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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.

And here's a source for that. I actually can't come to a conclusion that [as] is losing the show, if only because of what happened with Futurama where Comedy Central was still able to air it with Syfy. We'll probably know for sure within the next few weeks.

Just because you said that, I bet the ratings are gonna go even lower when AoT S3 premieres. As in, Dragon Ball Super fails to get 700K on a weekly basis.

Okay, why in the fuck is Alchemist amused at every other reply on this page?

Well, would you look at what Jason just posted... there's even an interesting bit about One Piece.

Turner has outright said they don't trust the Nielsen ratings anymore. It took me a while, but after seeing Toonami get lower and lower and yet the block was apparently still doing well enough to expand, with comments from DeMarco to compliment that, I've all but stopped trying to look for anything meaningful in the raw numbers. Looking at it from another angle, this idea seeks to spread division within the Toonami fandom, and it overrides a lot of meaningful discussion about the shows themselves. To hell with all that.

With ratings this bad, why even bother discussing them?

"Vehement hatred"? I thought that mentality only existed on the ASMB. Nowadays, if you visit Twitter, you're more likely to hear someone yelling about the new She-Ra cartoon. Really weird live-action shows are pretty far back on the list of priorities.

For some reason, I have a gut feeling that Madoka Magica is going to replace the Space Dandy rerun. Toonami could presumably manage that, even with two dub premieres ready to air the following week.

Well, the disambiguation between the first series and Z is not present in the manga. Things keep trucking along after the King Piccolo arc as if it's just business, even despite the timeskip. That's another sticking point in DB fandom... some people prefer that you read the manga, because the pacing is even better than Kai. You also don't have to worry about off-model animation.

I've said before that the easiest way to accommodate AoT would be to just expand the block, and I still think they're going to do that. Why bother with shifting most of schedule just so FLCL Progressive can finish early? Also, it'd be awful if Pop Team Epic gets moved down the week it features Hellshake Yano. FLCL Progressive's rerun would end with a gap in the schedule, but to hell with that. Just play the premiere a third time. Or... heck, they could re-air the subbed version of Alternative's premiere from April Fools' Day.

No time has been announced for it, because Toonami is really sadistic and has to make every schedule change twice as complicated as it needs to be. Whatever happened to Occam's razor? But still, get hyped. Also, do you like that most of my thread titles are done as complete sentences? I think it makes them feel more casual.

I take it you mean the ones who think DBZ is the best and most intense action show ever made? There's actually a contingent of fans who hate that idea, and love Dragon Ball because of the comedy. And note the lack of Z in that sentence, because they do love the original show and lament how it gets forgotten. Hell, some of them don't even like the idea of splitting the two anime up.

So, Nickelodeon Magazine? Except the Dragon Ball franchise has almost always been a mix of action and comedy. Saying otherwise will get you massacred by the hardcore fans. For what it's worth, a lot of them don't like what the Toonami treatment has done to their franchise.

Well, I haven't done quick thoughts in a while... My Hero Academia: IMO, Mineta isn't that bad, although I have a feeling that people only hate him so much because he's a male pervert. Either way, him and the fight he was in were the highlights of this episode, as the action was otherwise unevenly paced. Pop Team Epic: The segment where the show makes fun of itself having "too many lame parodies" is actually right on the mark for me. The Space Cat Company segments don't offer much other than banal jokes about all the different anime genres... except the show sometimes manages to screw up that up, too. Last week's "Vanver" segment is a good example; the title made it sound like it was going to be an MMO anime/isekai parody, but with how things were set up, Popuko and Pipimi could've been telling the characters of any show to shut up and do some improv. This basically means my biggest complaint about the show is that it isn't surreal enough, which is the last thing I would've expected. About the TV-MA straight, my money's on all the middle fingers earning the rating, even if they were censored. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: If there's one thing that seemingly unites people in these troubling times, it's that the voice acting in these last few episodes has been phenomenal. Doug Erholtz has done a lot of heavy lifting in this series, considering that some parts of the story are almost uniformly Polnareff-focused, but man, he's done a great job handling the emotional moments surrounding Avdol and Iggy's deaths. Last week's cliffhanger was really good, too. I felt kind of emotional even though I was spoiled in him surviving to the next episode. Hunter × Hunter: Is becoming quite the slog. Man, even if it's really good, how can someone watch over one hundred episodes of one show on a frequent basis and not eventually think of it as a slog? This is mirroring my thoughts with One Piece, where I had largely given up on it by midway through Thriller Bark on the Toonami run.

To be fair, Samurai Jack S5 reran at the top of the block, and that got pulled after three episodes. Length presumably doesn't count as an excuse. I'm not too concerned about the Progressive rerun bombing, because Toonami has been doing so well lately despite much lower ratings overall. Even if it does cause the numbers to take yet another hit, I assume they'd have lowered expectations anyway, and could absorb the blow. The worst case scenario I see happening, if such a thing is even possible, is that they temporarily remove the slot, shift DB Super and MHA down for the last few weeks, and then re-expand the block to 10:30 when Alternative arrives. Because of this, there's no logical reason for them to move the rerun down.

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