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Some of y'all might have noticed during Toonami this week that shows appeared to do better in trending than last week. And perhaps you were also wondering if that trend carried over to the Nielsen ratings. Well, the answer is sadly "not quite", but there IS an interesting phenomenon to note: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-1-11-2020.html "Adult Swim’s line-up performed as follows: DRAGON BALL at 0.10/295K & 0.09/289K compared to last week’s 0.11/0.12, MY HERO ACADEMIA down 0.01 to 0.21, DR STONE down 0.01 to 0.18, ONE-PUNCH MAN up 0.03 to 0.21, FIRE FORCE steady at 0.17, FOOD WARS down 0.01 to 0.15, DEMON SLAYER down 0.01 to 0.15/283K, BLACK CLOVER up 0.02 to 0.14/257K, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE up 0.01 to 0.12/222K, NARUTO up 0.02 to 0.13/256K, PROMISED NEVERLAND up 0.02 to 0.11/198K, and ATTACK ON TITAN up 0.01 to 0.11/200K." That's right folks: Punchy beat MHA in 18-49 to go out for Season 2 in a blaze of glory, just like Genos almost did!! And it looks like while this week faltered over last in terms of total viewers and 18-34, it bested last week in Adults 18-49! Baseline established, now let's see what the return of SAO can do!

There is an interesting point in this article: this movie is a "final battle" of sorts. If that's the case, why is it screening before Season 4 even ends!? Then again, I guess that's how it went down in Japan, since it opened in Japan on December 20th, about the time that the 11th episode of Season 4 came out. In other words, the run on Toonami will have reached the same point or slightly after that when the movie comes out over here. But then again, this movie appears to capture a concept that was an original alternate ending for the manga, so perhaps it doesn't spoil anything from Season 4.

Episode 24!? Shouldn't that be spoiler-tagged!? What the hell, man!?!

Karma Chameleon!?! Good grief, this thread went straight to hell, didn't it? Guess I'll post the cool promo... Also, y'all done misspelled "Alicization" in the OP. Not that it matters, because it's kind of a made-up word anyway... [whatever]

The key... And Grisha's speech to him! And we FINALLY found out what was in that damn basement in the most recent season!!! The bite, and a partial transformation to protect Mikasa and Armin! And that's all for tonight! 5.5-hour challenge complete! LATER!!

wuss.

It's not exactly clear, but my theory is that Eren was able to bite his lip or something to transform, but then again it could just be because he lost his arm? I'm really not sure. But if he HADN'T transformed, Santa Titan would be the Attack Titan right now!

Now we sort of know why...

Episode #09: "The Whereabouts Of His Left Arm" - The Struggle For Trost, Part 5 - HELL YEAH, LEVI KICKING ASS!!!

I can hardly wait until Season 2!

SCIENCE--IN THIS SHOW!!!

Knowing who Ray is from the beginning, watching this show makes for a very different show!

You know, I just noticed something: next week will be the first time we've had THREE Aniplex shows on the regular block at the same time! I guess that depends if you count FMA:B though. It was both FUNimation and Aniplex. But even it was only on at either the same time as SAO, Blue Exorcist, or Gurren Lagann. It was gone by the time Kill La Kill and Sword Art Online II did double duty on the block.

Here's the full version we never got on Toonami:

That's research I'm not sure we want to do...

Also the first OP of Blue Exorcist!

Emma is Erica Mendez, right??

BRAINS...

Yeah, I agree! This show is great to watch in the dark!

Episode 2: 131045

Gotcha! Do we not get a Dr. Stone topical!?

So 284-320 are filler!? I wonder what BULLSHIT they'll be messing around with? Or maybe it's actually somewhat integrated into the main story and not just its own story arc like we saw in Bleach?

Infighting, LMAO...

This is gonna be INTENSE!

This episode is titled "White Zetsu's Trap". So, it's pretty much gotta be at least "embellished" canon, right?