Blatch

For this show, I have to wonder if watchability is a thing that counts as an actual issue. Pretty much everyone involved with the production wants it to be a huge thing, from Pierrot, to whoever's airing it (I thought I heard it was TV Tokyo), to the English licensors. Hell, Crunchyroll plans to show it in the fucking theaters a few weeks from now. This is a pretty big reason why I've become disillusioned with the anime industry in recent months. They pretty much force you to watch every show through coded advertisements. In fact, seemingly a day doesn't go by on CR's website without an article telling you to "get hooked" on anime that just came out, regardless if they're actually good or not. And then there was that promotion they did where you could watch episodes of eight shows, Black Clover included, to win a trip to Japan. I just don't like how they operate like a ruthlessly efficient business, is all.

So it's a Family Guy sandwich with Cleveland as the skewered pickle. I don't mind this, even if the latter shouldn't be aired anymore.

Holy fucking shit. This pretty much explodes how I thought the block would be run for the distant future. I genuinely don't know how to think right now, other than... I don't think we should complain about the Toonami ratings ever again.

Well that's a damn shame... she seemed to be in most of the classics. I was wondering if Mochi would make this thread first. But I actually thought about taking it from them, or whoever else.

Amen to that. It's part of the reason why I still want another on-air JoJo's marathon. And not to mention, Polnareff's introduction in #5 is not an evil cliffhanger, but something that could easily make you keep watching.

So I guess you can enable spoilers with this software... somehow. I would assume it has something to do with collapsing quotes, and maybe changing the banner to something different. They probably have a special setting for that. Here's what I copied over from my thread:

Well, that makes two of us.

Maybe it's Twitter making me preconditioned to the roundness, but I have no strong opinion on that. The timed edit thing is... both good and bad. I get why it's there, but it probably shouldn't be this restrictive. It locks you out of editing OPs, which I'm sure those who make threads for the weekly Toonami broadcast aren't going to like, as well as myself, because I have my thread for content ratings and I wanted to update it to feature more recent shows. Oh, and the formatting broke, since we don't have the "glow" function anymore.

Blend S #2 and #3 Teekyu #6 to #12 The iDOLM@STER #6 The Ancient Magus' Bride #1 (in anime club) [back to legitimate business]

I had that same feeling up to late August when the backdoor fiasco happened... everyone thought Toonami was in serious danger, but then LOL BebopAirz and it turned out they were actually gaining a half-hour. If the block really was in danger of being cut with ratings like this, it would've already happened. DeMarco is one to tell us when things aren't going to well, like back in early 2015 with the mass block cut. So unless something sketchy is going on behind the scenes, I guess we don't have to worry about it. Also, the TV industry is not just going from points A to B and having to fight monsters along the way. There are logistics on top of logistics, always more than what we think we know, so anyone who thinks they're an armchair quarterback and can do it better than those at Williams Street is almost always wrong. Who knows what's been going on? Maybe streaming numbers are up for them and the other Turner channels, so they can afford to sink more money into their anime fetish? Or maybe Rick and Morty did so well for the network that everything else is just running up the score? You know, pad other things out to appease the fans. And going back to my previous point, I probably should've worded that a little better and included something other than the nihilist talking point. Yeah, Toonami probably should be advertised a little better than it is. There was some guerrilla marketing for Samurai Jack S5 that people liked, and I'd guess they do it again for other big projects like the new FLCL seasons, but other than that, the block has been a niche thing since [as] brought it back and I guess the crew wants it to stay that way, especially if the ratings are in fact decent.

There are probably lots of people who still don't know about the new Toonami even after five, going on five and a half years... but as we know, if the shows are rating okay, the higher-ups will see no need in advertising elsewhere.

The iDOLM@STER Episode 5: "Vacation with Everyone"

Love and Lies #1 (explanation) The iDOLM@STER #5 The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Distant Star Part 3 Blend S #1

I should definitely check in here more often. Of course, it's hard to know what to say when you literally only watch JoJo's on the block anymore. :ghost: The episode with Empress was just so fucked up. Having Christine Marie Cabanos voice its first form was pretty genius, and yet I couldn't stand a minute of her highest possible angry voice.

Heh... I wonder why you posted in this folder.

And they even liked it. At this point, the Like button should be renamed to "I don't hate this". I want to work for mine again.

What did I fucking say? shithead Toonami, you let me down, but there wasn't going to be much complaining to begin with since it's a marathon. My main problem is that, if they decided to run DBZ Kai again so soon, is there much else stopping them from doing Samurai Jack S5 again in December? I'd like to watch part of least one marathon for a change.

I remember seeing some creepy ones last year during the movie, including one with no music on a black background about eliminating credit card debt. :skull: Also, if the 2:00A hour is the one without ratings, that's just weird, because the switch forward and back happens at the start of that hour, so then it goes back to 1:00. Shippuden and Outlaw Star should be the ones primarily affected by it.

Teekyu #1 to #5 The Eccentric Family #2 [now in the right place]

I should've had this done on Sunday, but nobody even wants to invent reasons to care, so I'm good with... whatever time in the weekend. Even if it's technically Tuesday. :pumpkin: Say hello to my 900th post. This playlist

It could, if you're mad about the show's quality. Personally, I've seen a Toonami block without any Dragon Ball shows, as that's how it originally started. I wouldn't mind them going back to that at some future point, especially since the franchise is not the ratings draw it used to be.

I'm thinking they might do a Hunter × Hunter marathon. I don't know, but Greed Island seems about as worthy of representing "the feast" to me. But I'd be happy with pretty much any show, unless they somehow decide to marathon DBZ or (oh lord) Samurai Jack again.

You know what I'm talking about. 11/25 is the date. So I guess that one-year experiment didn't work. I know one could assume it's due to laziness, but I am implied to agree. Thanksgiving is the one holiday every year where most people travel, so if they're on the road and don't have access to a TV, it's for the better that they don't miss any shows. Also, they're going to be showing the final episode of Countdown anyway, so this is probably to get more people interested and make the stay-at-homes watch a marathon. You know how well Parasyte did for Thanksgiving '15. And the final episode of this TIE is six minutes long, which could severely fuck things up and probably makes marathon scheduling easier, but I have no idea if this influenced the decision. More information on this stuff as it comes, maybe.

Eh, it's a slow night with OwlChemist not on. I put mine up, fully detailed, in one shot.