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Violence and language isn't really an issue up to TV-MA after 10pm and is especially fine at 11pm. While it may seem bonkers to run something as tame as DBS after an episode of Titan, they did run DBZ after Titan despite largely being TV-PG. Not too mention all of season one was allowed to premiere at 11:30pm so content shouldn't be an issue. If CN takes back 8-9pm Super will likely shift to 9pm if a prime time airing remains a Toei mandate and I don't think Toonami would lose 11:30pm if that happened either. I think we can all see the real reason why Toonami shifted later wasn't just because CN reclaimed 8-9pm for a stint.

JoJo is the only one that would plausibly get seasonal breaks and that probably comes down to the structure of the deal. If they only got the first series initially then there may be a break before Stardust Crusaders. The other hang-up can be dub production but if Viz can keep up with Hunter x Hunter then there's no reason to assume they cannot do so with JoJo as well. Since they started with Part 1, Viz has had plenty of time to get a decent chunk of Stardust dubbed. BangZoom had about 20 episodes of Hunter x Hunter dubbed before Toonami even started airing it. They would probably drop One Piece and Shippuden before taking breaks. Both series are more than 100 episodes behind their dub releases. If we are to believe the rumors, then Kai Final Chapters has been completely dubbed already. It's just 69 episodes as well. One thing does stick out to me though. The IGN report for Super mentioned Adult Swim would be airing the first 26 episodes for now. Due to Schemmel voicing Goku among other complications it's possible Super would have to take production breaks. However, since they are more than a year behind Japan I figure they can have Schemmel record large chunks of Goku dialogue in a short span of time and not need production breaks if the show airs at the rate of 1 episode a week. They certainly wouldn't want their golden goose to take weeks off other than holidays weekends. That said, it is also rumored that Schemmel was the last one to finish recording for Kai FC so he might slow up dubbing Super at some point. So yeah... probably just JoJo and even then it will probably only be between Parts 2 and 3 and parts 3 and 4 (if that). It depends on a number of factors though.

They've been advertising Super like crazy and also took the time to advertise Kai FC and Gundam Unicorn. One can only wonder if all that extra promotion will pay off. Could tomorrow out-rate the perfect storm of the Akame ga Kill / Resurrection F preview night from August of 2015? I have my doubts they can match that but at the very least the turn-out should be the best it has been in quite some time.

I fully expect Jack to get 11pm or alternatively shift everything down a half hour and for Attack on Titan to replace that. Jack only lasts 10 weeks but it is an original production, it's going to get top billing and the benefit of a Family Guy lead-in. Attack on Titan probably wont get stuck behind Kai. It's a huge property in its own right and one that they were willing to air reruns of AHEAD of DBZ Kai initially. We can all agree that was a bad idea but it shows you what they're willing to do for Titan. I don't see a lack of 2017 shows as a notable concern for them though. It never really has been and very few series on this Toonami have started less than a year after the Japanese broadcast as is.

You think Jack wont air on Toonami? Nonsense. With the total lack of promotion the 8pm showing of Super is getting, I'd say chances of Jack premiering outside of Toonami are slim to none.

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I didn't notice a change in Luffy's tone but I suppose I wasn't listening for it. I don't think they replaced the ending song but I don't honestly know if they did or not.

I wonder what kinds of ratings they would be getting if they were dub premieres rather than being over 100 episodes behind. A zip forward would certainly put off some viewers and confuse many but would a larger part of their dedicated audiences showing up for dub premieres make all the difference? Hard to say. At any rate, it's clear that considerably more people watch One Piece and Shippuden online than will ever show up for a TV airing. You can probably thank the original cancellation of Toonami for that. When both series started simulcasting in 2009 and left their dub releases in the dust, so many fans switched to the Japanese casts that they'll never see a worthwhile reason to go back to watching the dubs. And both series are notoriously pirated with insane viewership numbers on piracy sites. Compare that to Dragon Ball Z, a series that has rarely been off US television since the mid 90s. It is one of the few anime where people will wait for a dub. Super quickly became one of the most streamed series on Crunchyroll but it has only rarely beat One Piece much less Shippuden. The dub will garner much more attention no doubt. Dragon Ball will continue to rule television while the streaming kings remain One Piece and Shippuden.

If the problem was marathoning on a holiday weekend then they're kind of up a crick without a paddle. Airing the regular line-up that night would have been disastrous and movies would be a waste of a premiere as well. So there's really not much that can be done short of doing theme marathons which I recommend they try one of these days. One-Punch Man's marathon did great though. It really depends on the day, the competition and the show that is getting a marathon. I also would have figured DBZ would do better than that but give how comedy did it's not that surprising.

A fine hour of television for some but a rather odd one for most. If you think the general audience isn't taking well to JoJo on Toonami even parts 2 and 3 wouldn't have done well after Archer. The cross-over audience for both wouldn't be anywhere near the level the cross-over between DBZ and JoJo audiences theoretically could be. Even next to Archer, JoJo would entirely stick out in a bad way on FX no matter how good it is.

I don't think SD Gundam was that bad. ThunderCats 2011 is on the fringe and Transformer Armada wasn't very good but He-Man was great IMO. It's good that you noted which series you have not seen though of those only Wulin Warriors is worthy of the bottom 10 IMO.

Pretty darn sure. The moment he started talking I was like "oh it's Vic, of course"

Next week is the Q&A and starting in January they will not have a show topic anymore. I'm disappointed they are leaving some shows unspoken of. There will be a new segment starting in January but they didn't say what it will be about.

I got to thinking about what shows are more likely to remember watching on Toonami and Adult Swim Action and I came up with some lists.

The schedule has Shelter listed at 12:30AM but I wouldn't be surprised if it aired during the first or second DBZ Kai so I would recommend recording the whole first hour of Toonami.

Ya know that's a fair point. Reign is a fugly show but I wouldn't necessarily say it's a bad show. It was one of those "Peter Chung doesn't give a fuck what you think" shows like Aeon Flux and in retrospect the story may actually have been decent or even good. Though it was also pretentious and heavy handed but that's how Chung rolls. I haven't seen enough of Blue Gender to judge. Trinity Blood had some interesting ideas. Able was amusing MC. I liked Moribito when I saw it a few years after it was off ASA. Balsa is a bad ass. Kekkaishi was milk-toast shounen of the most boring calibur IMO and Pilot Candidate was definitely trash.

I'll tune in for Shelter and a few DBZ episodes probably.

Think of it like that Space Dandy / Shippuden promo for the first Saturday in 2014. They did a full line-up promo soon after IIRC and I'm sure they'll do one soon as well. I appreciate that they are doing a group promo like that for their upcoming big premiere night. Kinda shitty not to include JoJo and skip to Gundam but it's good that they are including Gundam. There's also a 30 second Dragon Ball Super promo floating around which is a shorter version of the long promo.

Yeah they were. Now we've moved on to blowing JoJo's drops out of proportion! But seriously, everything is fine.

I don't recognize Koala on the first viewing. I would have to listen more carefully. Vic's performance isn't like his Ed. It's more natural and reserved. I suppose you could say he's trying to sound cool. The tone works though.

I'm serious about the casting. It's Vic. He's not bad in the role at all but I imagine some folks will hate that he's cast as such a significant character. I'm not a really a fan of Vic but I don't think he's a terrible actor, he's just got a grating personality.

That is does not but ANN has a lot of the cast listed.

Yes that's the actor I meant. IS JOKE

The other one that I think is a reasonably big spoiler is...

It's ratings fluctuated but in the first season it never dropped below a million viewers and as you may recall the lead-in was not Family Guy but rather The Boondocks when that show was on the decline. Given that, Dandy did plenty well for itself in season one. It only lost to Bleach one time before it started reruns and kept pace with the Boondocks. Season two dropped a bit from Bleach and really didn't work well between Bleach and Shippuden but had an upswing toward the end. Season One total viewers (not enough 18-49 data is available for this time period) 1,135,000 1,204,000 1,411,000 1,251,000 1,357,000 1,464,000 1,370,000 1,169,000 1,211,000 1,276,000 1,099,000 1,328,000 1,211,000 Total Viewer Average: 1,268,154 Season Two 18-49 Viewers: 432,000 508,000 410,000 396,000 434,000 522,000 519,000 538,000 697,000 556,000 624,000 565,000 702,000 18-49 Average 531,000 I wont say the second season was a smash but it certainly did not tank despite the very weak start on 4th of July weekend. It averaged around a 0.41 18-49 rating which isn't bad for 12:30AM at all and it didn't drop tremendously from it's lead-ins. Summer of 2014 wasn't exactly the ratings high point for the block either.