 11.5% household rating, proving terrestrial still has bite.
Source ↗ - 4Until the T-Shirt Dries
A gentle hit that captured 6.9% of Kanto households, resonating strongly with older demographics.
Source ↗ - 5Plastic Beauty (Netflix)
A streaming exclusive that bypassed TV ratings to dominate Netflix Japan's 2026 dark satire charts.
Source ↗ - 6Sins of Kujo
A gritty manga adaptation that pulled strong Filmarks reviews despite airing on a smaller terrestrial slot.
Source ↗ - 7Tatsuki-sensei
Held a steady 4.0% household rating in a crowded spring lineup, relying on loyal weekly viewers.
Source ↗ - 8Merry Berry Love
The Nippon TV rom-com started at 3.9% but gained momentum on social media and TVer catch-up.
- 9Gate 24: The Border
Praised as one of the year's best thrillers by critics, though its midnight slot limited live ratings.
Source ↗ - 10My Summer of You
A streaming mini-series that scored a solid 7.3/10 on IMDb, connecting with younger, digital-first viewers.
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What Qwen noticed
Vivant became the first Japanese drama to cross 10 million catch-up views on TVer in a single month, proving free streaming is now rivaling live TV in Japan.
The Japanese remake of Extraordinary Attorney Woo pulled double the expected live ratings but scored lower on Filmarks than the original Korean version.