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GET READY FOR... Episode #124: "A Storm-and-Stress Assault! Gohan's Last Stand!"

HELL YEAH!!! -Krillin And man, Jiren and Goku really going at it!

How about this little bonus? Wish I could find the full version of the dub... Episode #123: "Body, Soul, and Power Unleashed! Goku and Vegeta!!"

"You say I'm arrogant? I say DAMN RIGHT!" -Vegeta

Oh yeah! Too bad we couldn't get THAT marathon... Then again, it would have been the entire weekend! No WAY [as] would let THAT happen!

Wow, you're right!!!

Oh COME ON! The [as] version of the epilepsy warning throughout this marathon is just gonna be OFF-PUTTING AS HELL!!! Now we have... Episode #122: "With His Pride On The Line! Vegeta's Challenge To Be The Strongest!!"

"YAY FOR FLYING!" Sometimes it seems like the Zenos are huge fans of U7, but rather than throw the yellow flag, they actually wanna push U7's power to the limit!

PRIMAL is gonna be AWESOME!!!! I'm definitely lookin' forward to it!

I gotta rewatch at 3-ish my time...

AND THAT'S HOW PAN WAS BORN, HEE HEE!

"What in the Cosmos" indeed, Beerus. What in the cosmos indeed!!!

aALLLLLL RIGHT!!!!! Now that the premiere episode is over, let's enjoy the rest of the MARATHON!!!! Episode #121: "ALL-OUT WAR! The Ultimate 4-Fold Union vs. The 7th Universe's Total Offensive!!!"

Yeah, but looking at the ratings, you must agree we probably SHOULD have had one on the 4th of July. However, I understand WHY we didn't. CN was going to gobble up the 8 PM hour (starting this Monday) and lose Dragon Ball Super's encore, which probably would have thrown it in Breach-Of-Contract. Then again, I guess they could have just encored it at 4 AM instead... Looking forward to seeing what the October 12th schedule will be (with dub premieres of OPM S2 and Demon Slayer), but if I'm right, DBS 131 will be somewhere on there...

This must happen in Dragon Ball Super Heroes? If Adult Swim is smart, they'll commission a real made-for-TV movie of Heroes and air that during a reborn Month of Movies, along with DBS: Broly.

If you consider each individual week, there was no Dragon Ball on the block the last time they ran a marathon (Boruto) on December 29, 2018. But on a monthly basis? You have to go back to October 2014 to find a month that a Dragon Ball show didn't air at least once on Toonami. Assuming no Dragon Ball airs on October 12--and I don't think we can--it will be November 8, 2014 to October 5, 2019--ALMOST FIVE YEARS OF DRAGON BALL!!! Either way, it's definitely almost 5 years of Dragon Ball PREMIERES!

Episode #130: "Greatest Showdown of All: The Ultimate Survival Battle!" Man, I can hardly believe it! Only 2 episodes left to go!! And stick around here and discuss the marathon tonight! It all begins at 11 PM tonight (9/28/19)!! ONLY TOONAMI!!

While in theory, what you're saying about streaming vs. linear TV is true, e.g., more convenient, better array of devices, I'd like to see the hard numbers that back up your claims. Aside from Netflix, who notoriously don't release their viewership numbers, I don't think ANY of these streaming services, including the grand-daddy of them all, YouTube, quite match up to their more "traditional" linear TV counterparts for MOST programming. And while we can analyze this data until we're blue in the face, we're not the ones who actually use it to make programming decisions. For all we know, a show with a 271K 18-49 average and multiple berths in the Top 10 might be good enough for the network to acquiesce to a 2nd season based on revenue from advertisers.

Manga/Light Novel success =/= anime success. I'm thinking Season 2 of SAO-A replaces Demon Slayer, but it COULD replace another show and show up earlier. Now that full 18-49 numbers are in, the actual growth in gen:LOCK at 11:30 over AOTS3 Part 2 is 15.98% if you also consider the midnight premiere of the next-to-last episode of the latter. (My math in the previous post on this topic DID.)

Final Space is an excellent example of something else on [as] that did only slightly better in the ratings and carries the same level of star power (for example, Little Cato is played by Steven Yeun, formerly of The Walking Dead, and both contain David Tennant) in the same timeslot on a different night. I'd say if it gets a Season 3 (and Season 2 actually did BETTER on the whole on [as] than Season 1), then gen:LOCK has a pretty good chance at a Season 2, UNLESS the upheaval actually took place DURING gen:LOCK's run on Toonami in response to its underwhelming retention of Dragon Ball Super's viewership. If that's the case, it makes it a lot less likely, but we don't know when it took place. From what I understand, it probably happened a couple of weeks BEFORE gen:LOCK aired on Toonami, which means a decent chance of a Season 2 under CN Studios instead of RT.

Yes indeed. That "Outlier Society" might have something to do with it too. Here's hoping they get AT&T's big budget to re-hire most of those A-list VAs, but I suppose it will probably be more likely that new characters get replaced by NYAV Post or something like that.

I'd say if Final Space can get a 3rd season with the ratings it got on Monday nights this summer/early fall, gen:LOCK has a chance at a 2nd! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Space

FUNimation just released this Season 3 highlight reel! Yep, the nut punch is in there!

Aye, that it did. Fixed!

From what I can see in terms of 18-34, it sure is, at least for known 18-34 ratings since the beginning of 2018. It just edged out the previous lowest 11-11:30 retention percentage, 47.3%, occurring on August 3rd--the night gen:LOCK premiered. What's interesting is the other 6 episodes averaged a fairly respectable 64.4%, and that beats out AOTS3's 61.3%. So why were the first episode and the last duds? Did viewers in the young adult demographic already KNOW these episodes would be cut for time, enough to make such a large dent in viewership? And if that's the case, wouldn't a world premiere of a 2nd season pretty much negate those effects entirely? But I digress. We got more NUMBERS to talk about! https://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-georgia-vs-notre-dame-is-most-watched-college-football-game-on-cbs-since-2013/ 9/21/2019 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 309,000 DBS (R) 241,000 77.99% TOONAMI DBS (P) 682,000 Gen:LOCK 406,000 59.53% Dr. Stone 371,000 91.38% FireForce 343,000 92.45% FoodWars! 319,000 93.00% B. Clover 304,000 95.30% Boruto 272,000 89.47% Shippuden 240,000 88.24% Gundam 235,000 97.92% LupinPt5 208,000 88.51% MHA (R) 223,000 107.21% AVERAGE 327,545 32 of 38 9/21/19 - Adults 18-49 Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 141,000 DBS (R) 128,000 90.78% TOONAMI DBS (P) 448,000 109.27% Gen:LOCK 265,000 59.15% Dr. Stone 221,000 83.40% FireForce 198,000 89.59% FoodWars! 192,000 96.97% B. Clover 183,000 95.31% Boruto 166,000 90.71% Shippuden 144,000 86.75% Gundam 163,000 113.19% LupinPt5 135,000 82.82% MHA (R) 157,000 116.30% AVERAGE 206,545 32 of 38 NO premiere show gained on the one before it in Total Viewers (MHA's rerun DID, oddly enough), which is unfortunate but fortunately also quite rare, and in 18-49, it turns out DBS, Gundam, and MHA all gained on their lead-ins. I'm willing to bet next week's DBS marathon has no show below 300K total viewers or 200K 18-49, but then again, the rerun isn't performing that well in the power hour. I guess we'll see...