The online and mobile polling service of goo and NTT DoCoMo recently asked their users to vote for their most favorite dramas out of all those that achieved very high viewer ratings.

Of course this poll was only created because of the incredible success of the recent ‘Kaseifu no Mita‘ (NTV), which recorded the third best single-episode rating of all time for Japanese dramas with its final episode. This means that there have at least been two dramas that gathered more people in front of the TV for a single episode and many more with an overall average above that of ‘Kaseifu no Mita’.

However, some of those dramas reach back as far as 1977 and shouldn’t be that familiar to many of the younger viewers. This brings us back to the poll question, “What is your most favorite of the highest rated dramas on TV?”

The users of goo and NTT DoCoMo cast their votes in the following way:

01 – 7,210 votes – ‘Kaseifu no Mita‘ (Highest: 40.0% / Avg: 24.8%)
02 – 5,834 votes – ‘Long Vacation‘ (Highest: 36.7% / Avg: 29.6%)
03 – 3,700 votes – ‘HERO‘ (Highest: 36.8% / Avg: 34.2%)
04 – 3,243 votes – ‘San-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei‘ (Highest: 39.9%)
05 – 2,927 votes – ‘Beautiful Life‘ (Highest: 41.3% / Avg: 32.3%)
06 – 2,269 votes – ‘The 101st Proposal‘ (Highest: 36.7% / Avg: 23.6%)
07 – 2,190 votes – ‘Hitotsu Yane no Shita‘ (Highest: 37.8% / Avg: 28.1%)
08 – 2,090 votes – ‘GOOD LUCK!!‘ (Highest: 37.6% / Avg: 30.6%)
09 – 1,215 votes – ‘Ie Naki Ko‘ (Highest: 37.2% / Avg: 24.7%)
10 – 1,037 votes – ‘Danjo Shichinin Aki Monogatari‘ (Highest: 36.6% / Avg: 30.0%)
11 – 975 votes – ‘Necchuu Jidai‘ (Highest: 46.7%)
12 – 827 votes – ‘Wataru Seken wa Oni Bakari‘ (Highest: 34.2%)
13 – 814 votes – ‘Zutto Anata ga Suki Datta‘ (Highest: 34.1% / Avg: 19.9%)
14 – 795 votes – ‘Tsumiki Tsuboshi ~Oya to Ko no 200 Nichi Sensou~‘ (Highest: 45.3%)
15 – 682 votes – ‘Oshin‘ (Highest: 62.9% / Avg: 52.6%) * Highest ever recorded drama rating on TV!
16 – 581 votes – ‘Hitotsu Yane no Shita 2‘ (Highest: 34.1% / Avg: 26.7%)
17 – 502 votes – ‘Dare ni mo Ienai‘ (Highest: 33.7% / Avg: 23.8%)
18 – 233 votes – ‘Akai Gekiryuu‘ (Highest: 37.2%)

sourcE: TOKYOHIVE