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Don't get me wrong: I don't believe we'll get back to a million anytime soon, if ever. But I DO have high hopes that the Guy/Kai combo can at least get us back to 800K or 900K. It might take a little help from CN at this point though. If they can lead-in to Family Guy with blockbuster animated and CGI movies once again, then it might be feasible. Also, I wonder how long it will be until we see a Gundam back on Toonami? If ratings are just too low for Gundam right now, I guess the best bet for something new is the slot right after Dragon Ball Super once FLCL Alternative ends. Of course, if we're talking a rerun of Unicorn, that goes in the back, in either hour 6 (replacing OPM) or hour 7.

I'll show ya what excites ME: Why post this here? Because I believe this move seems to be at least partially motivated by ratings. It's no question that DBZ Kai has been Toonami's highest rated show and the Frieza arc was its best arc, so kicking off the night with it just seems academic to me (no offense to the Academia show currently kicking off the block). Of course, at this point, its only lead-in will likely be an hour of Family Guy at 8 PM. Plus the Boruto/Super hour seems to be a potential windfall later in the night. http://programminginsider.com/monday-final-ratings-espn-dominates-prime-time-despite-third-consecutive-decline-for-opening-week-monday-night-football-doubleheader/ Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.432 million viewers (#79) • 0.28 HH (#80) • 0.17 A18-49 (#51) • 0.18 A18-34 (#33) • 0.16 A25-54 (#73) Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.388 million viewers (#82) • 0.25 HH (#83) • 0.16 A18-49 (#58) • 0.18 A18-34 (#33) • 0.16 A25-54 (#73) Well, that didn't go as well as I had hoped, but this is just one day. At least the 18-49s only dropped slightly and the 18-34s and 25-54s kept pace.

But not a 9 PM weeknight run!! Or maybe reconquering mid-network isn't off the table. AOT has been such a long-term investment that it needs a weeknight run somehow. As for how the 9 PM hour will affect marathons, I'd say the new frontrunner for the Saturday before Halloween has become Black Clover. It could get the last 14 episodes blown off without mixing up the night, but Pop Team Epic and FLCL Progressive/Alternative can't do that. As for Christmas holidays, the current seasons of MHA, AOT, and JoJo will all have enough episodes out by then. But not by Thanksgiving. The weirdest thing about this whole thing is that FLCL Progressive/Alternative night is actually at a disadvantage now. But maybe they'd even try something completely insane: ALL 3 SEASONS OF FLCL IN THE SAME NIGHT!!! Of course to do that, they would have to start at 8:45 and go all the way until 6 AM...

I never thought I'd see the day where Dragon Ball Super is the 5th show on the lineup, and the 11:30 show, Toonami's earliest limit in its first heyday on Adult Swim, the 6th show deep, while it's showing a World Premiere. Also interesting, that for the first time since the last time Kai was the first show on the lineup, the first show won't be receiving Topical promos. MHA will likely continue to get those at 9:30, Boruto at 10:30, and then both shows of the 11 PM hour, plus AOT at midnight. I guess that means all that leads-in to Toonami now is Family Guy, and hopefully it plus the evergreen early Kai shores up the ratings enough to drive the rest of the block, with the Boruto/Super hour providing a likely mid-block windfall. There are even some weeks that the current arc of Naruto: Shippuden might beat MHA, though I believe its days are numbered before we go back into Filler Hell. At least this time the episodes appear to be a seafaring adventure that resembles--One Piece, of all things. On that note, only tangentially related to Toonami, the One Piece Sails On Twitter discussion will likely move to the earliest it's ever been--8 PM. I think now there's no question that we're in Toonami on [as]'s 2nd heyday, and what's even more insane is we will probably actually get an 8-hour block on November 3rd, transition from DST day. With the block now beginning at 9 PM, I'd say Miyazaki movies (supplied by gkids) are no longer off the table. What if, on that night only, Toonami kicked off with a Miyazaki movie from 9-11:30 or 12, then went into normal programming beginning either with Boruto at 11:30 ("10:30 PM") or Dragon Ball Super at midnight ("11 PM")??? Everything else would technically air an hour later until 2 AM, but there would be enough time since the 2 AM hour doubles.

PROGRAM Viewers (000) A1849 rating A1849 (000) 10:00 My Hero Academia (r) 655 0.24 315 10:30 Dragon Ball Super 695 0.28 363 11:00 Attack on Titan 512 0.20 252 11:30 FLCL: Alternative (p) 440 0.17 222 12:00a Pop Team Epic 359 0.16 207 12:30a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable 356 0.16 206 1:00a Hunter X Hunter (r) 341 0.16 201 1:30a Black Clover (r) 348 0.16 209 2:00a Naruto: Shippuden (r) 329 0.16 202 2:30a One-Punch Man (r) 285 0.14 178 3:00a Lupin The 3rd: Part 4 (r) 271 0.14 180 3:30a Cowboy Bebop (r) 268 0.14 175

Now this lineup makes sense. Kai is the highest rated show in Toonami on [as] history. If it's starting over from the beginning, then we'll see if the Frieza Arc can capture the magic it did in 2015 once again in 2019! But this also does beg the question as to why Kai hasn't been tried on weeknights...

http://programminginsider.com/friday-final-ratings-7-million-watch-stand-up-to-cancer-telethon-across-big-4-networks/ Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.434 million viewers (#82) • 0.30 HH (#75) • 0.18 A18-49 (#58) • 0.22 A18-34 (#17) • 0.20 A25-54 (#61) That 0.2 in 25-54 is a new personal best for that demo for DBS at 8 PM! Summing up the whole week, we had: Dragon Ball Super Recent Week's Weeknight Ratings Week 10 Viewers HH 18-49 18-34 25-54 9/3 494,000 0.28 0.17 0.21 0.16 9/4 427,000 0.28 0.15 0.15 0.15 9/5 354,000 0.25 0.13 0.15 0.12 9/6 497,000 0.29 0.16 0.19 0.15 9/7 434,000 0.30 0.18 0.22 0.20 Weeknight Ratings Rank (Across ALL Primetime Cable) Week 10 Viewers HH 18-49 18-34 25-54 9/3 #75 #79 #58 #33 #80 9/4 #81 #79 #77 #48 #86 9/5 #92 #87 #85 #44 #95 9/6 #64 #72 #55 #20 #73 9/7 #82 #75 #58 #17 #61 And so as a whole, the weekly averages so far have been: Dragon Ball Super M-F Weekly Avgs Wk P2+ HH 18-49 18-34 25-54 #1 453,800 0.283 0.150 0.173 0.143 #2 456,000 0.288 0.174 0.216 0.148 #3 438,800 0.264 0.152 0.184 0.132 #4 421,200 0.258 0.150 0.186 0.134 #5 415,800 0.272 0.158 0.178 0.146 #6 454,200 0.288 0.164 0.180 0.158 #7 441,600 0.282 0.166 0.190 0.148 #8 400,200 0.262 0.150 0.158 0.134 #9 426,000 0.270 0.158 0.178 0.150 #10 441,200 0.280 0.158 0.184 0.156 On a weekly average, there have been good weeks and bad weeks, but also some days of the week are better than others: Dragon Ball Super Day-Of-Week Averages DOW P2+ HH 18-49 18-34 25-54 MON 417,100 0.260 0.149 0.174 0.133 TUE 436,000 0.277 0.164 0.187 0.147 WED 409,800 0.267 0.151 0.173 0.138 THU 466,900 0.293 0.160 0.194 0.149 FRI 446,667 0.278 0.167 0.188 0.159 Mondays and Wednesdays are clearly the worst or 2nd worst, while Thursday leads in total viewers, households, and 18-34, but Friday leads in 18-49 and 25-54. But this week the game changes, as DBS has taken over the 8:30 timeslot. We'll see later today how the first day of this experiment panned out...

JoJo would be an interesting one, as it hasn't gotten any on-air marathon love in quite a while, but I'm not sure it CAN get a marathon all night starting at 10 PM. The earliest it's ever aired is midnight. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for destroyed turtles and bulldogs losing their heads in the 10 PM hour, but S&P might be a little wary of it. AOT is bloody but stylized enough and popular enough to get away with it. And I can't see DBS ever getting a marathon again since it's running on weeknights, but you never know.

Well, http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-9-8-2018.html College Football dominates, but at least all 5 eligible cable originals made the Top 50, and we seem to have beaten Live PD for once, unless it was a rerun and therefore ineligible, which is most likely the case; if so, smart move on A&E's part. Wow, a premiere of DBS below 700K!? Either MHA before DBS was clearly a mistake, or people just aren't taking to this new arc and art style! But its effect on 18-34 was even worse: Adults 18-34 Show Rating Estimate Retention DBS 0.29 197,000 N/A AOTS3 0.22 150,000 75.86% FLCL3 0.24 163,000 109.09% PTE 0.23 156,000 95.83% JoJo4 0.21 143,000 91.30% Now granted, those are just estimates, but it's possible the whole Toonami block had LESS THAN 200K 18-34 watching last night, unless MHA pulled it off, which we'll probably know later on today.

We're at the point in the series where the episodes are actually fresh enough in my mind that I'm able to live-post a little without watching. But now that I AM actually watching, I see that [as] chose to advertise Venture Bros., Toonami's new Dragon Ball Super, the upcoming Festival, and My Hero Academia. Well, here's what we'll see tonight: And then right after that at 8:30, it's... Ignore that "Saturday 10:30" bit--oh, and BTW, this weeknight run is now only these episodes' SECOND airing. ENJOY!

Get your dose of mind-bending insanity all this week with Pop Team Epic!!! Unknown yet if it will advance to #6-#10 tonight (Friday), but it might... Either way... ALL RIGHT!!

http://programminginsider.com/thursday-final-ratings-nfl-kickoff-game-on-nbc-sinks-to-ten-year-low/ Dragon Ball Super (repeat) (ADSM, 8:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.497 million viewers (#64) • 0.29 HH (#72) • 0.16 A18-49 (#55) • 0.19 A18-34 (#20) • 0.15 A25-54 (#73) Considering the competition that was the NFL kickoff game, that's not too shabby!

Well, looks like it's over for tonight!

I don't THINK Dragon Balls can fix whole universes being wiped out...now maybe SUPER Dragon Balls can, but if just one was in the universe that got deleted, whoops...

And ironically, she SHOULD be old enough to be his grandmother!!

I'll probably watch these with the West Coast at 10 PM Central tonight.

I know I'm most likely in the minority here, but I'm down for more SAO on Toonami. Hopefully it gets a pretty good timeslot, like before midnight. Making it a medieval fantasy hour at 1 AM leading-in to Black Clover wouldn't be a horrible idea either, though. Hell, in the current climate, it might even get a weeknight run. The question is, would they re-acquire SAO I & II to re-air them on weeknights? There's almost no blood in it so it would be fine for 8:30 PM...

Rather disappointingly, it's still just the same ol', same ol', the first 5 episodes of FLCL Progressive. Couldn't even be bothered to stream the 6th episode. Hopefully a change comes tonight.

Here's what we have coming up on Adult Swim in about 6 hours and change: And THEN, right afterward at 8:30, it's time for... Two episodes per weeknight beginning TONIGHT! CAN YA BELIEVE IT!?

Well, at least we have REAL STAKES this time, for the first time since the Beerus and Frieza arcs. And BOY DO WE EVER!! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/dragon-ball-super/episode-78/.112154 Rating: "B+". The story got kicked up a notch, so understandably so does the grade!

And I just realized I never posted the review for this "Universal Survival Arc" beginning episode: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/dragon-ball-super/episode-77/.111878 Rating: "B". An inauspicious start, considering where the story notoriously ended up.

It's pretty good: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/flcl-alternative/episode-1/.136545 Rating: "B+" Of course, this is only the beginning, and in the future, I really hope it blows us away!

Wow, what a review: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/attack-on-titan/episode-39/.134849 Rating: "A". Couldn't agree more, and this episode just had me wanting more...

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/my-hero-academia/episode-17/.115163 Rating: "B+". Of course this episode was Part 1 of 2, with the payoff coming next week!

I realized I haven't posted that week's ANN review yet: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/my-hero-academia/episode-16/.114882 Rating: "B+". Wasn't a bad way to start off Toonami for 8/25/18!