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I'm honestly not that into this Hawks flashback. I would rather see wacky apprehension with Best Jeanist! Guess we get that later this episode!

Fixed issues with the episode numbering. This is the 17th Episode of Season 6.

Tonight we've got yet another double-header of MHA!! A food episode to welcome back Food Wars, why not? See what's up with that tonight at Midnight, ONLY TOONAMI!!

This Toonami is on serious watch for some kind of programming stunt. Perhaps they'll do a Media Blasters takeover with 3 hours of heavily-edited hentai!?

The scale I use is "Wulin Warriors is a 1.0; Genndy Tartakovsky's PRIMAL is a 10.0". Based on that the first 4 seasons of Food Wars would HAVE to be a 5.0-7.0.

This is the first week it's happened, however. Viewership was down across the board last week.

MHA at 12 AM way up but still the only Toonami show that made the Top 50: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-saturday-3-11-2023-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html I am utterly mind-boggled as to how the first episode of a double-header can do so well and then the second can shed like 30% of its audience!

I don't know if it actually aired, but there IS a 1-minute version on Toonami's Facebook page!

I sent it to the Shadow Realm!!

Ironically, THAT explosion didn't please Deidara!! 🤣

Yeah, I saw that there wasn't another one so I started it.

I guess this is the official thread, since it reached "HOT!" status first!

I floated this one. I made it while the other one posted, apparently?

Did you beat me?

Wow, we didn't have a Discussion thread for this! Let's go!!

NOW the dragon learns to fly and be a total pain in the ass!? SERIOUSLY!?

The interesting thing is this CAN'T go on for THAT much longer! We're on episodes aired in January 2023 in Japan now and this will be the first 2 from February airing in 2 weeks. In fact, the first 2023 thing Toonami aired was actually the 12:30 episode last week, which premiered in Japan on 1/2/23 by my math. Of course it was overshadowed by the hype of the One Piece Crossover special, so it kind of happened quietly. The years of the animation in the shows in terms of when it first premiered to the world in some form is as follows, on March 18th and going forward: 12 & 12:30 AM MHA - 2023 1 AM Food Wars 5th Plate - 2020 1:30 AM One Piece - 2013 2 AM Naruto Shippuden - 2015 2:30 AM PRIMAL - 2022 Of course, if things continue at this pace, MHA will catch up to the Japanese airing by the end of April (assuming there are still any episodes left), so there must be something to break the monotony. And that something will probably be the AOT special, which we are likely to see premiere in early April, keeping the first hour of the block 2023-fresh and pre-empting Food Wars 5th Plate for a week. Also, ironically Crunchyroll continues to take over the block!

After an absolutely gut-wrenching hour of MHA, we're all gonna need something to lighten the mood, so how about a bunch of pirates, samurai, marines, and others trying desperately to escape from a metal fortress being increasingly taken over by a purple petrifying gas? No? Well at least we've still got Killer Bee Rappuden Part 2 to look forward to, fool, ya fools!! Witness the ongoing carnage at 1 AM tonight, March 11-12, 2023, in what's sure to be one of the DARKEST Toonami blocks to air in a while, and we just got through DC Injustice not that long ago!

I read that, and now I wish I hadn't. Good grief. Note: this is Episodes 14-15 of Season 6.

Pretty clear that no one really gives a damn about the ratings anymore, but just in case you're curious... https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-saturday-3-4-2023-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html MHA hanging on for dear life at #50!

SAO is pseudo-isekai Sci-Fi. Well, now some of it is historical fiction! 🤣

I GUESS Toonami COULD still start at 11:30 that night... March 25th WOULD be a fun little setup for a 30-minute gag on April 1st before regular Toonami took over on April 2nd. Toonami France, anyone???

Regarding MHA being doubled up for a 3rd week, I now believe the plan is to air the AOT special one week at Midnight and leave Food Wars 5th Plate at 1 AM that week, effectively knocking out BOTH episodes of MHA for a week. That week is probably either March 25th or April 2nd. It certainly makes sense not to premiere something at 12:30 for a week if it's just going to be pulled the following week for a special. And I'm guessing the reason they CAN double up MHA is that it's been off the schedule twice on Christmas and New Year's. That signals another disturbance may be coming. But trying to find reason in Toonami scheduling these days feels like a fool's errand. As long as they don't screw up my DVR recordings, I guess I'm just along for the ride!

I would be inclined to agree with you EXCEPT for the 3 originals that have been promised. They may not bring back the Golden Age of Toonami, as acquisitions still look to be lean, but they may avoid another ACTN Dark Age. If they get written off, however, all bets are off.

That would be "The best spice is BOOTY!"