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Yep, this is DEFINITELY the final streaming run, as all episodes expire on either February 5th or 6th. But we've got one last run-through of 21-24, beginning right now!! EPISODE 21: INCOMPLETE Evil Ryuko (wearing Junketsu) kissing Nui. Yuck! And she makes short work of Nonon's mega shells!

Tomorrow (Friday 2/3/17) after Pre-Flight debuts a new episode, we FINALLY have the first 8-show Toonami lineup of 2017 streaming for free! Here's what you can expect to see: 1. Dragonball Super #1 - A Peacetime Reward: Who Gets the 100,000,000 Zeni? - TV-PGDV 2. Dragonball Z Kai (Final Chapters) #99 - Seven Years Later! Starting Today, Gohan is a High School Student - TV-PGLV 3. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #11 - The Game Master - TV-MAV (broadcast and personal) 4. Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096 #1 - Departure 0096 - TV-PGLV 5. Hunter x Hunter #33 - An Empty Threat - TV-14V 6. Naruto Shippuden #140 - Fate - TV-PG 7. One Piece #374 - Our Bodies Vanish! The Morning Sun Shines on the Nightmarish Island! - TV-PGLV 8. One Punch Man #9 - Unyielding Justice - TV-14V It all begins streaming tomorrow on www.adultswim.com/videos/streams/toonami, so watch and enjoy!

And you can watch the end of KILL la KILL right now (last 4 episodes) now on the marathon stream! Man, Mako's got issues!

Looks like they fixed the problem. Episodes 21-24 are streaming now through 6:30 PM tomorrow! Yes, at some point tomorrow afternoon I'll be hosting the "watch-and-discuss"! Edit: turns out the sequence starts with Episode 20 again, so you really get 20-24 right now. Enjoy the badly animated boobies and awesome action!

Why does this not surprise me?

Well, looks like they screwed up. It's still episodes 16-20 streaming right now on the marathon stream. That's good if you still wanted a chance to catch those episodes, but if the show's days are numbered in which Toonami still has the rights, lotsa luck catching the last 4 episodes now!

Last one for now is... EPISODE 20: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD Have I ever mentioned how amazing the insert songs are in this episode? And they're both in English! Sorry, Mako, I'm afraid that won't work... And looks like that's all for now! LATER, for 21-24!

Who's the bomb? Satsuki's the bomb! EPISODE 19: RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD Gamagoori might need to comb his hair after this: She vows to never wear Senketsu again!

EPISODE 17: TELL ME WHY BAM!!! I still remember what a shock that was the first time I saw it! EPISODE 18: INTO THE NIGHT SO MANY shocking twists in this episode, it would make M. Night Shamalamadingdong proud! INCLUDING Nui's doppleganger storm and Ryuko's surprising new abilities, including this... And this...

Last chance to see Episodes 16-20 on the stream begins NOW with Episode 16! Just don't let it leave a bad taste in your mouth...

I do remember that, but that's not quite right. Star Wars: TCW started at midnight, and Bleach followed afterward at 12:30 in Spring 2009. This was also an expansion back of ASA from 1-6 AM. Of course, that was proven to be a dumb move since Bleach always outrated Clone Wars in Adults 18-34, famously capturing both the #1 and #2 spots on Adult Swim Saturday nights for 5 weeks running. (In those days, comedies like Boondocks competed handily). It was tried at Midnight in July briefly (with Clone Wars at 1:30) before being moved back to 12:30 by August. It wouldn't be until FMA:B premiered in Spring 2010 that the midnight slot would become a straight action slot (and it hasn't changed ever since!)

Sketch, do you mean "peaked" as in "reached its highest point?" Because that's how you spell that. "Pique" is used like "that piqued my interest." You may normally be right about Naruto but in this case I might have to doubt you. Whenever the peak was at 2 AM it was definitely high enough to send the first 25 minutes to a higher number of total viewers than had watched since 12:30. It has been shown that while the 30-minute timeslot averages often drop from one another with few exceptions (hence "retention rate" instead of "growth rate"), if you were to see how each 5-minute micro-timeframe does, it would be more like a roller-coaster ride with plenty of relative peaks and valleys. But if you're correct, then the valley at the end of Gundam would be much lower than the posted number and the one that begins Hunter x Hunter to boot. But maybe not THAT much lower, since its peak couldn't have been that much higher since JoJo only averaged 866K. Gundam, averaging 797K, probably inherited about 825K from the end of JoJo during its first 5 minutes, but then fell to more like 725K at its end (probably not uniformly, but with a greater drop-off in the last 15 mintues), while Hunter x Hunter probably inherited about 700K from Gundam but then grew to more like 900K by the end, setting the stage for Naruto's 819K average as it trended down throughout the episode to 647K by the end for the video. So you could definitely argue that even though HxH lost viewers from Gundam, it set the trend back toward gaining after the previous 4 shows had lost them. Based on that, it may be that the show most responsible for an uptick is the one before... ...but then again if that's the case, than One-Punch Man's impressive 0.7% growth over One Piece (3.1% in Adults 18-49) was not on its own merits, but One Piece. But could this really be the case? Could it be that One Piece DID indeed peak late since people getting home from bars and whatnot tune in for what they missed last summer/fall on One-Punch Man? If they tuned in early, then that means that One Piece reaps the benefits of showing a growing trend over the course of the episode, but that trend can't be attributed to desire to want to watch that show, but the one after. So the calculus of patterns of viewership leads to some interesting phenomena.

What the HELL!? A retention rate of 82% is not "terrible", certainly not worthy of outright cancellation! Besides, what the hell would you replace it with? Yes, I realize it will be DISPLACED by Samurai Jack, but that isn't the same thing. Besides, its 18-49 retention rate is what really matters, and THAT was 87%!

I'd blame that video more so than One Piece. It actually GAINED on the video by 1K in 18-49! Also, January 2017 did just barely edge out January 2015's 11:30 PM-3:30 AM time frame by 1K (797K-796K) and beat the 18-49 rather handily (478K-427K), so I don't anticipate Toonami will get hurt this year as it was in February 2015. However, it is important to note that 2016 made the 12-3:30 AM time frame of both 2015 and 2017 its bitch!

Well, here's the "data dump" post you knew was coming eventually! : o http://programminginsider.com/ratings/final-nationals/saturday-final-nationals-college-basketball-matchup-kansas-kentucky-espn-outdraws-nba-clippers-warriors-abc/ 6:00 PM Cartoon Network - Rio 1,184,000 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 851,000 (71.88%) 8:30 PM Samurai Jack 601,000 (70.62%) 11:00 PM Family Guy 1,423,000 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 1,158,000 (81.38%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 1,038,000 (89.64%) 12:30 AM JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 866,000 (83.43%) 1:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 797,000 (92.03%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 779,000 (97.74%) 2:00 AM Naruto: Shippuden 786,167 (100.92%) (1st 25 minutes at 814K; last 5 minutes at 647K) 2:30 AM One Piece 627,000 (79.75%) 3:00 AM One-Punch Man 671,000 (107.02%) TOONAMI TOTAL VIEWERS AVERAGE - 840,271 ADULTS 18-49 RETENTION 8:00 PM Dragon Ball Super 417,000 8:30 PM Samurai Jack 313,000 (75.06%) 11:00 PM Family Guy 808,000 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 702,000 (86.88%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 634,000 (90.31%) 12:30 AM JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 487,000 (76.81%) 1:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 457,000 (93.84%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 442,000 (96.72%) 2:00 AM Naruto: Shippuden 440,000 (99.55%) (1st 25 minutes at 453K; last 5 minutes at 375K) 2:30 AM One Piece 376,000 (85.45%) 3:00 AM One-Punch Man 416,000 (110.64%) ADULTS 18-49 TOONAMI AVERAGE - 494,250 CURRENT SHOW AVERAGES Total Viewers Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 906,000 (4 episodes) Samurai Jack Rerun (8:30 PM) - 640,000 (3 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 1,201,000 (4 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 1,074,250 (4 episodes) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - 961,214 (14 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 752,750 (4 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 878,361 (36 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 881,388 (143 episodes) One Piece - 795,661 (171 episodes) One Punch Man Rerun - 625,167 (12 episodes) Adults 18-49 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM, Partial Estimate) - 436,500 (4 episodes) Samurai Jack Rerun (8:30, Partial Estimate) - 295,667 (3 episodes) Dragon Ball Super (11:30 PM) - 717,250 (4 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 640,250 (4 episodes) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - 579,571 (14 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 446,250 (4 episodes) Hunter × Hunter - 517,306 (36 episodes) Naruto: Shippuden - 487,188 (126 episodes) One Piece - 432,690 (126 episodes) One Punch Man Rerun - 382,750 (12 episodes) Adults 18-34 (Estimated) Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - 303,667 (3 episodes) Dragon Ball Z Kai: Final Chapters - 436,500 (4 episodes) Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - 385,500 (14 episodes) Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn - 302,250 (4 episodes) Note what happened with Naruto: Shippuden. Its timeslot was actually occupied by both the show proper and the video, so it turns out the 814K reported by TVBTN was only for the first 25 minutes of the timeslot, not the 5 minutes devoted to the video. The numbers listed above average the two slots together with proper weight. As a result, while Naruto Shippuden may have gained on its lead-in with adults 18-49, the 2 AM 30-minute timeslot did not. Not a bad week; now let's keep trending upward! 8)

Toonami pretty much won all of its timeslots for the most part. I suppose you COULD argue that the first 6 minutes of Gundam Unicorn lost to Friends on NAN, and that we don't know if OP beat its NAN counterpart (and we probably never will), but that's splitting hairs!

A little bit more information: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/saturday-cable-ratings-jan-28-2017/ 11:30 PM Dragon Ball Super 1,158,000 (81.38%) 12:00 AM DBZ Kai: The Final Chapters 1,038,000 (89.64%) 12:30 AM JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 866,000 (83.43%) 1:00 AM Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 797,000 (92.03%) 1:30 AM Hunter × Hunter 779,000 (97.74%) 2:00 AM Naruto: Shippuden 814,000 (104.49%) Amazingly, Naruto: Shippuden actually gained greatly on Hunter × Hunter in both total viewers and Adults 18-49, even only falling 3 spots shy of Gundam Unicorn! Behold the power of Killer Bee! Unfortunately, One Piece bombed after that and of course One-Punch Man was ineligible to appear in this Top 100 since TVBTN considers their broadcast day from 3 AM one night to 3 AM the following night. Dragon Ball Super at 8 PM unfortunately lost a little from its CN movie lead-in Rio, which is bad for a dub premiere, and a DBZ one at that. I believe [as] would do well to replace it with an encore of Toonami's 11:30 PM premiere, since it's really not doing that much better than DBZ Kai did in that timeslot (906K vs. 773K) and that would benefit Toonami as a whole better than this arrangement. But we'll see more data later on!

You DO realize ASA is technically back at 8 PM-9 PM, right??

RATINGS TUESDAY!!! First, a look back at last week: 1/21/2017 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - #58 Adults 18-34 Rating - N/A Estimated 18-34 - #VALUE! ( #VALUE! ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.28 Estimated 18-49 - 359,000 ( 51.29% ) Total Viewers - 700,000 1/21/2017 DBZ Kai: Final Chapters - #20 Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.53 Estimated 18-34 - 360,000 ( 38.92% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.43 Estimated 18-49 - 551,000 ( 59.57% ) Total Viewers - 925,000 1/21/2017 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - #36 Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.41 Estimated 18-34 - 279,000 ( 36.71% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.34 Estimated 18-49 - 436,000 ( 57.37% ) Total Viewers - 760,000 1/21/2017 Gundam Unicorn - #50 Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.38 Estimated 18-34 - 258,000 ( 39.81% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.30 Estimated 18-49 - 385,000 ( 59.41% ) Total Viewers - 648,000 P.U.! Hopefully things improved this week, right? Well, I'm happy to report that they DID, though not by as much as I had hoped: 1/28/2017 Dragon Ball Super (8 PM) - #16 (UP 42) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.39 Estimated 18-34 - 265,000 ( 31.14% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.32 Estimated 18-49 - 410,000 ( 48.18% ) Total Viewers - 851,000 1/28/2017 DBZ Kai: Final Chapters - #2 (UP 18) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.64 Estimated 18-34 - 435,000 ( 41.91% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.49 Estimated 18-49 - 628,000 ( 60.50% ) Total Viewers - 1,038,000 1/28/2017 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - #6 (UP 30) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.48 Estimated 18-34 - 326,000 ( 37.64% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.38 Estimated 18-49 - 487,000 ( 56.24% ) Total Viewers - 866,000 1/28/2017 Gundam Unicorn - #8 (UP 42) Adults 18-34 Rating - 0.45 Estimated 18-34 - 306,000 ( 38.39% ) Adults 18-49 Rating - 0.36 Estimated 18-49 - 462,000 ( 57.97% ) Total Viewers - 797,000 Not to mention that Toonami pretty much lorded over everything that wasn't College Basketball in Men 12-34. Not a bad night so far, but we'll find out how well 11:30 Super and everything after Gundam did in a little while!

Donald Trump is the correct answer to absolutely nothing. He's thrown us back into Nixon's America circa 1971. But I digress. Let's talk TRENDING, shall we?? http://toonamifaithful.com/toonami-trending-rundown-for-january-28-29-2017/ United States Trends: Toonami [#4] #DragonBallSuper [#1] #SamuraiJack [#7] #DBZKai [#1] #JoJosBizarreAdventure [#5] #GundamUnicorn [#2] #HunterXHunter [#2] #Shippuden [#1] #OnePiece [#1] Zoro (From One Piece, also during the West Coast airing) [#3] #OnePunchMan [#3] Worldwide Trends: #DragonBallSuper [#4] #OnePiece [#8] Tweet Counts: Toonami [6,100 tweets] #Toonami [3,525 tweets] #DragonBallSuper [4,730 tweets] #DBZKai [1,768 tweets] #JoJosBizarreAdventure [3,008 tweets] #GundamUnicorn [1,226 tweets] #HunterXHunter [2,496 tweets] #Shippuden [1,318 tweets] #OnePiece [5,984 tweets] Zoro (From One Piece) [6,323 tweets] But does all this translate to great ratings? We'll find out tomorrow! But even if it doesn't, a thought occurs: we might be in the point of the evolution of entertainment metrics that big trending numbers actually make up for lackluster ratings. That might explain why shows nowadays get a pass when in 2015 the bottom fell out.

Oh, that makes sense. I guess it could have been that there was some other random girl who somehow escaped the wreck, but I guess it would have to be the baby Erina saved since there were apparently no other survivors. I just didn't get from Smokey in Episode 10 that it HAD to be her! And yeah, I'm sure she was adopted by someone else and raised to be JoJo 1.5's close friend and eventually lover!

Say what you want about Akame ga KILL!!'s show quality, but considering it owns the highest debut for any Toonami show, I would NOT call it a "flop." Sure it kinda petered out toward the end, but it still averaged an impressive 1245K total viewers, 724K adults 18-49, and 494K adults 18-34. And One-Punch Man's premiere run, though short, was even more impressive in the target demos (737K/495K), AND it was GOOD. Hell, to this day its reruns still lifted the back end considerably in general.

When does Ordinal Scale come to theaters? March 9th, right? If Toonami didn't acquire KILL la KILL and SAO 2 at the same time, then theoretically SAO 2 leaves Toonami on 3/28/17, assuming it also had a 2-year deal. Now March 9th, SAO OS's premiere date is a Thursday night. I could see SAO 2 getting a similar treatment to this, with episodes 15-19 playing from 3/6-3/8/17, and 20-24 playing 3/8-3/10/17. Of course commercials for the movie would be programmed into the stream like they did for the video game the last time SAO played on the stream back in October. That would be a wise move for the branch of [as]/Toonami who runs the marathon stream!

KILL la KILL a bad anime?? I want to tell you you're wrong, but you're entitled to your opinion. However, I will let you know that it's an unpopular one!