OwlChemist81

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he actually swapped them. If there were two of one number, that would REALLY cause hell to break loose! It will be interesting to see what Heroes actually does regarding the canonization of every previous Dragon Ball series. But I say that Super's 12 Universes DOES make this timeline plausibly canon; it just obviously occurs along a different timeline from Super. These poor people don't even know there's a Beerus!

Well, let's put it this way--they ARE actually airing Pop Team Epic next week! That would have been unthinkable a year ago! Subtitles are "the last frontier", one that they actually crossed on April Fool's Day. But it only makes sense for stuff that isn't dubbed yet if it's tried otherwise.

Yes, that's right, folks. After a 2.75-year hiatus, new JoJo anime is back on the horizon! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-06-21/jojo-bizarre-adventure-part-5-golden-wind-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-october/.133202 Not only that, but if you're fortunate enough to be able to attend Anime Expo, you can attend a sneak preview of the subtitled first episode! Now, everyone knows that Toonami officially broke the ice in airing subtitled anime on April Fool's Day, so WHAT IF the plan was eventually to include a "subtitled hour" somewhere in the back half of the block? You couldn't pick better shows to do that with than SAO 3: Alicization and JoJo Part 5 (with their dubs eventually coming when available)? That way, we could potentially get both the dub of SAO Gun Gale Alternative and the sub of Alicization on the block, and then the same for JoJo parts 4 and 5? That block, in October, would look something like this: 10 PM Dragon Ball Super 10:30 FLCL Alternative 11 PM Attack On Titan Season 3 11:30 My Hero Academia 12 AM Sword Art Online Gun Gale Alternative 12:30 JoJo Part 4: Diamond Is Unbreakable 1 AM Hunter x Hunter 1:30 Black Clover 2 AM Sword Art Online 3: Alicization (subtitled) 2:30 JoJo Part 5: Golden Wind (subtitled) 3 AM Shippuden 3:30 Lupin the 3rd Part 4 Because of ratings, I'm giving the SAOs the lead over the JoJos, but then again, the JoJos have traditionally had the earlier timeslots, so that could be flip-flopped.

The full 18-49 numbers: http://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-fox-baseball-night-in-america-narrowly-bests-aes-live-pd-for-top-prime-time-telecast-among-adults-18-49/ Family Guy (R) (ADSM, Sat. 6/16/18 10:00 PM, 30 min.)• 1.097 million viewers (#45)• 0.611 million adults 18-49 (0.47 A18-49 rating) (#10) PROGRAM Viewers (000) A1849 rating A1849 (000) 10:30 Dragon Ball Super 1098 0.52 668 11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 923 0.44 563 11:30 My Hero Academia (r) 720 0.34 438 12:00a FLCL: Progressive 687 0.32 415 12:30a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 558 0.27 353 1:00a Hunter X Hunter (r) 532 0.27 343 1:30a Black Clover (r) 491 0.23 292 2:00a Naruto: Shippuden (r) 432 0.21 273 2:30a Space Dandy (r) 368 0.16 210 3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 369 0.16 210 3:30a Lupin The 3rd: Part 4 (r) 362 0.17 217 I made a mistake in that total viewers report; DBS was actually 1098K, not 1097K, so it DID just barely edge out Family Guy in total viewers, and COMPLETELY KICK ITS BUTT once again in Adults 18-49! But that really doesn't change the average much, and it's still 2nd place since 1st was over 600K. 6/16/18 - Adults 18-49 Show Total Viewers Adults 18-49 Family Guy 611,000 DBS 668,000 109.33% DBZKFC 563,000 84.28% MHA 438,000 77.80% FLCL 415,000 94.75% JoJo 353,000 85.06% HxH 343,000 97.17% B. Clover 292,000 85.13% Shippuden 273,000 93.49% Dandy 210,000 76.92% Bebop 210,000 100.00% Lupin 217,000 103.33% AVERAGE 362,000 3rd of 24 NICE!!! Now just keep it up next week, Toonami!!

Actually, March 10th!

Well lookie here!!! http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-16-2018.html The Adult Swim line-up performed as follows: DRAGON BALL at 0.52/0.44 compared to last week’s 0.38/0.28, MY HERO ACADEMIA up 0.12 to 0.34/720K, FLCL up 0.13 to 0.32, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE up a tenth to 0.27, HUNTER X HUNTER up 0.11 to 0.27/532K, BLACK CLOVER up 0.08 to 0.23/491K, NARUTO up 0.04 to 0.21/432K, SPACE DANDY up 0.03 to 0.16/368K, COWBOY BEBOP up 0.04 to 0.16/369K, and LUPIN THE 3RD up 0.06 to 0.17/362K. 6/16/18 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention DBS 1,097,000 DBZKFC 923,000 84.14% MHA 720,000 78.01% FLCL 687,000 95.42% JoJo 558,000 81.22% HxH 532,000 95.34% B. Clover 491,000 92.29% Shippuden 432,000 87.98% Dandy 368,000 85.19% Bebop 369,000 100.27% Lupin 362,000 98.10% AVERAGE 594,455 2nd of 24 FANTASTIC retention from FLCL Progressive once again. It deserved to be at 11 PM for real. Hopefully they won't screw that up with FLCL Alternative, but if I had to take a wild guess, it's probably replacing JoJo or Pop Team Epic.

Last week to this week comparisons are insane: P2+ Last Week This Week Change %Chg DBS 802,000 1,097,000 295,000 137% DBZKFC 660,000 923,000 263,000 140% FLCL 441,000 687,000 246,000 156% JoJo 391,000 558,000 167,000 143% AVERAGE 194,200 A 18-34 Last Week This Week Change %Chg DBS 0.47 0.61 +0.14 130% DBZKFC 0.33 0.50 +0.17 152% FLCL 0.25 0.42 +0.17 168% JoJo 0.21 0.38 +0.17 181% AVERAGE +0.13 A 18-49 Last Week This Week Change %Chg DBS 0.38 0.52 +0.14 137% DBZKFC 0.28 0.44 +0.16 157% FLCL 0.19 0.32 +0.13 168% JoJo 0.17 0.27 +0.10 159% AVERAGE +0.11 Dying to see what the rest of the block's numbers looked like, especially MHA, as in "did it break 800K or not..."

Wow, this is excellent by today's standards!! That's obviously a new high for FLCL: Progressive!

That would have been stupid??

Samurai Champloo, Episodes #16-#20. They're really not trying at all these days, are they? Even so, I actually welcome this because the app hasn't played these episodes since the 2016 marathon!

…well, turns out I was wrong. They actually just kept streaming these episodes of One-Punch Man all weekend, but the stream DID go down overnight on the 17th through the 18th. We'll probably get something new tonight, I guess...

4 months, actually!

Even with the bizarre, anticlimactic ending, Beerus made the ultimate non-sequitur: "You Saiyans are getting hooked on Divine help!" Darn right they are; they just used the GEORGE JETSON method to beat the big bad of this arc! And I don't know how Future Bulma will deal with Future Trunks and Future Mai essentially both being identical twins!

Last time, Rades proved to be a tougher customer than we thought, and Fuegoleon was dealt a severe blow! Will Asta and the Clover Kingdom's wizards be able to overcome? Find out tomorrow (6/16) at 1:30 AM!! Anti-Magic's a bitch, ain't it?? ONLY TOONAMI!!

We've almost hit the century mark, folks! But will Gon and Killua be able to take on Pitou and make it there?? Find out tomorrow night (6/16) at 1 AM! Only TOONAMI!!!

Nine episodes left. The showdown is on, and it promises not only to BE epic, but to FOLLOW (Pop Team) Epic as well... But not this week. 12:30 AM, after an all-new FLCL Progressive!

Beach Volleyball FLCL style!?

Well lookie here... https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/black-clover/episode-25/.129649 Rating: "B-"!

Darn this episode for giving me flashbacks to Mushi-shi of all things!

You've got about a day left to catch One-Punch Man's Deep Sea King and Boros arcs on the Marathon Stream...

Ok, that's been proven to be wrong. YES, the DBs do head and shoulders above everything else on Toonami these days, but let's not pretend that 90% of viewers don't watch the rest of the block. If that were the case, we would see an average of a million watching DBS and DBZK, while only 100K watch My Hero Academia, and that's just not the case. About 75% of the viewers of DBZK also watch MHA, so you should be arguing that to a quarter of the viewers (25%), Toonami begins and ends with Dragon Ball. That's mostly true. I feel that while FLCL was a great work in its own right, I DID want to see more of the story between Raharu and her quest for Atomsk. I feel while FLCL Progressive may not have been "necessary", it's not that I didn't want it either. But maybe I have a bit of confirmation bias since it was announced on my 35th birthday!

We've speculated that the reason that Toonami currently begins at 10:30 PM is that there is some kind of provision in the contract for Dragon Ball Super that it must premiere in prime time. But that's really no reason that both DB shows have to run on Toonami back-to-back...or is it?? In fact, that and a deal for MHA that mandates 11:30 might be why FLCL Progressive is stuck at midnight--but I really hope not. It would be nice to see the last 2 episodes of Progressive air in the 11 PM hour somehow after Kai ends. That could happen at 11 PM on 6/30 and 7/7 barring marathons or other normal schedule pre-emptions (like some are speculating the Summer Camp Island event will just wipe out Adult Swim completely for 2 days).

Yeah for real! It's damn silly that this is how it is, but so be it!

So I guess we've still got a Toonami block of some sort on 7/7 then! More likely than not, 6/30 doubles up on FLCL Progressive, 7/7 is an FLCL Progressive marathon, and then 7/14 introduces new shows. But then again, I suppose I could still see FLCL Progressive x 1 on both 6/30 and 7/7, with new shows coming 6/30 to replace DBZ Kai and 7/14 to replace FLCL Progressive...

Well, here's the thing. We KNOW Toonami is not getting cancelled due to bad ratings anytime soon. Dragon Ball Super alone is proof of that. BUT, WILL IT do well enough to maintain its current 11-show lineup? I think that's a decent question to ask weekly, or at least whenever a show on the back end is nearing its conclusion.