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As far as I'm concerned, Star Wars is still a big franchise. It's just that being slightly less successful than before is interpreted as a cue that the sky is falling, when it's mostly just capitalists being mad they can't pad out their gluttonous ledgers. Don't think like that. I do agree with the point in the article about there being too much Star Wars shit. For a franchise that will have as many movies in four years as it did in its first twenty-five, it's easy to get burned out. We've hit peak Star Wars! No wonder Disney is cutting back on it a bit, whether it be movies, cartoons, or whatever else. Maybe you should take a break from ingesting all of these cynical takes about how the franchise is ruined forever, because there's still a lot of it to enjoy.

I had a feeling this would happen ever since Sony snapped up Funi. It's nice to see more anime on non-Toonami TV. I already saw Broly in the theater, but I might DVR the My Hero Academia movie for whenever I'm bored.

It's a joke, ya dingus. Although I guess it'd be interesting to see a manwha adaption on Toonami. I'm seeing people use this as proof of the alleged anti-Toonami conspiracy on Funi's end. Although I know what the latter could gain by censoring some pretty innocuous fanservice, I (still) don't believe it. And let's face it: based on various things DeMarco has said in the past, he could be lying.

They also put it on Crunchyroll, country of origin be damned. At least it fits better than High Guardian Spice.

I saw that! It's pretty remarkable to see a show trend without the promotional might of the licensor at play... although I guess someone at Aniplex could've paid off a Twitter staffer to give their hot new Korean cartoon a pop. This week's ratings look nice, although gen:LOCK is having the kind of decreases that'll make someone at the /co thread whip up another negative DeMarco meme. But it's also (presumably) free to air due to being under Warner's dominion, so I think it's reasonable it could be doing just as well as AoT S3.

Woah, nice picture. PUCHiM@S S1E1-E4 (partial rewatch) The Demon Girl Next Door #4

Cool, a new thread made without my involvement. I wish there weren't tee that many exclamation points in the title, but you don't have to change it. 😛 The days of great ratings from 2015 seem so long ago, although I'm glass the idea is no longer at the focus. This just goes to show that even DBZ needed the perfect storm to get that high. That episode even managed to outrage the premiere of Rick and Morty the following day! Pretty cool. And it did so with repurposed animation from the 90's, albeit with some scant new cuts. I think if the halcyon days of 2014-16 are to be remembered for one thing, it's that the block was able to get by with a little bit of everything. You had crowd pleasers like AgK mixed with more obscure stuff that managed to hit (like Michiko & Hatchin) plus not too many of the usual shonen favorites. I don't know what got stuck in DeMarco's craw to break this trend, but I'm glad we're starting to see the variety return.

The best thing I can say about the shooting in Texas was that I didn't let it get to me during Toonami time. I was more interested in winding down and watching some dumb cartoons. It wasn't until news broke of the second one in Ohio that I was mentally knocked over. 😉 And the ratings weren't even that much lower... it's just that gen:LOCK got dealt a bad hand. Some people won't break old habits.

Yeah, I think Food Wars! almost solely made it to air because of its length. DeMarco might not like the fanservice, but it's a small price to pay for being able to lock down a slot for more than a year. That being said... the fact that every episode has been rated TV-MAS so far (even if it's more fitting than what Akame got) suggests that maybe this show was acquired in a package deal, there's another one from Sentai coming, and it's going to have the S&P treatment done properly. I'd like to see that happen. [content ratings: the revenge]

While I do appreciate famous people saying they love anime, I feel like it's shallow most of the time. You always hear about athletes (and usually black ones) who got into it from the most basic series like Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and whatever else aired on Toonami in the late 90's/early 2000's. There was one NBA player I saw who said he loved One Piece, but that's as far out as I've seen. And even then, it's still a Shonen Jump property. When the hell am I going to see famous boxers and/or wrestlers say they love Megalobox? How come there aren't more actors talking about their favorite iDOLM@STER characters? Is the world not ready for more advanced discussion? Oh, and just so I'm not necrobumping this thread, we got an update: they will be cutting some stuff. Nice job to Brian for the pop. 😘

Girls' Last Tour #11 The Demon Girl Next Door #3 Symphogear S1E4/E5 Just in time for the Discotek licensing. 😀

It's definitely unfortunate. And the KyoAni fire was a big enough story to make some national news outlets (CBS aired a report of it on TV), so even some casual fans might know about it and recognize that something went wrong. Still, I don't think this will affect how well it does, because it's a good and popular show in its own right. I do wonder about the color-changing fire. I don't see America and Japan getting separate versions because that would be too much work, but they might go back and change it to the natural colors for the Blu-ray releases. Or they could leave it in, because for all we know, it'll look cooler. 😮

Here's good old ANN if you can't read the runes. I'm someone who doesn't think this will do much to assuage the trauma the animators might have, but I'm happy they're doing this.

Probably Vinland Saga.

Well, we got a lineup promo. I'm assuming this means Episode 3 comes to us after a two-week delay at worst.

The Demon Girl Next Door #2 Goddamn, this show is adorable. It doesn't seem like it's going to be popular, though.

I didn't know about this, but I don't really care. It's a small price to pay for increased exposure for any show, and if you dislike it, there's (almost) always home video.

I think DeMarco was stoned while typing that. They couldn't have been shrinking the block while still trying to get Fire Force, which probably also invalidates the Gundam move.

Announcing the show at that time was tone-deaf, but considering how close it is to airing, I don't think DeMarco had a choice. Any longer and people would be complaining (again) about how he's trying to sabotage the block. If it's going on hiatus for two weeks, they might as well not air it at all; I think CountFrylock actually has a point there. But there's really no way to tell, and I can't bring myself to a consensus on it. This is bigger than anime, and I don't mind if Toonami takes yet another ratings hit in the ensuing scramble to get the schedule fixed.

It probably had to do with the usual complaining from Toonamites. If it saved JoJo's from going way down, it could do the same for Gundam. Maybe they're still deciding on it. [2000th post, LOL]

So they aren't moving Gundam to 1, huh? 😗 Not much else I can say because this seems like the best possible move. I do wonder if that new show is big enough to air at 11:30.

It may be that the ratings are now low enough for the decreases from a usual holiday weekend to not matter anymore, which is why we've been seeing less of them than usual. And coincidentally, that must be why certain people are complaining even more than usual, as they've lost their most important vice.

Mizutama Honey Boy 11-12.5 Bokura no Hentai 4/5

KonoSuba! S1E6 and S1E7 Virtual-san Looking #7 The Demon Girl Next Door #1 I bet nobody can predict which seasonal anime I'll watch, if it all. Even I just sort of take the first show that comes to mind. 😏 [plz no bully Yuko]

Damnit Jason, why you gotta make this so hard? 😯 What really makes this strange is that he said the next Pre-Flight would have info on the block... but it didn't air this week because he's on vacation. I really don't know what they would announce less than a week in advance that isn't emergency filler, or if they're crazy enough to do so the night before.