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Are you talking about Gundam IBO? Because you can't be talking about One-Punch Man. After all, its last topical even mentioned it as a "season finale", implying that Toonami already has some sort of deal on One-Punch Man 2!

Which Comedy Central show? South Park? Because that was definitely for Season 1, which did MUCH better!

Wow, that was fast! http://programminginsider.com/ratings/final-nationals/saturday-final-nationals-snl-dwayne-johnson-katy-perry-nbc-registers-best-season-finale-viewership-six-years/ SNL killed the Toonami star...well what was left over after the NBA had its way, anyway! TOTAL VIEWERS RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 866,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 1,654,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack 1,458,000 (88.15%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 1,147,000 (78.67%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 1,040,000 (90.67%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 833,000 (80.10%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 649,000 (77.91%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 583,000 (89.83%) 2:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 504,000 (86.45%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 482,000 (95.63%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 405,000 (84.02%) TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 789,000 I think it's safe to say Family Guy has found its audience at 10:30 PM. Sure, it pales in comparison to how it was doing last year or the year before, but it would probably do more harm than good to play something else at 10 or 10:30 PM at this point, meaning Toonami keeps 11 PM for now. But I wish they would figure out SOMETHING better to play there than reruns of Samurai Jack. In terms of total viewers, Shippuden actually had the best retention, followed by Kai, Hunter, Jack, and Gundam was #5. ADULTS 18-49 RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 428,000 10:30 PM Family Guy 894,000 11:00 PM Samurai Jack 865,000 (96.76%) 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 662,000 (76.53%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 615,000 (92.90%) 12:30 AM Attack on Titan Season 2 473,000 (76.91%) 1:00 AM Tokyo Ghoul 383,000 (80.97%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 333,000 (86.95%) 2:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 285,000 (85.59%) 2:30 AM Naruto: Shippuden 264,000 (92.63%) 3:00 AM Ghost In The Shell HD 233,000 (88.26%) ADULTS 18-49 TOONAMI AVERAGE - 457,000 The 18-49 ratings actually tell a quite different story. Jack was the top retainer (though nowhere close to the ridiculous 120% we saw earlier this year), Kai 2nd, Shippuden 3rd, GITS 4th, and Hunter 5th. These ratings for the 2 AM hour are lowest for the year so far but at least it HAS been worse. Hellsing Ultimate III pulled a 273K at 2 AM (duration 1 hour), and the Gundam/Shippuden combo just barely edged that out at 274.5K, but of course the difference is viewers EXPECTED those shows in their respective timeslots from the previous week, while Hellsing had just gotten bumped up to 2 AM after taking a week off for the Batman marathon, and the only way viewers knew about it was from schedule bumps and menus. And of course, things have to get a LOT worse before they get to the level of 12/13/14 or 1/10/15, unholy megabombs that featured sub-250K ratings in those timeslots. But now that we get an HOUR of Reruns at 11 PM it just MIGHT happen! And GITS rating just proves Fighting Spirit won't be coming to Toonami anytime soon. Both total viewers and Adults 18-49 were down 38% from last year (12-3:30), the largest year-to-year deficit to date. Comparing Toonami to Toonami, last week was down 24% from a year ago. All of Adult Swim was still down but not by as much (24% overall; 21% 18-49). CURRENT SHOW AVERAGES Total Viewers Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 881,789 (19 episodes) Samurai Jack - 1,361,100 (10 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 1,135,053 (19 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 1,030,900 (20 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 837,800 (5 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 737,000 (8 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 819,615 (52 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 671,000 (20 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 854,318 (159 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 513,063 (16 episodes) Adults 18-49 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM, Estimate) - 427,789 (19 episodes) Samurai Jack - 853,700 (10 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 689,105 (19 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 623,600 (20 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 500,400 (5 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 456,125 (8 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 487,885 (52 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 407,000 (20 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 474,047 (142 episodes) Ghost In The Shell HD - 316,938 (16 episodes) Adults 18-34 (Estimated) Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 275,222 (18 episodes) Samurai Jack - 569,500 (10 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 419,250 (20 episodes) Attack On Titan Season 2 - 308,400 (5 episodes) Tokyo Ghoul - 295,625 (8 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 274,800 (20 episodes) Good job, Samurai Jack! You were just barely edged out by DBZ Kai (Prior to Final Chapters) in total viewers average (1,357,531) but you beat it in Adults 18-49 by a pretty wide margin! And its 569.5K average in 18-34 beats previous champ One Punch Man's 495K by a whopping 74.5K! Meanwhile, on the other end of the spectrum, Gundam Unicorn at least manages to keep over 400K adults 18-49--for now at least. But with only 2 episodes left to go, it will take only an average of 330K for its last 2 weeks to avoid falling below that benchmark. And in adults 18-34, it's just struggling to get back over 275K at this point! The averages stay frozen next week as in the year-to-year it's Samurai vs. Samurai! It may be the 4th time these episodes of Jack will play on [as], but adding in Champloo's overplaying in 2005-2007, I'd say it's got the freshness edge on it. For the first time this year, 2017's 12-3:30 AM average might actually beat 2016's Toonami block; It will be interesting to see what happens!

I think the answer lies in Adult Swim's classic target demo, the Adults 18-34. Gundam Unicorn averaged a 308K (0.46) at 1 AM. Even compared to that, Tokyo Ghoul at 1 AM, despite a promising 408K (0.60) start, has been a special kind of stupid, failing to crack 300K (0.44) with 5 of its 8 episodes, and averaging 296K (0.43). Based on that, it should be a more attractive candidate for burial at 2 AM than its predecessor. Hell, I might even dare to move it down to 2 AM on 6/3 and let Gundam Unicorn retake 1:30 AM for its final 2 episodes. Only problem there is either AOT S2 or Tokyo Ghoul stand to be replaced by JoJo Part 3: Stardust Crusaders, and even though it was pretty poor in the ratings at 12:30 AM with Part 2: Battle Tendency, dumping it at 2 AM would be a pretty shitty thing to do to it since it's a dub premiere, but it's either it, IBO S2, Hunter x Hunter, or Lupin. SOMETHING that's a dub premiere will be dumped at 2 UNLESS one of those shows manages to take the 11 PM timeslot (or midnight after moving the DB Hour up to 11/11:30) once Samurai Jack ends its summer rerun, and I'd say the best candidate for that is JoJo Part 3. But then again, Gundam Unicorn contained more stuff that Gundam is known for than IBO, and it's been an appalling disappointment in the ratings, so we don't know for SURE that JoJo once its famous Stands are introduced would do better. Plus we don't know for SURE that IBO S2 is coming either. I mean, I kinda HOPE it is, but given the fact that Unicorn has sullied Gundam's good name with a storyline that's tougher to follow than the news despite the best visuals of any show currently on Toonami, somehow I'm doubting it. Hopefully some of these burning questions will be answered during Friday's Pre-Flight episode, which looks to be a simulcast of the panel at MomoCon!

Blame Tokyo Ghoul. I really hope it ends up at 2 AM because it's choking the potential of everything after it, including Gundam.

True, AOT's dub being the sole exception, as you have to wait a day before seeing it elsewhere. And I've said it time and time again: people won't watch Super's rerun unless they play the chief interstitial DURING Super, and they STILL haven't learned that. But given that they're intent on giving Samurai Jack an 11 PM rerun, that might be the least of our problems.

Well, Samurai Jack popped the 2nd-highest number of its run, but of course it still lost to the overrun of Golden State Warriors vs. San Antonio Spurs. And everything else is pretty much just painful to look at: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-5-20-2017.html 5/20/2017 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - #11 (-3) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.43 Estimated 18-34 - 292,000 ( 33.18% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.33 Estimated 18-49 - 423,000 ( 48.07% ) Total Viewers - 880,000 5/20/2017 Samurai Jack - #3 (-2) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.82 Estimated 18-34 - 557,000 ( 38.20% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.67 Estimated 18-49 - 859,000 ( 58.92% ) Total Viewers - 1,458,000 5/20/2017 DBZ Kai: Final Chapters - #5 (-3) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.59 Estimated 18-34 - 401,000 ( 38.56% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.48 Estimated 18-49 - 615,000 ( 59.13% ) Total Viewers - 1,040,000 5/20/2017 Attack On Titan - #10 (-4) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.42 Estimated 18-34 - 285,000 ( 34.21% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.37 Estimated 18-49 - 474,000 ( 56.90% ) Total Viewers - 833,000 5/20/2017 Tokyo Ghoul - #15 (-8) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.34 . Estimated 18-34 - 231,000 ( 35.59% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.30 Estimated 18-49 - 385,000 ( 59.32% ) Total Viewers - 649,000 5/20/2017 Gundam Unicorn - #33 (-21) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.27 Estimated 18-34 - 183,000 ( 36.31% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.22 Estimated 18-49 - 282,000 ( 55.95% ) Total Viewers - 504,000 Jack and DBZ Kai did well, and AOT did decent, actually managing its 2nd highest overall number, but Ghoul and Gundam were :poop:, plunging to scary new lows. Well at least Gundam still stayed above 500K, which Hellsing Ultimate and Gurren Lagann did not, but since they seem hell-bent on rerunning Samurai Jack and DragonBall Super back-to-back, who knows how long that will last? And of course everything got its ass kicked by ESPN and the aftermath of the monster NBA game which managed to beat Jack. Perhaps [as] should have pulled a switcheroo and played the first 9 episodes of Jack instead this week, then the finale next week with the normal lineup? I guess we'll never know how that would have done.

If you're a FUNimation NOW subscriber and haven't checked out Black Butler yet, now is a great time for a couple of reasons: FUNimation loses the rights to Season 1 on 5/31/17, so watch it while you can! After that, you'll want to watch The Book of Circus (Black Butler II is filler), since The Book of Atlantic movie hits theaters dubbed on 6/14/17 (subbed on 6/12/17)!

Did I really just watch a dude get paper cuts on his dick by humping a cardboard cutout of a woman? [yep] And on that note, I don't ever want to see an uncensored version of this episode. No me gusta ver Jon Glaser's bloody dick! [he-yump]

Yep, that's Kishimoto for you. Great at coming up with edgy concepts, but TERRIBLE at executing them!

I'm guessing that he'll most likely not do it for the next one. Bet we get a marathon of the first 9 episodes of Attack on Titan Season 2 for the first of July!

It's only been just a little over a month, but it's back on the Stream this week (5/22/17-5/26/17), this time with Episodes 11-15 until Wednesday, then maybe 16-20 the rest of the week after that! So enjoy the first part of Joseph Joestar's epic confrontation with the Pillar Men! Also, I'm doing this this time: ROUNDABOUT ROUNDUP (featured characters in each ED): Episode 10: Jonathan, Joseph, Young Speedwagon morphs into Old Speedwagon Episode 11: Same as Episode 10 Episode 12: Joseph, Von Stroheim, Santviento, Old Speedwagon Episode 13: Same as Episode 12 Episode 14: Joseph, Wamuu, Stone Esidisi, Stone Kars, Caesar, Old Speedwagon Episode 15: Same as Episode 14, except Kars and Esidisi appear unpetrified Episode 16: Joseph (with JOJO), Pillar Men, Caesar, Lisa Lisa (with Granny Erina in background) Episode 17: Same as Episode 16 Episode 18: Same as Episode 17 Episode 19: Joseph (with JOJO), Wamuu, Kars, Von Stroheim, Caesar, Lisa Lisa/Granny Erina

One last fist fight to close out the night!

That would have been an interesting direction to take things in!

Wait, he lived?

Is it just me or has the show gotten sharper, like it's made the transition from middle-D to full HD?

Apparently this show is actually an adaptation of a novel! Good quality sci-fi plot even if you don't like anime! But of course its ratings are stuck in the 500K's since it goes over the heads of most of the U.S. audience. It's like the Mr. Robot of Toonami!

No, it actually makes perfect sense to me. The thing that has the power to destabilize the world is none other than the TRUTH, and that's what Laplace's box "contained!"

I wonder what site these actual reviews are on?

Behold, Laplace's Box! You've seen it before, but where?? The ED of 11 of the first 12 episodes, of course!

The final leg of the pathway to the box...

Get In Formation!

So was that the last "Hunting For Your Dream?" http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13262 Nope, it appears we'll hear it on Toonami TV 6 more times!

This fight is incredible!

Thank goodness we have a relic of the "Golden Age" of Madhouse on Toonami that was HxH, One-Punch Man, and Parasyte last year!