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At least it had a good soundtrack, that's something.

After endless filler in Inuyasha, Bleach, One Piece, DBZ, Naruto, Fairytail and basically every other shonen of the era... I think fans have really had enough of filler laden shonen. MHA and Mob Psycho saw that and gave the fans what they wanted. BC somehow missed the boat and went with the old model and got absolutely savaged.

On an unrelated note... the final episode of Killing bites. All I have to say is

See, he liked the first 11 episodes of both seasons! Guy likes everything =P

You mean... Kanedgy? There's just so many problems even with the "good" season of TG. Why did Jason have the torture boner for him again? Had they even met before that? Ridiculous origin story. Kaneki stabbing himself with a knife and the knife breaking because ghouls are immune to normal weapons..... then he cuts his finger on a broken tea cup a few episodes later. That last one is just pure awful. How do you establish that your MC can't be hurt by normal weapons then have him cut his finger on a teacup?

I think I've seen two people on these boards that actually liked TG. Not counting Owl since he likes everything of course.

That's pretty much the objective of most anime. Madhouse was famous for not making second seasons of any anime regardless of how popular it was.... until they recently did S2 of Overlord. Because their only objective was boosting manga and light novel sales. It works though, you get hooked on a show and want to know what happens? Gonna have to get the light novels or wait with the futile hopes of the anime getting a second season. At least with a Shonen you know you'll have plenty of episodes and often an actual conclusion to the show... after 500 episodes.

Yup that movie is a classic. Glad you enjoyed it. I honestly don't see them ever airing a new anime for April fools. I feel like that's the one thing they'd never do.

12 episodes is actually a full season... or as they say in the anime business a "cour." Literally, seasons last about 3 months and the Japan anime industry seems to go by season. It depends, sometimes it's because they have no idea that people will want more than 12 episodes. Sometimes they just flat out don't have the content for more than 12 or 13 eps or they don't have the time to do a full 24 and get it out for the season they want to get it out at. With Black Clover they just said fuck it and ordered 51 eps, which is actually a standard 4 cour order for a shonen that has a ton of content available. Fairly tail got the same order back in 2009. Bleach and Naruto as well. Tokyo Ghoul had a one cour season despite the manga's popularity due to no further content being available at the time. Elfen Lied had a one cour season and flopped in Japan, so they never finished it.

Yeah I did it. You don't know me I do what I want!

Haruhi endless 8 arc incoming. Speaking of which have you still not seen the movie Starwind? You sicken me!

Yeah, massive retcon happened =P

This is another area MHA did things right. 13 eps first season, 25 for the second season. Took it slow, focused on quality and great pacing. Guess how many episodes of those 38 episodes are filler? One. BC has a filler episode by episode 3.

Most fan service shows don't actually go full nip =P DxD, Highschool of the Dead, and Freezing excluded of course. Most fan service shows tend to be more like Date a Live and Heaven's Lost Property. Like I said before, if you can show this... you can show just about anything

How many people predicted the stealth premiere of Rick and Morty S3? Probably zero. It's going to be something super random and weird. They may not do anything just to fuck with us this year.

Well I understand doing it for a while to try and hype your new show..... but It's been over 3 months and it's getting crushed. Also the retention after Gundam was hilariously high as predicted =P Hxh 103 Naruto 105 Dandy 87 Bebop 96 Bebop 94 GITS 92

Let's meet back here in two years and find out! Super is gonna be on for a while =P

There's no nice way to say it. Pierrot is just bad at what they do.

Also keep in mind that if they air Re Zero and it becomes a hit, they have a hit for 24 episodes. OPM only lasted 12. If they air Inuyasha and it becomes a hit, they have for like.. 250 episodes. It's got to be easier on them to air long running Shonen, financially and in terms of how much effort would go into trying to negotiate to pick up the newest hottest shows every year. Shonen will probably always be the backbone of Toonami. It's a shame though, I don't like most long running Shonen and in general they rely on filler and dragging things out in addition to generally poor animation 95 percent of the time. The question is... if they just want ratings.... why no fanservice shows? Tokyo Ghoul didn't go over well? Whatttttt??? I heard it was a fine anime with lots and lots of characters. If I had to put SAO in a genre I would slap it into the Isekai bin. You can make arguments that it's Shonen or even Shojo though.

With a massive media push and paying off Crunchyroll reviewers they've managed to make it popular enough so that it will continue to survive until it's finished. Probably. Yeah they shoved it down our throats and the critical reception is poor, but you just have to accept that there's a market for this kind of basic Shonen.

Actually the Manga is supposedly very fast paced. Blame Pierrot

Shippuden as first show? Not gonna happen =P I could see it as... 3rd or 4th after Kai and Super end. Also worth noting that in addition to almost tying Jojo in total viewers, it dominated it in the key demo. Actually even Dandy beat Jojo in the key demo. What is going on with Jojo?

FFS give Naruto BC's spot. Once again it beat the two shows before it and was only 11k away from Jojo.

Hah everyone wants Re Zero, but its more likely we get... GHOULED.

I keep saying the last arc really salvaged Super and made it popular. We may get a lot of viewers for the Dub on Toonami around episode 100 to see it in English. The Dub of Super is just so much better than the sub so people will be looking forward to that.