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This is about what I expected due to everything going on. A major city just straight up was taken out of the viewing audience and it may be this way for a few weeks. Just noticed you put 18-34 first this time. That's a good idea since that's the real target demo. That's why I wish these charts would show actual audience share- the percentage of viewers out of the people ACTUALLY watching TV. Would provide much better context. is Toonami in trouble? It shouldn't be considering it was a victim of things not its fault. Then again that was also true in 2014/2015 when the block got cut. I don't think the block can really get cut besides the rerun slot. AS is not going to just pull the plug when so many things have been paid for already. There are probably several deals in the bag for things next year. Dragonball isn't going anywhere and we have FLCL coming next year, so anyone thinking the block will get cancelled shouldn't worry. This is largely a problem with the way Saturday is configured: they split the premeire of their biggest new show between 2 timeslots and they cant build enough of an audience in prime time to give Toonami a good start anymore. If we had this lineup 8:00 DBS Encore 8:30 KOTH 9:00 Bobs 10:00 American Dad 11:00 Family Guy 12:00 Toonami It would yield the kind of numbers the block had in 2015/2016 (adjusted for overall cable viewership) But because of the TOEI thing and their lack of ability to use FOX shows we started the night sub 1 million total/ 0.4 18-49 and that's not going to change with this lineup. The fact that AS has Toonami blanked out for 9/9 but not the pregame lineup is not giving me a lot of confidence that they want to really address this. Another part of the problem is the show choices. Toonami did VERY well in 2015/ early 2016 with shows that were relatively smaller profile but were more audience friendly. I feel like they got a little ahead of themselves and picked up some franchises (Jojo, Gundam, Lupin) that THEY really enjoy and were previously out of their reach as a show of their success. They obviously thought that they would be mega hits because of how BIG they are. They also started to go to Japan around this time and became very busy and some people theorized that this could have led to several long term deals that would populate the block for awhile as they would have less time to go out and find new shows every 3-6 months. I feel bad for them because they probably thought that this would be the most powerful year ratings wise for the block and its turned out to be the worst.

Super has a really good advantage. The Japanese simulcast usually goes up during the primetime hours so it gets discussed on Twiiter in tandom with all the airings AS has!

Very strange move but if we were to just lose the Titan rerun and got nothing else I'd be fine with that. I wonder what they are going to do with the front end and the back end of AS if both Jack and Titan go away? The Rick and Mortys from 9 repeat at 4 and they don't seem like they can rerun the Family Guys, so they have to do SOMETHING with the 3am hour that's unique. I'm not expecting great ratings this week with the Hurricaine (many people in Texas without power or homes period right now ), the fight, and it being the last hurrah for Summer (a lot of colleges started back up this week and those who haven't started school already are getting in their last vacations!) But it would be an across the board thing I'd imagine with the exception of the fight I'm going to take these blank schedules as Toonami and AS really trying to figure out where things are going wrong and they haven't made a final choice on how to move forward. If that's the case and they are changing up the schedule yet again, they really need to make an announcement this week in order to let people know.

What a coincidence, did you ever ask Demarco what's up with that? We STILL have no schedule for the following week as well.

Eventually that show will shut down due to a lawsuit! Too much potential for something to go wrong!

The Kai marathon promo does confirm 8 episodes and not 9. "Charge" is still showing on my DVR schedule Next 2 weeks still blanked out

Yeah if that happens all Toonami schedules will be blanked out. This is a main reason the "paper" schedule went away. Some stuff leaked early and Demarco was pissed. You're welcome to try though if it's a legitimate screw up they'd like to know. It kind of already is official since it's showing up that way on my DVR.

What's weird is that they talk about Wulin being pulled after two episodes "mid week" after 2 episodes which they claim was hard to do and usually it is easier to just let it play for one week and then pull it. They were under the impression that it ran on weekdays it seems. The only time they pulled something mid week on OG Toonami was Mobile Suit Gundam after 9/11. Maybe they were thinking of that.

Why would anyone want FT on Toonami at this point when their are multiple ways to binge it. Like "Yeah I've always wanted to see that at a once a week pace" As for DW, Funimation was on the production committee and they probably wanted a quicker return on investment than just streaming would allow is my guess

I think most likely we are going to lose one of the Ricks and Supers on the front end. Toonami may shift, but probably won't lose slots. Although I'm not opposed to dropping Shippuden.

http://adultswim.x10.mx And we have a blanked out schedule for 9/9. That might be something interesting

I'll never understand how Tokyo Ghoul ended up being so highly requested if people have such disdain for it

STRIKE!!'

This is what sucks about the current setup on the block. The lineup is locked until January and there won't be any space for awhile. If Funimation were to get Re:Zero and Toonami doesn't have a slot open, they probably won't wait and it'll go to their service and Toonami can't get it as a dub premiere. But it sounds like something that could do very well if they get it first.

Retention is great! I hope they stick with 11 and give it a chance to work out.

That and Attack on Titan reruns will move to the top of the block back to episode 1!! We need to resimulate 2014 in order to get the block cut in order to resimulate the legendary ratings year of 2015! Next : Month of old movies in December

Ghoul has been on Hulu fully dubbed for awhile, which is why Toonami picking it up and airing it in an early timeslot wasn't a good choice. With Super, he lucked out because TOEI still thinks it's the 1980s and big TV deals are where it's at. I think for this reason AS makes more money off if Super than other shows. Hence why they can air it so much and they get to giveaway Super merchandise.

I like that he does that. It tells fans what shows arent coming to the block so they don't get their hopes up.

What's weird is the episode listed for 9/2 "Charge" is episode 11!! The only thing that makes sense (if not an error) is that they need to hurry up the run and either ditch the time-slot or something new is coming.

It should be episode 6. That can't be right

And the way our luck will go, ratings will start picking up around that time as people finally get used to Toonami at 11. I personally think that they should leave it for an extended time to give it a chance to work. This will also be the time where a marathon is going to occur every 4 weeks which also throws people off! Maybe we'll get lucky and just lose one Super and one Rick on the front end. The Titan thing could be a limitation on how many DBZs can run a night as well. It was originally announced as nine episodes. The 7/4/15 marathon according to Preflight had a similar reason for having a Titan rerun at the end!

I have a feeling that Shippuden is going away after Pain. I don't know why I think this but if they are ever going to clear the deck for new stuff then they have to take something away, especially something that is years behind the dub releases and stands little chance of finishing on the block. I also think they want Boruto and unlike the Dragonball situation will probably not want 2 Naruto franchises on the block. If they go past Pain then there isn't really a good stopping point after that.

Somewhat related news: According to the backdoor schedule it looks like the DBZ KAI Marathon will only feature 8 episodes. Attack on Titan will still run at 3:00 with Jack at 3:30. I think its plausible that the following week they double up on Titan in preparation for the annual loss of the 8pm hour. I'm predicting that we lose a slot and the block shifts down a half hour after that's done (the other lost slot being the 2nd Super rerun). We lost 8pm on October 1 last year so I think tis safe too assume we will at this point as well. We'll see and I hope I'm wrong, but we may have just expanded briefly in order for them to get their money out of Titan Season 2. EDIT: After making a mock schedule, there's still the matter of what they do with one more slot (Jacks old slot). Maybe my theory is completely off base. I am really curious to see what ends up happening to Toonami once we do lose that hour though!

Well I mostly meant the timeslot thing, but you're not wrong about Supers quality either! There needs to be a better way of picking shows. Maybe these ratings will tell them something. Please no Mob, MHA, or Fairy Tail. It's too late for those shows and the majority of people who wanted to see them have already. I'm sure Ghoul was on the request list for about 2 years when it was picked up. It probably would've done great then. But now it's too late. They really need to get something that is on the verge of becoming popular in Japan before the US has already streamed it to death.

How did anyone think this Super deal would work out favorably? The DB fans have never been the most loyal but it did increase audience potential. Now you have given them an excuse to stay away from Toonami all together. Then you release Kai TFC on Blu Ray all at once giving those same fans a reason to avoid that show too. There's talk on the Kanzenshuu forums of how they wish Super could just go to Funimation Now so they don't have to put up with Toonami's slow schedule. Apparently they've dubbed up to the Goku Black arc and they think it's Toonami's fault they can't see those yet. Plus they are praying that Funimation starts simuldubbing the current episodes and just putting them online as well. Little do they know TOEI