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Unfortunately, I won't be able to watch along with y'all tonight, as the stupid [as] app I was relying on to watch the show on nights the bartenders are too stubborn to change the channel is still down. I CAN watch SNL though, so yay? At any rate, hope my trusty DVR is picking this first episode up in full HD glory, and I'll probably be watching with the West Coast later...

Can't beat the king!!

The power of never giving up--and friendship!! Only Toonami

D'arby the Gambler, Part 2... The game for souls continues at a new time: TONIGHT (5/5) at 12:30 AM!

I think ya beat me...

Fear not, Toonami Faithful! For My Hero Academia is finally here!! 11:30 PM tomorrow night (5/5); ONLY TOONAMI!!

Yeah, it was on weeknights at 1 this week!

Went down about 6:45 tonight whIle I was half-watching AOT on the Toonami Stream. Guess I won't see Pre-Flight live tonight... But the REAL reason I'm bummed is I really wanted to see people f up pronouncing the secret word tonight on "Hello Dollars." The word was "Bouillabaisse", which apparently is pronounced "Boo-Ja-Base".

"Beforel Orel" did happen though...

Want more free My Hero Academia on May 5th? (Well, free with cable subscription in Toonami's case...) http://www.toonamisquad.com/press-release-check-out-my-hero-academia-at-free-comic-book-day-2018/

That would be interesting...but doubtful. They lost the rights to SAO2 over a year ago! Also, since Toonami HAS now played anime in Japanese with English subtitles, wonder if they would dare to play the dub of GGOA back-to-back with world premiere subtitled SAO3 in a late-night timeslot?? Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, they're not that powerful...

I believe at some point SAO will be back on Toonami. If they know what's good for them, they'll play Gun Gale Online Alternative first, then after it ends, SAO 3: Alicization. Maybe replacing Black Clover?

It's more along the lines of a "future conflict," but yeah, that's actually said in the epilogue.

Could it somehow be a level above SS Rosé?? Nah, couldn't be...

I like it enough to record it and to keep watching it! It has its moments of "OMG, BRILLIANT!!" amid all the "ehhh..." But it's definitely my least favorite premiere on Toonami right now.

Fair enough. Riddhe lived, and he had done a pretty deplorable thing 3 episodes prior. But he was no Rustal. And the Rustal of that series, Full Frontal, died after the last battle. What's weird is the last episode wasn't so much of a battle, more like a rescue mission, as Banagher had to evolve to stop a laser from destroying an entire colony. But it was more of a non-ending, since there is a sequel on the way (Gundam NT/Narrative).

So would ya say Gundam Unicorn actually had a better ending??

I think so. It will be interesting to see what happens this weekend with (as far as I can see) no NBA competition. Ironically, Super seems to shine under intense competition more so than FG reruns on a percentage basis, but of course not necessarily an aggregate basis.

On Toonami, this is FLCL's 3rd airing. On [as]?? Too numerous to count! From Fall 2011 to Spring 2012 right before Toonami made its impact, it aired at 2 AM EVERY Saturday night, save Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve (Bleach marathons). As for All-Might... "Fear not, for I am here, this Saturday Night!"

Well, we know a little bit more now about what went down Saturday night: http://programminginsider.com/saturday-final-ratings-tnt-wins-prime-time-with-nba-playoff-doubleheader/ Family Guy (R) (ADSM, Sat. 4/28/18 10:00 PM, 30 min.) – 0.898 million viewers (#93) – 0.517 million adults 18-49 (0.40 A18-49 rating) (#15) Dragon Ball Super (ADSM, Sat. 4/28/18 10:30 PM, 30 min.) – 0.909 million viewers (#90) – 0.555 million adults 18-49 (0.43 A18-49 rating) (#12) Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters (ADSM, Sat. 4/28/18 11:00 PM, 30 min.) – 0.767 million viewers (#160) – 0.445 million adults 18-49 (0.35 A18-49 rating) (#20) Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (ADSM, Sat. 4/28/18 12:00 AM, 30 min.) – 0.518 million viewers (#395) – 0.281 million adults 18-49 (0.22 A18-49 rating) (#110) Black Clover (ADSM, Sat. 4/28/18 1:00 AM, 30 min.) – 0.486 million viewers (#430) – 0.261 million adults 18-49 (0.20 A18-49 rating) (#149) It was pretty bad in the old days, even a year ago, when DBS (Or Bleach, AOT, or DBZKai) tumbled in viewership from Family Guy by like 200K to as high as 500K, but that just doesn't happen anymore since that 10:30 PM episode is almost always a dub premiere. Not only did DBS handily beat its Family Guy lead-in once again in 18-49, this time by 38K, it edged it out in total viewers by 11K. Why they didn't list FLCL or Gundam IBO in this list is beyond me, but I digress. I guess #110 and #149 for the entire day for JoJo and Black Clover is pretty good though. Don't worry; we still got the full chart: PROGRAM Viewers (000) A1849 rating A1849 (000) 10:30 Dragon Ball Super 909 0.43 555 11:00 Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 767 0.35 445 11:30 Fooly Cooly (r) 610 0.27 353 12:00a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders 518 0.22 281 12:30a Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans 451 0.19 242 1:00a Black Clover 486 0.20 261 1:30a Hunter X Hunter (r) 470 0.21 277 2:00a Naruto: Shippuden (r) 418 0.19 251 2:30a Space Dandy (r) 368 0.17 222 3:00a Cowboy Bebop (r) 374 0.17 214 3:30a Ghost In Shell: 2nd Gig (r) 345 0.15 195 For the entire week of April 16-22, 2018 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up 3.6 percent in viewership (760,000 vs. 734,000) and up 5.8 percent among Adults 18-49 (485,000 vs. 459,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down 6 percent in viewership (760,000 vs. 809,000) and down 2 percent among Adults 18-49 (485,000 vs. 495,000) from the same week one year ago (April 24-30, 2017). DBS winning the night on [as] is great, but the ratings for the post-midnight portion of the block not getting out of the 200K range in 18-49 isn't so great. As a result, the 18-49 average was 14th out of 17 weeks so far in 2018, well below average. Hopefully My Hero Academia is the hero that saves the numbers in the post-midnight portion of the block. But it might be until we have new FLCL that we see any real improvement. As for retention: 4/28/18 - Total Viewers Show Viewers Retention Family Guy 898,000 DBS 909,000 101.22% DBZKFC 767,000 84.38% FLCL 610,000 79.53% JoJo 518,000 84.92% Gundam 451,000 87.07% BClover 486,000 107.76% HxH 470,000 96.71% Shippuden 418,000 88.94% Dandy 368,000 88.04% Bebop 374,000 101.63% GITS 345,000 92.25% FLCL was the worst retainer of the night in total viewers; the best was unsurprisingly Black Clover, but Super and Bebop continue to do exceptional as well. 4/28/18 - Adults 18-49 Show Total Viewers Adults 18-49 Family Guy 517,000 DBS 555,000 107.35% DBZKFC 445,000 80.18% FLCL 353,000 79.33% JoJo 281,000 79.60% Gundam 242,000 86.12% BClover 261,000 107.85% HxH 277,000 106.13% Shippuden 251,000 90.61% Dandy 222,000 88.45% Bebop 214,000 96.40% GITS 195,000 91.12% In Adults 18-49, Black Clover and HxH were the best retainers outside of Super; let's see what happens next week when they swap. I'm expecting MHA to end the 11:30 slot's "worst retainer" woes that it has been stuck with pretty much since it was regained last year, but will the midnight hour now be the red spot of the night between old FLCL and JoJo? We'll find out next week!

Parts of this are decent, but others are exceedingly stupid. It's BECAUSE My Hero Academia was acquired when it was, with only like 7 episodes of DBZ Kai left, that we're never really gonna know the effect that Kai has on it beyond that. If it was acquired a year ago, it would have been MORE at Kai's mercy!

Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp!!!

UPDATED: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-4-28-2018.html "Adult Swim’s late-night line-up performed as follows: DRAGON BALL at 0.43/0.34 compared to last week’s 0.45/0.38, FOOLY COOLY steady at 0.27/610K, JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURES down 0.02 to 0.22, MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM down 0.04 to 0.19, BLACK CLOVER down 0.02 to 0.20, HUNTER X HUNTER up 0.01 to 0.21/470K, NARUTO steady at 0.19/418K, SPACE DANDY up 0.01 to 0.17/368K, COWBOY BEBOP up 0.02 to 0.17/374K, and GHOST IN THE SHELL down 0.01 to 0.15/345K." Average 520K, 11th out of 17 weeks so far in 2018.

I won't link their shitty site, but I WILL repost the graph. I was taught in grad school that you need to cite the original source, and this graph does a fine example of that. No need to cite CartoonBoob here. That blue line for 2017-18 is less than A THIRD of the gray line halfway between 1.50 and the baseline. But does that mean it's a third of 750K? Not exactly. Note that the number given for the gray line two lines up from the 1.50 is marked with a 2.50. So the baseline is 0.50 million, or 500K, and the blue line in 2017-18 is most likely around 625K. Toonami's 2017 average was about 684K, but its 2018 average so far is 538K, which is still lower, but since only one of its timeslots is primetime and the rest are either late night (11 PM-1 AM) or overnight (1-3 AM), that matters less. Also of note is the fact that in 2010, CN still had 3 hours of primetime except on Sundays. As of late-ish in 2014, except for special events which were discontinued, CN only had one hour of primetime (the 7 PM hour). That probably explains partially why its numbers are a bit lower, but overall it got trashed less severely than Nick and Disney. Especially Disney--WOW!

If SAO's new seasons don't somehow find their way to Toonami when dubbed, there is seriously something wrong. How did the Series Finale of Gundam IBO fare? Well... It not only got beat by Black Clover, it couldn't muster even 500K and 0.20 18-49. Sure it made the Top 50, but still, not a good luck, Gundam. That said, I'm sure Toonami isn't done with Gundam for good, but it is done with Gundam for the foreseeable future. P2+ Last Week This Week Change DBS 953,000 909,000 -44,000 DBZKFC 790,000 767,000 -23,000 JoJo 512,000 518,000 6,000 Gundam 472,000 451,000 -21,000 Bclover 452,000 486,000 34,000 AVERAGE -9,600 A 18-34 Last Week This Week Change DBS 0.59 0.53 -0.06 DBZKFC 0.47 0.44 -0.03 JoJo 0.30 0.28 -0.02 Gundam 0.28 0.22 -0.06 Bclover 0.29 0.25 -0.04 AVERAGE -0.04 A 18-49 Last Week This Week Change DBS 0.45 0.43 -0.02 DBZKFC 0.38 0.34 -0.04 JoJo 0.24 0.22 -0.02 Gundam 0.23 0.19 -0.04 Bclover 0.22 0.20 -0.02 AVERAGE -0.03 Dragon Ball Super misses the million mark for the 2nd week in a row, something that hasn't happened since the beginning of the year. And except for Black Clover, everything was down vs. last week. But next week the impact of My Hero Academia should lift slots before it. It will be interesting to see what kind of effect it has on FLCL and everything after, though. Total Viewers Show People Retention DBS 909,000 N/A DBZKFC 767,000 84.38% JoJo 518,000 67.54%* Gundam 451,000 87.07% Bclover 486,000 107.76% Adults 18-34 Show Rating Estimate Retention DBS 0.53 360,000 N/A DBZKFC 0.44 299,000 83.02% JoJo 0.28 190,000 63.64%* Gundam 0.22 150,000 78.57% Bclover 0.25 170,000 113.64% Adults 18-49 Show Rating Estimate Retention DBS 0.43 551,000 N/A DBZKFC 0.34 436,000 79.07% JoJo 0.22 282,000 64.71%* Gundam 0.19 244,000 86.36% Bclover 0.20 256,000 105.26% Adults 18-49 Show Rank Change DBS #6 +2 DBZKFC #8 +3 JoJo #32 -12 Gundam #39 -15 Bclover #36 -10 *Note: Not a pure "back-to-back" retention figure. Get used to seeing these, as we'll probably have TWO of them next week. Damn, look at Black Clover go. I guess that's what you'd expect out of the show on the lineup with the newest animation. We'll see how it does back a slot behind Hunter x Hunter next week, though. Gundam IBO's finale pretty much tied with Mind Game in 18-34 and 18-49 rank, but the former didn't have the handicap of the next 1.75 hours. And of course, we'll most likely see a bit later today how well everything else on the lineup fared, either by ShowBuzzDaily, who seems to have shaken off their jury duty woes, or by Programming Insider.