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I honestly think she hopes the rest of the show are those 2 going on dates and getting married. ? But she's a sucker for emotional character moments (she liked the Yui stuff) so the AIDS thing might get her (I actually forgot about that whole thing to just now)

Shippuden did so well in comparison because Lupin did so poorly. I'm hoping it goes to after Pain, but if it would help the front so be it. These drops are terrible and it almost seems like Outlaw Star would hold DBZ better than Jojo.

The first season. The first 2 arcs where he met the girl, then she was trapped in the game and he had to go rescue her. It ended with him meeting her in the hospital. She watched the whole thing over 2 days. I've seen bits of it on Toonami (season 2) and it seemed pretty cool. Just don't know why people hate the second season (not arc although the sister thing was weird)

AS has a problem similar to Jack where tons of people show up for Rick and Morty but don't stick around for the next shows. They don't seem to have much loyalty to the rest of AS. I'm thinking people just aren't digging Jojo sad to say.

My wife just blew through season 1 and really enjoyed it , particularly the relationship love story stuff. A friend of hers said to not watch the second season as it "ruins" the story and she wouldn't like it. Is this accurate ? is the second season universally loathed like that?

This is the way I believe. Toonami could take some of these shows and give them exposure they won't get in a sea of streams. Shows that haven't had a chance to break out. Yes it's risky, but it's better than what they've been doing.

I forgot to tell you, I asked the guy on that site why Hunter X Hunter is never listed and he says that Adult Swim lists it as a rerun. I'm sure its another night where Family Guy didn't do so hot. It doesn't seem to matter what they do. If they want Toonami on earlier they have to deal with a lower rated Family Guy which starts the night off low. That late you can only expect a show to try and hold the previous one and if the night starts out at 1 million, its just downhill from there. They are doing well in 18-34 though which is what they really care about when it comes down to it.. Man I just looked at Rick and Morty on Sunday and it did another night north of 2.5 million! The reruns of the season do not seem to be helping Saturday too much though unfortunately. Kind of the age we live in, reruns just don't play well when DVRs and On Demand allow people to catch up easier. This applies to the people who only catch DB Super at 8:30 as well. I really wish they were allowed to really premiere it at 11. EDIT: I had a comment about Jojo not having a bad drop, but I misread the numbers and it did!

I want The Devil is a Part Timer! he reviewed that once on Preflight. Note: I'm not saying that its a show as mentioned above, just that Gil likes it!

All of Kai is out on DVD. They released the whole Final Chapter very quickly in 3 sets from April-June. I'm going to throw out an odd theory. I think that Toonami is going to part ways with Naruto Shippuden after the Pain arc (episode 175) ends in September. It's just a hunch, but I have a feeling that they will use the 2am hour to air remastered classic shows or shows that were exclusive to streaming and now can run on Toonami in sort of a second chance theater. I just think that once a show's dub has run on a streaming service for awhile, putting it on Toonami in an early timeslot isn't going to do much good. But it could be used to fill out the back end a little if they can be picked up for cheap.

I don't mind IBO, but that is kind of the point when they (exception of OPM) being current with the industry with newer not as well known properties. With Gundam they were sort of misguided by nostalgia and their own love for the franchise.Before it was sort of the dub premieres of last years Japanese hits. Now we are sort of seeing th dub premieres of the hits of 2013-2015 (Jojo, Lupin, Ghoul, HxH). Many of these shows are already super popular with the anime crowd who has already seen them subbed. These same shows have no mainstream appeal either. The 2 shows Daos mentioned are good examples of things that might have gotten an audience and more exposure. They have a great partner in Funimation that is dubbing dozens of shows a season. Toonami could take one of those shows and make it a hit by putting it in front of millions of people who wouldn't have seen it otherwise. The shows they are playing now would have been better 2/3 years ago, unfortunately it took this long to get them dubbed. It's my hope that they stop only paying attention to the popular request backlog (that means you Fairy Tail) and sit down with Funimation and try and find the hit of tommorow.

Shows really need that mainstream appeal. Things like fun humor, romance, character development go a long way with casual viewers.

I'd say throw one of them on and see how it does. If we keep picking up known popular shows, your limited to people who haven't seen them.

And that's an issue, once something is already popular, the masses have already seen it. By the time Toonami can get MHA, it won't have much value at the top of the block anymore. This is kind of what we are seeing with HxH, Ghoul and Jojo. It would be cool if we could get stuff that is just on the verge of blowing up. They would need someone to really do the research about what's coming in Japan and to take a risk on an unknown property. Toonami has made names out of things that weren't even hits in Japan. Would be nice to see that again.

I think the point of diversion was when they picked up IBO. What they really should've done is run MHA after Dimension W. They maybe could've gotten it on the cheap before it blew up huge. At some point though Netflix is going to have to chill or they may collapse under their own weight!

I think they've abandoned Friday premieres for now and are just throwing everything on Sunday live action or animated.

They may do that as well. I'm sure it would be up to if Tyler the Creator OKs it since it's his show (does he have his is production company? ) How does that not have a premiere date yet? That's crazy From what I've seen the ratings for Appllo seem like o be on par with other stuff so I'm not sure it cut into that much at all.

Do you guys see what Adult Swim is trying to do with Apollo Gauntlet? They make the whole series available at once while also doing the traditional broadcast. Apparently Lazzo wants to do the same thing with Hot Streets when it premieres next year. They are experimenting with bingeable content for some of their newer shows I guess to see how it performs in each method. Granted, they are cheap, 11 minute shows with 6 episode seasons, but it kind of shows that they are looking towards the future. I wouldn't expect them to do this with something like Rick and Morty or anything on Toonami. Remember, AS has always seen the value of putting things online to give their viewers options. Remember the Friday Night Fix where you could stream things before they aired? Granted this probably cut into their anime ratings as people got accustomed to doing that instead of watching. The really need some kind of Roku/Apple tv/Chrome app so that you can watch their stuff on the TV. TBS has one so I imagne they'd be next. What I can see them doing eventually is launching their own way of directly subscribing to them if you don't have cable. They are making a lot of their stuff available though for free without a cable login. Attack on Titan/Jojo are recent examples.

I'm really curious to see how primetime performed and if the new Rick and Morty episodes did indeed help the lineup do slightly better. I'm guessing that Super at 11 probably did something in the 900s and Family Guy did around 1 million. I hope that they stick with this lineup for ahwhile to see if it can grow an audience. I really wish they could just brand the 8pm hour Toonami as well and pair Super up with something suitable but I guess that can be disjointing.

It would probably be for the best IMO,at least on Saturdays where primetime AS isn't doing that great. if that were the case they could : 10:00 Rick and Morty 10:30 Family Guy 11:00 Family Guy 11:30 Toonami (Just make it an even 5 hours or throw on some WS original at 4) 4:30 Rick and Morty 5:00 King of the Hill 5:30 King of the Hill (Since it seems to do well with the 6am Sunday Mass crowd ) Only thing, of course is if, TOEI still has the network by the balls (please AS never let a production company program your network again), then that sort of doesn't work

If the ratings are even worse this week, theres no telling what they are going to do. Saturday as a whole is hurting bad. Toonami needs prime time Saturday to do better .We are getting the newer Rick and Mortys at 9:00, but they are also replaying on Fridays as well. So we are getting the third airing of it on Saturday. If Family Guy is not getting over a million, then neither will Toonami. The only silver lining is that Super isn't losing a whole bunch to Family Guy right now and the blocks retention isn't horrible right now from where they start. If Family Guy starts doing a lot better and Super doesn't rise as a result, then we got problems with that show in particular as the earlier premiere could be eroding the numbers. I think they will continue to play with the lineup, probably a month at a time. I think August will stay just like this for now and hopefully things will improve. We had an all FOX lead in during 2015 after the cut down which really helped things, but they don't seem to be able/want to anymore for various reasons. Maybe they will do that again as a hail mary if things get really bad. The annual loss of 8pm will be interesting because I don't see them airing Super at 9:00/9:30 and then 11:00. Something is going to have to shift at that point. If Jojo falls further, I don't see them keeping it at midnight for the entire 48 episode run. I honestly don't know what show on the lineup would hold DBZ better though. Someone on Twitter was suggesting that Outlaw Star would perform better than Jojo is at midnight following DBZ, which sounds nuts and they'd never do it, but with this Toonami audience that loves nostalgia, who knows?

Looks like we are back to the "We only promote things that are already doing well " school of thought. What is this, ASA? The way they see it is that if something isn't doing great, the last thing you want to do is sink more money into it. Self fufilling profecy because the less you promote something the worse it'll do. JJBASC really needed more promotion than it got to drive home that this wasn't the same Jojo as before. Demarco thinks they ran the promo 2 weeks out, but I don't think it did. At a minimum, the current lineup promo should always be running. Of course we saw a Rick and Morty promo during every break of Toonami last night. Like that show needs more help.

Did they go back to using the previous bumpers for this?

What exactly is a ratings point for 18-34 this year and where would you get that information.

So do you think One Piece leaving was a mistake because it took away some of Toonami's identity?

Off topic: but I predict that AOT S2 will be replaced by FLCL s1 If we get a Labor Day and Halloween Marathon, it should end October 21 Assuming we get Thanksgiving off and the 2 weeks at the end of the year, that leaves 6 more Toonami's! That would fit perfectly