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What on earth are they talking bout?

TITAN-FIGHTIN' TIME!!!

Ok, fine. We'll save the discussion for 11:30. I won't ruin anything!

Actually here for the 8 PM airing this week; let's do this!!!

Well, this week it's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs the movie leading into Dragon Ball Super, so we'll see how this works out...

Damn, 50 minutes of this!? You sadist!

The last one before the marathon. If you miss it, there's always 3 AM next week! (But don't miss Lupin!)

EPISODE 2: "THE FAKE FANTASTISTA" Last week, we were re-introduced to Arsene Lupin and his posse and introduced to a brand-new character, the live wire and Arsene's new wife Rebecca Rosselini Lupin! What crazy caper will Lupin and his cohorts find themselves in this week? And how will Zenigata continue to be a hopeless but lovable menace? Find out tomorrow night (6/24/17) at 2 AM. Only TOONAMI!

Well, at least Samurai Jack's 3rd episode of this rerun actually did about 1.1 million. Maybe it will be OK leading the block for a while after all? And I have confirmed the stream advanced to 6-10, if you care.

Didn't they bring it back at the start of '17? Either way, I think they dropped it again since recapping Jack and Titan, maybe? In other news, full numbers are in: http://programminginsider.com/ratings/final-nationals/saturday-final-nationals-turn-amc-leaps-double-digits-year-ago-premiere/ TOTAL VIEWERS RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 698,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 1,354,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack S5 #1 1,085,000 (80.13%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 984,000 (90.69%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 944,000 (95.93%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 776,000 (82.20%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 711,000 (91.62%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 650,000 (91.42%) 2:00 AM Lupin The 3rd 545,000 (83.85%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 588,000 (107.89%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 543,000 (92.35%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 758,444 Jack's back over a million! And that average is not too shabby, still below average for 2017 but the highest yet in June! ADULTS 18-49 RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 359,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 771,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack S5 #1 631,000 (81.84%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 569,000 (90.17%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 560,000 (98.42%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 441,000 (78.75%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 413,000 (93.65%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 372,000 (90.07%) 2:00 AM Lupin The 3rd 304,000 (81.72%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 330,000 (108.55%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 326,000 (98.79%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 438,444 Well, at least nothing went under 300K. Better than anything we've seen in June, but still below average for 2017, like with the total viewer ratings. "For the entire week of June 12-18, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is up +6 percent in viewership (0.828 million vs. 0.782 million) and up +1 percent among Adults 18-49 (478,000 vs. 472,000) from one week earlier; the network is also down -20 percent in viewership (0.828 million vs. 1.039 million) and down -20 percent among Adults 18-49 (478,000 vs. 600,000) from the same week one year ago (June 13-19, 2016). (http://programminginsider.com/?p=17648)". Ouch. But compare that to Toonami's losses from last year, which for total viewers, were 6% for the 11:30-3 AM timeframe and only 4% for the whole Toonami block (which included 11 PM and 3 AM this year), and its losses for 18-49, which were 11% for 11:30-3 AM this year versus last and 9% for the whole Toonami block, and that is good to see. Toonami still down from last year, but not nearly as much as the rest of Adult Swim. Finally, the leaderboard of shows in progress: CURRENT SHOW AVERAGES Total Viewers Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 864,045 (22 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 1,102,045 (22 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 1,013,391 (23 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 792,250 (8 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 703,909 (11 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 805,782 (55 episodes) Lupin the 3rd - 545,000 (1 episode) Naruto: Shippuden - 847,997 (162 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 505,316 (19 episodes) Adults 18-49 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM, Estimate) - 418,727 (22 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 666,545 (22 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 612,435 (23 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 476,250 (8 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 435,636 (11 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 480,855 (55 episodes) Lupin the 3rd - 304,000 (1 episode) Naruto: Shippuden - 470,998 (145 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 315,158 (19 episodes) Adults 18-34 (Estimated) Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 267,905 (21 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 414,522 (23 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 312,500 (8 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 291,091 (11 episodes) Lupin the 3rd - 211,000 (1 episode) Loopawn sticks out like a sore thumb, but hopefully it will improve? If not, it might ease down to 2:30 at some point. And I'd say at this point in time Dragon Ball Super is much more likely to take the Labor Day Weekend marathon. Let's just be glad Lupin made it to Toonami, OK?

Yeah, so what? Probably in Italian with English subtitles! This IS still a dub premiere! Probably not that popular though, and slotted about right at 2 AM, though I'll always wonder how it would do at 1:30 if Attack on Titan were allowed to flow directly into Hunter x Hunter. But with Ghoul actually doing that well, they'll probably just keep it at 1 AM after the marathon, which means Lupin remains stuck at 2. Then again, I look at Michiko & Hatchin to see a show that wasn't very popular, and had overtones of another language than Japanese or English, but kicked ass in the ratings! And like THAT wasn't available streaming on-demand somewhere. Hell, I believe FUNimation still had the dub throughout Toonami's whole run, and it did gangbusters, so your argument that "people won't watch it if some version of it is on Crunchyroll" is asinine. Arrivedeci!

It turns out it wasn't much better than Gundam Unicorn's finale. In fact, I believe it was actually worse: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-17-2017.html 6/17/2017 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - #17 (+4) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.34 Estimated 18-34 - 231,000 ( 33.09% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.28 Estimated 18-49 - 359,000 ( 51.43% ) Total Viewers - 698,000 6/17/2017 DBZ Kai: Final Chapters - #3 (+1) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.61 Estimated 18-34 - 415,000 ( 43.96% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.44 Estimated 18-49 - 564,000 ( 59.75% ) Total Viewers - 944,000 6/17/2017 Attack On Titan - #6 (STEADY) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.49 Estimated 18-34 - 333,000 ( 42.91% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.34 Estimated 18-49 - 436,000 ( 56.19% ) Total Viewers - 776,000 6/17/2017 Tokyo Ghoul - #7 (+2) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.46 Estimated 18-34 - 313,000 ( 44.02% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.32 Estimated 18-49 - 410,000 ( 57.67% ) Total Viewers - 711,000 6/17/2017 Lupin The 3rd - #22 (-11) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.31 Estimated 18-34 - 211,000 ( 38.72% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.24 Estimated 18-49 - 308,000 ( 56.51% ) Total Viewers - 545,000 Tokyo Ghoul did MUCH better than usual, actually keeping pace with Attack on Titan, which dropped the ball from DBZ Kai just a little. It's possible this time it was Hunter x Hunter or Lupin itself which dropped the ball. The good news is that it doesn't seem to depend on whether there is a rerun or a premiere at 11 PM, the 2 AM timeslot appears to do about the same. But I wonder what would happen if Lupin got an 8:30 encore after the premiere of Dragon Ball Super? It's certainly tame enough for that!

Any guesses at what Lupin the 3rd's premiere ratings will be? I'm hoping for 600K total viewers, 400K 18-49, 300K 18-34.

...and if you thought what [as] did with Rick & Morty Season 3 Episode 1 was ridiculous, this straight-up dwarfs it! Disney is planning on premiering the show on Friday, August 11/Saturday, August 12th as a 1-hour pilot special that repeats every hour for the next 24 hours!

Speaking of Samurai Jack reruns, they've taken over the weekly Marathon stream this week (6/19-6/23). I'm assuming it will be 1-5 in through Wednesday night at 8, and then 6-10 from then through Friday night at 8. And GUESS WHAT we get on the weekend stream after that?? Yep, that's right. The SAMURAI JACK MARATHON from 5/27/17! So if you're sick of the Samurai Jack conclusion that has had between FOUR and SIX airings on [as] TV, this just isn't your week! The last time we've seen anything like this was (Guess what?) ONE-PUNCH MAN! It got what I believe was its last run on the Stream back in September for Episodes 1-5 Monday-Wednesday and 6-10 from Wednesday-Friday, directly before its marathon of Episodes 1-7 which aired on Toonami on Labor Day weekend streamed. The time frame, I believe, was September 26th through October 3rd.

The Independence Day "Weekend:" If July 4th on a Sunday: Begins Friday, July 2nd at 5 PM and ends Monday, July 5th at Midnight If July 4th on a Monday: Begins Friday, July 1st at 5 PM and ends Monday, July 4th at Midnight If July 4th on a Tuesday: Begins Friday, June 30th at 5 PM and ends Tuesday, July 4th at Midnight If July 4th on a Wednesday: Begins Tuesday, July 3rd at 5 PM and ends Sunday, July 8th at Midnight If July 4th on a Thursday: Begins Wednesday, July 3rd at 5 PM and ends Sunday, July 7th at Midnight If July 4th on a Friday: Begins Thursday, July 3rd at 5 PM and ends Sunday, July 6th at Midnight If July 4th on a Saturday: Begins Thursday, July 2nd at 5 PM and ends Sunday, July 5th at Midnight

Damn, how big ARE her tits to hold that dagger between them without stabbing her!?

It seems that they do! http://www.adultswim.com/videos/cowboy-bebop/ But who knows if they still will in February/March 2018 after they get through 2nd Gig? Of course, they could just switch Ghost out for Bebop after Season 1, but I'd say AOT S2 has first dibs on that timeslot, UNLESS they actually want to save it for next year right before Season 3 arrives!

It's gonna be really hard to rank the 9 shows this week, as they were all VERY GOOD, but #1 is obvious... #9: Shippuden - The Pain from Spain falls violently on the Plain--or something. #8: Dragon Ball Super - Solid whack in the nuts, then the surprising return of Ginyu! #7: Attack on Titan - Begins with a bang but then is kinda slow except for the flashback brawl. #6: Samurai Jack - Survivorman Jack, then one final confrontation with (most of) the Daughters of Aku! #5: Ghost In The Shell - One of my favorite one-off femme fatales was featured! #4: DBZ KFC - Evil Vegeta is back as a "Majin"! And Goku is playing right into Babidi's hands! #3: Hunter x Hunter - Kurapika reveals the secrets of his 5 chains to the others! #2: Tokyo Ghoul - An unexpectedly great episode with tons of great action! #1: Lupin the 3rd - Lupin may have stolen our hearts, but Rebecca totally stole the show!

I noticed something on my rewatch: in the scene in the plane at the end, Rebecca drinks a "FERINI" beer. This is an obvious take on the famous Italian beer "Peroni!"

I believe they also got Part III but I'm not sure.

LATER!

Yep, "CAPTIVATED" indeed! (a stand-alone episode)

If this image is from tonight's episode, we are in for one of my faves!

Yeah, this arc is definitely better than most!