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People are more likely to travel for big holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. It’s not that people don’t watch TV during those holidays but many are less likely to be able to maintain their regular viewing habits while traveling. They’re also more likely to watch event programming, especially holiday centered specials and sports. So networks don’t tend to air their regular programming on the weekends surrounding major holidays. When you go on a trip, are you always able to watch Adult Swim where ever you go? Hell, with all the cord cutting going on folks are much more likely to visit a relative who does not have access to Adult Swim live or on-demand. And if you’re on a trip and having a good time doing something out of the ordinary on Saturday night, will you really make sure to watch Toonami? On convention weekends and family trips, I generally don’t. I’m too busy to stay up late watching Toonami and too busy to watch it on-demand until I get home. Same goes for watching streaming shows even if I have my phone and access to the internet. I’m not forgoing a rare opportunity to watch my regular anime. So I honestly appreciate a week off from Toonami in those instances.

A little too accurate

Yeah I was surprised to find that Kono Oto Tomare (a Saturday show) and Africa Salaryman (a Sunday show) didn't upload new dubbed episodes on Thanksgiving weekend but it makes sense. They get MHA episodes early but if there's a week off in Japan, they'll have to take a week off as well. That has already happened once and could happen in late December.

There's still hope for the 4th Plate 😰

So both the 4th of July and Halloween are on a Saturday next year. You can bet that both will be marathon nights. We’re probably looking at 5 to 7 weeks off in 2020 because of that. While part of me believes that people will do that, if we look at the performance of Dr. Stone which is a good month or so behind the dub stream, it does not seem to be hurting it significantly. It doesn’t lose to Fire Force which is only a week behind and it holds the dub premieres of OPM just fine. Then there’s Food Wars which is years behind the streams that are widely available, and it’s doing as well as dub premieres. Maybe some really popular shows would do better if they weren’t behind streams but it honestly doesn’t seem to matter as much as we thought. Not every potential viewer cares to pay for FUNimation on top of every other streaming service they may have.

I mean don't even joke. If they actually tried to air a DBS marathon for four hours every Saturday for a year, it would probably do better than a regular lineup of Toonami. It could go either way with the marathons next year. I had hoped that they have seen enough evidence this year that reinforces that holiday weekends aren't necessarily bad for ratings. Preferably they don't have 7 in 2020 but I doubt there will be less than 6.

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It almost feels like nothing's changed at all...

Interestingly enough they seem to be uploading DBZ Kai episodes as if it was still airing. They have added episodes 53, 54, 55 and 56 over the past four weeks and I don't suspect they will be stopping any time soon. I kind of wondered if their Kai license was only renewed for the first 52 episode season but it seems they at least renewed the first 98 episodes. It will be a good long while before we may know if they have renewed the Final Chapters though it wasn't that long ago that some Final Chapters episodes were still streaming. DB is entirely off the schedule for now but it may very well return to weeknights whenever Adult Swim gets 8pm back. That would be the best way to make use of 131 episodes of Super and 167 episodes of DBZ Kai. And if it doesn't return to weekdays then I would definitely expect it to return to Saturday prime time.

Amazon is just annoying because they get some of the best anime every season and most don’t get a physical release much less a dub. They do simulcasts, which is nice compared to Netflix, but the drawbacks are greater.

Rick and Morty will continue to premiere on Adult Swim and season 4 will be added to HBO Max sometime after it airs. I'd guess 6-12 months after depending on when season 4 ends. The Adult Swim section on HBO Max will be a curated selection of shows and basically just be where the series will be available instead of Hulu. I can't say for certain (because I have no insider info whatsoever) but I'm expecting at least a good many AS originals will still stream their backlog on the Adult Swim app and website but there may be some shows that will only have all their episodes available at one time on HBO Max. Overall the Adult Swim section of HBO Max just seems like a big fat F U to Hulu but the now Disney controlled Hulu probably would have gotten rid of at least most of the AS originals eventually anyway. HBO Max getting South Park is a much bigger F U to Hulu. It sounds like the Crunchyroll section of HBO Max will by no means replace CR as a service or weaken the value of having a CR subscription. I would be surprised if CR on HBO Max includes any series the CR didn't co-produce or is the master licensor of. The likes of Re:Zero, KonoSuba and Shield Hero are very probable but I don't think they'll be able to include series like My Hero Academia, Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, Boruto or Sword Art Online. They probably will not be allowed to include backlog series from distributors such as RightStuf/Nozomi, Aniplex, Discotek, Toei, Sunrise, Sentai Filmworks, etc. The biggest question is if they will offer any simulcasts at all or if they will only upload series in batches? I'm leaning toward no simulcasts but it could go either way for Crunchyroll's own licenses. If they do not offer any simulcasts much less all the simulcasts for that season then VRV might actually survive, especially if HiDive and some of the other ad-ons want to stay bundled but cannot or do not want to be part of HBO Max. It would probably be better for VRV to close up shop though leaving only a reasonably priced Crunchyroll subscription and perhaps a special bundle to allow access to the full CR service to HBO Max subscribers. DC Universe is more than likely on the chopping block soon unless the comic portion is considered a big enough value. Little to nothing has been said of DC animated series for HBO Max despite Max declaring it will have all the DC films along with a new live-action DC series. Perhaps DC Universe will become even more animation focused while live-action productions move to HBO Max but as a subscriber to DCU I gotta say, I see no reason not to fold that library entirely into HBO Max. I don't want to pay 15 bucks a month for HBO Max and also have to pay 10 a month for VRV or 7 a month for Crunchyroll in addition to 7 a month for DCU. That's 30+ bucks a month on its own. I admittedly don't make use of the comic part of DCU but I'd definitely give that up to cut some costs but still have access to DC's animated series and features. The fact that CN has two series being sent directly to HBO Max is somewhat concerning. I'm also a bit frustrated that TBS didn't air Close Enough and now it will be an HBO Max exclusive and of course genLOCK season 2 is premiering on HBO Max as well. Those things aside, I don't see HBO Max as the death knell for CN much less Adult Swim, at least not for several more years. I could see Rick & Morty season 6 onward premiering on HBO Max if season 4 and 5's TV ratings disappoint but there's really no telling what can happen in the next 3-5 years. I could potentially see the Blade Runner series getting streamed on HBO Max before the Toonami broadcast but it will more likely be the other way around. I'm less concerned that Uzumaki will end up on Max first but both probably will be on Max under the CR or Adult Swim library eventually. Samurai Jack as well as Primal will both be in the Adult Swim library on HBO Max and chances are FLCL 2/3 will be either under Adult Swim or CR on HBO Max as well. For now it seems like HBO Max intends to take already streaming shows away from Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc while introducing new content and offering other niche content that doesn't stand much of a chance on TV. It's one half the Netflix killer beside Disney+. The streaming wars certainly look to be interesting so far.

Chances are Shippuden is benefiting nicely from a full day of DVR playback. Any show airing at 3am gets that benefit because the ratings day is counted from 3am until 2:59am the next day. It's also why the 2:30 slot is generally considered the worst to be in so it's a bit surprising that JoJo manage to beat Black Clover in that position. If they moved Shippuden earlier it wouldn't necessarily do better than it is at 3am. If it and Black Clover swapped me might start seeing Clover beat two shows ahead of it. And it's not as if the network is going to consider less than 30,000 a big difference in viewership, less than 15,000 in 18-49 at that. Moving shows around more often only causes confusion and is likely to lower the ratings of everything that moves around.

Alicization is more of an isekai then the rest of SAO since the underworld is a different reality. You could make the argument Aincrad was as well because they were trapped in it but when it’s a game they can freely leave it’s not really an isekai. It popularized the genre but largely isn’t a traditional isekai.

Primal retained about 85% of the Family Guy viewers ages 18-34 making it #3 in that demo for the whole day. It’s lower than 10:30 was getting but that hardly matters when it’s #3 for the entire day. Bob’s Burgers (repeat) (ADSM, 9:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.403 million viewers (#70) • 0.28 HH (#56) • 0.14 A18-49 (#37) • 0.15 A18-34 (#21) • 0.16 A25-54 (#44) Family Guy (repeat) (ADSM, 9:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.525 million viewers (#47) • 0.35 HH (#43) • 0.20 A18-49 (#16) • 0.23 A18-34 (#6) • 0.22 A25-54 (#22) Family Guy (repeat) (ADSM, 10:00 PM, 30 min.) • 0.700 million viewers (#25) • 0.46 HH (#24) • 0.28 A18-49 (#3) • 0.34 A18-34 (#2) • 0.29 A25-54 (#9) Genndy Tartakovksy Prima (repeat) (ADSM, 10:30 PM, 30 min.) • 0.525 million viewers (#47) • 0.35 HH (#43) • 0.22 A18-49 (#12) • 0.29 A18-34 (#3) • 0.21 A25-54 (#26)

One might argue, the opposite is true. Personally, I thought Jason chiming in with that line about Colt being the "too many long runners guy" was amusing. DeMarco responds to Colt's ramblings more than I'd say most other Toonami fans.

I'm pretty sure Todd is in the currently being released dub of To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts

I lol’d This really is odd. They keep Shippuden on but don’t renew Boruto after just a year. I don’t think they chose between DBS reruns and Boruto but this schedule is getting weird.

I would like GL to get an uncut broadcast even if it’s around 4 or 5am.

Toonami can potentially get it on the same day. If they are, we should get an announcement sometime this week.

I would not mind it.

Well I can't say I'm surprised YOU made this topic CountFryLock. It's been nice not having marathons and the amount of premieres Toonami has had this year is nothing short of astounding. I don't mind a marathon every now and then but not having one since December is a welcome change of pace.

Oooph. Even if they can do another season, I don't know if it's a good idea to do it without Gray involved. I'm all for Adult Swim funding a second season but chances of that happening look pretty slim. Maybe the planned Blu-ray release (if it still happens) won't tank.

I compared the episode that aired to the simuldub stream. No edits. That said, it seems like the anime is self censoring Tamaki antics and Rekka beating up Tamaki. Rekka is a real sick SOB. I wish Tamaki was the one that gets to kick his ass.

The week before Thanksgiving.

Yeah they have been selling Megas XLR on iTunes and the MS store (previously Zune) for years. This is unfortunately nothing new on the Megas front.