OwlChemist81

Believe it or not, there is SOME good news: Dragon Ball Z Kai (R) (Adult Swim, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.172 million viewers [#880] • 0.07 A18-49 [#689] • 0.07 A25-54 [#801] Dragon Ball Super (R) (Adult Swim, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.156 million viewers [#910] • 0.06 A18-49 [#815] • 0.07 A25-54 [#812] Rick & Morty (R) (Adult Swim, 9:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.168 million viewers [#886] • 0.07 A18-49 [#707] • 0.07 A25-54 [#771] Rick & Morty (R) (Adult Swim, 9:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.293 million viewers [#614] • 0.14 A18-49 [#202] • 0.13 A25-54 [#356] Family Guy (R) (Adult Swim, 10:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.425 million viewers [#351] • 0.19 A18-49 [#81] • 0.20 A25-54 [#161] Family Guy (R) (Adult Swim, 10:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.486 million viewers [#266] • 0.21 A18-49 [#45] • 0.24 A25-54 [#86] Dragon Ball Super (Adult Swim, 11:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.529 million viewers [#233] • 0.25 A18-49 [#17] • 0.26 A25-54 [#69] Attack on Titan (Adult Swim, 11:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.266 million viewers [#676] • 0.12 A18-49 [#277] • 0.13 A25-54 [#376] Sword Art Online: Alicization (Adult Swim, 12:00 AM, 30 min.) • 0.248 million viewers [#714] • 0.13 A18-49 [#236] • 0.12 A25-54 [#417] Lupin the 3rd: Part 5 (Adult Swim, 12:30 AM, 30 min.) • 0.165 million viewers [#891] • 0.09 A18-49 [#431] • 0.08 A25-54 [#679] Food Wars (P) (Adult Swim, 1:00 AM, 30 min.) • 0.155 million viewers [#912] • 0.09 A18-49 [#488] • 0.08 A25-54 [#711] Black Clover (R) (Adult Swim, 1:30 AM, 30 min.) • 0.186 million viewers [#863] • 0.11 A18-49 [#347] • 0.11 A25-54 [#469] Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (R) (Adult Swim, 2:00 AM, 30 min.) • 0.197 million viewers [#829] • 0.11 A18-49 [#330] • 0.11 A25-54 [#463] Naruto: Shippuden (R) (Adult Swim, 2:30 AM, 30 min.) • 0.162 million viewers [#895] • 0.09 A18-49 [#502] • 0.10 A25-54 [#548] Mobile Suit Gundam: Red Comet (P) (Adult Swim, 3:00 AM, 30 min.) • 0.154 million viewers [#914] • 0.09 A18-49 [#471] • 0.09 A25-54 [#610] My Hero Academia (R) (Adult Swim, 3:30 AM, 30 min.) • 0.201 million viewers [#823] • 0.11 A18-49 [#341] • 0.10 A25-54 [#542] Gemusetto Machu Picchu (R) (Adult Swim, 4:00 AM, 30 min.) • 0.126 million viewers [#965] • 0.07 A18-49 [#620] • 0.08 A25-54 [#718] Ballmastrz: 9009 (R) (Adult Swim, 4:30 AM, 15 min.) • 0.104 million viewers [#988] • 0.07 A18-49 [#699] • 0.06 A25-54 [#879] Tigtone (R) (Adult Swim, 4:45 AM, 15 min.) • 0.099 million viewers [#996] • 0.06 A18-49 [#726] • 0.06 A25-54 [#912] Aqua Teen Hungerforce (R) (Adult Swim, 5:00 AM, 15 min.) • 0.095 million viewers [#998] • 0.06 A18-49 [#767] • 0.06 A25-54 [#935] Aqua Teen Hungerforce (R) (Adult Swim, 5:15 AM, 15 min.) • 0.125 million viewers [#967] • 0.07 A18-49 [#669] • 0.06 A25-54 [#899] Home Movies (R) (Adult Swim, 5:30 AM, 30 min.) • 0.100 million viewers [#994] • 0.06 A18-49 [#748] • 0.05 A25-54 [#967] Read more: https://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-hbo-premiere-of-bohemian-rhapsody-tops-the-days-cable-telecasts-among-adults-25-54/ As bad as Toonami did, its best show Dragon Ball Super won the night, and it stayed at 0.09 or higher in 18-49 throughout its run. That's good enough to remain over 100K viewers. After Toonami? Good God, those numbers are awful! If Toonami could take over the rest of the night with reruns again, it probably should. Then again, if [as] originals are cheaper, that would make a difference.

Because of the actors, I have a strange feeling lately that this MIGHT actually get on as the first show on the block. Emphasis on "MIGHT". That would be ONE way to handle the issue that the first episode will have an irregular run time. Toss on an episode of a 15-minute show between Dragon Ball Super's encore and Rick & Morty (beginning at 9:15), follow that by a Family Guy or two, and begin Toonami with gen:LOCK's first episode at either 10:15 or 10:45. The rest of the shows would air at the top or bottom of the hour as normal, but at this point, I'm not really sure that matters anymore.

Welp, here we are again. Ratings even further in the toilet and yet another question mark at midnight in only 10 days! Hopefully they fill it with something good, but I fear Toonami will contract by 30 minutes this time.

The real question is: can gen:LOCK do any better than this? And we still don't know what's coming at Midnight on July 20th to replace SAO-A...

To be fair, THREE shows made that sheet this time! Not much better, but yay for SAO, I guess?? http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-7-6-2019.html We have an update, and the non-reported shows did better, making Gundam the lowest timeslot on Toonami, at least in terms of total viewers, but fortunately NOT the lowest on [as], as Gemusetto Machu Picchu actually did worse: "DRAGON BALL at 0.25 and 0.07/172K & 0.06/156K, compared to last week’s 0.27 and 0.08/249K & 0.09/253K, ATTACK ON TITAN down 0.03 to 0.12, SWORD ART ONLINE up 0.01 to 0.13, LUPIN THE 3RD down 0.03 to 0.09, FOOD WARS at 0.09, BLACK CLOVER up 0.01 to 0.11/186K, BORUTO up 0.02 to 0.11/197K, NARUTO up 0.01 to 0.09/162K, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM at 0.09, MY HERO ACADEMIA (in a much later timeslot) down 0.12 to 0.09/201K, and GEMUSETTO MACHU PICCHU steady at 0.07/126K." 7/6/19 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 172,000 DBS (R) 156,000 90.70% TOONAMI DBS (P) 529,000 AOTS3P2 266,000 50.28% SAO3 248,000 93.23% LupinPt5 165,000 66.53% FoodWars! 155,000 93.94% B. Clover 186,000 120.00% Boruto 197,000 105.91% Shippuden 162,000 82.23% Gundam 154,000 95.06% MHA 201,000 130.52% AVERAGE 226,300 27th of 27 💀 Yes, folks. This is by far the worst ratings average a Toonami block has had yet. Reading between the lines, AOT was the worst retainer in 18-49, but Food Wars! was the turkey of the night, since even Gundam edged it out. These ratings make it clear. In the 7/20 re-shuffle, Black Clover and Boruto need a boost to the Midnight hour, or maybe MHA. Giving anything else a push would be like throwing pepperoni slices at the wall and hoping they stick. And as for the long-term? Hopefully Toonami learned their lesson from this and goes with marathons on 4th of July weekend from here on out, but since Saturday falls on the 4th, 3rd, and 2nd of July in 2020, 2021, and 2022 respectively, I doubt it will be much of an issue.

Oh yeah, Gundam's future on Toonami and in the U.S. is bright! And it's weird that I'm using a 3 AM timeslot rated just above 150K and a 0.09 as evidence of that, but here we are. Perhaps this Gundam LA will be accompanied by a co-produced remake of the original Mobile Suit Gundam with the animation style of Gundam: The Origin! That would be a winning formula for synergy!

Looking at the numbers, damn, you may be right! Boruto was CONSISTENTLY over 500K from January to March, and then when they moved it down on April 13th, MHA did well for a while, but it fell below 500K on April 27th for the first time and couldn't get back over 600K. Then AOT, despite its hype, couldn't get above 500K, though it was admittedly hamstrung by the weaker lead-in from MHA and DBS. In fact, this is what I would prescribe for July 20th and after: 11 PM DBS 11:30 Boruto 12 AM AOT 12:30 MHA 1 AM Black Clover 1:30 Gundam 2 AM Lupin III Part 5 2:30 Food Wars 3 AM Shippuden

Welp, http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-7-6-2019.html Thought Family Guy leading-in to Dragon Ball Super once again would help Toonami's ratings? THINK AGAIN! And it's such a shame because I think that episode was from 2013 or something, so it was fairly fresh. Even dumber is the fact that we're losing Family Guy completely to Freeform next year. I can't believe Attack on Titan dropped the ball from #5 all the way to #46, and NOT EVEN HALF the viewers 18-49! About half the total viewers too. Sword Art Online: Alicization DID recover slightly from there. But what about Lupin, Food Wars!, Boruto, and Gundam? Well: 57 LUPIN THE 3RD: PART 5 ADULT SWIM 12:30 AM 30 0.09 165 62 MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM:RED CM ADULT SWIM 3:00 AM 30 0.09 154 64 FOOD WARS ADULT SWIM 1:00 AM 30 0.09 155 Gundam beat food wars in 18-49, LMAO! But all 3 shows couldn't even muster a full 0.1 in Adults 18-49. And I'm not sure if Boruto just did so badly it didn't make the Top 150, or if it simply wasn't included because of a mistake this time. This is indubitably Toonami's worst week yet in its existence. It HAS to go up from here, right?? Will Toonami's summer of pain continue? No major UFC event this week, but Live PD is back from break, so I guess it's out of the frying pan, and into the fire...

Hey, if I can accept Nazi overtones in Fullmetal Alchemist, Black Lagoon, Hellsing Ultimate, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I can accept them in this!

7/6/19, counting down from 10-1: #10 - Boruto #09 - Naruto Shippuden #08 - Food Wars! #07 - Dragon Ball Super #06 - Black Clover #05 - SAO: Alicization #04 - My Hero Academia #03 - Attack on Titan #02 - Lupin III Part 5 #01 - Gundam: The Origin

Cool! This thread finally got to 5 pages! I thought the episode where they finally get to see what's in the titular "Basement" deserved it! It looks like Episode 57 will start with a large flashback too...

SO FAR, IT LOOKS LIKE THIS IS ALL WE HAVE FOR THE COMING WEEK: SWORD ART ONLINE: ALICIZATION (PART 1 SEASON FINALE) - MIDNIGHT

Weird--the video I posted Saturday night got deleted but Elfie's horrible fansubs still remain! Of course the Toonami Facebook official dubbed version shall remain FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!

Apparently we stay with this flashback for a lot of Episode 57, according to the rarely-seen preview!

Try 7 PM on Universal Kids...

And HEEEEEEERE IT IS!!! Enjoy!!!

You mean 1 AM, RIGHT?? I mean, it would be utterly hilarious if the food network would air a show like Food Wars! on Daytime TV, but I just don't see that happening...

Surely OPs and EDs will get cut from the middle episodes (2-7), but it's hard to do that with a runtime that's over 30 minutes. Might as well just leave it in and air it in a 45-minute timeslot as 3 segments of 10-11 minutes each, perhaps cutting the middle segment down to 6-7 minutes in order to throw in a video. They did something similar with Hellsing Ultimate Episode IV over 1.5 hours, padding a 56-minute runtime with 2 "extra" videos.

UFC is popular, but I just can't see an ESPN+ PPV doing quite as much damage as a regular ESPN bout, which is what we had last week. However, since these days the Midnight Hour has been sub-300K for the past 2 weeks, over 300K at 1 AM would be a blessing. But we're gonna be waiting until Wednesday to find out: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/ratings-delays-due-to-independence-day-3.html

The wonky runtimes are probably gonna get the first season stuck at the butt-end of the block so as not to run any premieres beforehand at a weird time. But then again, they've upset that before a bit with that Sand Whale & Me thing. I'm thinking it's just too enticing not to run a "giant robot hour" at the end of the block, which is why Gundam: The Origin is at 3 AM. But that doesn't mean that gen:LOCK is necessarily screwed on arrival like this Gundam series is. I'd say if there's going to be a Season 2 world-premiering on [as], it will adhere to more typical programming standards. We could also see a marathon of Season 1 reruns before Season 2 premieres at some point in the future. It seems it would also be a logical co-production between Rooster Teeth and Toonami/Williams Street.

Wow, these fansubs are LAUGHABLY bad!

I dunno, man. This looks pretty official to me...

Apparently not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen:Lock

I mean they aired the post-credits scene of seemingly equal length in Food Wars, and THAT was just as objectionable, albeit for a very different reason!! Maybe we'll get a special short of this clip dubbed during the premiere of Gen:Lock AFTER the season ends, bookended by an apology speech by TOM or something.

It's probably gonna air at the ass-end of the block, which probably explains why Gundam is at 3 AM--for a "Giant Robot Hour", but it's not without its star power. For example, it actually contains the voice talent of Arya Stark's actress from Game of Thrones! No, really!! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=21759