OwlChemist81

Which is why I strive to be a voice of general positivity, or at least, "optimistic objectivity". I'm usually the one in the ratings thread who strives to put a positive spin on whatever the news is weekly. After all, even on the worst week, you can usually only go downhill from there. Now sometimes I say "I ain't gonna sugarcoat it" before I talk about something truly wretched and my disdain for it, but those times are few and far between. I know Jason DeMarco and co. are working their butts off to build us a better cartoon show and damn right I'm gonna show my appreciation for it!

I tried to be positive and not say "don't watch these shows", but instead, "watch these shows." It really has nothing to do with ratings, but rather my opinion which were the good ones.

Gundam IBO is not halfway through its season--it's only 3 episodes before the end! Since Gundam IBO is nearing its end, I'd start there. Then next would be Kai if you care about that. The only "must see" show on Toonami you might need to catch up on other than those two is Hunter x Hunter. But as for legacy shows that aren't currently airing for the past 3 years: Kill la Kill; Michiko & Hatchin; Parasyte -the maxim-; Samurai Champloo; One-Punch Man; Gundam Unicorn; Samurai Jack's Final Season; Attack on Titan Season 2; and Lupin the 3rd Part 4; and Outlaw Star are all worth watching.

Yeah, so far it's been a failure to execute, but I'll admit, at first we thought Dragon Ball Super was a failure to execute as well, even back when it was just rehashing movies, and JUST LOOK WHERE it ended up! I doubt Black Clover will follow a similar pattern, but you never know! The show does seem to be getting a little bit better by the week!

It's not winding down; it's heating up, and unfortunately Tekkadan is just gonna continue to get burned BADLY! I just realized I never posted the ANN review for this episode, and I concur with this review. There may have been little to no action this week (probably the last episode like this that we will see), but there was an incredibly compelling piece of drama! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/mobile-suit-gundam-iron-blooded-orphans/episode-47/.113331 TL,DR: Rating "A"! 3 more to go!!

It's not communism. The term you're looking for is "capitalistic journalism". In other words, a system by which reporters don't have to tell the truth if they re paid to lie. But in this case, it isn't exactly a lie, but a dishonest opinion that most likely can't possibly reflect the way the reviewers truly feel, and they're only giving it because they're being paid to give a good review. In other words, they refuse to be Jay Sherman. But again, that's not communism.

Fortunately, our trusty ANN reviewer was slightly more positive about this particular episode: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/black-clover/episode-17/.127242 TL,DR: Rating "B-".

Another Monday night, another outage for the Toonami Marathon stream. Guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out what will play on the stream this week. Edit: it's TUESDAY morning, and the Toonami stream FINALLY appears to have returned with Pre-Flight. They're discussing Char's Counterattack this week, so maybe the show for the rest of the week will be Gundam IBO episodes #41-#45? Since #45 aired on St. Patty's Day, it's probably freely streamable right now, but man, is #41 a HELL of an episode to start even a weekly marathon with...

Well, this is interesting... http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/dvr-ratings/cable-live-3-ratings-for-march-26-april-1-2018/ Rank Show Net L+3 18-49 rating Gain vs. Live + SD % gain vs. Live + SD 19 DRAGON BALL SUPER ADSM 0.7 0.3 75% That's #19 in Live+3 for Adults 18-49 in ALL cable originals for the WHOLE WEEK. Not too shabby! Keep in mind that Dragon Ball Super scored a 0.44 in Adults 18-49 on 3/31, which was rounded down to a 0.4 by TVBTN. So when they say it gained 75%, that's based on a really crude rounded-off estimate. If it ended up as a 0.7 in Live+3 18-49, then that's really a swing from 0.65 to 0.74, meaning that it increased anywhere from 0.21 to 0.30, which is a gain of more like 48%-68%. Still, very impressive. And just in case you're wondering what that means in terms of real viewer numbers, that means 269K-385K more adults 18-49 watched Dragon Ball Super between 3 AM Sunday and 3 AM Wednesday that didn't watch it Saturday night, and a total of up to 953K adults 18-49 watched it between its premiere at 9:30 PM Saturday night and 3 AM Wednesday! Is that good for Toonami? I dunno. But it's DAMN good for Super!

I looked ahead on the backdoor schedule, and compared my findings to Anime News Network, and I discovered the episode titles displayed in the schedule for 4/14, 4/21, and 4/28 are indeed the titles which correspond to episodes 198, 199, and 200. So, more likely than not, it IS a glitch!

I do agree. What's funny is next week's episode title is different: https://www.adultswim.com/schedule/ 01:00 AM (CT) Naruto:Shippuden The Eve of the Five Kage Summit

Or maybe go in a slightly different direction and air the Intruder Saga? The original Intruder, Intruder II, and Intruder III? ...naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. If they did that, then maybe some others like Lockdown and Trapped in Hyperspace might get pulled from the vault, even if the Months of Movies in December 2013 and 2014 did kinda allude to Trapped in Hyperspace, and Countdown was similar to Lockdown...

Wow, I have the same thing! There might actually be something to this, but why? Did they ACTUALLY acquire Boruto? And if so, why end Shippuden early!?

Everyone here needs to keep in mind that if characters don't show some hint of attraction to the same sex, they don't exist to mochi. So I HIGHLY doubt we'll see that level of carnage!

Yeah, too bad all the "baby making action" ends up taking place off-screen! And if Kudelia actually winds up getting pregnant by Mikazuki too that'll be just too much!

There's actually a reason I chose the 3 that I did: JoJo's thread got turned into an FLCL thread; Gundam's was simply locked because it didn't air (it became the losing Mind Game thread), and Black Clover was of course, new to Toonami.

Maybe so, but it's also believable that it permeated Egyptian culture in 1987. Plus those two looked like tourists to me, not real Egyptians like Avdol!

Only problem is I doubt she got much pleasure out of that before ending up there! ...or maybe she did, but the WRONG kind of pleasure!

Actually, it's ironically back ON the rails now, after spending 6 months in filler hell going off the rails!

Does anyone know what the hell that sign in Arabic that stuck to Joseph said??

Wow, a Haro? I guess I'll have to go back and watch--and I guess I can do so sub OR dub for right now! ON to Bebop!

Fortunately, our time loop only lasts 2 weeks, as that Deja Vu feeling you had watching Toonami will be LONG GONE next week!

Yes, yes we HAVE already done this...

Yes, yes it was!!! I watched the funny part, but I really didn't notice a big difference in the dialog, except for maybe the "ankle biters" part!