CaptainStarwind

I thought you hated light novels, Ben. Making an exception for Bleach?

Experience... yeah, that's the word for it.

Y'all know my opinion on it so I'll refrain from that. I'll just be content with pretending it doesn't exist, or at least accepting it as part of an alternate reality from the first series.

All this makes me think of is that I have yet to actually buy a subscription to any streaming service.

The Eva dub? Is he fucking serious? I understand how somebody might have a problem with Eva itself, but I didn't think the dub was bad. Not perfect, mind you, but not bad. ZOMG SAO IS THE WORST THING EVER is like beating a dead horse at this point. The show has problems (aside from Lord Sugou-sempai), but it's definitely not one of the worst anime ever.

This has been a terrible week for me. I got food poisoning on Monday and had to delay coming home from a visit to Philadelphia one day longer than I would have liked. The ratings just kinda put the cherry on the shit cake for the week. I'm surprised how much Buu lost from Super; I didn't really take DBZ fans or the casuals from caring too much about continuity. Hopefully the night can be attributed to a down night overall.

Wow, this forum must fall apart without me here.

I wouldn't worry too heavily about it. At the very least, they're ignoring the filler arc, rather than trying to somehow fit that into the show.

I'm okay with this. It'll be nice to see Jack return to Toonami after it was taken off a couple years ago. It also doesn't hurt that 5 hours of Saturday night are now technically action.

Well that's good to hear, at least. I've been fearing that the anime just kind of ends, so it's nice that it does have some sort of stopping point. Better than the way Flame of Recca ended it's anime, at the least.

Super will remain top slot, there's absolutely no doubt about that. It doesn't matter if it's Attack on Titan or not: Dragon Ball has been and always will be a much bigger property, so they'll push that first. I doubt that it'll unseat Buu Saga, either, if only for the sole reason that an hour of Dragon Ball goes well together naturally. I don't believe there's any doubt at this point that AoT Season 2 will come to Toonami. It's simply a matter of when. Now if AoT comes, it has two ways of coming: it can replace something already on the block, or it can get another slot. Barring any unforeseen marathons or preemptions, JoJo should end on April 22, which opens up 12:30 as of April 29. If I'm not mistaken, AoT Season 2 begins in April, so if the show were to be simuldubbed, it's feasible that it could replace JoJo on April 29. It could also just be a standard dub premiere, or even just a US TV premiere, later in the year, such as in the summer or early fall. If AoT were to pick up a slot for Toonami, which I don't believe in likely, then most likely what would happen is Super would move to 11:00 PM and Buu Saga would go to 11:30. AoT Season 2 would air at 12:00. Depending on the actual start date for AoT Season 2, and if it is actually simuldubbed on Toonami, then that opens up the possibility that it can begin before JoJo finishes. If this is the case, I can imagine that Toonami will hold off airing new Samurai Jack until April, and just have it replace JoJo at 12:30; if AoT can't get Super out of the top slot, no way in hell Samurai Jack does. Alternatively, Toonami expands in the other direction, and AoT premieres at 12:30, pushing everything else back 30 minutes, with the block running 11:30 - 4:00. Out of all the options, I see Option 1 (AoT replaces some show) as the most likely, followed by the option where Toonami expands back into the later hours: I feel that if Adult Swim were to give Toonami more hours back, it would be the hours later in the night that they had previously, rather than the ones earlier in the night.

This pretty much sums it up. Remember: all the longer running shonens (HxH, NS, OP, DB) with the exception of JoJo are just that: long running. They're technically the same shows, so Toonami probably has the license for the entire show, then pays per episode aired. Besides, you know how much DeMarco likes a stable schedule: after the fiasco at the end of 2014, it's clear that a more stable schedule is better. Since the JoJo series consist of separate television series, Toonami has to license each one individually, so it's more likely that there can be breaks in between them. Helping that is the fact that each new arc in JoJo has a new set of characters. The breaks between arcs seem natural.

Shuffle Episode 13

Yeah this really isn't that surprising. The Toonami ratings for Shippuden and One Piece don't really show the full story. But we knew this already.

I forgot to add this the first time around: Tokyo Ghoul: Seasons 1 and 2 Added since the end of November: Hellsing Ultimate: I-IV Hellsing Ultimate: V-VIII Hellsing Ultimate: IX-X IGPX: The Complete Series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: Seasons 1 and 2 Tenchi Universe Complete Collection Tenchi in Tokyo Complete Collection The Hellsing stuff is the Blu-ray/DVD combo packs. I bought them used from a retro game store I like to go to for $18 a piece, which appears to be marginally cheaper than I could have gotten on Amazon. I haven't tested the discs yet, so lets hope they work.

Shuffle Episode 12 is loading now. Whether or not I get to that tonight or before work tomorrow remains to be seen. I'm also gonna try to continue City Hunter tomorrow, I think. I watched Episode 1 already, so next will be City Hunter Episode 2.

Shuffle Episode 11. I've been working on this show since August, and have watched more of it in the past two days than I have in the past 6 months. School can do that, I guess.

Well according to these ratings DBZ is the worst performing show on the block. Obviously it needs to go, pronto. Toonami will be better for it. In all seriousness, though, it appears even DBZ isn't immune to bad ratings on New Years Eve. Of course, being New Years Eve, it was obvious this would happen.

So what you're saying is... Dragon Ball Z really is Toonami's Family Guy now.

I much as I do like One Piece, you're entirely correct. DeMarco has proven time and again that he's willing to go to bat for One Piece, regardless of how well it does on the block. Do I think that's a terrible thing? Well, not entirely. At the end of the day, Toonami is DeMarco's block, and he can program it how he sees fit. One Piece, for all the moaning about the ratings for it, doesn't do terribly for it's slot. Personally, I think One Piece and Shippuden should be gone from the block, but that's not gonna happen, unless both of them start hemorrhaging ratings fast.

Fair enough, then. I do wish Toonami would get rid of Shippuden, especially since it's so very far behind the actual dub. Admittedly, I do find myself longing for the days of 11:30 to 6 Toonami again. If only they would have managed the back slots better perhaps we would still have them. Not a fan of AoT, I presume?

May be a bit premature, especially since I've seen only one episode of Battle Tendency, but as it stands right now I liked Phantom Blood better.

I'd actually prefer if they'd give JoJo a bit of a break before they move on to the next part. Not that I don't like JoJo, but having some other shows cycle through the lineup would be nice, too.

Well the 49ers fired Chip Kelly and Trent Baalke, so I guess they're gonna be hunting for a new Head Coach and GM during the offseason. Kelly being fired really surprised me; I figured they would give him at least one more season to turn things around. I guess his experiences with the Eagles soured the 49ers. I fully expect the 49ers next head coach to be Rex Ryan, because that's my fucking luck.

I mean, I guess that slightly better. I'm still not overly thrilled with Super coming to Toonami. I mean yeah, it'll probably be great for the block, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.