OwlChemist81

For those of y'all who still haven't seen MHA: Two Heroes yet, it's coming back on Starz! Kids & Family (Channel 527 on DirecTV) at 2:26 AM ET tonight/this morning. To my knowledge, it previously has only aired on Starz! Classic. So, set your DVR to record it or stay up to watch it if you've got nowhere to be tomorrow--and we all know a lot of people on this board stay up late to watch MHA anyway...

Oh yeah, without a doubt it's been stellar! Hell, I'd dare to say it's almost TOO good. Quality premiere shows are getting stuck at 3 AM and beyond for the first time since 2014, despite the fact the block gets an earlier extra hour that it didn't have in 2014!

One of the networks used to air Saved By The Bell with a "Zack Morris Void of Thought for the day" over the end credits. It was just something dumb he would say and was utterly hilarious!!

Wow, they actually moved this discussion here!! I broke down and DVR'ed this movie; will watch later.

Yeah, and I believe Toonami was wrong not to give it more of a chance at 11:30 PM before banishing it to the mid-block. I've heard some great things about what's to come in the early 90's...

Yeah, I know. But those were both live-action. None of them were as action-forward as PRIMAL is gonna be. But it should also be noted that some websites have mentioned that PRIMAL is actually TEN episodes that are each 11 minutes long, which is a similar structure to Infinity Train. And it will be interesting how ratings websites like ShowBuzzDaily handle the show's ratings reporting: will it be making the chart as 2 15-minute episodes a night, or just 1 30-minute episode??

At the start of June, Toonami had a 10-show lineup and featured a whopping 7 dub premieres: Dragon Ball Super; Attack On Titan (Season 3 Part 2); The Promised Neverland; Sword Art Online: Alicization; JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Part 4); Boruto; AND Hunter x Hunter. Now, 3 months later, all of those shows have ended except Dragon Ball Super and Boruto, and only one has been replaced by a dub premiere: JoJo by Lupin III Part 5. All the others have been replaced either by shows that have been out for a while such as Food Wars! or Gundam: The Origin (in its OVA format), or shows from 2019 that have been streaming for a while such as gen:LOCK, Dr. Stone, and Fire Force. The end result is a lineup with plenty of variety that is only slightly fresher than the one it gradually replaced (before, there were 4 shows from 2019 and now there are still 4), but is still hamstrung slightly by the fact that none of the 2019 shows are actually dub premieres. But looking back to Toonami's heyday on [as] in 2015, 3 dub premieres, which is what we have right now, is all we got ALL YEAR. Sword Art Online II, Akame ga KILL!!, Parasyte -the maxim-, and...yeah, that's it! The next year, 2016, was just as dismal variety-wise but really brought the dub premieres by comparison to 2015. During the year, Dimension W; Hunter x Hunter; Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans; One-Punch Man, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure had all joined the lineup. Of course, 2017 also brought it with Dragon Ball Super, Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters; and soon the World Premiere of Samurai Jack Season 5. Other dub premieres that would come later in the year included Attack On Titan Season 2; JoJo Part 3; Lupin III Part 4; and Gundam IBO Season 2--but over the year, ratings decreased sharply. All 3 years also included a Total Immersion Event: Intruder II; Intruder III; and Countdown, respectively. Despite 2018 boasting more episodes of World Premieres since 2014's Space Dandy with the FLCL sequel and prequel, as well as a pretty steady stream of dub premieres, including another season each of AOT and JoJo and the premiere of Boruto, ratings continued to decline. Now in 2019, we're looking at the first year without a World Premiere since 2016, unless you count The Forge TIE, but perhaps more dub premieres than any other year Toonami has been in existence on [as] so far! So far this year, there have been a total of 9 shows with episodes in dub premieres airing on the block (all mentioned above in the first paragraph, plus Megalobox)! However, now Toonami's game is shifting slightly as it begins to rely more on shows with fresher animation than ever before, and less on dubs that have never aired before on TV though the animation has been streaming for much longer. It remains to be seen if this gambit will pay off, but it's clearly sort of a temporary situation, with at least one more dub premiere known to be coming to the block before the end of the year in Demon Slayer, and others may be coming as well to bump that number of currently airing dub premieres up slightly. And the World Premieres will return in 2020 with Uzumaki already on the horizon.

I think Megumi's are a little smaller. She's at least portrayed pretty consistently as a C-cup compared to all the other ladies' D's!

Yeah, oops! Post corrected.

Boy, trying to watch this episode with the west coast (sorta) was torture!! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/food-wars-shokugeki-no-soma/episode-9/.88705 Grade: "B-". Yeah, I agree that last week was done a little better and this week the show took a step back...

Yeah, I tried to watch Dr. Stone (west coast, delayed) but I couldn't hold my eyes open...

Maybe you're right. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/lupin-the-third-part-5/episode-12/.133149 Grade: "B+". And LOOK what we've got coming our way next week...

Yeah, for real! Aizawa's not worried at all!!!

Yep, that solved the problem! And now here's the guy with the goo quirk!

Yeah, it really is a thing. Remember how the Pink Jacket lupin was such a goofball in Episode 6?

Is it just me or does she remind anyone else of a young Rip Van Winkle from Hellsing Ultimate? Also, did they run the wrong DBS Topical promo!?

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/dragon-ball-super/episode-126/.127343 Grade: "B". That was a decent episode, and it's quite surprising that no one was sacrificed in getting Top out of the way! Now it's Goku, Vegeta, 17, and Frieza vs. Jiren!

Oh yeah, I remember this episode! This is the one in which they got trapped!! And yeah, her quirk made her too much like a frog for her own good!

Hell of a showdown!!!

Not sure why this wasn't pinned, but this thread was intended to be a multi-week omnibus thread, kind of like we had with Attack on Titan Season 1 back in the spring. Episode #55 (Season 3, Episode 17): Class 1-A Let's go beyond (sanity for being awake): PLUS ULTRA!!!!

This is Red Jacket Lupin. He kinda IS scum compared to the Blue Jacket Lupin we Toonami watchers know and love!!

Is that Char's VA?

Yeah, it really is a shame that it ended up being only 13 episodes long. It should have been 18 episodes long, with 3 devoted to each OVA. Now, it's great but it does feel a little bit rushed.

I THINK this scene was in the 5th OVA and was cut from tonight's episode...

He was lying in her lap LMAO!