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Another disappointing week for Titan. Jack is doing excellent but everything else feels like it is falling apart. There just doesn't seem to be a way to recover from DBS dropping so hard after Jack. What a pity.

Ever since Dragon Ball Z Kai popped up in reruns at 8pm on Saturday nights I've been pondering the possibility of a split shift for Toonami. Now that Dragon Ball Super is actually premiering at 8pm and doing pretty well there, there may be some real possibility for expanding upon that. B ecause DBS seems to be required to air at 8pm a lot of folks have suggested Toonami dump the 11:30 airing but obviously Toonami doesn't want to give up "their" airing of a Dragon Ball series. Perhaps the best solution to the dilemma is to incorporate 8pm into Toonami and if they would go that far then perhaps they could grant a few more slots of prime time to Toonami as well in exchange for the 11pm hour. When Samurai Jack ends the necessity of the 11pm slot for a high profile premiere arguably goes with it (t least for the time being). If they could eliminate the 11:30 airing of DBS then there's really no need for Toonami to start before 12AM for now. Instead of expecting their viewers to sit through 4.5 hours straight they could break that up for a bit of a breather. While I'd certainly love to see Toonami run 8PM-2AM, dropping comedy from prime time would most likely tank the ratings. It's much safer to wedge 2 hours of comedy from 10-12AM. Would you like them to try Toonami split over two smaller blocks or would you prefer they keep Toonami 4+ hours straight on Saturday night? Consider these possibilities: Saturday Night Split - Saturday from 8PM-10PM and 12AM-3AM Friday Prime Time / Saturday Night Split - Friday from 8PM-10PM and Saturday 12AM-3AM Saturday Night / Sunday Prime Time Split - Saturday from 11:30PM-2:30AM and Sunday 8PM-10PM (counter-programming to FOX prime time?) Friday Night / Saturday Night Split - Friday from 12AM-2AM and Saturday from 11:30PM-2:30AM - In this case DBS would still have to air in prime time outside of Toonami

While that might actually be better for the block as a whole it wont be better for the ratings of Dragon Ball Super, which will always do better at 11:30pm than 8pm and usually by a significant margin though there are some odd weeks like the most recent one. I suppose if there wasn't an 11:30 encore you might be able to get more people to watch at 8pm especially if it was actually a small Toonami block. I can't imagine Jason being satisfied with Adult Swim airing DBS only outside of Toonami. Perhaps the 11pm hour should give way to a split shift of Toonami 8PM-10PM and 12AM-3AM 8PM-10PM is the ideal place to run the PG level shounen back to back while 12AM-3AM would use DBZ Kai for it's anchor and then proceed to heavier material. If they have any interest in airing Boruto and My Hero Academia, I'd say that's the best way to do it. Here's a potential schedule for after AoT season 2 ends --- TOONAMI Prime Time --- 8:00 PM - Dragon Ball Super 8:30 PM - My Hero Academia or Boruto 9:00 PM - Naruto: Shippuden 9:30 PM - Samurai Jack Reruns or FLCL Season 1 --- COMEDY BREAK --- 10:00 PM - Rick & Morty 10:30 PM - American Dad 11:00 PM - Family Guy 11:30 PM - Family Guy --- TOONAMI The Midnight Run --- 12:00 AM - Dragon Ball Z Kai 12:30 AM - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or New Anime 1:00 AM - Gundam IBO Season 2 1:30 AM - Hunter x Hunter 2:00 AM - Tokyo Ghoul Root A 2:30 AM - Attack on Titan Season 2 Reruns (replacing GITS season 1)

Yeah they have practically abandoned Tumbr for Facebook. They don't promote any of their social media on air they haven't even promoted Pre-Flight in a good long while. I think they just figure there is no real need to use resources to promote those and expect word of mouth to suffice. It's better to use those resources to promote the block and it's programming.

Wall Rose IIRC is one of the inner walls so if titans are within Wall Rose then things are getting worse and worse for human kind.

Well I watched it twice legally so I don't know what more I could have done without the manga being available here and the BD release being a ways off.

They don't post Super's dub on FUNi's site but they are indeed posting AoT Sundays nights.

Most late night anime don't actually take Golden Week off. It doesn't look like Attack on Titan will either. Golden Week starts this weekend in Japan.

Yes it's a different, tamer and more recent Lupin series that wouldn't need editing.

Demand is measured by requests posted on Toonami.tumblr.com, Facebook.com/Toonami and probably any other way people bug Jason DeMarco. Only rarely is there any kind of public poll. When he posted the one that included 3 shows they were already looking into the choices were Mob Psycho 100, the latest Lupin series, Tokyo Ghoul and "other". People rallied to vote for Ghoul and Lupin but Mob won the majority. I blame the YouTube anime commentator Forn3verWorld for a lot of the support Ghoul got. I tried to combat that by getting the editor of DBZ Abridged (who previously did Lupin Abridged) rally support in the final stretch but alas, Ghoul edged it out. Pun intended. Go to the Facebook or Tumblr to sing the praises of ReZero if you want it to air on Toonami. I really doubt many people have suggested it to them directly.

Seems there's a thing for red heads going on around here.

Aw yeah!

It's really always been the case that whoever has "the shows" is gonna get the space to air them on Toonami. In 2014 FUNimation had the shows (Space Dandy, Attack on Titan and DBZ Kai among others) In 2015 Aniplex and Sentai had the shows (KILL la KILL, SAO II, Akame ga Kill and Parasyte) In 2016 Viz Media had the shows (Hunter x Hunter, One-Punch Man and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) In 2017 FUNimation has the shows again (Attack on Titan 2, Dragon Ball Super, Tokyo Ghoul) FUNimation has maintained a strong presence (arguably the market share of time slots) since Toonami returned with the exception of the second half of 2016 when they were down to just DBZ and One Piece. Gundam re-entering the fray and Viz having three huge titles temporarily limited FUNimation's presence on the block but we all should have figured that minimized status wouldn't last.

Little boys like Sailor Moon too. It gave them their first erection :fap:

I had not considered them airing IBO S2 before finishing Unicorn, I suppose they could and then replace Unicorn with an less prominent premiere at 2am. I'd rather see them run the last 3 Unicorn eps back to back on May 20th if the goal is to get IBO on by the week after Memorial Day. They could make an event of it.

Yes, unlike with some shows that were heavily requested and then demand fizzled out, Tokyo Ghoul has remained heavily requested since it entered the market. Psycho-Pass demand has persisted as well. It was allegedly the third most requested show last Summer around when they got One-Punch Man.

Yes it's good to see there was nothing to worry about.

It's pretty evident that WBA makes these shows more for international audiences than CN in the US now. CN US just does not give two shits about these series. Thematically JLA would stick out much worse than BTB did. I really don't think they should bother even if they can show it for free.

At least in JoJo's case they have a lot of episodes available to watch without a login. http://www.adultswim.com/videos/jojos-bizarre-adventure/

He'd probably say something about sequel seasons of popular shows that aired on Toonami don't count.

It might be best to just air the regular line-up leading into Jack's finale for ratings sake but then again, it might actually be a great idea to do a lead-in marathon to the finale. Lots of networks pull those kinds of stunts and plenty have found success in doing so. I think it's worth a shot. That said, it seems very likely they'll do a marathon of the whole season on Memorial Day weekend. I might even suggest they could fill all 10 hours with Jack that night and run all 10 episodes twice. Now that would be an event!

They really ought to have adjusted that promo to not imply they have not premiered Tokyo Ghoul yet if they were going to keep using it. I think it's pretty swell that they promoted the show for more than one week though, most Toonami shows don't get that luxury. They also ought to air the general line-up promos more often. I don't think Toonami is treating Tokyo Ghoul poorly at all. Had it premiered at 2AM, then you might have some grounds to feel they're just using it for a filler. They seem very intentional with where they air airing Tokyo Ghoul on the line-up particularly in light of it getting Attack on Titan as it's lead-in later this month. Yes it is taken off a week but I think that has more to do with the ease of taking it off for one week and not shifting the rest of the line-up then any lack of interest or faith in the show. Personally I feel they've given Tokyo Ghoul more than it deserves but if they're going to bother playing anything they shouldn't throw it under the rug on arrival. They certainly have not done that to Tokyo Ghoul and it's about to get the support of brand new Attack on Titan. You can't ask for a better lead-in for the edge lords that will want to watch Tokyo Ghoul.

IMO that would be soon enough, just a short break and then it can return before people completely forget about it.

JLA is an okay kids show with some amusing moments and decent action but it would not really fit in on Toonami even when you consider Dragon Ball Super (a show I'd certainly pair with JLA on CN daytime). It'd honestly be better off going to Hulu or Netflix if CN is going to cut it loose. I'd watch it if it some how ended up on Toonami but I really don't think it should air there. CN should air it in the daytime and give it adequate support rather than show it once a week unadvertised. It was pretty much dead on arrival because of CN refusing to acknowledge it's existence on their line-up.

It only just dawned on me the other day that The Flesh is probably a name intentionally similar to The Flash.