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Well, no real surprises here. I knew they wouldn’t leave IFG hanging, and the double Kai makes sense given it’s significant pace increase on Rewind and their strange refusal to remove it from Saturday or just return the block to 6 slots. Knowing their mannerisms I knew nothing new would start this late in the year. Logically, MHA S7 drops as our new lead show the first week of January. Who knows what the future for Daima is, hopefully not Toonami.

Ok but we are kinda at the halfway point of the show. If it’s gonna do that, it doesn’t have much time to. I’ll admit, so far its ratings have been decent so it might actually earn an S2 if those hold, but when you get 10 episodes you need to work around 10 episodes. This is one of the big complaints I see that I actually don’t share. It’s one of the few cartoon elements the show is embracing, rather than sticking to “realistic” anime style designs. I don’t care that the 8 year old is jacked like he was fed pure protein at birth, it’s supposed to be a cartoon. My one design complaint is there seems to be some inconsistency with Andy. Early promo art made her look like a grade schooler, where in the show I guess she is an adult? I’m still not 100% sure. She had a job so I assume yes, but the show hasn’t really been clear on the matter. It makes it hard to decide if this show is a kid living their dream or an adult breaking free of the drudgery of adulthood.

Given people’s very limited bubble of information when it comes to anime, I just think it would be funny to trick the uninformed into watching the show. Remember how absolutely unhinged people got over a little off screen goblin action in Goblin Slayer? A lot of anime fans have never left the safety bubble of entry level slop. I don’t mind the tropes, when they are in their original homes or borrowed in a creative way. This show is supposed to be about wrestling, yet it’s 95% DBZ fights that end with a wrestling finisher. Creator obviously wanted to churn out another western anime clone but that wouldn’t fly at the pitch meeting so he tacked on the wrestling aspect. It’s like how the Aqua Teens were detectives to get the pitch approved.

Oh ho ho yes, now this is where the entertainment happens. Western creator is immediately busted for their copy and paste work from anime (because it’s always the same anime they copy from so people can immediately sniff out the scenes) and immediately goes to social media to damage control. And of course, they never get it. The issue isn’t liking anime, it’s that YOUR show, distinctly not anime, is just a compilation of iconic anime scenes and tropes and has no identity of its own. They aren’t roasting anime, they are roasting the staff.

I will caution that there is something wrong with Spoiler TV in recent weeks. The ratings they show is ONLY the 18-49 share, not the full numbers. OP didn’t chart so it may still be that low, but it also could be 70-80k 18-49 with enough in other demos to break 100k total. That said, the BE rerun was obviously a moronic choice. OP pretty consistently made the chart, close to the bottom, but making it. Now it has a rerun in front of it which is pushing it just low enough to miss the chart. Hopefully the Friday schedule update comes with some kind of shuffle that moves BE down with the other reruns where it belongs.

They might just be stalling till next year for the budget reset to get the next season. A costly way to stall though since it’s gonna eat up a lot of Kai. Or maybe they just decided the Rewind experiment is was not worth continuing on and they are exhausting what’s left of the licenses they bought before winding it down.

Tonight on Mashle

So it ended up being kinda low key, but the Daima theater premier came and went without any type of news regarding the home for the rest of the dub. We need a schedule update by next Friday so we will see if they managed anything. We also may be getting a Rewind update unless SM is just gonna slide ride into S2. Perhaps my Daima premier on Rewind theory will come to fruition.

“Almost” threatened to. Ok, so they didn’t actually do it then. He should be glad they didn’t blacklist him for that shitty fairy tales show.

The most recent season of Demon Slayer should be here too. It’s only 8 episodes so it won’t be hard to fit in. Also, if we can swing MHA, we should still be able to swing Fire Force too. Demarco barely knows anything about current anime, I highly doubt he is up to date on current VA drama. But on that topic, Crunchyroll doesn’t give us shit anyway so what’s the worry? Come on, that’s not a fair prediction to make. That’s like saying the sun will rise tomorrow. According to the most recent panel, the show is basically already done. Finish up the voice work, cross some T’s and it should be ready to roll so February sounds right. That will carry it to mid May just like Kamui did this year. Uzumaki should be a lesson that more time does not result in a better end product.

And that’s why Mash lifts this and you have to use the pink weights

True, but the problem we have with Spoiler TV is their chart is for the entire week. So Toonami numbers have to compete with multiple slots on Fox clocking in 10mil+ viewers. The election won’t be any actual competition for Toonami, just competition for getting reported numbers. But, so long as SotB sticks with it, that’s not a problem. At least for IFG, he didn’t report One Piece this week for some reason.

I really don’t think this thing has another season in it, or even had hope for one in the first place. Seeing the staff talk about it just reeks of them knowing this is a contractual burnoff and nothing more. Max numbers are not likely to improve after the first week. The only saving grace I could see is if this show can rival MAWS in linear viewership and hit a 250k or so at least one time. Not impossible, but considering I haven’t seen much enthusiasm for the show after people got a 2 episode taster, I don’t think it’s going to impress, especially as we approach the holidays. In order to smoosh the whole show into 2024, it’s gonna need at least two more double ups, or they do a 3 episode blowout for the finale. Which lands in some of the least ideal TV time.

Just IFG 12 - 191/0.11 12:30 - 148 0.08 By late 2024 Toonami standards, 0.11 ain’t too shabby. We will see if that can carry on into the rest of the episodes. Next weeks numbers is where things might get hard to find because of the election coverage. Hopefully SotB sticks with them.

This about sums it up for me. It’s maybe 5% original ideas, the rest are just overused anime tropes and Member Berries shit. Once I saw the Bebop crew and heard a legally distinct You Say Run I knew for sure this wasn’t going to offer anything at all worth watching. This is where western animation tends to fumble. Too much reliance on a millennial audience pointing and clapping at references to millennialcore anime. MAWS is guilty of it too, but to a lesser extent since it had its extensive Superman repertoire of content to pull from. I don’t know if this will be the gimmick, but it’s not even wrestling. It’s DBZ fights where the MC eventually pulls out an actual wrestling move for the W. Can’t imagine many wrestling fans are gonna get roped in.

“So Toonamiguy, your TV Y7 children’s show is about to air very early in the day on Nickelodeon, right after SpongeBob. What were your inspirations when making this show?” Well you see, I love anime, always have for a long time. My main inspiration for this show for children was one of my all time anime favorites, Redo of Healer. “Oh, I have never heard of that one before, usually people I interview say something like DBZ or Sailor Moon! I’ll have to check that one out myself to see what it’s all about! I’d also encourage my millions of viewers to check it out as well!”

Yea but that’s never the case for these people. The only anime they know is DBZ, Sailor Moon, Naruto and whatever the current FotM Jump series is. Whatever they watched on Toonami as a kid and whatever is reaching them through heavy cultural osmosis. And that’s why their final products always suck because they just rip from those 3 shows every single time. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, anyone with an actual decent lineup of anime inspiration would never try to make fake western anime in the first place.

Smarter money would have been waiting another month to see if anything with Daima or MHA materializes in November. Clarify what exactly “half rerun” means. I’m seeing that on One Piece which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense since these are premier episodes.

So Zaslav, who was not in power during two of the four delays, is somehow fully to blame? That math ain’t mathin’

Interesting chart, I’m not surprised Rick’s popularity dominated in the US, nor am I surprised it’s interest cratered going into September. While I have seen Alya in seasonal lineups, I haven’t heard much more from it than that, so seeing it as such a big deal is surprising. On the flip side, despite generating instant memes, Nokotan does not seem held much western interest besides keeping its OP playing rent free in heads across the nation. Makeine is something I expected to be western audience repellent, so I’m very surprised to see that able to land itself a distinct home edging over into the blue territory. And as we come to expect every season, among the isekai or psuedo isekai the season drops out, a couple of them manage to claw their way to moderate relevance, but more in Japan than the US. Will Isekai stock ever drop?

I was thinking of this too. All the oldies are either gone or ascended well above AS. The Adult Swim he left is not the Adult Swim that exists now. Would not be surprised if when told Andy Merril would be doing a project for them, multiple people on the staff said “who?” I do agree, trying to pivot outrage to AS is a bad move. There is only so much AS can do for him. That’s how it goes when you are fresh meat with no clout. Do the job or get replaced. Even moreso 20 years ago. The voice game is a competitive market though, there is no shortage of people praying you call out sick so they can take your spot and get their shot at the big time. It’s funny to think that there is an upcoming generation of little girls who will remember his voice as Scratch the ghost rather than Shake the master. See, that’s the kind of stuff I’d think he could easily leverage for work elsewhere. The fact that he can’t leads me to believe his hand in it wasn’t that significant. One of those guys who was in the room at the time, but not really helping in any meaningful way. Like I said, I wish better for him, but given what we see, it kinda looks like there are some Andy problems rather than industry problems that are keeping him out of the business. At the end of the day, it’s not the money a project makes, it’s who you know and how you leverage it. Rockstar wanted the real gangster sound, so they went to Compton instead of Hollywood. West and Dimaggio signed onto a project with one of the most elite names in the animation industry and I’m sure that comes with its fair share of perks. As for as leverage goes, we saw it just a few years ago with DiMaggio. Oh, you want to make another half cooked season of Futurama? Put some more zeroes on ALL of our checks or we aren’t doing it. You know no one will watch that garbage if I’m not Bender, so hop to it. And they got exactly what they wanted because he was right. Gotta always be building your brand.

Even if it was a consistent thing, there is no way a reasonable person would assume that’s something you could have as your only source of income. I’d be shocked if those 12 segments even covered a months worth of rent. Checkered Past updates it’s bumpers seasonally, so best cast scenario is he would have been doing 4 refreshes per year. It would be like if Blum treated TOM as his only job. On a regular schedule month, it’s maybe 2 record sessions per month. Probably a nice little bonus in his account, but not making a dent in bills either. I do hope Andy figures something out to save himself from the Amazon machine, but we have seen his struggles for awhile now and there isn’t much more to suggest. Asking around on Twitter is a start but I think a more 2024 approach would be hunting down ground floor internet projects and trying to get involved. Stuff like that needs everything it can get in its formative months, and getting noticed in the sea of them could be as simple as “haha that’s Brak voicing that character”.

Voice work is something you have to be very persistent on and a preparedness to take on a lot of bit parts. Snyder spent a lot of time on AS projects. It wasn’t till two years ago that he broke into that sweet Disney money. I feel like Andy has the fame and respect needed to leverage his name onto internet projects. A lot of young newcomers would love having what many consider a founder of Adult Swim on their project. Build from there. He could do a ton of portfolio building on Newgrounds. Not making a lot of money there, but he isn’t making a lot of money doing nothing either.

Mashle is a good strike zone. It’s not completely unheard of, or total seasonal garbage. It’s in a good window of being decent but also not super popular so a lot of the audience will not have seen it before. Plenty more shows like that exist in the Aniplex and Sentai catalog. Im still fuming over Blue Exorcist. I don’t care if it might lead to new seasons, there was no reason at all to go back to what previously aired when Aniplex had plenty of other options on the table. I really don’t like the lingering prospect that now exists that when they can’t find a show, they just grab something they aired a decade ago. Imagine having to do over 5 seasons of SAO. I really don’t know what he was expecting here. I like Andy and I wish better for him, but his singular claim to fame is voicing a very niche character on AS nearly 25 years ago. Him, as well as many fans, seems to think that should just magically be employment forever. Did he ever try to get into any other voice or acting work? You have Dana Snyder from the same time period who shot his voice out everywhere and that paid off over the years. All we ever hear from Andy is Brak this and Brak that. Is the same way with Carey Means. Adult Swim isn’t responsible for keeping him employed when the one show he did a voice for got cancelled. But the fanbase thinks AS should be crucified for not doing so.

Linear TV dying is why the block can’t get over 400k anymore. Nothing can be done about that. The block sucking hot dong is why it’s turning in 5 digits. Owl is right, Toonami could survive in the current climate if they would put some money into it. Forcing the block on air where 4 of its 7 shows are reruns is not how they keep it going. Aniplex is willing to work with them and Sentai presumably is. They COULD have a stocked block with competitive ratings, but they choose not. So if you look at Toonami ratings in the toilet, they are there because that’s where they choose for them to be.