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Yeah, the whole "Stand user of the week" formula has gotten really tedious after more than forty episodes. Diamond is Unbreakable apparently has a more serialized plot, so I'm hoping to not get burnt out on it. The other big complaint I have with this season is that pretty much everyone except Jotaro gets character development, with Polnareff often hogging up the running time with that story about... wasn't it his girlfriend? That's another problem DiU apparently fixes.

Why do you have to come up with pedantic facts for every single thing Toonami does? It takes the fun out of everything. Anyway, the fact that they've waited this long to announce expansion alongside AoT S3 blows my mind. There's no good reason why they can't tell the audience what to expect. I guess the reason why they started waiting until closer to a show's premiere was there were sudden problems with the contract that would come up and they would have to change the date and/or time. But... come on, that shouldn't be an issue at a month out from the premiere, let alone two weeks.

Was it Paul? I know I saw him saying that the Boruto announcement "saved" Toonami. But even if he did, he's probably not as judgmental as AnimeSavior, who blocks anyone remotely critical (even jokingly so) of the Sword Art Onlines.

I don't think the last music video ("Ferromagnetic Flow") had any PPTP clips, but the semi-recent "Growing" speech did, and I think what they used fit well. Unfortunately, I agree. The recent storyline with the King playing board games has been almost torturously boring, although I think the most recent episode improved things a little bit. Still, if I ever want to rewatch Chimera Ant, I'll probably skip really big chunks of it.

From an objective standpoint where "mistakes" directly lead to the block being damaged, the only one Toonami made was doing another Month of Movies in 2014... and even then, that was part of a string of several blunders (AoT reruns, et al.) that lead to the big block cut a few weeks later. On the other hand, rag on Pop Team Epic all you want, but its ratings are A-OK. The fact that the block's numbers keep going down and yet we're about to expand to 10:00 p.m. seems to indicate that everyone is blithely ignoring current trends, and I do hate that. Now, if we're going to talk about stuff Toonami did that we personally don't like, I have a couple choices. Airing Tokyo Ghoul long after the height of its popularity wasn't a good look, especially since it was one of the few totally unique shows they aired in 2017. I also don't think they should've gone for Black Clover, regardless of the actual quality of the show. Right now, it's basically dead weight that few people care about.

You can't say PPTP did badly when we don't know how well My Zero Academia's retention was. Honestly, I'm surprised this thread hasn't been flooded with snide comments about that show; Jman said he didn't like it, and there were also complaints about a betrayal of its premise. You guys can't even be consistent with scapegoating. [this is not funny]

You know, I've asked for Toonami to do at least a tiny bit more advertising outside of the block... but since the FLCL Progressive promo that aired during an NBA playoff game seemingly failed to inflate the numbers, I guess I see their logic in it now. On the other hand, I like that we're getting show announcements earlier than usual as of late, even though Viz is probably contributing more to that.

I did not read anything like that. Also, since they're airing the next part of JoJo's, shouldn't the number be five?

The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater S3E3 Recovery of an MMO Junkie #3 The iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Theater S3E4 Nichijou: My Ordinary Life #1 At this point, I barely even care. Something needs to get posted. Why it took so long is as big of a mystery as why there wasn't a web episode of CG Gekijou this week.

Or you could not watch the rerun at all, like so many other people do.

Is this the one that was previewed on Pre-Flight? If so, that's pretty surprising.

Presumably, you posted an episode discussion thread in the wrong forum. That's a pretty sane mistake.

It's official: Viz Media loves Toonami. They'll probably be at second base by the 11th. At this point, I think it's likely Megalo Box premieres in the next (early) open slot, and we get OPM S2 immediately afterward.

Wouldn't any hair he has stand up, though? It would probably be noticeable even with a notably shorter cut. Maybe the solution would be to just go bald, and wear a wig instead of normal hair... or maybe he'd settle for a hat.

It's currently in Netflix jail. On the plus side, if the show is at all transphobic, at least being able to binge all the episodes will make the discourse more tolerable.

At this point, I actually don't disagree. I went from adoring the show after the first episode, even though it leaned too much on the original, to thinking it's merely decent.

The DIO plot does completely wrap up with Part 3, so I can understand if you don't want to go further. On the other hand, I've seen praise given to every single subsequent JoJo's part, and this crazy Stand action does appeal to me, so I'm in this franchise for the long haul. For what it's worth, Diamond is Unbreakable is more of a stand-alone story compared to the first three parts. It's also much smaller in scope, being the first part to take place completely in Japan. As I've alluded to before, I wonder if Toonami viewers will be disappointed that it isn't a nation-hopping chase adventure with a gigantic scope and larger stakes.

Since the second half has a lot of artsy and experimental episodes, there's a notable difference between the two halves which makes the show as a whole more polarizing. Personally, I prefer the first half, although the "second season premiere" with all the alternate universe Dandies is my favorite episode of the whole show.

I remember Jman saying that he hated the Naruto manga's ending, having a bit to do with the shipping, and thought it invalidated a lot of what made the work great.

There was one tweet that seemed to indicate he was posting child porn to his personal blog, but it was actually just video of a children's choir singing a song with dirty lyrics. This guy has had a fucked-up sense of humor over the years, which extends to most of his filmogrophy, but he seems pretty nice, and not deserving of any of this shit coming to him. Basically, I plead the majority's response.

DeMarco has said that more non-action shows are coming... I guess we can hold him to his word on that, because he's had a good recent track record. The thing is, even though I've skipped Shippuden every week for probably a few years now, I'm actually going to give Boruto a chance. People have apparently said it's good, if only because it's not Shippuden and doesn't have the problem with endless uninteresting filler. I hope it's something refreshingly different among the anime I watch, and even compared to the rest of Toonami.

So, since my series would be animated by Kinema Citrus, if I post a synopsis of it, Toonami might get Revue Starlight... or, even better, Scorching Ping Pong Girls! At this point, there's about a 105% chance it replaces Pop Team Epic. The timeslots line up like a good, non-verbal french kiss.

The backdoor schedule is out for August 11, and it has some interesting changes: One episode of Rick and Morty replaced with an encore of the previous week's new Venture Bros., and Ballmastrz returns to airing right after Toonami with two episodes. No anime is showing yet, but that's to be expected. If they are doing expansion, they should be able to move everything up and tank Cleveland, but that would also be a strange pre-Toonami schedule. And once Cleveland leaves, they can just add another R&M and repeat the VB encore.

If Bob's does that well at 10:30, it's presumably leading into an hour of Family Guy that still gets 1.5M+ viewers. [as] is going to hold on to these show harder than ever now that they've actually lost two of them. I think the most likely candidates for an 8:30 anime rerun are Naruto: Shippuden (because obviously) and... uh, Black Clover. You might laugh and/or cringe in horror, but I still think the production companies want that show to be a hit, or at least a bigger hit than it currently is, so they'd let it play in primetime without anyone having to ask.