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Well, this was fun to revisit this great series! ON to Black Clover!!

TAKES ONE to know ONE!

Real talk: thanks to lockdowns and greatly reduced nightlife, this show COULD pull a few Deadman Wonderlands in the ratings! That show's 2015 3 AM rerun often beat some of its 12:30 AM premieres in 2012. Mob could do the same between 2020 and 2018-19. This episode only has to beat 345K total viewers and 174K adults 18-49. The bar is pretty low. Paranoia agent did better than that on average the last couple of weeks!

You mean "countUP!?!"

If you gotta problem, Mob'll solve it. Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it! FULL OP!!!!

Now for the 2nd half of the "paranormal power hour!" MOB PSYCHO 100!!! Last time this show aired, it was at 12:30 so this isn't much of a downgrade!

I don't think I've ever seen that episode, but wow, what an obscure tribute! This show isn't THAT famous!

Well hell, technically every female has 2 sets of lips!

I believe it will be over soon. No, not the pandemic, but the stay at home orders are already lifting. I was able to return to work physically this week. As for Jason and Gill, I think they have Atlanta's mayor to blame, because if it was up to Kemp, they'd have been able to get back to AS HQ 2 weeks ago!

RE-DISCUSSION START!!!

Well, guess no one has made the Black Clover thread yet, so here goes, for the 17th-to-last episode of Black Clover in existence... Page 116 (Season 3, Episode 14): "The Ultimate Natural Enemy": Last time you remember, the Devil was unleashed, and we learned of a shocking connection between the 4-leaf and 5-leaf grimoires! What will happen next? Watch tonight and find out! The first truly original thing on [as] tonight (5/9-5/10/20), at 1:30 AM ONLY TOONAMI!!! NEW OP & ED!!

I honestly wasn't sure if this one was originally "Foxy Lady" or "Spice Girl". "Spicy Lady" does have a nice ring to it, though I'm not sure how in the hell that managed to match the lip flaps of "Spice Girl", since the former is 4 syllables and the latter 2 or 3, depending on how you say "girl". But I suppose it CAN be done if you de-emphasize the Y's enough. Better slap a "Brief Nudity" warning on that video, AF. That girl's boob IS naked for a brief moment!

Episode 3: "Double Lips" Pucker up and get ready to kiss that big golden bat! PLAY BALL AT A NEW TIME TOMORROW (5/9-5/10/20): 12:30 AM!!! ONLY TOONAMI!!!

Kagura, yes. 2nd episode of Final Act. Rin is younger than Kagome and if she died, it would definitely be an untimely death. I believe she'll be like a 25-year old woman in the series, which means that one of the younger male characters will no doubt have a boyish crush on her!

Yep, it'll be back on Toonami someday!

KAAAAAGOOOMEEEE!!!! No, but seriously, this is apparently more than just new manga, but some sort of new anime as well!

Actually, I think we got it twice, in Episode 12 and Episode 17. Those have been Zenitsu's times to shine--so far!

This is just too perfect. Aside from the whole-block interruption that was the DBZ Kai marathon, My Hero Academia has dodged quite a few bullets when it comes to having to rerun an episode, including the then-improbable prospect of having Episodes 84 and 85 premiere as scheduled, but has Toonami's luck in keeping its flagship show relatively uninterrupted finally caught up with it? The next episode is quite an interesting coincidence, considering that its episode number has a meaning other than one more than 85: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term) Interestingly enough, this article leaves off this reference that my eagle eye spotted in classic CN staple Tom & Jerry's "Cue Ball Cat:" But I digress. "86'ed" essentially means the item you're trying to order is out of stock or otherwise unavailable. Episode #86 is up next and it's quite possible it won't be available, as in it will be 86'ed by the coronavirus and FUNimation. However, since FUNimation has NOT yet streamed it on its service, it may be the first episode of MHA that plays on Toonami first before ending up on FUNimation NOW. IF it's not 86'ed, we might be getting an honest-to-God dub premiere of MHA on Toonami! One might theorize that the cost of allowing Toonami first plays of the remaining 3 episodes of MHA before their service is able to premiere it was for Toonami to give the show a weekday run from the beginning to increase its exposure, but I'm not really sure how that tit-for-tat works. Since the show premiered exactly a year ago today, on May 5th, 2018, it's quite possible it was renegotiated for more durable rights by Adult Swim, and that includes not only the dub premieres of the final 3 episodes of Season 4, but Season 5 as well! So what's it gonna be? Dub premiere of #86, or MHA premieres "86'ed!?" The answer may indicate more than that episode's dub premiere status!

Oops, I did it again! Once again I missed my "flashback 5 years ago" post on Saturday. When WILL I get in the habit of doing that? Who the hell knows!? Well, this isn't reassuring. MHA back to pre-pandemic levels, but at least it still won 18-34 and Men 18-49: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-5-2-2020.html In fact, Toonami utterly DOMINATED the Male 18-49 demo, but with UFC Prelims returning to ESPN, I don't expect that to continue this week. Plus, JoJo finally back in the Top 20! And as for the rest of the lineup: "Adult Swim’s late-night line-up performed as follows: DRAGON BALL at 0.08/188K & 0.08/193K compared to last week’s 0.11/263K & 0.11/255K, MY HERO ACADEMIA down 0.03 to 0.26, DEMON SLAYER down 0.04 to 0.20, PARANOIA AGENT down 0.03 to 0.17/338K, BLACK CLOVER down 0.05 to 0.15/308K, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE down 0.05 to 0.14/280K, NARUTO down 0.02 to 0.14/284K, PRIMAL down 0.04 to 0.13/257K and SAMURAI JACK down 0.02 to 0.14/275K." Toonami's average was only 354K, the first time since March 14th the normal lineup was under 400K, and ranking 10th out of 18 for the year. Its 18-49 average was 228K, ranking 13th out of 18 for the year. So, despite half the block's known dominance in a few key demographics and MHA's #3 ranking, Toonami this week was below-average in the ratings. But damn, the quality of EVERY EPISODE was good. What the hell else are people doing? Watching Nick At Nite??

I'll admit it's probably the weakest show on the lineup right now, but Black Clover is still utterly amazing. I realize it's been pretty hit-or-miss over the course of its 100+ episode run, but at this point it's a lot more hit than miss. Last weekend's episode was straight-up FIRE!

I think it's a lot more likely that the movie gets rolled into the first 4-5 episodes of the TV series, meaning if we'd seen Mugen Train by that point, we'd be FINALLY getting new content by episode 5 or 6. Perhaps even 7 or 8; as ideally the Mugen Train arc of the series would be interspersed with new content you couldn't actually see in the movie if they go that route. Alternatively, they could go the route SAO took and completely skip over the movie in the series. Or they could go somewhere in-between and condense the events in the movie into just 1 or 2 episodes. It will be interesting to see how the franchise handles this! And last but not least, believe it or not, we actually DO have an English-dubbed teaser for the Mugen Train movie!

Yeah, I can't say I understand it either, but it is what it is. If they had only fleshed out Ashi's resentment over being left a little bit more, it might have made more sense.

That One-Punch Man bump!!!

Did you notice how they both cut through what appeared to be the hollowed-out corpse of the Guardian?

Something I never caught in 2017 was her anger when she thought Jack left her. That's how Aku was able to manipulate her once again, as we will now see!