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That's not revealing anything beyond Episode #34--just watch and see!!

I'm really not sure WHAT his deal is! He seemed like he went along with the flow but then as he got to know the humans, turned? I think we learn more about his character in the next few episodes!

Episode #32: Close Combat Yeah, Mikasa, you DID drop the ball there!

Yes indeed!!

Yeah, I was like "what the hell!? Did I just hear that right??"

The most non-chalant reveal EVER!

I gotta pee. Episode #31: "Warrior" Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Not only that, but the blowing blizzard is visually impressive! We're on: Episode #30 "Historia".

Yeah, Reiner was wrong. The ass isn't the other weak spot, it's the eye! Episode #28

Cool, so it aired during the 2nd episode? Believe it or not, I'm at a rain-delayed soccer game instead. I just already know the first 4 or 5 episodes well enough to comment on them!

It was the 2nd time. It debuted on 4/22 with full OP. Episode #27: "I'm Home"

At Anime Expo, there's a Gundam panel at 5:30 PM Pacific--the exact time as 8:30 PM Atlantic. What airs on Adult Swim at 8 PM? Dragon Ball Super. If Adult Swim gets first dibs on an announcement on Gundam IBO Season 2, I have a theory they'll stealth-premiere a promo for it coming July 29th right after Dragon Ball Super, so that the Gundam panel at AX can technically announce it afterward at the very start of the panel, but very few will have heard yet. Do y'all think I might be right? Or just... ::spin::

Glad they finally did something about 8:30 Cleveland Show, even if it took Samurai Jack at 11 PM with it. Actually, now Samurai Jack replaces Cleveland at 8:30, but also 3:30 AM. Only time will tell if that 3:30 AM airing will be part of Toonami. I kinda hope that it is, but I guess we'll find out after the AOT marathon tonight! (Boy, wouldn't it be funny if they stealth-premiered Episode #35 of AOT at 3:30 AM??) Also, we have delays, as you should have guessed. Hopefully we'll find out how the AOT marathon did this afternoon! http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/ratings-delays-due-to-independence-day-2.html

So am I! I guess we'll find out tonight! From a PR standpoint, beginning and ending the block on the bottom of the hour sounds really bad. I mean, who the hell else does that for normal network TV? Then again, I guess it will just go back to how it was in January and February! But I'm really hoping they retain the bumpers for Samurai Jack at 3:30 AM. Plus, even though it's starting over (why!?), it could just get replaced by FLCL S1, I guess!

Because the show underperformed in premieres, maybe? It's peaked at 951K so far! Give it a better timeslot for 3 reruns and it SHOULD do better! Episode #26: "Beast Titan"

That SHOULD be over by the time Toonami starts though. I guess we'll see. If it's MUCH worse than Samurai Jack reruns have been doing at 11 PM, I suppose we may not get Season 3...

Get ready to relive all the shocking twists and turns tomorrow night (7/1/17) AT 11 PM! Find out how the characters who made their shocking turns reacted leading up to them!! And, if you couldn't watch, most importantly, get caught up on each and every grisly, gory detail!! ONLY TOONAMI!!

If you've checked out the Toonami Marathon Stream this week, you might have noticed they're playing AOT S2. Episodes #26-#30. Ad nauseum with only Pre-Flight interspersed. All Week. I understand why they did this when JoJo was marathonning, but I can't comprehend this. The JoJo marathon began with episode 5, so it kinda made sense for them to play 1-5 all week leading up to that marathon. Not the case here. The on-air marathon will begin with the SAME 5 EPISODES that have been playing all week on the stream. It's almost like they don't really want us to watch from 11 PM-1:30 AM, ain't it? (Once again, I have broken my "day of rest" thing, but I meant to make this post earlier this week and just never got around to it.)

Jack may have valleyed, but the show that did the worst in 18-49 and lost like 39% over its venerable lead-in? THE DAMN CLEVELAND SHOW. Seriously, just what the hell is that doing on after Dragon Ball Super? It makes about as much sense as when they tried to run Aqua Teen Hunger Force after DBZ Kai encores, a move that cost us both the DBZ Kai encores and the ill-fated ATHF reruns! Ironically, we seem to be headed down the same path this year, maybe, except that since Super is a premiere at 8 PM it seems to be insulated from that fate. But 8:30 is just begging to be occupied by something better. Hell, even Lupin encores would probably do better. After all, the premiere did beat the 3:30 AM Cleveland Show!

You're probably right. http://programminginsider.com/ratings/final-nationals/saturday-final-nationals-thundermans-nickelodeon-tops-cable-prime-time-total-viewers-teens/ The results are in, and we've only a double million, as Jack REALLY dropped the ball this week! TOTAL VIEWERS RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 698,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 1,385,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack S5 (Rerun) 972,000 (70.18%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 1,035,000 (106.48%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 1,018,000 (98.36%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 858,000 (84.28%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 724,000 (84.38%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 561,000 (77.49%) 2:00 AM Lupin The 3rd 500,000 (89.13%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 480,000 (96.00%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 470,000 (97.92%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 735,333 That average is down 16% from Toonami last year, and the 11:30-3 portion is down 15%. Considering that the year-to-year for the entire week of Adult Swim is down 22% this year, that's pretty good, but... ADULTS 18-49 RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 359,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 777,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack S5 (Rerun) 577,000 (74.26%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 653,000 (113.17%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 639,000 (97.86%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 542,000 (84.82%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 483,000 (89.11%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 380,000 (78.67%) 2:00 AM Lupin The 3rd 334,000 (87.89%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 318,000 (95.21%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 317,000 (99.69%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 471,444 Despite the block starting out with a thud with Samurai Jack's rerun dropping 200K 18-49 from Family Guy, Dragon Ball Super's "official" premiere actually gained 13% in 18-49 from Jack, making it look like a total champ instead of a chump as it has seemed following premieres of Jack through March, April, and May. Guess that's the "Frieza effect" that also sent the ratings into the stratosphere 2 years ago. And as for the average? Down only 6% year-to-year, and 5% for the 11:30-3 AM time frame! FINALLY... CURRENT SHOW AVERAGES Total Viewers Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 860,696 (23 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 1,099,130 (23 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 1,013,583 (24 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 799,556 (9 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 705,583 (12 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 801,411 (56 episodes) Lupin the 3rd - 522,500 (2 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 845,739 (163 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 503,550 (20 episodes) Adults 18-49 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM, Estimate) - 418,000 (23 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 665,957 (23 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 613,542 (23 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 483,556 (9 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 439,583 (12 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 479,054 (56 episodes) Lupin the 3rd - 319,000 (2 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 469,950 (146 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 315,250 (20 episodes) Adults 18-34 (Estimated) Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 267,455 (22 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 415,375 (24 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 318,556 (9 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 294,583 (12 episodes) Lupin the 3rd - 224,500 (2 episodes) For all its trouble looking like a champ, Super also actually dropped under 1.1 million average for the first time this week. AOT S2 meanwhile just might pull above 800K average, while Hunter x Hunter might fall below. That's it for this week; now we wait until at least Wednesday of next week to see what the AOT S2 marathon does!

Well, SHOWBUZZDAILY updated, and a surprising show didn't retain well: 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 1,018,000 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 858,000 (84.28%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 724,000 (84.38%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 561,000 (77.49%) 2:00 AM Lupin The 3rd 500,000 (89.13%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 480,000 (96.00%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 470,000 (97.92%) Yes, at least after Midnight, Hunter x Hunter was the worst retainer this week, which is quite unusual. It's sad how far down that show has fallen, when it's at the end of what arguably is its first great arc; I just hope they finish it out at this point. Never mind the fact that it's on only half an hour later than it debuted and it's doing just over half as good. http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-24-2017.html

True, I get that. But that doesn't seem to be the behavior of 99% of Toonami watchers. Even taking account their views are probably scattered throughout the week, those first 5 episodes will appear on the stream some 20-30 times each, so theoretically, assuming an average of 200, that means about 6000 will watch the stream, which is not even 1% as high as Toonami's flagging ratings. Also, 11 PM is a pretty reasonable time, although it's a war of attrition to stay up to the end even in the Central time zone where Toonami is 10 PM-2:30 AM.

One last odd-ball programming decision to close out the first half year, though it's NOT actually on the block, but on the streaming channel, which less than 200 people watch, so it might not hurt that bad... Attack on Titan Season 2 is playing right now, in advance of the marathon! Yep, you read that right. It's probably just gonna be #26-#30 all week, but that might be enough to take critical eyeballs off 11 PM-1 AM 7/1/17. It would have been smarter for [as] to play the conclusion of Season 1 leading up to this, but then again I guess they aren't in the business of making sense...

Yeah, me too! I do hope we get Gundam back sooner rather than later, though. Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 just might replace AOT, and JoJo Part 3 just might replace Tokyo Ghoul.

Oddly enough, this week might go down as one of the better weeks of 2017, while 2 years ago, it was actually one of the worst in 2015: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-100-saturday-cable-originals-6-27-2015.html But you are correct that the F12-34 numbers were higher, though not by much. The show that really brought the girls was InuYasha: The Final Act, and when that ended, things softened quite a bit, though SAO II also kept that going.