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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..

Two of the characters are portrayed to have accents in this current dub and in the test dub, they have no accents. so I assumed that Viz would at least redub those characters and leave the rest of it alone.

Do you think the 3 episodes will get a full rerun or just a partial one to correct the accents and maybe replace the narrator?

http://animeboston.com/news/article/637 Yeah it just says "special episodes" premere hosted by Viz media. No idea what that means.

They love to keep us off balance when it comes to show reveals. Sometimes its at conventions, other times its PreFlight, and every now and then its on a food truck :-D We got Anime Boston this weekend, where I believe they will be premiering the first episode of Stardust. We may here something about it soon. No doubt though that it'll be on the air by the summer, even if they get a 12 episode show to temporarily take its place. I feel like Toonami was willing to let Part 1/2 play out to get to the more popular Part 3 which would be a better match for the DBZ crowd. I think the thing to do is to give it a small break, run something short, and come back with promos that highlight the action. If it does end up being shown without a break, I hope at least it gets its own marketing and promo anyway . Each new Jojo should be treated as a new series and not just the next episode.I think part of the problem with Phantom Blood/Battle Tendency is that no one get any heads up that this was anything different. If people were turned off by part 1 and left, they had nothing telling them to come back and give this a try. Hell, it still shows Jonathan and Dio on my DVR guide. Especially since they did 2 episodes in one night when the switch occurred, it would've been cool to get some kind of promo about a brand new Jojo starting up. My wife is usually willing now to give anything new Toonami airs a try. She was going to drop Jojo after episode 2. (her quote "I get it! Jojo and Dio don't like each other! ") so I had to give her heads up that it wouldn't be this way for long and once Joseph took over it'll be way better, so she hung around. Now she loves it. But if I hadn't told her it would change, she would be gone and I had to sort of ruin the surprise of Jojo. I feel like a lot of casuals need to know that Jojo still isn't about 2 step brothers fighting each other in the 1800s.

That's what I love about Richard Epcar. He just straight up tells you about things he's working on that haven't even been announced, like Lupin.He's probably one of the nicest most accessible VAs out there

I wonder if FUNIMATION will make it a little more difficult for Toonami to get broadcast dubs right away. Are they gonna want exclusivity over them for their service for a period after putting in the investment to get them done so fast?

Yeah. They need to sort of break their conventional habits in order to get this show on ASAP. After all, they didn't take off Thanksgiving in order to line up premieres where they needed to go. I seem to recall them not skipping Space Dandy at all so it could still be a world premiere. They really have an opportunity to do something special with AOT if everything lines up and FUNimation can get it done and work out a favorable deal with Toonami (most likely already in the works if not done already). I will be curious to see what they'll do on marathon weeks with a 4.5 hour block as well. Will they run 9 episodes of the same show? I do hope we get that 5 hour movie version of Jack at some point!

That's about what it did last week too. It's a similar drop that it had from Family Guy. Jack is more popular with regular Adult Swim viewers it seems. Hopefully in the coming weeks that can be parlayed into bigger numbers for Super. I was naive in thinking that Jack wouldn't perform well as the lead show! I'm glad that something other that Dragonball can do that! Too bad Jacks only around for 10 weeks!

I figured it would because they may not want to premere a new show at 2:00. Unless for some reason they are stuck with IBO and are not expecting it to do well so they bury it there, but I don't think they'd do that.