Tenkai Knights in Germany

The German broadcast of Tenkai Knights (German: Tenkai Knights: Die Tenkai Ritter) was already announced in January 2014. Soon, it became known that the kids block Yep of the new German TV channel ProSieben Maxx will include Tenkai Knights. At that time, Yep already broadcasted several anime such as B-Daman and Pokemon. In Germany, Tenkai Knights is marketed by m4e, which was involved earlier in Bakugan.

Trivia

 * After the first 26 episodes were aired on ProSieben Maxx, Tenkai Knights took a break and re-aired all 26 episodes starting on September 02, 2014. After this re-run was over Tenkai Knights only was aired on the weekend with another re-run of the first 26 episodes.

Reception
Tenkai Knights was originally considered a flop in Germany. The German anime fansite anime2you.de called Tenkai Knights "den neuesten amerikanisch-kanadischen Scheiß" (the latest american-canadian crap) and mentioned that it only had 30000 viewers at all audiences and this even when it aired in the afternoon at 4 PM. However in late October another trusted German fansite named manime.de reported that Tenkai Knights had 50000 viewers in the target group of the 30-59-year-old men even though it aired re-runs on Saturday and Sunday mornings at 7:30 AM. Thus it seems like the popularity of Tenkai Knights has increased much within a few months as the far more established Pokemon anime only had 10000 viewers more in the same target group and also held a later timeslot.

Links
https://vimeo.com/album/2933568 - The German dub of Tenkai Knights on our official Vimeo channel

http://www.wunschliste.de/serie/tenkai-knights  - Tenkai Knights listed at the popular German wunschliste (wish list) page

http://www.anime2you.de/news/anime-quotencheck-5-tenkai-knights/ - Anime2you's rating's check from June 28, 2014

http://manime.de/index.php/tv-news/845-pokemon-und-tenkai-knights-in-den-quoten-top-5 - Manime's ratings report from October 28, 2014