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Geez did it really top 6 digits? Jack's premiere topped 5 IIRC. If they are the rights to do it I would highly recommend they stream all of season one of Attack on Titan and make a big deal out of it when they do like they did with Samurai Jack. Just quietly streaming it on the Toonami stream isn't gonna cut it.

Maybe it is because the first season is 12 episodes and the second season of 12 episodes, or series if you will, is called Tokyo Ghoul Root A and it deviates tremendously from the manga.

Lightly used Rick & Morty leading into Toonami could work out well IMO but the premieres probably should air on Sunday.

If these ratings were pretty much inevitable due to the Final Four then maybe it was better that Jack didn't air. http://programminginsider.com/ratings/final-nationals/saturday-final-nationals-cbs-delivers-second-best-ncaa-final-four-doubleheader-19-years/

It did excellent in premieres. They won't keep it at the front for reruns again.

Hey Adult Swim, don't pull that shit again. They tanked Toonami. I'm guessing people assumed the block was not even going to air. http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-4-1-2017.html

Wow even sooner. Having the new season of Titan on Toonami just 3 weeks behind Japan is pretty insane. I hope it does well for them. I can't help but feel they are missing a grand opportunity by not pairing up Jack and Attack on Titan premieres. DBS hasn't been holding Jack super great and I honestly think AoT could do better in that slot. Perhaps they'll shift Attack on Titan to 11pm when Jack ends but that's a bit of a jump from 12:30 and the show will only have seven episodes left at that point so I have my doubts they'll do that. Considering the goal is to stay just 3 weeks behind Japan they shouldn't preempt Attack on Titan on Memorial Day weekend or 4th of July weekend. That may play a factor in how it is scheduled once Jack leaves and all the more reason to move it to 11pm at that point but maybe they'll bite the bullet on those nights and air some if not all of the regular line-up. It's gonna be interesting to see how that all plays out in the coming months. I'm all about doubling up JoJo for the season finale. Tokyo Ghoul viewers are getting the shaft there but given Attack on Titan will be Ghoul's lead-in the week after, I'm sure it will be more than fine.

A schedule with Jack, AoT and the DB hour should last four weeks. Then Memorial Day weekend and then a new show can start in June.

I'm all for JoJo airing earlier though I don't think it will air earlier than Super if they are willing to split up the DBs it could possibly get midnight. With supposedly only 5 eps dubbed, Stardust may not be ready by June but it probably can be.

Blue Exorcist at 11:30? April fools was yesterday AL. It might air the week after Titan's season finale but I'd sooner expect it to replace Tokyo Ghoul.

There was also the business attire image.

I'm figuring 11:30 for AoT and the DB hour will move to 12-1am. That would make for an easier transition to having AoT at 11pm after Jack ends.

So Ben, how did you like this week's Showdown?

Yes PV is short for preview.

Waiting till after Memorial Day to start season 2 of AoT means being close to half a season behind Japan, that rather defeats the point of going to the effort of dubbing the show using broadcast masters. Adding weeks off for marathons and they'll get even more behind. Given that I'll make two bold predictions. Either they start AoT on April 29th and potentially do not give the 11pm hour a week off for most of the usual holidays (meaning no preempting Super those weeks either) or they start AoT on May 20th and do not preempt the 11pm hour on holidays until AoT ends.

Most things not called One-Punch Man lose about that many 18-49 viewers from DBZ. JoJo did not start that trend though it has arguably seen the worst drops from DBZ yet on prior weeks. It's an acquired taste. The old anime style visuals, over the top narration and accents and the overall bizarreness just don't appeal to a lot of the general audience. Add to that people could have seen the dub already and plenty of people are waiting for Stardust Crusaders to air as opposed two the first two arcs.

Hasn't the encore of Super retained Family Guy and Jack about as well as DBZ Kai retained Family Guy by percentage? I'm not convinced the 8pm airing is holding the 11:30 Super back from greater success. We all know starting Toonami earlier poses a risk of lower ratings and that's compounded by cable viewership declining. Jack's doing great so far. Hopefully everything else improves with the upcoming schedule shift but this week is already a nice improvement over the last one.

At this point, I figure it's mostly nostalgia for people who grew up watching the original Naruto series. Honestly I still think the original Naruto anime before 136 is holds up rather well. It has some painfully childish antics from time to time and young Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura are more insufferable than their Shppuden counterparts but it's a pretty well constructed story that builds and interesting world and a lore and goes places at a reasonable pace. It's a pretty solid adaptation of a decent manga up to that point but Shippuden's long stretches of filler and slower pacing for canon in the first 70 or so episodes instantly killed my enthusiasm. People are invested enough to overlook Shippuden's downsides (excessive filler, obnoxious moody characters, how useless Sakura is). US TV viewers never got invested in One Piece to that degree because the dub was hot garbage for 104 episodes and then not long after Cartoon Network dumped all non-toyetic anime. One Piece fans and anyone who could stand watching subs watched it subbed and have continued to do so. A lot of people ditched Naruto dubs once it was taken off Cartoon Network if not before that but enough the general audience still like watching Naruto dubbed while considerably less viewers took a liking to One Piece. I figure a large percentage of the Adult Swim viewership rejected One Piece because it wasn't drawn like Bleach or Naruto Shippuden and I'm sure the Foxy arc and the filler right after it did not help make a good first impression. They saw it as the same goofy show that 4Kids dubbed in 2004. The Adult Swim viewers they did enjoy One Piece probably switched to watching it on Hulu at some point so they could watch the series at their own pace. For others, the episode count was simply too much to bother with. Naruto was only entirely off the air about one year IIRC and Dragon Ball was only off the air for about two years and got a HUGE push when it returned and didn't leave the air again since. Meanwhile One Piece was off for about 5 years and in that time people simply moved on to watching it however they prefer and had little reason to go back to watching it once a week on Toonami.

Putting Gundam Unicorn after Family Guy or Samurai Jack rather than having a Dragon Ball series there is asking for it to tank tremendously. I imagine Toonami is putting Gundam Unicorn at 2AM because it's time on Toonami will be short-lived anyway so no need to bury HxH even later just to finish Unicorn at 1:30AM.

They tried to get Sailor Moon Crystal. They have said they were outbid.

Seems the grids have been updated. Hunter x Hunter stays at 1:30AM, Gundam moves to 2AM. That's more like it.

Considering JoJo got the kind of ratings One Piece used to get at 2:30AM and Gundam got the kind of ratings One Piece has gotten lately, here's hoping it was an unusually bad night.

I realize the fact that One Piece has nearly 800 episodes plays well into it's favor with rankings but if people were not watching it then it wouldn't still be the 3rd highest viewed anime on Hulu right? It would only rank well for all time rankings rather than maintain it's position as the 3rd most watched anime on Hulu any given day. Look how far Attack on Titan has dropped since 2013. It should be noted DBZ isn't on Hulu anymore but when it was somewhere behind OG Naruto and or Yu-Gi-Oh for the most part and didn't come close to touching Bleach and One Piece much less Shippuden.

How popular people wanted One Piece to be is irrelevant but it's very popular for an anime. Let's observe Hulu's rankings for every show on the service. It's the 3rd most viewed anime regardless if it's ranked by today, this week, this month and all time. All-Time is the easiest to manage I would think but the fact that One Piece is still in the top 75 programs to this day and among the top 30 of all time speaks volumes doesn't it? Look at it's anime competition for comparison. Many shows that have come and gone on Toonami or been requested for the block. Others that are as close to household names as anime get here. How can anyone look at this and deny One Piece is heavily watched in America. TODAY Naruto Shippuden #27 Bleach #55 One Piece #69 Naruto #101 Yu-Gi-Oh #109 Fairy Tail #121 FMA Brotherhood #146 InuYasha #168 Gundam 00 #189 (recently added) Pokemon #224 Gundam Wing #233 Yu-Gi-Oh GX #241 One-Punch Man #249 Sailor Moon #253 Tokyo Ghoul #279 Dragon Ball #280 High School DxD #288 Sword Art Online #312 Assassination Classroom #313 Ghost in the Shell: SAC #316 Hunter x Hunter #323 Log Horizon #339 Kenichi #348 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #377 Blue Exorcist Kyoto Arc #380 Hitman Reborn #381 Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds #385 Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orpahns #394 My Hero Academia #395 Blue Exorcist #396 Death Note #406 Ranma 1/2 #409 Samurai Champloo #419 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan #421 Fruits Basket #425 Cowboy Bebop #429 Sonic X #430 Attack on Titan #433 Sailor Moon Crystla #436 Ouran High School Host Club #438 Crayon Shin Chan #444 Food Wars #449 Initial D #462 Seraph of the End #466 Gundam SEED #467 Trigun #483 Sword Art Online II #488 Noragami #497 Gundam: O8th MS Team #499 InuYasha: The Final Act #500 D.Gray-Man #503 Yu-Gi-Oh ZeXal #505 Digimon #517 Akame ga Kill #522 Dragon Ball GT #524 Toriko #528 Parasyte #533 Haikyuu!! #542 Black Lagoon #544 Is it Wrong to Pick up Girls in a Dungeon #546 Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals #550 THIS WEEK Naruto Shippuden #24 Bleach #63 One Piece #74 Yu-Gi-Oh #113 Naruto #119 Fairy Tail #127 FMA Brotherhood #152 InuYasha #172 Gundam 00 #189 Pokemon #223 Gundam Wing #231 Yu-Gi-Oh GX #247 One-Punch Man #256 Sailor Moon #263 Dragon Ball #280 Tokyo Ghoul #287 High School DxD #293 Sword Art Online #316 Assassination Classroom #318 Ghost in the Shell: SAC #326 Hunter x Hunter #328 Log Horizon #333 Kenichi #346 Blue Exorcist Kyoto Arc #351 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #380 Hitman Reborn #381 Blue Exorcist #391 Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds #393 Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #400 My Hero Academia #408 Death Note #416 Sonic X #422 Ranma 1/2 #425 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan #429 Fruits Basket #430 Attack on Titan #433 Samurai Champloo #439 Sailor Moon Crystal #445 Cowboy Bebop #446 Crayon Shin Chan #448 Ouran High School Host Club #449 Food Wars #463 Seraph of the End #475 Initial D #490 Gundam: 08th MS Team #497 Trigun #500 InuYasha: The Final Act #503 Sword Art Online II #504 Gundam SEED #505 Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal #516 Noragami #521 Akame ga Kill #525 D.Gray-Man #531 Digimon #544 Toriko #546 Parasyte #548 Dragon Ball GT #550 THIS MONTH Naruto Shippuden #22 Bleach #59 One Piece #63 Yu-Gi-Oh #98 Naruto #110 Fairy Tail #131 FMA Brotherhood #145 InuYasha #191 Pokemon #132 Gundam 00 #146 Yu-Gi-Oh GX #154 One-Punch Man #181 Sailor Moon #191 Gundam Wing #195 Tokyo Ghoul #198 Dragon Ball #205 High School DxD #215 Assassination Classroom #253 Sword Art Online #254 Log Horizon #255 Kenichi #270 Ghost in the Shell: SAC #272 Blue Exorcist Kyoto Arc #288 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure #302 Hunter x Hunter #304 Hitman Reborn #312 Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds #316 Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans #321 Blue Exorcist #325 Death Note #333 Sonic X #339 Ranma 1/2 #342 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan #352 Attack on Titan #355 Fruits Basket #358 Cowboy Bebop #361 Samurai Champloo #365 Food Wars #368 Sailor Moon Crystal #373 My Hero Academia #376 Ouran High School Host Club #380 Crayon Shin Chan #385 Initial D #400 Serpah of the End #413 Trigun #414 InuYasha: The Final Act #422 Sword Art Online II #431 Akame ga Kill #433 Noragami #434 D.Gray-Man #442 Yu-Gi-Oh ZeXal #449 Digimon #452 Toriko #453 Dragon Ball GT #455 Gundam: O8th MS Team #456 Parasyte #460 Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals #470 Black Lagoon #474 Haikyu!! #475 Is it Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? #493 Gundam SEED #494 K #496 Kamisama Kiss #505 Soul Eater #508 Claymore #518 Zatch Bell #519 Blood Lad #520 GATE #530 Digimon Tamers #531 Maid Sama #532 Kimi ni Todoke #536 The Irregular at Magic High School #550 ALL TIME Naruto Shippuden #6 Bleach #25 One Piece #27 Naruto #41 Yu-Gi-Oh #51 Fairy Tail #60 InuYasha #113 Pokemon #124 Yu-Gi-Oh GX #129 One-Punch Man #191 FMA Brotherhood #198 Tokyo Ghoul #208 Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds #210 Sailor Moon #214 Dragon Ball #218 Sword Art Online #225 Death Note #237 Attack on Titan #249 Hitman Reborn #254 Soul Eater #260 Sonic X #279 Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan #286 Assassination Classroom #303 Sword Art Online II #305 Fruits Basket #331 Yu-Gi-Oh ZeXal #333 Kenichi #335 Blue Exorcist #337 InuYasha: The Final Act #338 High School DxD #341 Toriko #344 Rurouni Kenshin/Samurai X #355 Sailor Moon Crystal #366 Crayon Shin Chan #370 Log Horizon #411 Vampire Knight #421 D.Gray-Man #433 Ouran High School Host Club #435 Digimon #437 K #439 Guilty Crown #449 Parasyte #463 Seraph of the End #467 Akame ga Kill #470 Pokemon: Origins #478 Kamisama Kiss #479 Rock Lee and His Ninja Pals #511 Ranma 1/2 #516 Trigun #520 Future Diary #527 Samurai Champloo #534 Cowboy Bebop #545 Infinite Stratos #547 Initial D #550

Naruto speaking to Gon: "Is this your first day at 2AM? Welcome to Hell." This deal just keeps getting worse and worse. I saw this coming but I wanted to believe they wouldn't hose Hunter in less than a year. If this was inevitable why did they even bother picking up Hunter? How can a dub premiere of a 148 episode series succeed at 2AM much less behind a niche show like Gundam? Ugh... People will say "you should just be happy that it's airing at all" and I am happy about that but I'm not the least bit happy that within less than a year of it starting they have already buried it to a slot it will only escape via completion, moving to 2:30 or getting pulled of the air. The only chance it has of airing earlier is if the whole block shifts earlier. What a crock of shit for Hunter x Hunter. At least JoJo doesn't move. That either says it's actually doing well enough or they just plan on replacing within about a month when it's season ends. Might be a combination of the two.