OwlChemist81

Yeah, ESPN+ is getting ALL the viewers. That said, the FEMALE 12-34 viewership was disturbingly low across the board, and they wouldn't be that into boxing, right? Young women just weren't watching Toonami at all last week, a far cry from the "girl power" days of 2015. The irony is that most of the same or similar shows are back on the block now: we've got TPN, a show that was actually aired on a Japanese block (noitaminA) with female viewers in mind, and SAO, which absolutely KILLED it 4 years ago in the young women's demo with Season II. Mix that with strong female leads (though not necessarily in this episode) in AOT and a show with potential crossover appeal (Lupin) and you've got a great recipe to bring in the young ladies in the mid-block, but they just weren't watching! It's hard to figure out exactly what they WERE watching too. Not even HALLMARK this week; Live PD and...I guess Henry Danger.

We interrupt this...well, whatever the hell that was, to bring you the ratings! Dragon Ball Super did pretty great, as always, but brace yourselves, because this is disappointing: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-15-2019.html Never mind the green tint; those 18-34 numbers are just plain dismal. We're talking "craptacular encore Saturday" awful here, and we don't even know them for the newest show. Lupin the 3rd: Part 5 and Boruto off the chart at #58 and #62 with a modest 236K and 242K respectively. Both shows got a 0.12 in Adults 18-49. I'm...disappointed. Live PD reruns its 9PM-12AM broadcast immediately afterward at 12AM-3AM, and we're never gonna know, but I'll bet that beats Toonami every single week that it's not a same-night rerun. The thing about cop drama is the people who watch it probably have no idea what they're watching isn't live, but happened 3 hours ago. But then again, they KNEW the Live PD that showed on 5/25 was a rerun, and [as] and Toonami beat it pretty soundly, so maybe I'm wrong. I just hope we're not reaching the point where it's becoming too expensive for Toonami to acquire shows with the ratings that it's getting. But I guess it's also possible Dragon Ball Super can act as the cash cow for the rest of the block. And it could also be that Toonami's cash cow comes from outside Toonami, as we recently got to see that an episode of Family Guy got 1.2 million on a Sunday night. See the spoiler tag below, since it pretty much has nothing to do with Toonami: I believe once Dragon Ball Super ends, they'll run 2 episodes back-to-back from the beginning either to begin Toonami or to lead-in to it. This seemed to work wonders in Fall 2017, though one of those was a premiere.

Depends whether you mean this season or the first season of SAO. They took 3 episodes to chop down a damn tree in this season, so I wouldn't blame you for feeling that way!

I still need to watch that. Oddly enough, I HAVE seen Jigen's Gravestone... This season seems a bit more like WKFM than Part 4 was! It also seems a bit more "serial", meaning that there will probably be more episodes that end in cliffhangers and less with "resolutions," which would be less episodic than Part 4.

I don't think she's anything like Rebecca... (but if you watched closely, you would notice Rebecca DID have a cameo, or at least her picture, in the opening "web of connections" shot!)

But would they be able to pull of Jigen's trademark eyes-hidden-under-hat-except-when-emoting look and rolled-up beard??

Wrong. That's replacing The Promised Neverland. It looks like Toonami's gonna be rolling out 2 new shows on July 6th! But of course we don't have a clue what the other show's going to be...UNLESS Promised Neverland reruns end up at 3 AM. I can see them doing that, but why not just air the season finale twice instead of re-airing a Hunter x Hunter episode on 6/29? I guess the last time they did that in 2016 with the Season 1 Finale of One-Punch Man didn't pass the test...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/boruto-naruto-next-generations/episode-35/.124650 Grade: "B". I'm only sort of aware, but isn't that grade kinda high for a "calm before the storm" episode??

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/black-clover/episode-74/.144560 Grade: "C+". Not sure I agree or disagree; I really haven't seen this one all the way through yet...

I thought this was a GREAT episode, but unfortunately, no ANN review until Episode 3!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/sword-art-online-alicization/episode-20/.144113 Grade: "B+". Yeah, a fairly decent episode. Can Kirito snap Eugeo out of it? FIND OUT NEXT WEEK!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/the-promised-neverland/episode-10/.144567 Grade: "A". Best of the night so far, or at least tied with AOT. I guess 4.5 stars out of 5 is the equivalent of an "A".

Throwing out the first pitch in the World Series this year--BELIEVE IT!! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/attack-on-titan/episode-53/.146909 4.5 stars out of 5. Best episode yet of the 2nd cour of Season 3!

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/dragon-ball-super/episode-115/.123923 Grade: "B+". I dunno, I enjoyed it for what it was. Guess that's fair.

I dug that episode, but I'll admit it was a little heavy on the fanservice, with the twist that it was a seductress fake form of the real love interest. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/my-hero-academia/episode-54/.134823 Grade: "B" for "boobs" and "butts"!

No one knows...but this IS happening... https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FToonami%2Fposts%2F2164289313861904

Only way this could be better is if there were a jazzy soundtrack in the background. Yes, SOULS EXIST, Koala!

I mean, of course, any bad guys. Obito, Jiraiya, Naruto's parents... Yeah, plenty of good guys die, but the bad guys? They just keep coming back!!!

WHAT THE HELL!? DEIDARA'S BACK!?! DOES ANYONE DIE IN THIS SHOW!?!?!

Or maybe...

So this is an "S" rank mission like the Americans view the letter "S", not some kind of special rank over "A". No, here in the good ole USA, it's A, B, C, D, [skip E], F, G, H, I, [skip J because it's too much like "I"], K, L, M, N, O, P, [skip Q because it looks like "O"], R, THEN "S"! So yeah, 16th class. Enjoy!

We interrupt your normal Naruto Shippuden programming for some random filler bullshit! ENJOY!!!

AOT (West coast) is so much louder than Naruto right now... OMG, OSTRICHES!?!