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The ball-blasting test continues!! 10:30 PM Tomorrow night ONLY TOONAMI!!!

Bertholdt just might be the biggest asshole ever! Next chapter in the saga: 11:30 PM tomorrow night (6/15); ONLY TOONAMI!!

Page 74: Flower of Resolution The Royal Knight test continues! 1:30 AM Tomorrow night (6/15) ONLY TOONAMI!!

Episode 20: Synthesis Eat that goop, you weird grey heads! Quinella kinda reminds me of Esdeath, eh? Plus, Alice is about to be an Integrity Knight Pirate! Only 5 episodes remain in the first season of Alicization, beginning 12:30 AM Tonight (6/15)! ONLY TOONAMI!!

Final Space Season 2 debuts Monday the 24th at 11:30. Ostensibly that timeslot will just "roll over" to Primal.

This just in! According to Variety, McGruder is BACK for Season 5 "Reimagining" https://variety.com/2019/film/news/sony-pictures-animation-tencent-boondocks-tartakovsky-annecy-animation-festival-2019-1203240529/

Honestly, I don't understand how Bertholdt's ear getting sliced off didn't cause him to transform then and there. Also, WHY did Bertholdt explode like a nuclear bomb when he transformed THIS time? After all, we have seen him transform WITHOUT that happening... Perhaps the two phenomena are related somehow?

It's only 2 in the morning for me! But sometimes I'll give earlier shows in the lineup (using a combination of the West Coast Feed and DirecTV's 90-minute rewind feature) a 2nd look before going to bed.

More information: https://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-hallmark-movie-my-boyfriends-back-wedding-march-5-leads-cable-telecasts-in-households-and-total-viewers/ 6/8/19 - Adults 18-49 Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 141,000 DBS (R) 179,000 126.95% F. Guy 346,000 MHA 277,000 80.06% DBS (P) 405,000 146.21% AOTS3B 247,000 60.99% TPN 205,000 83.00% SAO3 203,000 99.02% JoJo4 198,000 97.54% B. Clover 186,000 93.94% Boruto 156,000 83.87% Shippuden 158,000 101.28% H×H 169,000 106.96% AVERAGE 220,400 18th of 23 Not the most encouraging average, but look at how quickly the gap between MHA and its Family Guy lead-in is closing! That seems to indicate to me that new MHA Season 4 just MIGHT be worthy of carrying the block without DBS premieres beginning in October or November. By my math, DBS has 17 episodes left. There probably WILL be a marathon or two, so we're talking 5 months, which is probably enough time for MHA to grow its audience. The only problem is that MHA is almost out of episodes itself, down to 11 now, which means there will be 6 weeks of normal Toonami programming with DBS but no MHA, assuming Toonami will get Season 4. I see no reason why they wouldn't, but Hulu does have "fuck you" money, and we all saw what happened with One-Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100 Season 2...or did we? While the latter pretty famously is streaming on Crunchyroll/VRV dubbed and if it comes to Toonami, will be a mere network premiere, the former isn't dubbed anywhere, perhaps because Viz is notoriously slow with its dubs, as is also evidenced by the fact that we don't have JoJo Part 5 immediately following Part 4. But still, OPM S2 could be the planned "stopgap" between MHA S3 and MHA S4. It is interesting that we already know what's replacing TPN (Gundam Origin) but we don't know what's replacing H×H, though it's out of here a week earlier. That indicates to me that the plan all along was probably not to throw a new premiere to 3 AM, and to bring back a single rerun in that timeslot. Perhaps they'll pull a One-Punch Man Episode 12 and air the Season 1 Finale of TPN twice that night, at 12 AM and 3 AM. Or Toonami just drops 3 AM and it goes back to [as]. But I digress. I believe the two shows they referred to that they can't mention were never H×H and SAO's replacements (SAO has 5 episodes left and ends 7/13), but perhaps instead were SAO and MHA's replacements? That would certainly be interesting...but given that AOT S3 Part 2 may only have a total 10 episodes, which means 7 episodes left, it's more worthy of a replacement, as opposed to the way S3 Part 1's rerun was handled. If you'll recall, it was left in the midnight timeslot directly following its premiere for a couple of weeks, but gradually pushed back over the course of its rerun to 2 AM, and then 3:30 AM in 2019. Even if reruns return following H×H, I don't see them doing anything like that in this current premieres-forward climate. Hopefully we'll get some announcements as to new shows replacing these ending-soon shows soon, perhaps at SDCC. But at this time, I think it's safe to assume the replacement for H×H is probably either a rerun or a non-Toonami [as] show.

Well, at least MHA's total viewer audience seems to be growing fairly steadily at 10:30 PM. Just 2.5 weeks ago on 5/25, it was a mere 414K. Last week on 6/8, it was 486K.

UPDATED: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-8-2019.html So now we know the whole lineup in total viewers: 6/8/19 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention MHA 486,000 #DIV/0! DBS (P) 630,000 129.63% AOTS3P2 413,000 65.56% TPN 361,000 87.41% SAO3 378,000 104.71% JoJo4 348,000 92.06% B. Clover 354,000 101.72% Boruto 279,000 78.81% Shippuden 265,000 94.98% H×H 268,000 101.13% AVERAGE 378,200 17th of 23 Still, better than we've seen in almost a month in terms of total viewers!

Yeah, I know. If you ask me, Toonami needs some kind of better incentive to get folks to watch the shows live, if it's competing with the likes of UFC and Live PD.

I suppose you're right. But the reason the green returned was competition wasn't as tough. The previous 3 weeks, Toonami competed with the NBA Playoffs and the Stanley Cup. That threw off the scale for dark green so much Toonami couldn't achieve the green tint as easily. Fair enough. I have removed that phrase from the post.

I'm assuming it's probably mostly the Fox News crowd that watches it, considering their obsession with law enforcement. Maybe I'm alt-wrong. But I personally don't find the concept all that interesting the few times I actually watched it on Friday (it's just like live Cops), and it has actually had an effect on the way law enforcement is carried out in several PDs that "star" its cops. Plus its rise as a perpetual competitor to Toonami happened about the beginning of the Trump presidency, around the time Toonami's ratings went down.

Ok, so getting back to the RATINGS, this week wasn't that bad, but it wasn't great either: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-8-2019.html Toonami did decent against fairly weak competition; its biggest competitors were perpetual thorn in its side Live PD and, oddly enough, GOTG2 on TNT. But while the latter beat DBS soundly in 18-49, it lost to it in 18-34, though their timeslots didn't necessarily overlap. Live PD's did, however, and as usual it wreaked havoc on MHA, DBS, and AOT. It would be interesting to see if MHA lost to the aggregate average of GOTG2 on TNT in 18-34, but who knows if we'll ever get to. The real story on this night may not even be on this chart, however. UFC prelims got its butt kicked by Super, but the real UFC 238 show would be on ESPN+ later that night and directly competing with Toonami. While ESPN does not report its ESPN+ viewership, it's pretty clear who lost that fight in 18-34 and male 12-34. When the gap between male 12-34 and female 12-34 viewership is that close, it's clear the boys and guys were elsewhere. At least Toonami is doing better than most other original animated programming on other networks on other nights of the week:

Just get McGruder to return. Shit or get off the pot. And don't fart into it either (that was Season 4).

Normally, I would agree with you, but we need The Boondocks to return and tear Trump a new ass! This semi-dystopian era in which "tea party" Alt-Right somehow became socially acceptable needs McGruder and his scathing critique!

Standards and practices were obviously "relaxed" in 2014 when Boondocks Season 4 aired. If Toonami shows can get away with it, so can Boondocks Season 5! But apparently even JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4 couldn't get away with "boner" or "erection" in its final episode, while Archer: 1999 can.

Yeah, this episode was all about apology!

Porn. Yami's dick, to be specific.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-promised-neverland/episode-9/.144306 Grade: "A". Yeah, though the infantile amnesia thing was a bit dumb, this was a great episode, and hope seems to be getting slimmer for these kids by the day.

What's gonna happen in the last 2 episodes? How are we gonna wrap this up?? Find out in 2 weeks! Now time for Toonami to end and then Gemusetto Machu Picchu!!

Wrong. Alluka is a normal girl. Nanika had all the power to make wishes happen, but she was really doing it all for Killua's praise.

Not gonna happen, shithead! Well, this is awkward... …"'KAY"

What the hell is he about to do??? OMG!!!