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I was thinking Ray Chase for JunkDog/Joe despite my circle of friends all feeling like Steve Blum is the ideal voice for him. It would be a great role for him to come out of semi-anime retirement on but he’s not the only option. I need Beau Billingslea as Nanbu though. Beau has been in HxH recently and he wasn’t Morel or the old man on Gundam IBO so I really want him for Nanbu. That said, you have a solid pick with Michael McConnohie. Jameson Price is also an option. Seitz could be Yuri but I think it’s more of a Kirk Thornton, Crispan Freeman or Liam O’Brien type role. Or maybe Cam Clarke, he was in JoJo recently as elder Darby. Erica Mendez works for Sachio but there’s a ton of options for him and the other kids.

I need my hot-blooded curling anime dang it!

Hell yes, this is beautiful!

Even I don't really want One Piece back on Toonami. Make no mistake, I'd enjoy having it there and I'd watch it to support it but it's only going to do worse and worse because that pacing is garbage tier and they won't be able to get new viewers to tune in for it even if it's in a good time slot (which it wouldn't be). Not to mention there's 8 series on that are either ongoing or have 100+ episodes. It's way too many even for a 7 hour block. At least let Hunter x Hunter finish and leave before anyone suggests they start airing One Piece again. Sure I'd rather have One Piece than Kai reruns but everyone knows Kai reruns are the smarter investment.

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It’s not long currently though it’s over 60 episodes. However, if it continues to get a new season every year then it’ll reach 100 episodes in a couple more years and possibly go beyond that. Toonami won’t catch up till season 4 at this rate (sometime in 2020). Season 4 hasn’t been announced yet for 2019 but it’s dang likely it will happen. Otherwise, MHA will catch up to the end of season 3 on Toonami about one year from now.

Well yeah, there used to be 3am premieres when Toonami ran 11:30-6am in 2014. It was the only way to have 7-8 premieres when they started late. They stopped premieres for 3am in 2015 when they shrank to 6 premieres and one rerun. One Piece ran at 2:30am from 2015 till 2017, then Shippuden was at 2:30am briefly. They stopped doing 2:30am premieres in 2017 when they re-expanded to 11pm (after briefly taking it away) by shifting the premieres a half hour earlier and adding a rerun of AoT season 2 at 3am. That was around when GITS was replaced by Outlaw Star and Bebop came back in HD for a full run. If you consider Outlaw Star a premiere then they kept up 2:30am premieres until OS ended earlier this year. At that point Toonami had 10:30pm for several months. Now that they’ve pushed Shippuden to 10pm and start at 9pm, they have nothing premiering at 2am but they have the most premieres they’ve ever had at one time. 2am premieres made sense when Toonami started after 11pm much less midnight but now 2am is better suited for reruns if for no other reason than 2am being 5 hours into the block and that’s a whole lot to sit through to get to the 2am show. That said, because they filled up 3.5 hours with long runners, perhaps a 2am premiere isn’t so unreasonable if it’s a cheap show. Or they could put something after JoJo and bump HxH or Clover to 2am like Shippuden used to be. 10 premieres is a heck of a lot though.

Technically Naruto Shippuden at 2am but for 2:30 (which may as well be 2am now) it was the return run of Outlaw Star. Before that, Lupin was at 1:30.

9 premieres isn’t down an engine. It’s more like adding engines. 🤨 Honestly 9-11:30 being long series is fine, it makes sense to put those there. The current frustration is that 12:30-2am is also long series and 11:30-12:30 is the only hour for experimentation. Hopefully they are creative filling that hour next year, don’t replace HxH with another long series and maybe use 2am for obscure premieres in the meantime.

9pm is a garbage time slot that is best left to a rerun. Though IMO they could have just started with the Naruto hour rather than bring in DBZ Kai. Toss Clover up earlier and stick something short at 1am or 1:30am. That said, they have 9 premieres even without using 9pm or 2am for a premiere. That’s plenty. It’s just too bad 7 out of 9 are 60+ episode series. I figure maintaining more than two rotating slots has become problematic as the hours have expanded but they should be able to maintain 3, especially since one is an original series that was planned for two years.

I’m down with 00. The only classic Gundam I’d like to see is G Gundam or 0080. I think the year long length of most Gundam is a bit problematic though. People lose interest.

Gundam Unicorn at 9:30 would get like 300,000 viewers IF THAT and probably lose 200,000 or more from DBZ.

Yeah those are a lot of big changes to do all at once but the majority of them do make sense. They gradually build to DBS with DBZ Kai reruns, My Hero Academia, Shippuden and Boruto. Shippuden is always a draw so that hour is probably gonna do alright and MHA gets the benefit of a Kai lead though it'll be hard pressed to do well at 9:30PM. They smartly have FLCL the biggest investment, right after Dragon Ball Super. Titan has already proven it's not terrific at holding DBS (it's not terrible though) so it's not a bad idea to try this. I haven't watched much of Black Clover and I have no investment in it but it has edged out HxH and even JoJo a few times lately so it's promotion isn't unwarranted. HxH ends next July and it's unlikely to gain new viewers 2 years into it's run so moving it back to 1:30AM where it has aired before isn't so bad. The only thing that stings is the fact that it is the last premiere of the night. It's been years since 1:30AM was the last premiere of the night though. I think they'll initially rerun Jack's 5th at 3:30AM but it'd be great if they ran the whole series with the HD remaster. Five rerun slots is a lot, especially the four in the back, but 2AM premieres don't seem sensible when the block starts at 9PM and already has 9 premieres. This is way too much Toonami for me to consider watching even if I was home to do so but as it stands I won't be home for the west coast airing until Boruto or Super and I have no reason to DVR anything before Boruto but I might DVR MHA to rewatch when Clover is on. I wouldn't mind if comedy took the 3AM hour if they would do something interesting with it. The current post-Toonami schedule of The Boondocks, Mike Tyson Mysteries and an hour of Home Movies is a pretty good start. I expect the 8pm hour will just be back to back Family Guy because believe it or not it's TV-14 so it can air at 8pm. If that's an hour of Family Guy then Toonami really shouldn't bother claiming 8pm until the day comes when Adult Swim no longer has Family Guy. Despite King of the Hill and Cleveland Show leaving I don't foresee Family Guy leaving any time soon. I think it's renewed out to 2020 or 2022. All that said, they have WAY WAY WAAAAAAAY too many long running shounen going at the same time. There are 9 premieres and 7 of them will be long-running Shonen Jump anime. They gotta use some of that space for some more dang variety next year but as it stands the openings before 2AM will be few and far between next year. And there's definitely a part of me screaming "why did you get My Hero Academia, Black Clover and Boruto when you still had Shippuden, Dragon Ball Super, Hunter x Hunter and JoJo!?!?!" It's not like MHA and Black Clover have even done amazing and Shippuden is nowhere near over. When Pop Team Epic replaced DBZ Kai, I had a glimmer of hope for more variety and then Boruto is announced and I felt that hope be ripped from my hands. But despite that, they get an additional hour but of course, it's just filled with DBZ Kai and Samurai Jack. Maybe DBZ Kai is just a placeholder while they still have some rights to air the Buu saga but chances are they renegotiated the contract and spent money to bring back Kai. They probably could have lead with MHA or Shippuden just fine as long as they kept their expectations for the first hour in check. I don't think they should have more than 9 premieres a night, that's a huge amount. However, if only 2 of those are finite premieres then maybe they could stand to get a really cheap show for variety sake. Most of the variety here is in the reruns after 2AM and that's a waste. The whole line-up looks like a bloated mess but I gotta admit I'm impressed that franchise sequels aside there are no doubled up shows in this line-up. Compare that to pretty much any cable channel for 7 hours including Adult Swim on weekdays and Sunday and that's incredible. I hope this is a successful experiment by whatever metrics they judge it with. They didn't have to expand Toonami again, they could have kept an hour of original comedies in prime time but instead, they chose to expand Toonami another full hour after just gaining 10pm . It's incredible that Toonami has gone from cancellation as 9PM-11PM Saturday block on CN to a 12AM-6AM block on Adult Swim down to a 12AM-3: 30AM one and all the way back up to 6 hours and now it finally returns to 9PM where it ended. Only now instead of being just 2 hours, it's a whopping 7, just 3 hours less a week thanToonami's 2 hour afternoon block. What I time to be alive? Final thought, those line-up promos are gonna be long and they'll be naming off shows in breakneck speed. Good luck with that and all those bumpers Toonami crew.

I figure the logic to that is 11pm generally does much better than 9pm on Adult Swim. Before Toonami started later and just had a comedy lead-in but now it has to build it's own crescendo from 9pm-11pm before the inevitable decline as people go to bed. People are used to the idea that prime time is a great place to air shows but that's not true for cable because of network competition and sports. DBZ Kai and My Hero Academia are going to get hammered by College Football but without DBS in those crosshairs they can do well at 11pm and hopefully keep people until the premieres end at 2am. Another way of looking at it is this: how can you expect people to stay for even 2 hours of a 7 hour block if you put the one show they care about at the very start? If they put Super at 9pm it would do worse than if it was at 10:30 or 11pm and that would cause Toonami to immediately bleed viewers by 9:30. That could very easily make this whole 7 hour block a wash. Super isn't even likely to win the 9pm time slot with key demos but it's definitely gonna win at 11pm.

1) Attack on Titan - A solid first episode to the new season 2) JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable - An amusing first episode with plenty of character 3) Hunter x Hunter - The King and Poof show some growth and things are ramping up 4) My Hero Academia - Good setup for the Sports Festival, Bakugo calling out everyone else is pretty dang amusing 5) FLCL Progressive - It is still a decent finale but loses points for being a rerun 6) One-Punch Man - Saitama vs the fly is always hilarious no matter how many times I see it but this also loses points for being a rerun 7) Pop Team Epic - The mafia story was a highlight but the rest was just okay 8) Dragon Ball Super - This was pretty stupid honestly and doesn't do much for Krillin or Goku as characters but points for Roshi getting weed I didn't watch Black Clover, Naruto Shippuden, Lupin the 3rd or Cowboy Bebop

Given there's not much reason to DVR Family Guy to watch it later, it's very likely that the 3 day DVR ratings pulled My Hero Academia ahead of Family Guy and that's probably true of Attack on Titan as well. It's a bit disappointing to see only about a 13% increase in MHA's 18-49s with the 3 day DVR ratings but I wouldn't be surprised if every other premiere on Toonami had about a 15-20% increase when 3 days of DVR ratings are accounted for. Perhaps enough to round many of them up to above 0.20 with 18-49.

It’s probably no coincidence that Toonami has only gotten 2.5 hours longer with the addition of 3-4 long series and less frequent bumps updates. The network decides how big Toonami gets and the crew making the packaging just gotta make do with what they’re given.

It’s Labor Day weekend, a big traveling holiday. I for one have a destination wedding to attend. I had an out of town wedding to go to that weekend in 2016 as well. I assure you I don’t attend weddings often it’s just one of those weekends that people plan big events on.

Not at all. The pacing of season 2 is great. Really only that first episode drags.

This is a good use of a marathon night. I kinda wish they went ahead and ran 10pm-6am so they could squeeze in 14, 15 and 16 from season 2. That would get people entirely caught up for the next week. All 13 episodes of season 1 should more than suffice to pick up some new viewers though. Alternatively, it would have been good to do all 12 episodes of Attack on Titan season 2 if they could rerun them but MHA is gonna lead the block so it makes more sense to marathon the first season of it. Definitely glad it's not just a marathon of FLCL Progressive. That probably would have done about as bad or worse than the FLCL OVA marathon. They can save that for another time when it's not so fresh in people's minds. This marathon of MHA might actually do decently.

I'm kinda surprised they're bringing back One-Punch Man to rerun because it looked like they had just lost the streaming rights but with season 2 approaching it makes sense to rerun it. I welcome its return. Saitama makes for good late night rerun fodder. It seems kind of insane that they're expanding even more but they had the opportunity to slide things down to fit in Attack on Titan and chose to fill the opening with a rerun forcing expansion. Not sure if it's a good idea at this point but we'll see how it goes.

When they have 8-9 premieres before 2:30AM (which they seem to be doing soon) I don't think they really need another one that late.

Given it's considered episode 13.5, I dunno if they'd actually air that recap but it's dubbed. Airing 13.5 and 14 together would be a decent idea though.

I'd welcome Madoka finally airing but why do you suspect that of all things?

Well those numbers put things in perspective