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Yeah, I'll bet when Broly shows up in new episodes of Dragonball Super, Vic will be back to the point that he'll be cleared to voice him! That was a pretty good episode! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/jojo-bizarre-adventure-diamond-is-unbreakable/episode-26/.106853 Rating: "B". Yeah, I agree. Wasn't the best episode ever, even if the suicide event was a nice twist! On to last year's biggest surprise...

Bullhorn would approve, and that ain't just a jive move!!

Is this like some kind of omen that Vic will overcome!?!

This is what you get for being an inexperienced Stand user!

This might be the most epic game of rock-paper-scissors EVER!?

Apparently, Fana has now been defeated, so now what? Find out what tomorrow night (3/9) at 1 AM, ONLY TOONAMI!! It'll be a SCREAMING GOOD TIME! AAAAAHHHHH!!!

Our heroes have screwed up and let the bow and arrow escape their grasp! What will the repercussions of Okyuasu's brainless blunder be? Find out tomorrow night (3/9) at 1:30! ONLY TOONAMI!!

Joe races to the capital to compete in Megalonia! Will he have to go it alone, or will Team Nowhere be there to back him up? Find out tomorrow night (3/9) at 1 AM, ONLY TOONAMI!!

The next few minutes of the Tournament of Power kick off TOONAMI tomorrow night! Who will get eliminated next, and who will take them out? Find out tomorrow night (3/9) at 11, ONLY TOONAMI!!

Let's get Season 3 started in earnest this week! UA class 1-A is on a camping trip, and that dastardly hand-face is up to no good!! Midnight tomorrow night (3/9), ONLY TOONAMI!!

Could Psycho-Pass (FINALLY) be coming to Toonami?? https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-08/psycho-pass-anime-gets-3rd-season/.144332 Note: this only works with the joke thread theme if you consider that they'll have to air the critically panned Season 2 first! (But it's just 11 episodes, and would probably be on at like 2:30 AM, so...)

Getting back on topic, this would give the sub-genres of sci-fi and cyberpunk a shot in the arm, but of course Toonami would have to air the first 2 seasons first: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-08/psycho-pass-anime-gets-3rd-season/.144332

You want a crazy theory?? I've got a doozy for you! Toonami will FINALLY air Seasons 1 & 2 of Psycho-Pass, to replace Hunter x Hunter, because THIS is happening: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-03-08/psycho-pass-anime-gets-3rd-season/.144332

I don't think it's true that everyone has already seen Season 3 since it was announced that Toonami was getting MHA around the same time. But you didn't read that wrong: https://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-espn-scores-most-watched-ufc-pay-pay-preview-prelims-telecast-in-26-months/ 3/2/19 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 470,000 DBS (R) 426,000 90.64% DBS (P) 879,000 94.01% Boruto 637,000 72.47% MHA 633,000 99.37% SAO3 580,000 91.63% MegaloBox 472,000 81.38% JoJo4 446,000 94.49% B. Clover 412,000 92.38% H×H 328,000 79.61% Shippuden 341,000 103.96% AOT 300,000 87.98% AVERAGE 502,800 1st of 9 3/2/19 - Adults 18-49 Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 205,000 DBS (R) 192,000 93.66% DBS (P) 541,000 102.85% Boruto 402,000 74.31% MHA 379,000 94.28% SAO3 361,000 95.25% MegaloBox 288,000 79.78% JoJo4 270,000 93.75% B. Clover 257,000 95.19% H×H 211,000 82.10% Shippuden 201,000 95.26% AOT 184,000 91.54% AVERAGE 309,400 1st of 9 A week where Toonami's block average was over 500K total viewers and 300K adults 18-49? First time in almost 9 months! I think this is what will make programming happy!

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-3-2-2019.html "Adult Swim’s line-up performed as follows: DRAGON BALL at 0.42 and 0.16/470K & 0.15/426K compared to last week’s 0.36 and 0.13/393K & 0.13/341K, BORUTO up 0.09 to 0.31, MY HERO ACADEMIA up 0.09 to 0.29/633K, SWORD ART ONLINE up 0.12 to 0.28, MEGALOBOX up 0.08 to 0.22/472K, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE up 0.06 to 0.21, BLACK CLOVER up 0.05 to 0.20/412K, HUNTER X HUNTER up 0.05 to 0.16/328K, NARUTO up 0.04 to 0.16/341K, and ATTACK ON TITAN up 0.05 to 0.14/300K." Not too shabby!

For the SUB. I don't think this affects the dub. But I guess we'll see.

I don't think this affects its dub's chances of coming to Toonami.

Actually, now that I think about it, the uncertainty that came with this regime change may be what ended the "all night" experiment and caused Toonami to scale back to an 11PM start time. But yeah, hope they're happy with this!

They say March comes in like a lion, and it seems TOM rode in on a lion, because these ratings kick ass!! Dragon Ball and SAO back in the Top 10? Why it's like 2015 all over again, except that the overall numbers are admittedly quite a bit lower, but that's still 2019 highs for all Toonami shows! Boruto just barely missed the Top 5, and rounding it out is MegaloBox in the Top 20 for the first time ever and JoJo in the Top 25 for the first time in quite a while! This is also the highest 18-34 average for the shows we know 18-34 numbers for since the FIRST half of 2018! OF COURSE the UFC Prelims and Live PD destroyed everything, but I guess that's to be expected. For Super and Boruto to only be behind them and a primetime college basketball game (and HBO movie Skyscraper in Boruto's case) in 18-49 is huge! And Super tied with Live PD in 18-34--but it did beat it 3 weeks ago (which somehow largely went unnoticed)!

Gotta be a bigger bad to be the big bad of Season 2! Probably that damn Diamond Kingdom!

Well, all good things come to an end. Last Saturday night, UFC 235 happened, and its overwhelming media buzz pretty much brought Toonami's momentum to a standstill, BUT some shows still trended: http://toonamifaithful.com/toonami-trending-rundown-for-march-2-3-2019/ United States Trends: #Toonami [#10] #MegaloBox [#11] #JoJosBizarreAdventure [#10] So, #HunterXHunter's trending streak finally comes to an end. It lasted 11 weeks. But at least that's 9 rounds out of 10 that #MegaloBox has trended in the U.S.! And a bot also reported that #DragonBallSuper and #SwordArtOnline trended in the U.S., but no screencaps were taken.

Plus, at least theoretically, they could paint "Idiot" across all the faces on Mount Rushmore...

Well, I say, that's pretty interesting! Why don't we compare it with the official genre lists on Anime News Network, since I am kind of an "ANN Loyalist": Dragon Ball Super: Genres: action, fantasy, science fiction Themes: aliens, developing powers, fighting, martial arts, superheros Boruto: NOTHING, but for the Boruto movie, we have this: Genres: action Themes: ninja My Hero Academia (Note: Article is Season 1): Genres: action, comedy, drama, science fiction Themes: developing powers, growing up pains, school life, special abilities, superheroes, superpowers Sword Art Online: Alicization: Genres: action, drama, fantasy, science fiction Themes (from SAO Ordinal Scale): augmented reality, MMORPG, survival game, swordplay, virtual reality Megalobox: Genres: drama, science fiction, tournament Themes: boxing, future, sports JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable: Genres: action, supernatural Black Clover: Genres: action, comedy, fantasy Hunter X Hunter: Genres: adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, tournament Themes: bounty hunters, coming-of-age, developing powers, gore, organized crime, special abilities, survival game Naruto Shippuden: Genres: action, drama Themes: evil organization, fighting, ninja, powerful creatures, revenge, war Attack On Titan: Genres: action, drama, fantasy, horror, psychological, thriller Themes: Dystopia, military, post-apocalyptic, shapeshifting, superpowers, titans/giants, tragedy Hmmm, both 5/10! So I guess the lineup could be considered to be "half-fantasy", though why the Naruto franchise isn't considered fantasy is beyond me. And just in case you were wondering, as for the other shows that have left the lineup so far in 2019 (for whatever reason): Mob Psycho 100 - Genres: action, comedy, supernatural; Themes: espers, special abilities, superpowers Pop Team Epic - Genres: comedy; Themes: absurdity, parody, sketch comedy Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans (Season 2) - Genres: action, drama, science fiction; Themes: mecha, military, politics, space, war

Why South Dakota? Because Colorado seems like it's more up their alley! Except of course for Toonami. Relocate that to Texas because that's where most of the VA's live!

How about Star Blazers 2199/2202?? You want quality, that show has it in spades! It's a TV remix of a Theatrical Movie series, for goodness sake!