Jman

Wow. Yet another Toonami fail. So in other words, they got the wrong Slayer.

Guess it will be a full manga adaptation.

No arguments here. I mean Black Clover is a hit...

Y’all (rightfully) lay into the show and the author, but my opinion has always been the sheer amount of concentrated ANIME per square inch of said anime is why it did so well. We’ve got everything, accidental harems, transforming henshin hero armor, women in every shape and size, tsunderes, yanderes, and lots and lots of action. It was dumb as hell but that’s probably why it did so well.

Shield Hero also got a ton of free publicity from people declaring it the new worst thing, right on the heels of the ill fated announcement of High Guardian Spice (which at this point feels less like a show and more a boogeyman they trot out to make other shows look good). With that not possible, advertising in the middle of one of the biggest cities on Earth and letting people wonder brings viewers in a way a puff piece simply cannot.

I really hate to be that guy, but it worked, didn’t it?

GITS is getting a new series...on Netflix.

We all were. How much money they threw at Tatsunoko and Big West to keep the license hostage will be interesting to hear.

That’s Ok, not like anyone wanted to see Macross Delta on Netflix anyway...

The problem with that is them telling people a lot of the shows exist tells people that the shows are on...demand. And they watch them there and that does jack all for Toonami. What’s the point of advertising MHA if people just watch it on Hulu?

The UFC clobbered Toonami faster than Ngannou knocked out Dos Santos.

And as the song says, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

He’s gonna be harassed to hell and back.

Did you really expect DeMarco to make a commercial focused on bewbs? I wouldn’t be surprised if this was like Akame, a package deal to get something they really wanted like Parasyte. And to that end, remember Akame got all the ratings and Parasyte...well.

Angel Beats...Osomatsu San makes more sense.

Well, this will be yet another example to test my theory that Toonami is an advertisement for the shows...but leads to people watching them via alternate sources.

https://www.hulu.com/series/mobile-suit-gundam-the-origin-3211a7c9-930e-43ff-8ec4-e9d39d0e249a?dl=false There you go.

With simuldubs that’s quickly becoming less of an obstacle.

Insert government cabinet joke here. 😁

Also, Toonami is gonna get JoJo lest Netflix picks it up and it becomes a massive hit like the first two parts were for them when they got them.

The continuing issues with shows on Toonami being successful EVERYWHERE BUT TOONAMI (It bears repeating, after Avengers Endgame came out the one comic that got a boost was MHA. How does that even work?! “I sure loved that movie about Marvel’s heroes. Shame the comics are all dogshit, but this comic about a green haired dork suddenly finding himself being prepared to become the new Superman scratches that itch in a way the Agents of G.I.R.L never, EVER could”) are synonymous with the reasons behind the second anime boom. We no longer live in the early 2000’s where the only way most people could reliably watch anime was Toonami and Adult Swim Action, begging for the right show and that Standard and Practices wouldn’t dice it up too badly (these are the days you couldn’t say ‘shit’ on air). On Demand was a joke with the only real dedicated outlet being the now defunct ADV Anime Network (a network when someone suggested watching that instead of Adult Swim, a Toonzone mod very pointedly told the poster to “stop sucking ADV’s luscious cock”. Fuckwad). And that’s assuming Adult Swim wasn’t having fun at their viewer’s expense. (That really happened. And as much as I ironically enjoy the show about Zack Morris being trash, you bet your ass anime fans lost their shit when it was announced). The shit is literally everywhere, and it’s not hard to find it. You know what the first result is when you look up MHA on Google after the Wikipedia entry? Crunchyroll and FUNImation links to watch My Hero Academia! Full thing, legally, in HD with the right subscription, in both English and Japanese. This was an outright pipe dream in 2004. You know what probably happens? Someone may or may not have seen an episode of MHA on Toonami. If they like it, they can watch it wherever they damn well please, whenever they damn well please on their own time. But that doesn’t translate into ratings. And it leaves Toonami as little more than a giant advertisement for shows airing elsewhere unless they’re in that sweet pre/post sports spot time slot, which Super is. And this is also probably why JoJo only did middling on Toonami but absolutely crushed it on Netflix.

Ok, so it’s non-interest then. But now I am interested. To VRV!

Actually I just never bothered to watch the damn thing. It was just there and I wasn’t interested.

Someone is giving Handmaid’s Tale those Emmy’s. And MHA made a pretty penny when Two Heroes was released. It’s gotta be somewhere.

And odds are that’s where everyone will watch it.