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One thing to consider I suppose is that it started the same week last year. Depending on how many marathons they want to run, there may be some strategic placing in order for it to finish out before the Christmas hiatus. If they start there and take off July 4th, Labor Day, Halloween, and Thanksgiving, it'll work out just right. If they don't plan on taking one of those off (similar to last year) then they can wait another week to start it. I guess it all depends on what their programming plans are this year.

I'm sure IBO2 is a done deal at this point. It's even possible that both seasons were picked up together along with Unicorn as a show of good faith to Sunrise. For whatever reason, they had the hardest time getting any type of Gundam on the block for years. That'll take us to the end of 2017, then after that who knows?

I'd say they start Stardust at 12:30 or 1:00, depending on where they want to stick IBO. Of course it's all relevant to how well all the other shows are doing when that comes. As far as Double Gundam for 2 weeks, why not? They'll do whatever they have to do in order to premiere things when they want to.

My biggest issue with promotion is that with most series, the promo disappears after the first week. You think they can still run it a couple times a week to remind people it's on.

No people really do try to insult him even on a personal level. Sometimes it seems like people make it their mission to try and piss him off. He was a Sander supporter and people would right things on his ask.FM like "When Trump wins, I bet you'll cancel Toonami out of liberal tears while you whine on Twitter all day" and he was just like "No way. Not even Trump can stop Toonami!"

Yeah the 2014/2015 fiasco was largely a lot of bad luck. Many things that Toonami couldn't do anything about. There was also the Dish Network fiasco, the end of Bleach, brining on DBZ Kai and Inuyasha: TFA and take them off for mostly rerun movies for a whole month. By cutting the block, though, they were able to salvage what was important and rebuild from there.

Demarco runs Adult Swim- On Air. basically in his words, everything on Adult Swim that's not a show. He and his team are behind all the AS interstitials and packaging, of which Toonami is considered. He doesn't get paid anything extra for Toonami, it's just considered packaging that airs on Saturday nights. Kim Manning is head of programming and decides things like schedules and acquisitions. Demarco and Gil sit down with her work out what shows to get based on demand, cost, and a whole bunch of other decisions. She makes the deals and reaches out to the distributors .She actually is a big fan of anime and used to even talk to people on the ASMB. She is a really cool person. She has to make decisions about programming, schedules, and the other things I mentioned. I'm sure plenty of factors have to go into play when deciding a shows timeslot like show compatibility, cost vs ratings potential, ect.. Decisions about whether or not to run marathons (which don't cost them much) on nights when there will be less TV viewership have also to be made with regard to how it plays into the overall scheme of things. Think about all the moves that had to happen to have DBZ Kai wrap by last years end in order to start TFC in January. Demarco of course has his opinions, but these decisions are largely out of his control and like any job with many departments, you may not like every decision your superiors make, but in the end you have a job to do and keep so you aren't really in a position to argue about every one of those choices, even if you know it's not a good idea. The April Fools gag certainty was bad for Jack fans, but they also had to take into consideration the Final Four competition and the need to have Jack wrap up the week before Memorial Day. I'm sure all of this was choreographed way ahead of time. Sometimes you stop and think, "Wow wasn't that convenient timing?" Like the DBZ thing, they had to have the normal holiday breaks, forgo a Thanksgiving break, double up last May, and run an episode on a marathon night in 2015 to make that happen. I just feel bad for the guy because he is sort of on the front lines. You should have heard some of the Youtube rants that were screaming about how Demarco needs to take responsibility for this because "he's in charge of Toonami". It's not like he can say "Hey 11:00-3:30 belongs to ME, you can't touch it" and how he "Waited 2 WHOLE HOURS to let people know what was going on!" He doesn't need to do anything. It's Saturday, it's his day off and I'm sure he'd like to spend time with his family. He doesn't have to talk to people just because he has a Twitter account. He does and will because he cares , but for a network executive, he's one of the most accessible and transparent one's out there.

There's not much Demarco can do with regards to programming decisions. He just curates the block, helps decide what shows to get, plan TIE's. Lineup decisions, when and what marathons to play, the length of the block, ect... are all in the hands of the programming department. I'm sure he provides his opinion and guidance, but the ultimate choice isn't up to him. I saw a YouTube video that put the blame solely in Demarco's hands for the stunt because "he controls Toonami" and that's just plain wrong. It's not like he owns the airwaves during those hours. Some people think he can veto anything that affects Toonami and it doesn't work that way.

I could see them trying it. But I don't think it's a good idea not so much for Toonami's sake but for Rick and Morty's sake. I'm sure it's not cheap to make that show and I'd hate to see it railroaded because it didn't do as well on Saturdays as it did on Sunday's. It could go either way I suppose.

I agree. I always tend to watch the Sunday block more when Rick and Morty is in premeres.

Do you guys think they might try and make Rick and Morty a Saturday show when it comes back this summer? Would it work well as a Toonami lead in? Could it do better than Family Guy?

College Basketball. I myself didn't realize how big a deal it was until I started following Toonami's ratings. I don't understand how college sports seem to be more popular than the professional leagues.

Do these things ever go beyond episode 10 or do they do that the next time it streams? I remember they were doing the whole series in a week a few years back! Interesting that they still are hanging on to Bebop. It would be cool if we get one more television run of those HD tapes before their deal runs out.

I hope they don't pull a stunt during Toonami next year which would preempt shows when people were expecting them. I'm think more along the lines of screwing with the packaging, but leaving the shows alone. But if they do something, then what you suggested would be the best thing they could do!

The only thing I worry about is the dropoff between Jack and the DB series. I think they're banking in this lifting the middle of the block a little. I'm hoping this holds Kai as well as One Punch Man did. It deserves great ratings because I can only imagine the work and money that went into making this happen. I was hoping it would go at 11:30 or 12 closer to Jack. I guess they don't want to mess with timeslots too much because it's only for 3 months and then they'd have to rearrange everything again. Very interested seeing what they may do after Jack ends. I'm wondering if we don't get a new show after Jack, would they just eliminate 11:00 or slide up the whole block like they did last summer, eliminating 3:00 AM. We still will get at least 3 new shows when Tokyo Ghoul, Titan, and Gundam end. I'm sure 2 of them are Stardust and IBO2, but that still leaves room for one more, possibly 2 if they replace Jack with something!

Yeah the only people who knew for sure were the people who follow Demarco on twitter! So the dedicated Toonami audience probably knew, but that's about it. I'm really hoping that this didn't kill Jack's momentum. At least they only have themselves to blame, but I guess that didn't matter when they reran Titan at 11:30. On another note, I'm seeing people on reddit suggest that they rerun Jack at 11:00 and... just no....

Another person asked Demarco on his ask.FM asked if Stardust will replace AOT and he said "Likely! We love Jojo!" If that isn't a positive sign I don't know what is. He usually never discusses show acquisitions unless it's a done deal. It's coming! The 12:30 timeslot is in good hands in the meantime!

And Stardust ITSELF kind of has 2 seasons where they can break it up. The cool thing about seasonal anime like Jojo and not just perpetual long running shows like One Piece and Naruto is that you can give them a rest and then bring them back with new promotion and even better timeslots than it had before instead of being continually pushed down the lineup if it doesn't take a break.

I think this can be a new chance to get people on board with Jojo. Many people probably still think its about "those 2 British guys that don't like each other"! I think Toonami knew that it was going to be rough going at first, but I'm glad that they seem to have a commitment to see it through. It was all about getting to Stardust. The also could split the seasons up I suppose depending on how dubbing goes and if they want to keep a rotating slot.

So as far as you can tell there wasn't any redubbing done to the test dub? I figured they may make a few alterations to it like the narrator, but otherwise leave it alone especially if the other VAs haven't changed.

The accent thing is kind of strange since SC begins in Japan (as do most anime). I figured they weren't going to have everybody who lives there speak with a Japanese accent so its as good a time as any to drop accents all around .Just assume everyone is speaking the way that they are supposed to I suppose. If Epcar doesn't do it, it won't be consistent with the end of the last season, but oh well. I didn't think they were going to have Mercer voice Jotaro with a Japanese accent. As far as Epcar's character is concerned, I'll chalk it up to the time spent in America and when interacting with people like his daughter whom he raised there he sounds more American, but when interacting with strangers like the guy at the airport, he resorts to his native British! That would be cool if they could do something like that! Strange as it sounds, I know people who were raised in different parts of the world who actually can speak with different accents depending on who they are talking to. I've known many people in the US who speak differently depending on where they are and who they are talking to. My great grandmother came to this country from Russia as a teenager and pretty much lost her accent except when talking to her parents and other family members. I also knew a girl from Trinidad and she spoke English different ways depending on who she was conversing with. Another strange example is the actor John Barrowman from Doctor Who and Torchwood who is from Scotland, but went back and forth between here and there growing up. He actually demonstrated on a talk show how he speaks with an American accent for the most part, but when he is with his family, he speaks with a Scottish accent.

If Aot runs for 12 episodes and we have the usual holiday marathon breaks (which would put us further behind Japan unfortunately), then it will end on 7/29. Maybe they wont do a July 4th marathon this year because it falls more in the middle of the week. I don't think we lose a slot there since it's still in the middle of the summer. However , college football season does make me think that the block will at least shift back to get out of it's way. Depending on what timeslots are kept and how many shows we have, it can shift to 11:30 or back to Midnight. We also have to keep in mind that Adult Swim itself usually loses an hour in the fall too. This is why a shift makes sense.

Well obviously, it's going to take several weeks of fumigation to get rid of the poisonous gas that One Piece left behind, right Jman? 8)

Since it's a unique case, I suppose it could be classified either way ! It certainly would be after episode 4. I wonder if they'll keep "Walk Like an Egyptian"? I don't think the test dub did..