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Admittedly, in the past AS has touted how they’ve been #1 in young male demographics. I hope they haven’t abandoned going after the female demo. 2015 had a lot of girl power on the block. Since then the shows have increasingly been male centric

I hope we can get Konosuba if that gets a dub

I think the block (TV in general as well) is starting to lose some ground with younger viewers. Makes sense considering they have cut the cord at a faster pace and the with the younger end of the demo, we are starting to get people who don’t have a strong connection to the original block. Although, just earlier this year, the opening part of the block with the help of a Family Guy lead in was still top 10 18-34. Maybe it just can’t draw those viewers without something like that

Just FYI guys, I asked SonoftheBronx what happened to the Toonami Live + 3 numbers and he told me they aren’t available to him anymore. The non Super ones didn’t have much gain anyway

I’m really hoping that this CR partnership gives them more access to industry people who are actually liscensing anime as it’s coming out of Japan. I think the way moving foward is for the crew to be involved with that side of the business and be in the loop with those people as these deals are being made. That way they can be on the ground floor as and pick the liscensees that best suit the block and go from there and not waiting for a request or huge buzz around a show after it airs and streams over here. As time goes on, that’s going to be increasingly too late. It’s a shame because the network in the past is almost synonymous with shows like Gundam, DBZ, Bebop, Yuyu, ect... That hasn’t been the case in this new age for most of the shows they’ve aired recently. I don’t know if it can be anymore. Super’s potential was squandered by TOEI taking so long to get the dub going and aired over here. There was a lot of mainstream hype for the ToP last year and early this year, but the attention was on the sub streaming and not on Toonami. For the general fanbase, it’s just “Oh I may tune in to check out how this scene sounds in English”. But could you imagine how well it would’ve done if it was closer to Japan?

You’re right about that. We don’t live in a world where there’s a Japanese audience and the only people who can see a show before an American television airing are torrentors. You can’t wait around for a year (or even months with simuldubs) for them to decide if “the show is any good” before deciding to air it. You have to take a risk sometimes. I don’t know if Toonami knows the audience it wants to serve anymore. The availability of shows in one format or another makes the block antiquated for anime fans and still not mainstream for the “normies” who are a dwindling base, especially with no comedy lead in. I think they need more industry people or people on staff who can research things as they are being produced in Japan to make deals before they start to get things going when popularity is rising. Of course, the lack of staff or budget is a concern. But they have to start asking themselves if they want to be the trendsetters or a low budget nick at nite for anime. Maybe the CR deal will help with that

That would be best. Do they HAVE to rerun it right now right after a marathon? it would be best to rerun it at 2am closer to when the 2nd cour starts. They really need to jump on these shows now while their popularity is still on the rise, not until their deemed worthy by the crew after they end. Nothing ventured nothing gained

I agree, this business of “waiting to see if it’s good” doesn’t work when you have a readily streamable dub. By the time a year goes by, no one is really into it anymore plus you aren’t even airing something that people can’t see elsewhere. That’s what’s happened with MHA, they wanted to see if it was just a fad or will it remain popular. Well it is, but now they are so far behind it just does mediocre

They have the most abrupt endings. There’s no epilogue at all. The second they get together- credits roll- on to the next. Another thing that gets me is they usually have the same actors over and over again. There’s also almost no diversity- all white people.

My wife watches every one. She’s part of the problem. She’s on 34 though. The damn things are so formulaic with a guy and girl who don’t get along but get together at the end after some minor conflict. Also there to help is some older person who “knows a thing or two about love”, usually played by an aging former star. Since its November, add in “The magic of Christmas” and you have a tear jerker for the whole family! It always causes problems with the DVR on Saturday. Maybe Toonami should lead into by these

Mitch didn’t include MHA in the update to Showbuzz, but I put in a request for it along with telling him the lineup starts at 10 now!

I like that the Super rerun is picking up some steam in the ratings. I think people are finally starting to realize its on and its being accepted as part of the lineup!

I wouldn’t say they are watching live on the app and it’s overtaking the television, I think it’s just not people wanting to watch live at all and DVRs are becoming more prevelant, at least for the premieres. You don’t see a drop off much for the reruns because those are actually the people staying on live. Personally, I seldom can watch live and will actually watch the entire recorded block on Sunday night/Monday morning due to my work schedule. Sometimes I’m still watching the previous weeks block on Saturday morning. Cable has declined, but live viewership for those who do have cable has also taken a huge hit because it’s just not as necessary or convenient

Nobody should be upset by them for sure.

Nobody should be upset by them for sure.

I’m hoping too. It would be a shame if it’s capped out because of what comes before it

This will be a trend unfortunately even as people become less adverse to subs. Toonami will still have its place as a showcase for good shows to screen for the general public for awhile though

I think they should try to do the reruns on Sunday to get it in front of a different audience rather than the audience that just watched it.

It’s very possible that this wasn’t IBOs original replacement. Whatever it was most likely wasn’t going to air at 11:30. They were all set to keep that slot as an “FLCL” slot for now leading into Progressive. That changed quickly once they secured MHA. It may have been in the works for awhile but they possibly weren’t planning on running it until after Kai was done.

So the only question is will Funimation try and one up Toonami by streaming the dub first. This had SUCH good potential if only it wasn’t airing on Sunday!

I hope that Toonami has a first rights deal with this. I can definitely see Funimation doing a same day dub with it and if Toonami gets it on a delay just because of the day it airs, it could further splinter the seemingly impatient AoT audience. Even being behind her sub last year took some of the wind out of the sails for the viewers who just couldn’t wait. Much of the cast is in LA, so that may not make a sane day dub possible. Most likely, they’ll get it in a similar set up to last year. The contract that they got was very protective to not allow Funimation to stream ahead. For a show like this, you have to try and get a deal like that. its too bad that they have no ability to air a small block on Sunday nights in order to do this same day.

They should just keep it going to troll us. But if I said didn’t look at Facebook every hour for the last month I’d be lying 😀. We’ll all get excited and they announce the return of SJ season 5 and the lineup shifting again

Wanna take any guesses about when that news comes out? It HAS to be this week you'd think?

I think when taking DVR into account Super dominates Family Guy, because who is recording Family Guy?

Also of note, no further episodes have been scheduled so far