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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.

This schedule shows how much of a lame duck Toonami is as a block, more or less a guideline of what shows to watch on Hulu or Netflix or what have you. MHA was like...the one comic to get a boost from Avengers Endgame and it can’t bring in an audience because said audience has already watched it elsewhere. And now we have Food Wars, never seen it, negative interest, but it’s supposed to bring in viewers? I think it’s time we accept it’s the block.

And to think, this Saturday is an ESPN card with a pretty good main event. The ratings pain will continue until they can generate actual hype.

That and you know, airing materials that are either available elsewhere, or were on the market for extensive times thinking it’s still 2004 and we have no other way of watching them besides waiting till they’re on DVD and marching down to Best Buy for unreasonably expensive DVD sets.

Another week, another set of ratings in the garbage. What else is new?

The old dub sucked too. This just sucks for different reasons.

Kakegurui XX 1 The gambling is crazier, the women are hornier for gambling, and the POV guy seems even more superfluous. But you need someone sane in the cast.

Sure they’re relevant - Six months to two years prior when everyone has already finished watching! You can air stuff that was popular two quarters ago but odds are good it’s literally yesterday’s news, or you air it at such a terrible time that when it gets to Netflix it suddenly gains a gigantic amount of popularity that wasn’t present before (like JoJo). The boat keeps getting missed. Let’s use the most popular anime of winter and spring as a good example - The Rising of the Shield Hero. Odds are good anyone interested in the show that is directly interested in Toonami, i.e.: active fans of the medium has watched it because it was the most popular show on dedicated anime apps. Toonami will not attract passive fans because of its awful timeslot. That being said, Hulu and Netflix airings of Shield Hero will attract passive fans because it’s being mixed in with sitcoms and that mini golf reality show (actual thing ABC is airing).

Yeah, and odds are it would have flopped on its damn face too. Fuck that stupid statue. Live action movie. I don’t see Fairy Tail getting one of those ever.

They’re airing stuff that’s been on the market for months with relatively little hassle to get to. What did they expect?