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It's not just him though. It's a full court press by the entire site to plug this shitty anime. Ideally, you'd hope they'd have more integrity than just taking a dumptruck full of cash to write fake good reviews about a near universally loathed anime. I'd accept it if he said "Look guys it's not THAT bad...." But having the balls to call it one of the best manga to anime adaptations ever and calling episode 2 filler "bonus content that adds to the story." That's a bridge too far. Have some cupcakes though! http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2017/11/22/asta-from-black-clover-celebratory-joining-up-with-the-black-bulls-cupcake

Because it's SO good and so far ahead of its time it can't be appreciated until decades later. Seriously this is paid shill advertising at its worst. It's not horrible filler.. it's.... BONUS CONTENT that creates a stronger story! "Pierrot has blown me away with their work on Black Clover. Filler has always had a rough place in the anime fandom, so finding ways to pad out the story with character pieces that contribute to the existing narrative is the best of both worlds. Even fans of the manga who don’t normally tune-in can find reasons to check Black Clover out with what essentially comes out to bonus content. I can safely say I’ve enjoyed the anime more than the manga. As far as adaptations go, I have to hand it to a series that goes the extra mile by not just highlighting the strengths of its source material, but expanding upon them to create and an even stronger story."

Skip to 13:26 =P

Oh hey so Crunchyroll is still getting paid off to claim that Black Clover is good. Not only good, but one of the BEST ADAPTIONS EVER! http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2018/01/17/black-clover-may-be-the-best-shonen-anime-adaptation

Remember the time of long long ago when Jojo got over a million viewers an episode?

Ummm I think you should probably finish the first seasons.... I don't remember any spoilers, but there's characters that haven't been introduced yet in some of the OVA's. So if that sorta thing bothers you I'd finish everything before the 2014 season started. That xmas special I posted looks spoiler free if you've seen past episode 50 or so.

I'm still putting my money on the recently dubbed Kabaneri.

Depends on what you're into. Erza and Mira spanking each other? Natsu Spanking Gajeel? Gray naked on all fours? Underage Wendy in fishnet stockings? Lucy getting her breasts groped? Lucy tied up like a slave? And this is the Xmas special.

Lupin airs at the "ratings don't matter" portion of the block so they just might get the next one. I really don't think they expect much from anything after Jojo, which is no ratings behemoth itself.

Are you referring to the King's Game where Erza makes Natsu and Gray get naked and on all fours?

Well the character was dead from episode 1, so there wasn't much to go on. Some editor or director liked the design and pressured to get the character brought back to life, that's the rumor. I believe it, since he didn't do anything with her and she was a background character for the rest of the series. Unless she does something in the final part that hasn't been animated yet that I'm unaware of. Yup what Mashima lacks in storytelling ability he makes up for with ample boobage.

Ok so about the Lisanna thing.... supposedly the higher ups liked the character design and pressured Mashima to bring her back. He does nothing with the character and she's never a threat to the NaLu pairing. Also, Seven Deadly Sins episode 1 just came out, go get em!

Toriyama basically has dementia at this point. Don't expect anything from him. And don't ask him who Launch is.

That seems unnecessary since I just told you how it works. Shows that are later in the night have better retention than the shows earlier in the night, due to the fact that the ratings fall off a cliff after Kai. Holding 90 percent of one of the Dragonball shows is good, holding 90 percent of Gundam isn't that special. The difference between HxH and the last show on the block was about 50k viewers. The difference between HxH and the first show on the block was over 500k viewers. It once ran third in the lineup, now it's in the 6th spot. If they think it can do better than Jojo or Gundam they should feel free to move it up. If you're asking if I believe that Togashi is so completely crippled by pain that he can't work for more than a month a year after 4 or 5 years then I would say... it's possible but highly improbable. Fans made a reddit thread about him years ago and a lot of people who have followed his work came to the conclusion that it had a lot more to do with burnout than him being permanently crippled.

It's not exactly new when the current series is a remake of the last HxH anime that aired in 1999. I know me and a few other people on here would argue against the "good" part. Popular.... maybe when this started airing back in 2011? =P

It has high retention because it airs after BC, Jojo and Gundam. There's no viewers left at that point. Naruto was the lowest rated show of the night and it still had 90 percent retention. Pretty sure the back pain thing was just an excuse, as time went on most people came to the conclusion that he got burnt out. Unless he's been bed ridden for the last 5 years.

Ideally you'd want popular AND good. But if you can only get one, you'd have to go with popular, at least for the first 4 slots. They are trying to run a block and keep it afloat here. The back end it doesn't really matter so you can float a few unknowns there, but the first few shows need to be popular stuff that people have not only heard of but like enough to tune into on a weekly basis. Stuff that keeps the eyeballs on the screen. Unfortunately when you air stuff like Black Clover, you're airing something that is both unpopular, and poorly rated. It's 427 now on popularity.... 5471 on the ranking. Meaning there's over 5000 anime that are more well reviewed than Black Clover. Even Dimension W pulled a 2312 ranking. The Lupin I listed was for part 3. Yeah no metric is perfect obviously, but it's better than nothing. Shonen tend to be way over rated/ranked on Mal from what I've seen. Gintama has 4 of the top 10 spots for rank for some reason. But when you look at the popularity list, it's stuff we've heard of. Out of the first 15 shows I think.. .8 aired on Toonami? Death Note, AOT, SAO, FA brotherhood, Angel Beats, Code Geass, Steins Gate, Tokyo Ghoul, Naruto, One Punch Man, Future Diary, No Game No life, Toradora, Blue Exorcist, Elfen lied. As we saw with TG, not everything popular is going to be good. But showing popular stuff is a better recipe for success than playing stuff that's not a blip on anyone's radar.

Haha dream lineup? Maybe if we were in Japan. The US anime audience has generally low interest in their entire current lineup. Compare Mal popularity.... Akame Ga Kill... 26 Jojo Stardust crusaders.... 338. Black Clover... 429 S2 Iron blooded orphans... 1464 Lupin... 2220 The only shows they have that are popular on MAL are Naruto, Bebop and HxH. HxH's source material is ancient with an author that seems to not care about finishing the series. It's frequently beaten by Naruto. Naruto is over and already on a sequel series. Bebop has been run to death and judging from the lowest ratings ever.... no one wants to see that again. Hahaha no =P Nice wordplay with the Gundam Thunderbolt series though! It's current popularity on MAL is 2334. Stop trying to make fetch happen. Gundam is not a thing in the US anymore.

Well the Dandy thing is just filler airing at the 2 am slot. But their new show really needs to be something good this time or they're just cementing themselves as a block that shows almost nothing but the bottom of the barrel. Another screwup like Ghoul or Clover is really going to do some damage to a block that's already at record lows. Oh and that Bebop marathon was the lowest ratings ever? That 426k average is going to be hard to top.

Well the question is... how many blunders can Toonami make before it causes a massive enough drop off to get the block reduced or canceled? We've apparently hit bottom and it's not low enough for them to make any changes.

Lol they might as well just cancel their regular schedule and run DBZ marathons. Better yet, run DBZ marathons for the normal schedule then on holidays they can run their regular schedule. But they can't really be surprised that BC isn't doing well. No one wanted another long running shonen, especially not one with the amount of negative hype BC had. I really hope their new show that just got delayed is something good, they are long overdue for a good decision.

I wouldn't mind watching Dandy again. I bet the super secret Premiere is... Kabaneri. For one thing, it's only dubbed up to episode 2, so its new. It's also action, non harem no nudity... all of which Toonami likes. And it's similar to AOT.....Toonami loves showing stuff similar to other stuff they've shown.

Hey no one told me the first episode of Overlord S2 just came out a few days ago! FOOLS!

S1 fans really don't like the fact that S2 exists do they.

Supposed to be out this year. Did you watch S2 of Darker than black? It's weird as hell.