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Totally called it. Our highly requested show Jojo, the one everyone has been waiting for: 638,000 total viewers 0.28 18-49 .At midnight. What a joke. The night started out low again with Kai at 11:30 doing something in the 700s at 11:30. It goes all the way down to Lupin getting 475,000 at 1:30 AM. Meanwhile on Sunday. Rick and Morty gets 2.8 million viewers. What is happening guys?

I should ask the guy from that site if he knows what the deal is

One thing to note. On my cable guide, it listed JJBA as having an OAD of sometime in '14 (when the test dub came out). There's a chance it won't show up in SBD's cable original report tommorow. HxH uses the Japanese dates so it's the same way. I'm predicting something in the range of 600k total for Jojo

They have enough things to maintain a back end at this point. Jack could be a permanent slot at the end if they run it from the start.

Could be. This is probably the thing they couldn't talk about at Comicon whatever it is. I'd welcome it.

http://adultswim.x10.mx The schedule (11:00-4:00) is missing. There could be something interesting happening here. This is the week after GiTS ends its first season. Also of not is that Jack is missing despite it being part of regular AS.

It's not really Demarcos fault that he picks up what the fans ask for.

I think they better route would've been to let Super fail on a kids network just in time for Kai to end. Then Toonami could have had it with no restrictions. I still wish they could use Super to build something in prime time .

That schedule shift did create some interesting possibilities. Considering the trouble Funimation had with getting Outlaw Star, they may be making them hold off a bit to protect sales of the Blu-Ray. Hell, we may even be getting something else at 3:30 once Jack ends.

Get used to these ratings as long as the let Super premiere in prime time and lead the block off with a repeat. Thanks a bunch TOEI

I despise TOEI. There goes any chance of the block having better ratings. Family Guy always does worse in the 10pm hour. Why can't TOEI just let Toonami premiere it at 11!!??

With the news that Toonami is shifting back to 11 this week, we'll be in for a period of adjustment again.

The guides were all wrong. Not many people knew the new episode was at 11:30. They assumed it was a rerun. Plus people's DVRs recorded the wrong episode as well.

Do you suppose Toonami can do anything to break out of this cycle or is it just a sign of the times?

Yeah that makes sense because it's a double "premiere " if you didn't catch it in April. The next week will be interesting because they'll only have one season 3 episode to encore . So we may be down a Rick the next week!

It's not going to help right away for sure. Only a few 8:00 viewers will catch on at first and make the switch right away. I believe the next thing to change will be one of the rick and Morty's. After encoding the double premiere, they should just stick to encoring Sunday's new episode instead of rerunning more episodes from seasons 1/2. After this run hopefully they'll rest Jack. It's also possible that we lose 8:00 in September/October. Lastly, they should replace Venture Brothes or put it earlier since it's hurting Family Guy, which hurts Toonami.

Plus as long as the show airs at 8 for kids to see, does it matter if it's a premiere? Now we'll know whether or not it was the two airings or do people just not like this show! All they have to do now is put American Dad in place of one of the Ricks and Venture and we're all set!

I'm curious if there were people who only watched at 8 that won't find the 11:30, assume there's just a rerun this week, and then come back to 8 the following week for their "new episode".

Just because it can change at anytime, but it is the most current schedule. Looks like they are tweaking the Saturday schedule bit by it until things are at an acceptable level. Wonder what took so long ?

http://adultswim.x10.mx Hopefully this is accurate and true!

I am not expecting Jojo to do any better than Titan. Remember, we were all hoping Titan would get us out of the rut with retention caused by the first season of Jojo! It doesn't help that AS is going to wait until the last minute to promote it despite the fact that the promo has been in the can since the beginning of the month. EDIT: Jason Demarco says the promo has been running this week. Has anyone seen it on air?

Wow that's pretty low! I didn't see that ! Who are the other 300,000 people? Kids ? Or older people?

Looking back over the last year of ratings it's obvious that we are seeing lower numbers mostly due to the lead ins going from Bobs Burgers and American Dad to Samurai Jack, Rick and Morty , and Venture Bros. Family Guy rises a bit but if it can barely hold a million Toonami doesn't stand a chance. However, from AS point of view, they are spending less money over all on Saturday so maybe it offsets things. It is kind of sad that Toonami relies so much on the FOX shows doing well. But it's possible that we had inflated numbers because of it. That combined with the decline in cable puts us where we are now. I don't think Toonami is doing anything wrong other than the Super situation. However, even THAT was doing 1.2-1.3 when led in by pure FOX. What we are seeing here is more the pure dedicated Toonami audience and less of the casuals who hang around after FOX shows. This is the audience that AS can count on week after week and sell to advertisers!

Maybe TOEI needs to understand that Dragonball does better in the US with young adults vs young children? And that 8pm on a Saturday is a bad place to premiere anything. The DVR ratings for 8pm Super are probably great as well. It just does Toonami no favors. Who would've thought that with a lineup of Super, Buu Kai, Titan broadcast dub, Jojo on the horizon, we'd be having this issue.

Ha ha I get it. Seriously though Toonami needs to somehow convince TOEI that having it premere at 11:30 is better for the show.