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These are the seasons of series and movies that aired on [as] Toonami that haven't had a single episode rerun so far. Some are complete losers, but some have been among the best seasons of series and movies aired on Toonami in the [as] era: Tenchi Muyo! GXP Soul Eater Sword Art Online Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa Trigun: Badlands Rumble Blue Exorcist Black Lagoon Beware The Batman Gurren Lagann Hellsing Ultimate InuYasha: The Final Act Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: The Sacred Star of Milos Sword Art Online II Dimension W Children Who Chase Lost Voices Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn Re:0096 Tokyo Ghoul Black Clover (in-progress) Mind Game Mob Psycho 100 (in-progress) Megalo Box (in-progress) Did I miss any?

No question about it, Toonami's ratings haven't necessarily been setting the world on fire lately, but one area in which it HAD gotten stronger in December is trending on Twitter in the U.S.! First a look back at the wasteland that was the first 2 months of 4Q 2018: October and November... Yes, I'm afraid that's right. Hunter x Hunter is the only Toonami show that trended in the U.S. in October and absolutely NO Toonami shows trended in the U.S. ALL MONTH in November. But in the first 3 weeks of December, a curious thing happened: All 3 weeks in December had MULTIPLE shows Trending on Twitter in the U.S., and BOTH episodes of hot new sports-action show Megalo Box trended! Only time will tell if this trend will continue into the marathons and beyond into 2019 with the later block...

Full chart is here! https://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-nfl-network-easily-wins-prime-time-as-browns-broncos-slightly-increases-from-year-ago-game/ 12/15/18 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 399,000 MHA 351,000 87.97% Shippuden 348,000 99.15% Boruto 337,000 96.84% DBS 480,000 142.43% MP100 334,000 69.58% MegaloBox 322,000 96.41% JoJo4 300,000 93.17% B. Clover 321,000 107.00% H×H 298,000 92.83% AOTS3 258,000 86.58% PTE 227,000 87.98% Gundam 203,000 89.43% Jack 197,000 97.04% AVERAGE 312,500 47th of 50 12/15/18 - Adults 18-49 Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 160,000 MHA 148,000 92.50% Shippuden 172,000 116.22% Boruto 157,000 91.28% DBS 256,000 163.06% MP100 164,000 64.06% MegaloBox 160,000 97.56% JoJo4 164,000 102.50% B. Clover 185,000 112.80% H×H 164,000 88.65% AOTS3 141,000 85.98% PTE 122,000 86.52% Gundam 111,000 90.98% Jack 110,000 99.10% AVERAGE 158,143 49th of 50 Well, looks like this is the end of an era! DBS will probably do decent this week, but I'm thinking Boruto+3 will probably set a record low before Toonami goes exclusively late night once again next year.

It briefly wasn't but it bloody is now!

Well, THIS is why we're losing Prime Time: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-12-15-2018.html I'll admit, at first I thought I was looking at Thursday's ratings, because the top 5 were all from Thursday Night Football, but yes, looking at the chart title, these are indeed the ratings from "Saturday Dec 15, 2018"! It is somewhat surprising what the #2 Toonami cable original was, though all of them were in the 300K's and ranked in the 50's in terms of Cable Originals, though I say one of them should have been #50 since HBO cheated by getting (Cock)Blockers on there twice: Rank Show 18-49 Rating Total Viewers #51 JoJo 0.13 300,000 #52 MP 100 0.13 334,000 #55 MegaloBox 0.12 322,000 #57 Boruto 0.12 337,000 And THAT is why we are losing prime time next year.

OF COURSE I meant Mob Psycho 100 Season 2. My finger must have slipped. I've already changed that. I thought 2020 for Blade Runner. And yeah, I forgot about SAO 3.

I'm probably way off-base with some of these, but here are my guesses: Black Clover Season 2 Mob Psycho 100 Season 2 My Hero Academia Seasons 3 & (unannounced) 4 Lupin the 3rd Part 5 Attack On Titan Season 3 Part 2 One-Punch Man Season 2 JoJo Part 5 Gundam Origin TV Edit

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I beg your pardon; it was actually the DST movie Children Who Chase Lost Voices. There were also Japanese audio episodes of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders and Hunter × Hunter that premiered at 2:45 AM and 3:15 AM, respectively. Nonetheless, the list of 3 AM premieres is quite short: Tenchi Muyo! GXP episodes 6-26 Beware the Batman episodes 1-11 & 20 Black Lagoon episodes 19-24 Hellsing Ultimate episodes 1 & 2 Children Who Chase Lost Voices And finally, Naruto Shippuden episodes 231-??? Unless you count the April Fool's Day stunt, this will be the first time a show has premiered at 3 AM in over 2 years!

I think we'll get Origin either when or soon after IBO ends!

No, it's 3 weeks to wait on new episodes. Not the same thing!

I hate that these episodes aren't getting reruns at some point. Fortunately they're all on my trusty DVR and they got one hell of a timeslot, but was an 8.5-hour MHA marathon REALLY out of the question?

Well, looks like the stream DID advance this weekend, to Episodes 83-87! So I guess that means we got 78-82 from Monday-Friday, then 83-87 from Friday to today. And now it's GUNDAM UNICORN again!! I wonder which episodes...? EDIT: Looks like toward the middle, I suspect 13-17, but it's unclear. Don't worry if you haven't seen it from the beginning; this one has helpful recaps! EDIT 2: It's actually 11-15. Hopefully it advances this weekend...

Just saw this episode all the way through, and I gotta say the Stain mini-arc was probably the best yet in the show. The tournament arc might have been a miniscule step backward, but these last 5 episodes or so more than made up for it. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/my-hero-academia/episode-30/.119505 Rating: "A". Quite apt if you ask me! Of course it ended 2018 with a BANG, and the episode didn't end on a cliffhanger, so good timing on Toonami's part, especially because the next chapter of the series, the final arc of Season 2, will air at Midnight on the Better Cartoon Show next year!

See ya 'round, DBZ Kai! Maybe, just maybe, this show continues at 8 PM next year, IF [as] gets 8 PM back? I still have a feeling Dragon Ball Super and My Hero Academia will get weeknight runs as part of a reborn Midnight Run, but maybe I'm way off-base here...

I'm not really sure what to make of this new schedule. It has both pros and cons. The Good: No change to Dragon Ball Super; Megalo Box at 1 AM. It's good that Megalo Box is on an hour later because most Cable TV boxing is over with by then. While the first 2 episodes of Megalobox conflicted with ACTUAL boxing, going forward that will probably rarely be the case. Now if only [as] shells out the dough for Megalobox topicals to air on ESPN's Top Rank Boxing... The Bad: ALMOST EVERYTHING is an hour later. While it might be decent for Megalo Box because of lack of conflict with live events of the medium that it depicts, the same can't be said for most other shows. Boruto's dub premiere following DBS makes sense I guess, and Mob Psycho didn't do that great at 11:30 and it's not a dub premiere so it makes sense to be at 12:30, but JoJo has NEVER gotten a premiere later than 1, and suddenly next year it will be at 1:30. Ditto for Black Clover and Hunter x Hunter. BC has previously only been on at 1:30 at the latest, but the next episode premieres at 2. Hunter x Hunter got an insanely late 2:30, when the latest it's premiered is 1:30. Adding to the insanity is two of those shows are dub premieres, and the other might not be but it first aired in Japan just 3 months ago. As for HxH, I daresay 2:30 is the latest Toonami has ever aired a dub premiere. Am I right? The Ugly: My Hero Academia kinda got screwed, falling all the way from 9:30 to Midnight, when previously the latest it aired was 11:30, and Shippuden fell all the way from 10 PM to 3 AM, which is the largest drop yet for a Toonami show. Last time a premiere aired in that timeslot was...Hellsing Ultimate II, I believe? I guess Attack on Titan at 3:30 AM makes sense, since that's the timeslot Season 2 reruns got, even if it is a little disappointing. And Good Lord -- I guess technically we can call Pop Team Epic and Gundam IBO reruns "expansion" shows, but they're in the 4 AM hour! It's tough to stay up that late even in Central time!

Yeah, I thought the movies would come back as a result of Toonami's intrusion into 9 PM. Turns out it was just an "experiment." The Dragon Ball Super marathon coming up this weekend will probably be the highest ratings we've seen in a while!

Me too, even if it's at 4:30 AM! (Well, 3:30 my time...)

I thought that was a really good episode, even if it DID make the Black Bulls' motivation for going through all that seem pretty useless when Nero/Pecker just finds the stone Geezer forgot about out of nowhere! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/black-clover/episode-50/.137034 Rating: "B". Well, on to the next one next year I guess! It'll be at 2 AM; hope y'all can stay up for it!

As for the farmers, I think we're supposed to assume that Josuke already healed them offscreen? https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/jojo-bizarre-adventure-diamond-is-unbreakable/episode-16/.104384 Rating: "B+". I thought judging from the glowing language in the review, it might get better than that. I thought that looked like more like an "A" review.

Is he really gonna gouge out his eye? NOPE! No review this week. I don't get why it waited until Episode 3...

Hate that we kinda ended this week on a cliffhanger; the wait for the next episode is gonna be GRUELING!! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/mob-psycho-100/episode-7/.105656 Rating: "C". DAMN! A rare miss for tonight's episode!

Yeah, this show returns the night of January 5th at 3:30 AM!

We get it on the 29th after the Boruto marathon.

This was originally the last episode of Season 1. It was a perfect way to end the series without actually ending it!