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Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 #11 Puella Magi Madoka Magica #1 [take revenge in dreamtime]

And yet it has nothing to do with zombies. ::spin::

JoJo's went up, and I guess that's all I wanted from this schedule. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for them to move the entire lineup down three weeks after the first shift. We saw what happened last year on such a short notice.

Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 | Cipher 10... ~It Never Entered My Mind~

Knight's & Magic #6 Girls und Panzer #7 Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita. #6

I feel like we're going to see something along the lines of R&M getting 3M, but less than 600K for JoJo's. How long DeMarco can stiff these complaints before the other shoe drops? Assuming it does, of course.

Now talk about piling the twists on top of one another. Though I would like to see how that helicopter crash turned out. Did they spend a bit of time in the wilderness?

It's the sword of... like, two truths? And not a thousand?

Fuck, so this game was actually created by the NSA.

Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita. #5 Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 #10 Black Lagoon #2

Okay, time for a bump. "I'm Home" is the episode this time, which I originally made a thread for.

Now that's... rather questionable. But I laughed. :robot) Sadly, you don't work for Toonami Faithful, so a 1,000-word article about what this means for the future of the block isn't required.

Skirt no Naka wa Kedamono Deshita. #3 and #4 Knight's & Magic #5 Black Lagoon #1 (uncensored, baby!) [so dangerous]

Birdy the Mighty: Decode 02 | Cipher 9... ~Space, Time, and You~

Awesome! It's nice to see the back end get juiced up with something new. Even though I guess Zeni's right in that there's serious nostalgia appeal for this show, so maybe they could hook people by putting it on earlier. This also works as an underhanded "fuck you" to Manga/Anchor Bay for messing up GiTS. </3

So I guess I'll put in my $0.02 here. I am personally starting to think that this really is an issue about the block losing its popularity. Suite twenty yen here:a bit of this comes from seeing Rick and Morty's popularity get higher than ever before. The show trended on Twitter at arguably peak hours, holding its own against Game of Thrones and the rest of the "cool geek TV" programs. And it rated insane: If you didn't realize it, the season premiere was the most watched new episode (and probably the most-watched thing period) on [adult swim] since The Boondocks in 2014. Meanwhile, Toonami's numbers and trending capacity have become flaccid, and I'm actually not sure what the problem is, but I have a few hunches. Things have gotten so bad that not even freaking Family Guy can get over a million viewers. I do think part if it comes from the show being ran into the ground, but this progression happened so quickly that there has to be another cause. So maybe Live PD really is eating into [as]' space as a whole. It commands so much of that airspace as to be obvious. However, I don't know what typical FG viewers would want to get out of that show, which makes its dominance somewhat strange. Maybe politics have something to do with it all. But I won't dare talk about that, since I could start a flame war. |:: I do think the trending is important to look at. Shows only seem to come up for a few minutes at a time, maybe a whole slot now and then, but they never stick. Other than Samurai Jack and characters from it, I can't remember the last time anything from the block trended worldwide. It's always just the US nowadays. They also don't even make it to the Top 10 too often (which is all the browser client sees). I just don't see much enthusiasm in the block, even with shows like Lupin and JoJo's Part 3 coming in. Is this because Toonami isn't getting popular enough shows? Honestly, that's tempting to believe. You may not have liked shows such as Sword Art Online and Akame ga Kill!, but they brought lots of casual anime viewers in who otherwise don't bother with such shows. JoJo's and friends are liked by anime fans, but not the casuals. Have there been any such shows to get that vaunted demographic? Well... gay figure skaters, for one, but that's not really a good fit for the block. I actually think a lot of this has to do with how splintered the industry has become. Anime Strike plays a huge rule in this, since they lock shows behind what amounts to $15 a month and the quality of their streams can be pretty bad (Welcome to the Ballroom had mistimed subtitles on the first episode!). Then you have Netflix and Sentai Filmworks getting shows for themselves through their new HIDIVE service. You have to think that not being a part of the Funiroll/VRV network is a major drawback to a show's success, but I think they brought this upon themselves to an extent. But you know, a lot of these things aren't even Toonami's fault. They certainly don't care about whatever the other major media corporations are doing, and there's not much they could do to combat them anyway. Which is why, and this is going to seem like a huge letdown after that wall of text... don't worry about the ratings. Toonami won't be cancelled as soon as things go south. They'll probably shrink back to 3 hours or so and return to a midnight starting time if they're in danger. So just continue to watch the block and tell your friends about it, because that's what we've always done. Also, I own a Toonami T-shirt to help with the advertising effort.

I was going to make a joke about how the ratings would be 100K lower than you were expecting. So yeah, this isn't a surprise. I just doesn't hope it turns to serious fearmongering and stuff.

That and Cannon Busters (which itself is probably done, and already long overdue) back-to-back. I'd enjoy it.

:painfap: Also, relevant link. Anyone who thinks they're suddenly going to charge Aniplex prices hasn't read it. [700th post]

For what? About one minute spent on TVTropes would explain what that means.

Some thoughts: JoJo's Part 3 is off to a good start. I don't know why we're tossing Hamon to the wind, but considering what I've heard about Stands, those will hopefully be more fun over time. I also like how they even let Joseph have one in his old age, even if it's not a particularly useful one. But at least we're still in an era with Polaroids in big supply. Tokyo Ghoul has become a chaotic ball of nihilism and hatred and I don't care for it anymore. It should've ended with Season 1's finale, because at least that one had character development for Kaneki and it made me feel something... :robotss This week's Lupin was... weird. Why'd they have to get rid of the zombie plot after the first third of the episode? The rest was fairly out-of-character for him, at least based off of what I've seen so far. I don't get it, which must be why they made this one an OVA for the Japanese run. [thank you, robot emoticons]

Well, consider it running gagged to me. :painfap:

Can we please stop with this? I guess it's okay to call Zeni funny names, but not the literal exact same post more than a dozen times.