OwlChemist81

This season is fucking FIRE; I DON'T GIVE A SHIT if no one's watching by comparison!

Sorry...couldn't help myself!

Get ready for the next episode of Jotaro and Josuke's bizarre adventures in Morioh!! 12:30 AM Tomorrow Night (10/6/18)--ONLY TOONAMI!!

Now that the Zeno Expo is over, some of its other observers are REALLY pissed off at Goku that Zeno might just blink their universes out of existence--and rightfully so!! Watch as Goku tries to defend himself at 11 PM tomorrow (10/6/18). ONLY TOONAMI!!!

Midoriya's quest to be the best hero ever continues!! And along the way, cool stuff like this happens: 9:30 PM TOMORROW (10/6/18) ONLY TOONAMI!!

Hopefully this episode will be better than the trainwreck in the last... Alrighty then--I don't know what the hell that was, but check out more at 10:30 tomorrow night (10/6/18) -- ONLY TOONAMI!!

The Titans Attack at Midnight (10/6/18)... ...ONLY TOONAMI!!

I really hope FLCL Alternative's rerun gets moved back to 1:30 AM and everything moves up. It's such a disservice to those 4 shows that they don't get to directly follow Dragon Ball Super, even if they don't do all that great themselves. Maybe we'll learn more with Pre-Flight tonight? Are we even getting a new Pre-Flight or is it all about the festival??

Well, they updated, but they PULLED ALL THE 18-34 and 25-54 information!! https://programminginsider.com/solid-return-for-saturday-night-live-on-nbc/ However, they did add this: Dragon Ball Z Kai (Adult Swim, 9:00 PM, 30 min.) • Updated Live+SD: 0.523 million viewers, 0.21 adults 18-49 • Live+3: 0.555 million viewers, 0.22 adults 18-49 • Gains: +0.032 million viewers (+8%), +0.01 adults 18-49 (+3%) My Hero Academia (Adult Swim, 9:30 PM, 30 min.) • Updated Live+SD: 0.503 million viewers, 0.21 adults 18-49 • Live+3: 0.624 million viewers, 0.26 adults 18-49 • Gains: +0.121 million viewers (+24%), +0.05 adults 18-49 (+23%) Naruto: Shippuden (Adult Swim, 10:00 PM, 30 min.) • Updated Live+SD: 0.488 million viewers, 0.22 adults 18-49 • Live+3: 0.549 million viewers, 0.25 adults 18-49 • Gains: +0.061 million viewers (+13%), +0.03 adults 18-49 (+12%) Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (Adult Swim, 10:30 PM, 30 min.) • Updated Live+SD: 0.550 million viewers, 0.23 adults 18-49 • Live+3: 0.612 million viewers, 0.26 adults 18-49 • Gains: +0.062 million viewers (+11%), +0.03 adults 18-49 (+13%) Wow, MHA is gaining better than ever in delayed viewing in its new timeslot! I'd say leave it there, but it kinda makes little sense that DBS is outside of Primetime, so I say do this and put it back at 10:30 on October 20th... 9 PM DBZ Kai 9:30 MHA 10 PM Black Clover 10:30 Dragon Ball Super 11 PM Boruto 11:30 Naruto Shippuden 12 AM Attack On Titan 12:30 JoJo4 1 AM Hunter x Hunter 1:30 FLCL3 2 AM One-Punch Man 2:30 Lupin 3 AM Cowboy Bebop (or other classic TBD) 3:30 Samurai Jack I think with Black Clover getting a Season 2 and usually having pretty good retention, a boost to 10 PM right before Super would be a great place for it. Then on December 8th, MegaloBox at 11 PM slides everything from 11 PM-1 AM back 30 minutes.

Well, this is quite strange... https://programminginsider.com/solid-return-for-saturday-night-live-on-nbc/ Dragon Ball Z Kai (repeat) (ADSM, 9:00 PM, 30 min.) • 1.044 million viewers (#63) • 0.60 HH (#66) • 0.43 A18-49 (#25) • 0.46 A18-34 (#13) • 0.38 A25-54 (#42) My Hero Academia (repeat) (ADSM, 9:30 PM, 30 min.) • 1.006 million viewers (#65) • 0.60 HH (#66) • 0.42 A18-49 (#26) • 0.49 A18-34 (#8) • 0.33 A25-54 (#62) Naruto: Shippuden (repeat) (ADSM, 10:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.976 million viewers (#67) • 0.60 HH (#66) • 0.44 A18-49 (#23) • 0.48 A18-34 (#11) • 0.36 A25-54 (#48) Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (ADSM, 10:30 PM, 30 min.) • 1.100 million viewers (#60) • 0.65 HH (#61) • 0.47 A18-49 (#18) • 0.50 A18-34 (#6) • 0.42 A25-54 (#35)What the heck could be going on here!? Well, it turns out that the numbers given above are 2x the numbers given already, so I believe these huge ratings are actually miscalculations. Not only that, but we may actually calculate the 18-34 ratings for the 9-11 PM time frame as follows: 0.230 for DBZ Kai; 0.245 for MHA; 0.240 for Shippuden; and 0.250 for Boruto. Also, Gumball might actually be doing better than Dragon Ball Super on average in the 8 PM hour in a few key metrics: Amazing World Of Gumball (TOON, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.479 million viewers (#76) • 0.31 HH (#74) • 0.15 A18-49 (#64) • 0.21 A18-34 (#22) • 0.10 A25-54 (#98) Amazing World Of Gumball (TOON, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.538 million viewers (#69) • 0.34 HH (#69) • 0.19 A18-49 (#51) • 0.24 A18-34 (#19) • 0.14 A25-54 (#78) That's at least equal to the better episodes of the Zamasu arc in total viewers, households, and adults 18-34, but lower in adults 18-49 and adults 25-54. Read more at: https://programminginsider.com/tuesday-final-ratings-espn-leads-prime-time-in-most-key-adult-and-male-demos-with-rockies-cubs-national-league-wild-card-game/

I started watching live with Alternative. Glad I contributed, at least theoretically, because MAN, that drop is ATROCIOUS!! https://programminginsider.com/solid-return-for-saturday-night-live-on-nbc/ Weird--it isn't letting me paste the grid!? Fine. I'll just do my own take on the 18-49s as usual: 9/29/18 - Adults 18-49 Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 274,000 MHA 270,000 98.54% Shippuden 282,000 104.44% Boruto 301,000 106.74% DBS 383,000 127.24% FLCL3 222,000 57.96% AOTS3 228,000 102.70% JoJo4 225,000 98.68% B. Clover 234,000 104.00% H×H 215,000 91.88% Punchy 209,000 97.21% Lupin 166,000 79.43% Bebop 172,000 103.61% Jack 164,000 95.35% AVERAGE 238,929 33rd of 39 Again, looks like it would have been a pretty decent night if not for FLCL3. Of course, then there's the question of whether or not AOTS3 would have crapped the bed after DBS, though while it has in the past, it didn't do quite as bad, averaging 71% when it directly followed Super. I'd say unless there's something new waiting in the wings at 11:30 PM to take FLCL3's place on October 21st, it needs to move down to 1:30 AM for its encore run, and for everything from AOT-H×H to slide up 30 minutes. Hell, that could even be the beginning of a permanent FLCL timeslot in the back half that cycles through all three seasons ad nauseum. I think for what they spent on FLCL2 & 3, it at least deserves that much.

UPDATE: As of Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning, the new show is Gundam Unicorn Re:0096. And looks like it's episodes 1-5. Unknown yet if Episode 1 plays with its full OP, but if it's anything like the last time they gave Gundam Unicorn a stream (ironically exactly a year ago), I'd say it probably does.

Reposting this because it got stuck on the previous page, but there IS an update: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-9-29-2018.html "The Adult Swim line-up performed as follows: 2 DRAGON BALL episodes at 0.30 and 0.21/522K compared to last week’s 0.35, MY HERO ACADEMIA down 0.07 to 0.21/503K, NARUTO up 0.02 to 0.22/488K, BORUTO at 0.23, FLCL down 0.02 to 0.17, ATTACK ON TITAN down 0.05 to 0.18, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE down 0.02 to 0.17, BLACK CLOVER steady at 0.18/359K, HUNTER X HUNTER down 0.01 to 0.17/324K, ONE-PUNCH MAN down 0.02 to 0.16/316K, LUPIN THE 3RD down 0.01 to 0.13/246K, COWBOY BEBOP up 0.01 to 0.13/239K, and SAMURAI JACK at 0.13/235K." 9/29/18 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention DBZ Kai 522,000 MHA 503,000 96.36% Shippuden 488,000 97.02% Boruto 550,000 112.70% DBS 652,000 118.55% FLCL3 362,000 55.52% AOTS3 362,000 100.00% JoJo4 344,000 95.03% B. Clover 359,000 104.36% H×H 324,000 90.25% Punchy 316,000 97.53% Lupin 246,000 77.85% Bebop 239,000 97.15% Jack 235,000 98.33% AVERAGE 393,000 36th of 39 Believe it or not, NOT last place!! This whole lineup MIGHT be quite decent once FLCL3 ends; that retention is atrocious! They would be beyond retarded to leave it there in reruns, but I wouldn't put it past them... Still, hoping it gets shuffled to 2 AM and everything in-between moves up if Bebop repeats or is replaced and we get nothing new on October 21st...

Well, that was a train wreck. Right into the side of Naruto's statue's forehead!!

This is actually a canon arc! I'm thinking it MIGHT be embellished for comic relief though.

Oddly enough, the show is quite mum on whether the transformation is so detailed that it actually changes his genitals...

You don't get it, do you? One Piece is like the freaking SIMPSONS in Japan. It airs at like 7 PM on the equivalent of Fox. Adult Swim can't even GET the Simpsons. That is an obstacle. One Piece just isn't popular enough in America to be sustainable, so they had to cut it off after Season 6. Meanwhile, AOT airs at 12:35 AM Sunday nights on the NHK, a public-service channel which is the equivalent of our PBS. So it would be like their Downton Abbey, except that still aired during primetime, not late-night, so I suppose that makes it like Poldark? WE actually STILL get a better timeslot since it's at Midnight here (hell, I'll bet the Japanese were actually JEALOUS we got the first 5 episodes of this season at 11 PM), and unlike them, all 3 seasons are on Adult Swim. When it comes to AOT, we are so lucky! So imagine you're a foreign company trying to acquire a U.S. show for localization. Which one do you think you need better ratings to acquire, the Simpsons, or Poldark?

I think part of the reason we lost One Piece is BECAUSE ratings are too low for it to be sustainable. One Piece is basically like the Star Wars of Japan in terms of popularity, and that takes a pretty big windfall to maintain. You just don't get that from less than about 400K adults 18-49, and it averaged around 350K in early 2017, so they had to get rid of it. As much as I hate to admit it, Gundam might be in the same boat right now. Unicorn dipping below 400K 18-49 twice was probably the red flag that sent its 2nd half down to 2 AM, and then while we got IBO Season 2, it's not hard to imagine they probably lost money on it. I hope I am proven wrong and Toonami can get a shorter Gundam show like Thunderbolt, or perhaps go in a different direction by running an HD remaster of G sometime after midnight, but I'm not holding my breath. The ratings LOOK bad, but I imagine it's more than enough to sustain franchises which are super popular in America but not necessarily in Japan. True, Dragon Ball 2010s Movies and Super DID have a homeland component, but their main component of production was probably perceived international success, and of course Dragon Ball is a juggernaut like no other anime in the U.S. The Naruto franchise, MHA, AOT, and JoJo are kind of in the same boat. This all does beg the question regarding whether or not an original production like FLCL '18 is adequately successful. There is evidence that Progressive was, but it's hard to argue the same for Alternative. I think in terms of those originals, however, ratings must be considered together with iTunes downloads, of which both Progressive and Alternative have done pretty well.

Football and Live PD. I like college football, but by about 9 PM I kinda get tired of it unless I'm at a live game (I was.) As for Live PD, I can't believe people actually watch that crap. I have NEVER under any circumstances seen it on a TV around town, so it must do really bad in my hometown market. I want to believe this new lineup will be successful in a way that nothing has been in a while, but I don't think we're there yet. I think Toonami is still struggling to find the right lead-in, and that lead-in is about to be provided by CN. This week was kind of a throwaway week in terms of ratings compared to what will be in the coming weeks. Here's hoping Puss In Boots (10/6) and Alvin & The Chipmunks: Road Chip (10/13, according to my onscreen guide) do better than played-out Home Movies and Family Guy, though it goes without saying I have a LOT more faith in the former than in the latter. I also predict that beyond College Football, with Toonami and Live PD beginning at the same time, more people will begin to choose Toonami over Live PD. That seems to be key to me.

Remember: Rome was not re-built in a day... While I was hoping for a little better than that out of Boruto and Super, one Family Guy IS a pretty weak lead-in. Here's hoping Puss In Boots holds Toonami up better next week!

The original Piccolo is sometimes referred to as "King Piccolo." The new Piccolo Jr. is just "Piccolo". It is quite interesting that we took a character named after English "Pickle" and made it a high-pitched cousin of the flute instead.

Well I'll be darned---the stream DID advance!!! Now it looks like we've got the next 5 of Shippuden through Monday night!

UPDATE: It has been CONFIRMED that the reason that AOT didn't air in Japan tonight is not that S3 is split cour, but instead... https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-09-30/attack-on-titan-episode-48-delayed-1-week-due-to-typhoon-coverage/.137502 Pray for the residents of Japan as they go through this tough typhoon. But there is a silver lining to this dark cloud: it looks like for the month of October, the Toonami "simuldub" broadcast will only be a month behind Japan, just like the middle episodes (6-9) of Season 2.

HD = High Definition, a.k.a. more pixels. It has nothing to do with aspect ratio (16:9/4:3) DBZ Kai and Bebop are the same way.

First encounter with Aku!