OwlChemist81

A springboard to DBZ Kai rerunning at 8:30, why not? After all, they oughta do SOMETHING with it!

I live in kind of a hipster town, sometimes called the Portland of the South.

THIS JUST IN THIS MORNING: https://www.adultswim.com/schedule/ And click on Monday July 2--AHH YEAH! Dat sweet anime back on weeknights!

No, it's not. I know a couple who just leave [as] on the TVs if nothing else is on, and the World Cup is in the daytime. I'm sure 2 or 3 TVs around most towns' nightspots will have it on. Oddly enough, nobody bothers to try Live PD; perhaps because watching a bunch of cops arresting people in real time leaves a bad taste in people's mouths if they've been moderately drinking and trying to stay under the limit? But if you're talking as some kind of event? Outside of an anime con watch party, I'd say you're right.

I'm actually optimistic about it. Toonami is trying something different, and it will hopefully be rewarding for them! I would say bars might even get behind it, just for the "what the hell am I watching!?" factor, though usually if they have [as]/Toonami on the sound is off, and you kind of need the dub voices to transmit the zaniness!

Well, after last week's uber-boost, that made last week's ratings seem more like 2017 ratings, this week things are pretty much back to normal: That's FLCL2's 3rd-worst performance. But I guess a boneheaded comedy episode of Super didn't set the tone right quite like last week's menacing start combined with Futurama-level timey wimey stuff??? Yeah, that one confuses me as well. IN OTHER NEWS, Dragon Ball Super will officially break the 10-year weeknight strip action embargo this coming Monday, airing at 8 PM on weeknights, replacing King of the Hill! Too bad it couldn't be DBZ Kai, which arguably did a ton better and has more of a "classic" feel to it.

You DO realize you're posting in the Super thread, right??

It seems like he meant to post in the OTHER Dragon Ball thread!

I must have missed those episodes, sadly. If they aired in 2002, I was kinda hit or miss. I THOUGHT I saw all of the Red Ribbon Army saga, but I missed the mainstay of the witch Baba saga. I DID end up catching the Bansho Fan saga/Cute Chi-Chi saga in 2003 though. And even if I did see it, that was 16 YEARS AGO and I doubt I had DVR so I most likely forgot it. But my point remains valid that Vegeta, who showed up in Dragon Ball Z, would have no idea who the hell she is and would break the 4th wall to refer to her. It will, however, be interesting to see if GOKU remembers who she is, and we just can't tell that from the promos!

How about some insight into how ratings work in Japan? https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2018-06-25/.133369 Maybe Toonami's model is now similar to the Japanese model, in which DBS matters because it's in prime time, and all the other shows matter less because they're in either late night (LN; 11 PM-1 AM) or overnight (ON; 1 AM-4 AM). Though I would say it's not QUITE like that, and there are most likely 3 tiers instead of 2: Rather than only daytime/PT shows' ratings mattering and LN/ON shows essentially being infomercials as in Japan, PT shows' ratings matter more than LN shows', and LN shows' ratings matter more than ON shows'.

It seems somehow we goofed: this actually WAS the 100th episode to air on Toonami!! Hence, I have edited the subject line, and will continue to do so for the recent Hunter x Hunter posts which I snagged.

Up next, Cowboy Bebop, episodes 1-5, over and over, probably all week! It's really sad to see what this stream has become! [prove me wrong, stream...]

It's Saturday night and they're in the spot! Don't believe me? Just watch!! (BTW, this is Part 4's OP, and just one of 4 (though one is an alternate version of this, which is probably used only for an episode) we're talking about here!)

Pop Team Epic getting shoved STRAIGHT DOWN YER THROAT this Saturday Night at Midnight!

Well then, good thing we have MHA and FLCL between them, right?? But if AOT S3 is taking FLCL's timeslot, that's gonna be a rough transition.

Surprise surprise, this episode got a near-great review, an "A-"! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/flcl-progressive/episode-4/.133344

Looks like this end-of-arc episode got a B+ from Chris at ANN: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/black-clover/episode-27/.130248 No review next week, as he reviewed Pages 28 and 29 together. I guess NEXT week we start "Book 3??"

So this girl's name is Arale, huh?? I thought it was Yurin, but apparently it's not time for her yet... ANN's reviewer gave this campy episode a C+, but, mild spoiler, and quite a shocker: toward the end of the review; it turns out Arale is actually a CROSSOVER character!! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/dragon-ball-super/episode-68/.109270 The anime she comes from is another Toei show, and one I've never even heard of before: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=971

Well so did Banagher and you ate up Gundam Unicorn! Give this show a chance; it just might surprise you!

You're wrong. Next week is the next-to-last episode!

You may be on to something...

Yeah, he got what he deserved. Jigen missed out!

THAT MHA PROMO!!!

Maybe he'll get another chance in Episode 10--it's a Goemon episode!

Matrix-like moves from Jigen!