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meanwhile it's the last show on the block that's not a rerun so I'm forced to tune out

some thought Jojo would take a break because it would allow toonami to air something else and freshen up the block for a bit yeah i agree best chance is when DBZ Kai Wraps up....because as i said there's nothing and nothing else that could probably work in that slot as good as one piece We would then DB Super And One Piece....pretty good combo

i imagine if the ratings decline...toonami will just be unable to do anything if they had to can naruto in a few months i doubt they would be able to throw something like they did with one piece new shows aren't cheap especially new shows that people actually wanna watch

one piece will be back. Someday it's just too big to simply say "Yeah we're never airing you again" especially since the toonami crew loves the show... it just shocks me that in the toonami reboot a show actually got removed due to ratings in a crap time slot(a crap time slot that really shouldn't have been on One Piece if anything that should have been naruto from the start....) as you said the block needs long runenrs and since Jojo's rumored to take a break after Battle Tendencies finishes and Naruto probably will meet the same fate as one piece in that doomed time slot they will need a long runner...one or more of those shows will go down and DBZ Kai FC has what? like 64 or 63 episodes left once that ends they can't just pick up some random new anime and expect people to tune in for it like they would DBZ they need reliable familiar names

it just seems so ironic that the show all about a friendly gang of pirates fighting against crazy warlords and a corrupt government is shelved while naruto continues it's "Let's Save Sasuke even though he's evil!" schtick The Straw Hats love and care for each other Luffy Might not be the brightest tool in the shed but he's willing to help out any innocent person who needs his help and recruits those that have nowhere else to go Naruto just seems to do stupid shit without realizing what he's even doing to begin with......

it pisses me off to know that one piece got cut because adult swim has unrealistic expectations for The 1:30 AM Time slot and anyone who thinks "Oh it was doing too poorly to continue"....No Shit ! it was 1:30 AM there's no question the ratings were crap but by that point i don't think even DB Super Could salvage that time slot it's a dead zone most people will decide to go to sleep instead of staying up to 1:30 AM the toonami block itself is just too much of an exhausting marathon to forsake sleep for

yeah and that's why the rest of the week it's filled with crap like cleveland show reruns or king of the hill....(I.E Fox Animated Rerun garbage that you can get on a number of channels) my mother thinks this was more of a licensing issue than anything else and i gotta agree since as i said...ratings in the middle of the night on saturday shouldn't be expected to be good in the first place you just don't dump one piece into the 1:30 AM Slot and act shocked that it's rating's are total garbo who the hell is even awake for most of these shows? by the time one piece comes on You are lucky if your legs aren't asleep already

One Piece would have done a lot better had they made it a weekday prime time series there's enough episodes in the series to really do that for awhile the pacing of some of these shows really don't go well with a once a week format especially in the middle of the night on saturday

at least when the straw hats risked their lives to help out brook or save robin it was for a good reason and didn't make the main character look like an idiot like naruto does when he's chasing after sasuke sasuke the guy who is more or less a super villain at this point...nowhere near what I'd call a hero and yet naruto wants to risk his life to bring him back to the village

i feel like ratings shouldn't really matter so much when your core audience is gonna be asleep before the block even concludes how many of the viewers even stick around for the entire block and how many are just desperately clinging to the waking world trying so hard not to pass out? adult swim's original content has failed over the last few years and they have become more known for their spammage of fox animated reruns so at this rate i think toonami is the best thing adult swim has and it's just one night out of the week while the cleveland show gets more air time....the cleveland show the only macfarlane series to get canned and never return

there shouldn't be any kind of standards for 1:30 AM....by that time your lucky to get anyone watching anything it should be a miracle for a show to get any sort of view time at that hour

and that makes it worse....the only place for anime on tv and you need to stock up on caffeine to view it

when i told her the reason she just kept looking for other things like licensing because in her mind ratings wouldn't do this when toonami's an insomniac block her feeling is that when your shows start this late rating's shouldn't be a factor since people have a hard enough time staying up to watch the entire block so why cut one piece and act like people just weren't interested in it when the case is they just wanted to get to sleep already not everyone can just stay up that late and having any expectations for ratings at all on such a late time is just stupid so she really feels like it's a case of licensing issues and them not paying to renew it rather than this false guise of ratings being too low

i don't think toonami worried so much about ratings when they were on weekdays but now that they are really damn late at night on saturday's(only)is when the ratings become crucial doesn't make sense

hard to enjoy toonami when you can barely keep yourself awake to watch the whole block it's easy enough to see stuff like family guy king of the hill the cleveland show or bob's burgers that stuff's everywhere now....so you don't need adult swim to watch it however anime is restricted to toonami on television(aside from kids anime like Yokai Watch Pokemon And Beyblade On Disney )and so the insomniac block is just your only option a option that ends with most of us feeling drained and exhausted.....watching anime shouldn't require you to drink loads of coffee just to get through the block

yeah i agree....and she's pretty salty about this to the point where the ratings fiasco has her making claims that "The Midnight Crew is so damn small that to chop anything down due to ratings is laughable"

my mother watched this with me every saturday night so it's gonna be difficult setting up a new routine for one piece now....

if toonami is around years later...i can't really think of any other notable long runner that could go side by side with DBZ and already has such love from the toonami crew(so it's return wouldn't be so farfetched) Jojo is taking a break for sure and naruto's probably dead later this year...from being in One Piece's Crap Time Slot Hunter X Hunter is safe but since it'll end in a couple years...things could change DBZ Kai FC will need a replacement when it ends and i think they need a good one two shonen punch

an episode all about brock not feeling like he belongs on the crew just makes everyone feel super salty in the end cause toonami viewers will never get to see him as a real part of the crew so while it's better than what we could have ended on...it's still a big fucking cock tease of a cliffhanger

I'd be damned if i let this be the last i see of one piece....

pretty damn lackluster way to leave us off...Brock Being Emo and mopey

watch as naruto stinks up the ratings in a couple weeks....i doubt toonami will like that

seems likely as I Doubt Naruto will do any better than One Piece in that time slot it's doomsday for any show really

I'm just ticked off because sooner than later We're gonna be down to DB Super as our only long runner and that's gonna suck the others aren't protected or guaranteed to be super successful in the not too distant future....Jojo's pressumed to take a break once The Joseph Joestar Saga Ends Naruto is gonna be in the crap time slot that one piece was in....so expect it to meet the same fate and HXH will wrap up if toonami is still around in like 2 or 3 years....which is expecting a lot from a show

Naruto is basically Gang Wars in anime form.... and everyone thinks they are better than the other gangs because "Screw You! Your different!" not really a good message to live by