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There's not 1.5 million Nielsen boxes in existence; probably only about 10,000. But Jack did not reach a million. http://programminginsider.com/ratings/final-nationals/saturday-final-nationals-penguins-predators-nhl-stanley-cup-final-game-3-nbcsn-jumps-slightly-year-ago-levels/ TOTAL VIEWERS RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 807,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 1,222,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack S5 #1 909,000 (74.39%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 839,000 (92.30%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 853,000 (101.67%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 656,000 (76.91%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 553,000 (84.30%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 474,000 (85.71%) 2:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 430,000 (90.72%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 438,000 (101.86%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 380,000 (86.76%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 540,571 ADULTS 18-49 RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 408,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 703,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack S5 #1 516,000 (73.40%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 492,000 (95.35%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 517,000 (105.08%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 402,000 (77.76%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 353,000 (87.81%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 316,000 (89.52%) 2:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 290,000 (91.77%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 309,000 (106.55%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 260,000 (84.14%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 383,889 CURRENT SHOW AVERAGES Total Viewers Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 878,050 (20 episodes) Samurai Jack - 1,361,100 (10 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 1,120,250 (20 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 1,022,429 (21 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 807,500 (6 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 716,556 (9 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 813,094 (53 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 659,524 (21 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 851,716 (160 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 505,235 (16 episodes) Adults 18-49 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM, Estimate) - 426,800 (20 episodes) Samurai Jack - 853,700 (10 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 679,250 (20 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 618,524 (21 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 484,000 (6 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 444,667 (9 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 484,642 (53 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 401,429 (21 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 472,893 (143 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 313,588 (16 episodes) Adults 18-34 (Estimated) Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 273,947 (19 episodes) Samurai Jack - 569,500 (10 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 416,762 (21 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 308,000 (6 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 293,778 (9 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 272,381 (21 episodes) Turn the page...

The only thing I'm even mildly excited about is cross-promotional opportunities with Toonami. Do you think they would produce topicals to air on Toonami, and have Toonami schedule promos running during Cowboy Bebop Live Action? Of course that goes out the window if this ends up being a Netflix show like Death Note Live Action!

Yeah, that's right! And just like Dio, they CAN BE DEADLY, but only if they got them from China. [:poop:]

Reposting, because IT GOT BURIED!!! http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-3-2017.html 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 853,000 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 656,000 (76.91%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 553,000 (84.30%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 474,000 (85.71%) 2:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 430,000 (90.72%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 438,000 (101.86%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 380,000 (86.76%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE FOR 12-3:30 - 540,571 Bad when compared to how Toonami has done in the past, but what of the rest of TV? DBZ Kai, AOT, TG, and Gundam all won their timeslots among cable originals!

The thing is, those people had the same attitude in 2015 and those lineups absolutely KILLED IT in the ratings! It's kinda embarrassing that the very same scenes which aired in 2015 during a random episode of DBZ Kai that got over 2 million viewers are coming up on Dragon Ball Super later this summer and GOOD LUCK getting even a million at 11:30 with the Samurai stuck at 11 PM! If I were DeMarco I would be SCRAMBLING to make a deal for a new AOT-style simuldub to replace Jack at 11 PM, but I doubt we're talking Dandy-style World Premiere. Is there anything coming up this summer that would fit the bill? We're stuck with crap ratings in June but at least that would fix July, August, and September.

But how can VRV have dubs of ANYTHING before they come on Toonami if they're dub premieres. Sure they've probably got those episodes of DBS, AOT, and HXH in SUBTITLES, but DUBBED BEFORE Toonami (or at least 8 PM on [as] in the case of DBS)? Impossible, since they ARE dub premieres! Nevertheless, I'll bet you can go there and see Lupin the 3rd Part 4 in Italian with English subtitles if you really want to!

Curiously missing are Samurai Jack (rerun), Dragon Ball Super (rerun), Attack on Titan, and Hunter x Hunter. AOT could maybe be a slot higher, but WHY is Hunter x Hunter airing at 1:30 AM? I DOUBT it will get the next marathon but that would be interesting just to see how it would do directly after 10:30 Family Guy. Then again, we already know about HXH directly after an 11 PM Family Guy: 1156K for the first episode. If the series starts a new arc, perhaps they should TRY it at 11 PM?

It did have another thing going for it: it actually had its own bumpers throughout. It's not much, but it apparently made a difference. I kinda wonder if rather than airing one show at 3 AM, every Toonami should end with a marathon of a recently finished show kinda like what they did to blow off Death Note in 2010 and Parasyte last year just before losing the rights. Sure it would be a bit more expensive, but there WAS some success in the doubled-up rerun portion which took the 4th Quarter of 2012!

It actually got yanked in Spring of 2008 after InuYasha got buried at 5 AM and that's when, at the beginning of 2008, they started switching it out for other anime reruns at first, and then just other shows. Not sure why, considering it was successful at 1 AM pretty much all of the previous year. They did mix the 12:30 show up quite a bit though. At the beginning of 2007 it was FMA, then eventually they switched that out for Death Note on Mondays (possibly in an effort to compete with Syfy's Ani-Monday), but throughout that entire year, InuYasha persisted doubled-up at 1 AM on weeknights. Weeknight anime wasn't ALL reruns, however. For a while in 2005 Thursday nights were reruns of Saturdays, but in January 2006 they finally gave anime premieres a try on weeknights at 12:30: InuYasha on Tuesday nights, Samurai Champloo on Wednesday nights, and Neon Genesis Evangelion on Thursday nights. (Mondays got reruns, FLCL followed by FMA.) IIRC Tuesday night InuYasha is the one that lasted the longest, as Samurai Champloo only had enough episodes left to cover January and February, and NGE made it through like April or May. Also in 2006, [as] tried Shin Chan premieres at 12:30 on weeknights for 2 weeks, which was quickly replaced by InuYasha reruns going back to where 2006 began with premieres, but when those reruns ran out, they began showing premiere episodes of InuYasha that hadn't yet aired on Tuesday nights! The run ended with a premiere of the final episode of InuYasha on a Thursday night watched by like 670K viewers 18-34. Oddly enough, I believe it would actually be 2010 before InuYasha's final episode would air on a Saturday night, and it would be the only time it would air on a Saturday night. (Of course the final FINAL episode of InuYasha The Final Act would air on a Saturday night, 6/13/15, to a crowd of ~381K adults 18-34.)

I actually did follow ratings before the Numbers Game bumps, around the 1999-2001 time frame for Pro Wrestling federations WCW and the WWF. At the time, you were able to go back and see how WCW was kicking WWF's ass in 1995-1998, then around late '98 the WWF managed to regain ground. Of course, WWF would be the overall winner for that in 2001, before losing to a friggin' PANDA BEAR the very next year and having to change its name/initials to WWE. It wasn't until I started watching Adult Swim in 2005 that I began to pay attention to the ratings again, and then that escalated to a hobby in 2008 when I joined the ASMB mostly to bitch about the loss of weeknight anime on [as]. But yes, indeed they conditioned us to care!

I think the bumps will change when Lupin the 3rd hits and Gundam leaves on 6/17. Maybe that will give the ratings for that night a boost, even if absolutely nothing else changes? So what if Gundam Unicorn was a ratings failure; I'm just glad I got to see it on Toonami!

This is somewhat interesting: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-friday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-2-2017.html Note "Williams Stream" at #3 and #6. I wonder if that was the on-air broadcast of the Toonami Pre-Flight MomoCon panel? If so, it won the otherwise quiet night in Men 12-34, as almost did Toonami proper on 6/3, capturing #2 (DBZ KFC), #4 (AOT), #5 (Tokyo Ghoul), and #7 (Gundam Unicorn). (Super was a 5th entry for [as] in the M12-34 top 10, placing #6.)

I doubt AIDS will make a return in SAO. Even IT won't troll us that much, right??? :it: O0 :poop:

Yeah, that is probably more surprising than anything. I would have thought it would be the guy voiced by the late Ed Blaylock at the tail end of the first season that tries hard to exonerate Armin after the Annie Assault on Stohess fiasco, but I was wrong. I guess now I'm glad I WAS wrong, because with him not with us anymore that would have been difficult. If that guy ever shows up again, recasting him is gonna be a bitch! But I guess it's just a matter of finding his "Greg Baldwin..."

Ouch! 6/3/2017 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - #10 (+1) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.37 Estimated 18-34 - 251,000 ( 31.10% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.32 Estimated 18-49 - 410,000 ( 50.81% ) Total Viewers - 807,000 6/3/2017 DBZ Kai: Final Chapters - #6 (-1) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.54 Estimated 18-34 - 367,000 ( 43.02% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.40 Estimated 18-49 - 513,000 ( 60.14% ) Total Viewers - 853,000 6/3/2017 Attack On Titan - #11 (-1) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.45 Estimated 18-34 - 306,000 ( 46.65% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.31 Estimated 18-49 - 397,000 ( 60.52% ) Total Viewers - 656,000 6/3/2017 Tokyo Ghoul - #20 (-5) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.41 Estimated 18-34 - 279,000 ( 50.45% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.28 Estimated 18-49 - 359,000 ( 64.92% ) Total Viewers - 553,000 6/3/2017 Gundam Unicorn - #37 (-4) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.33 Estimated 18-34 - 224,000 ( 52.09% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.23 Estimated 18-49 - 295,000 ( 68.60% ) Total Viewers - 430,000 Well, now we see what the true purpose of April 1st's Rick & Morty single-episode marathon was: gauging about how well Toonami would do with a multiple-time rerun at the top. In fact, the similarities are uncanny: that episode of Rick & Morty had played for the 7th time at 11 PM that night, while this past weekend that episode of Samurai Jack was on its 6th run, first airing 3/11 at 11, then 3/15 at 10 and 2:30, then 5/27 at 11, and then 5/28 at 8. I gotta say while I don't like these results, there ARE some bright spots. For example, Gundam Unicorn DID do BETTER in Adults 18-34 than last week and STILL hasn't QUITE fallen to the level of suckery in 18-49 that Hellsing Ultimate and Gurren Lagann did, though its 430K overall viewers has to be some kind of record for a premiering show at 2 AM. The Christmas Eve JoJo's marathon came close, but those were reruns. I look at numbers like this and ask myself "how can [as] and Toonami be OK with this?" because apparently they ARE. I don't have an inkling of a clue why they would be. I think something must be done about that 8 PM Dragon Ball Super premiere. It's clearly choking off the potential of the rest of the block by making the 11:30 PM airing a rerun. Even when Samurai Jack premieres were still ahead of it, it was clear that it wasn't doing as well and Kai had a hard time recovering from that. They oughta just run the same episode twice in a row at 8 PM like they did on 5/27 and go from there. Hopefully renegotiations with Toei are taking place now if that's what it takes. This all just begs the question: why not dub premiere at 11? Toonami fought hard to get those timeslots back and it's just such a shame to see them going to waste! Hopefully they've got an answer soon. In the meantime, Jack reruns should be at 2:30 AM and bump everything else up starting on 6/17, which would mean that after all Lupin actually gets to air at 1:30! Believe it or not, I think another thing that would help is giving TOM back his voice in the intro. I get that SARA must remain silent or talk suspiciously offscreen since she has a mouth now but voice-overs for TOM would be a trivial matter and would probably boost curiosity at 11 PM, raising the slot by about 100K-200K total viewers. Also, why do the vignettes not air in that timeslot? The way to get people to watch reruns is to show them something they haven't seen before, even if just for a few minutes. The major content of the night should be airing at 11:15 PM, except perhaps in the case of large music videos. Maybe even then they could show a snippet of them, and then say "to see more, keep watching Toonami!," but I digress. A video game review, "Better Cartoon Show" custom video, or new show promo should definitely air during that Samurai Jack rerun. Also, have you noticed the bumps were exactly the same as what aired on 3/11? Bad form, Toonami, BAD FORM!

Plus, let's not forget he's a Titan Shifter, so he's quite a bit hardier than an ordinary human. They all have healing powers similar to Eren. What I don't understand is how in the hell Bertholdt gets to grow into such a GIANT Titan when he transforms. I suppose the answer will be revealed someday though!

In my case, it's because I wouldn't watch something new unless I can give it a decent portion of my attention, and most of the time when I'm watching the stream I'm doing something else while just listening to it and glancing at it occasionally. That being said, while I don't have a Crunchyroll subscription, this WOULD be a good week to catch up on One Piece Sails On using the FUNimation now that I pay 6 bucks a month for. As for these episodes themselves, starts out fairly eh with the Madara monologue and flashbacks to Sasuke about Itachi's true intentions which aired on 1/14/17, then moves on to the AWESOME 2-episode fight between Taka and Killer B which aired on 1/21/17 and 1/28/17, then finally enters filler hell with that OTHER bubble-user (besides JJBA's Caesar) which appeared on Toonami from 2/4/17 and 2/11/17. And you know what else this means? IF the stream advances, the next hand (group of 5) of episodes will be completely lost in filler hell, from 2/18/17, 2/25/17, 3/4/17, 3/11/17, and 3/18/17.

Was just reading about Shippuden. Speak of the devil, it's its turn on the Toonami Marathon Stream, but I don't know exactly which episodes will be featured this time. We start out with Sasuke talking to Madara, so I guess it's 141-145 right now, then 146-150 later this week? I wonder why the Weekday "run" always seems to be 10 episodes behind Toonami when other shows are closer to the broadcast?

I doubt it. But it's another brick in the wall away from traditional cable toward streaming services!

I'm pretty sure the AOT simuldub is still coming out on Sunday though, right? Also, if VRV contains Anime Strike shows, then that's genius, AS LONG AS IT'S legal!

Right, right, I get that, but... See what I'm saying?

Which version are you watching? The only one I've been able to watch has the actual content relegated to a corner of the window and is speeded-up ridiculously! If you found one that runs at normal speed and fills the whole window, let me know...

Here's how I rank the 9 episodes which aired last night: #9: Shippuden - This episode REALY grinds my gears! I tried to watch it and Super simultaneously. And what the hell do those slugs do? #8: Tokyo Ghoul - Probably because I was still reeling from AOT, I'm really not sure what the hell happened in this episode, but good for the bird from the Episode 3 omake to return! #7: Ghost In The Shell - This one was never one of my faves, too much whining about wine! #6: DBZ Kai Final Chapters - Oddly enough, Mr. Satan isn't the "Satan" who got his ass kicked--it was Dabura! #5: Samurai Jack - I didn't actually watch it last night, but it was a great episode to start the new-ish season with. #4: Dragon Ball Super - Believe it or not, I really enjoyed the campy comedy and the foreboding sense that Frieza's imminent return gives! #3: Hunter x Hunter - Behold the amazing disappearing act of the Phantom Troupe and Kurapika's sorrowful rage having to be bottled up for now! #2: Attack on Titan - The most nonchalant reveal ever, but it set the stage for one HELL of a showdown next week, as Mikasa fails to prevent their transformation! #1: Gundam Unicorn - Always godly animation, cranked up a notch even higher tonight. I'd say it totally stole the show, as Full Frontal went out in a beautiful supernova!

I'm thinking more like carved an arrow into her hand, maybe with Eren's name?

Considering the original version first aired on Toonami right after 9/11/01, I can't see how it was any worse.