CaptainStarwind

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.

I'll take a crack at this. Admittedly, I don't really hate all any of what Toonami has aired, since even if the show fails in it's own merits, I can usually enjoy it as mindless fun or so bad it's goodness. I'm only considering shows from the AS era of Toonami. Top 10 1. Eureka Seven - Still my favorite anime. Admittedly the first half of the show can be a bit unenjoyable, but the show really shines through in the second half, which more than makes up for everything in my opinion. The show also has a killer soundtrack (which I have on my iPod), and is also partially responsible for introducing me to Joy Division, which is now one of my favorite bands. 2. Black Lagoon - One of Toonami's best pickups, in my opinion. With badass gunmen and over the top fights, there's nothing not to love about the show. Not recording this when it ran on Toonami is one of my biggest regrets. 3. Kill la Kill - While I wasn't too impressed when the first images of Kill la Kill came out, I was pleasantly surprised when I watched it. Insane and fun, Kill la Kill starts up crazy and doesn't stop until the very end. 4. Gurren Lagann - Really neck and neck with Kill la Kill, because I enjoy both series so much. As Kill la Kill's spiritual predecessor, Gurren Lagann starts small but end the series with giant robots throwing galaxies at each other, which is hard to beat on the insane scale. 5. Inuyasha - While I'm defnintely not rabid about it, I really do enjoy Inuyasha. Sure, it meanders and takes it's time with the plot, but I honestly find that half the fun about Inuyasha. It helps that I never really hated any of the filler for the show, with even the stupid stuff being enjoyable. I've fond memories of staying up until early in the morning in 2013 watching Inuyasha as the sun came up, and I still maintain that it's the perfect show for the 5 AM hour, should Toonami ever get those slots back. Also, much like Eureka Seven, Inuyasha has great music. 6. Samurai Champloo - One of my favorite series from ASA, the show delivered again when it aired on Toonami. It has just the right balance of action, drama, and comedy, that the series remains enjoyable throughout, and never really gets terrible. Rerun or not, the show was awesome, and I'm glad it got a run on Toonami. 7. Sym-Bionic Titan - Out of the American shows that aired on the revived Toonami, this is my favorite of the bunch. I enjoy the everything about the series, from the action scenes, to the character interactions, even down to the series being an homage to John Hughes movies. It was a good show for a time filler, too, if Toonami was able to manage their contract expirations properly. 8. Sword Art Online - Yeah, this is in my top shows. I've already outlined why I like this series already, but here it is again: I do genuinely think that Aincrad is a solid arc for the show. It's not perfect, no, and Kirito is still a Gary Stu, but it has good action, beautiful animation (one of the few universally agreed upon things about SAO), and story that I actually enjoyed. It would have been a lot better received if Aincrad was the whole show, I think. Fairy Dance is saved from total oblivion by the addition of the royally fucked up Sugou, who is deranged, psychotic, and rapey, yet he knows it and revels in it. This makes him oh so enjoyable to me, and I love it. 9. Attack on Titan - AoT was massively hyped before coming on Toonami, and in all honesty, I don't think any of that hype was mistaken. The series had solid characters, a good premise, good action, and a twist that, while I correctly guessed, was still pretty good. Had Toonami not rerun the series to death at the top of the night, it might be higher. 10. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - While I don't like it as much as the original Fullmetal Alchemist anime, FMAB is still an excellent show, and was probably the best show on the lineup when Toonami was first revived. Admittedly, Toonami did spam the show quite a bit, and I'm pretty sure it didn't get a break at all from when Toonami was revived all the way to when it left the block in 2014. Regardless, the show was fun to watch. Bottom 10: 10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - This one, admittedly, boils down more to my own personal tastes than the actual quality of the show. I dislike CGI (see #8), which is one strike against it. I also really don't like any prequel stuff in Star Wars, even though this The Clone Wars, admittedly, did it really well, and made it seem exciting, and not terrible. The show replaced a slot of Inuyasha at 5 AM, which I really didn't enjoy, and that was enough for me to dislike it. Finally, there was also this one guy who kept going on and on about it, saying it was the best show on Toonami and how they weren't respecting it, that I grew to hate it intensely. 9. Beware the Batman - I'll be completely honest: I hate CGI. I truly hate it. I'm not denying the fact that CGI can look great, but I hate how practically all of western animation has switched to using CGI. You won't find any American made animated movie that uses anything other than CGI. I want to see traditionally drawn movies again, not anymore CGI bullshit. Of course, Beware the Batman being CGI isn't the only strike against it. Gotham in the series felt empty. It felt like there was nobody living there. The series also didn't have any of the classic Batman villains, instead going for his B-List villains. While a neat idea in theory, it was executed poorly, and it didn't work for the series. In the end, I'll take B:TAS over Beware the Batman anyday. 8. Dimension W - My dislike of Dimension W really stems from how much potential the series had. When it was first announced, and I first looked into the series, it made it seem like the series would be some sort of conspiracy detective action series: Kyouma would find Mira and do his jobs with her, all while some sort of conspiracy with the New Tesla Company would unfold, with Kyouma and Mira slowly picking up evidence about what's going on. That series would have been awesome. Instead, we get a couple episodes of intrigue, and 10 episodes of the plot going really nowhere, with nothing changing and no consequences happening because of the events they went through. Couple this with a watersports fetish scene that feels like it was meant for Rule 34, and that's Dimension W in a nutshell. 7. Blue Exorcist - Much like Dimension W, this series really had so much going for it at first. It looked like it was going to be an awesome series about the main characters fighting demons and Satan, but what it turned out to be was more or less was series depicted everything the main BUT fight demons. Also don't get me started on the anime only part. I'm still reeling to understand why they decided to go the consensual Rosemary's Baby route with the show, or how any of the hell Satan unleashed on Earth was supposed to bring the Assiah and Gehenna closer. 6. Tenchi Muyo GXP: This series pretty much speaks for itself. It's unfunny, unentertaining, and it features none of (save a single episode) the characters from Tenchi Muyo that I liked. This never should have been on Toonami. 5. Samurai 7: I didn't really find Samurai 7 to be a bad series, but it definitely wasn't traditional Toonami fare. It was relatively slow moving, and it seemed incredibly dramatic: only Kikuchiyo really seemed to provide any sort of comedic moments. The show also seemed really out of place on Toonami, especially considering that soon after it was picked up, Toonami got the 6 hour expansion, and the block seemed to have more lighthearted action fare. 4. Naruto: Shippuden - Shippuden on Toonami has annoyed me to no end. Naruto itself wasn't exactly the pinnacle of fine writing, but the series had (what I thought) a good story, had good pacing, and had interesting characters. I was admittedly excited when Shippuden started on Toonami, though a lot of that was all the excitement surrounding Toonami around 2013-2014. Since then, Shippuden has been shown to have shit pacing, randomly placed and stupid fillers, and an ungodly annoying fanbase that is best personified in that of Applecountry, who may or may not have been a troll. The fact that the Toonami airings are so far behind the dubs really isn't helping, and in my opinion, they should just take Shippuden off Toonami and replace it with something else, or at the very least, advance it to somewhere near where the dub is at. 3. Akame ga Kill - I don't care how enjoyably edgelord Akame ga Kill was, this series is still shit. The series jettisoned it's story in favor of being bloody and gory, and would introduce characters, and give them backstory, just to be killed off in the same episode. Plot was never a main concern for Akame ga Kill: just show more gore, more blood and action, and it'll all be fine. While the show was definitely enjoyable if you didn't think about it, I can't really call it a good Toonami series. 2. Sword Art Online - Yep, it's on here again, specifically Season 2. In contrast to season 1, which had a genuinely decent first arc and a batshit insane villain in the second arc, SAO II doesn't really have anything that makes it stand out. It just seems really generic. And that's not even including their attempts to resolve PTSD with rape and little girls saying "Thank You!", or their attempts to gain sympathy points by giving a filler girl that I don't care about AIDS. The only really funny part of the season was when Klein found that pretty girl in the dungeon who transformed and turned out to the Thor. Other than that, SAO II was a poor follow up to the first series. 1. King Star King - Everyone knew this was going to be Number 1 on the list. King Star King had absolutely no place being on Toonami, even if it was just for filler. The series was just filler. It's dumb, it's gross, it's crass, it's insane: it's typical Adult Swim drug induced fare. And had I seen it on regular Adult Swim, I probably would not have minded it so much. Because that's where it belongs: Adult Swim. Not Toonami.