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The worst ratings ever: so good, they're back for one more round. There's probably nowhere to go but up from here, but the whims of the TV industry are strange.

They aired the first episode, right? I didn't remember of any of the thirty seconds to a minute that I watched of it.

Between the Sky and Sea #2 And that's it. The first episode I watched of any anime this year, if you didn't already see, was Made in Abyss #4, so talk about a downgrade.

Or we could bless Toonami with the wholehearted rapey goodness of The Rising of the Shield Hero! Well, not really. But there's this huge discourse about the MC of the show having a false rape accusation put against him, so he ends up getting his comeuppance by, through a way I don't know how, getting the accuser's legal name changed to "Bitch". Also, he owns slaves. I'm regretting that I ever predicted this show to air on the block at all.

I was talking about you failing the challenge.

Zombie Land Saga #5 to #7 Is that because the site briefly died over the summer? I made a general spreadsheet of what I watched over the year, and it includes anime as well as other shows and movies. You can tell where I really started slacking and got overtaken by schoolwork, video games, and/or general apathy, but I hope it gives an idea as to my media tastes. You can find it right here.

I like your intentions, but that's not Crunchyroll's doing at all. Sentai announced the dub long before the Funiroll deal broke up and any of this started.

Apparently, this was announced during the broadcast. Extremely dope TIE, here we come.

It's more that they're the type of people who accidentally leave the TV on and activate those damn Nielsen boxes.

Even with the power of a DB Super marathon, Toonami can't crack 500K in general. This might be the new normal... but the ratings will probably kick up a little when we go back to having the best possible lead-in.

Yeah... and as mentioned elsewhere, the holidays didn't stop [as] proper from airing new episodes of The Shivering Truth. I'm not a person who wants to watch anime every week, so I'm fine with the existence of marathons. And while I wish the people who complained about them so much weren't total asswipes, I do think they have a point.

It was, although there was a brief segment where it turned into a general talk thread. In a way, you got an expanded UEMB experience in one place.

I watched the first episode of Slime Isekai and liked it, but that had more to do with its weird sense of humor. Either way, I've always assumed it'd turn into another generic isekai where the protagonist is OP as fuck, regardless of what happens along the way. You also can't call it the first such series with an androgynous MC who goes around being kind to everyone, as Knight's & Magic did it first. Heck, in an excellent coincidence, both shows are made by the same animation studio. IMO, the only shows I've watched this year that'd be candidates for a best-of list are Megalobox and Planet With, but they're not as popular as everything else, so that must be why WatchMojo completely passed 'em by.

In hindsight, I really should've let the fat fetish avatar be a warning sign.

Yeah. I really don't get this user's methodology... do they keep posting nothing but but stuff because they become aroused by the negativity? I've already posted abstract proof that marathons don't cause Toonami's momentum to be shot. I could identify explicit examples, but I'm not going to, because doing that would require more energy than it took for the other person to start the argument, and I don't want to be beneath them. So therefore, if they're just casually ignoring my proof, I'm not going to bother correcting them, because it's clear that they are going to look for every single goddamn excuse to bring down the mood of everyone posting on these boards. The OP is probably a troll. I don't care about changing their mind anymore.

Okay, I'll post one more time. Marathons don't kill momentum. If they did, Toonami wouldn't air them as much. This year has actually had fewer marathons than any for Toonami in a long time, with none for Halloween and Thanksgiving as is usually tradition, but the block's ratings have crashed due to other outside factors. I've really got to stop investing so much energy into coercing a single person's opinions.

And now you're shifting the argument back to the original point because you want any excuse to be a whiny fucking bitch. Welp, that's it. I'm not bothering with this thread anymore.

Jason has said time and time again that the only people who should ever worry about ratings are the people who program TV shows. The Toonami crew will do whatever it takes to keep the shows on the air, so in that regard, there's nothing you need to do. And Tuner has said that they're trying to stick it to the man by not relying on the Nielsen system anymore, so that particular point isn't very accurate. All you need to do is watch the shows and enjoy them, and nothing else. Is that hard to understand?

It's Santa TOM (5), you uncultured dope.

Okay, now you're clearly just using this thread as an excuse to bitch. I'm not sure if anyone cares as much about the Nielsen system ruining everything as much as you. If I had my way, all talk even remotely relating to ratings would be banned, as well as most forms of speculation.

More of Re:Zero's dub is coming in February, at least on Blu-ray. It's been finished for a while, but was delayed due to problems with the first set regarding bad picture quality. I don't know why they're waiting to post a dub that's been finished for months, but whatever. Few people care about it anymore.

Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple

If you'd like, you can seek out a community for just about any show, regardless of if it's airing new episodes. Just look at all the seasonal anime going on; if you like what you see on Toonami, you can try some of those shows out and talk with either us or anyone else on Twitter and otherwise about it.

Very cool. I don't know why they keep putting non-R&M originals early on Saturdays, as pretty much every attempt to do so has ended in them being taken off after a few weeks. Remember when they tried Aqua Teen reruns at 8:30? It's nice that they're keeping Kai on Saturdays while only taking the usual holiday break. DeMarco said that and Jack would be back soon, and he damn meant it. Speaking of which, [as] is doing a weekday strip of SJ on weekdays at 8:00 starting on New Year's Eve. This and an extra half-hour of [as] originals effectively replaces the double Super block from a few months ago, while Rick and Morty moves to 11:30. The new midnight schedule will now be a half-hour of Robot Chicken followed by Aqua Teen and Squidbillies, which is nicely nostalgic to when I first started watching the network.

Well, I see it as different strokes for different folks. If you're in a more rural area, there probably isn't a lot to do, but you can go to places like the nearest bar, and maybe whatever recreation center (like a bowling alley) is nearest to you. What trips me up about this is the sheer amount of entertainment options available nowadays. You have so much anime to watch in places like Crunchyroll, HIDIVE, wherever Funimation is doing business right now, and even the more "traditional" places like Netflix. On top of that, does anyone know that Shonen Jump recently changed their whole business model so that you can read a lot of new manga chapters for free? And it only costs $2 a month to visit their entire archive of past reading material. That's kind of amazing, and nobody has any excuse to not afford it nowadays. Even though I think pretty much everyone with a job can afford CR and stuff (it's only $60 for a whole year paid at once; that's a trip to the grocery store for most people), it makes more sense to be excited for manga you can read any time and in any place instead of this bundle of cartoons delivered in an outdated way. If Toonami is the only way you consume anime, manga, and adjacent Japanese media, even though you have so many options available that are easy to access and pay for, you need to start diversifying. I might even make the jump to reading more manga soon.