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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.

Yeah that's not how it works unless you marathoned chunks of IBO. I watched it week to week on Daisuki and the pacing was pretty dang bad. The dub in some ways makes IBO more enjoyable because all the information thrown at you at once is easier to process when it's not fast moving text but other than that it's just as bad on streaming sites as it was on Toonami.

How many anime or cartoons in general get references on SNL skits? That's a ridiculous bar. One Piece was referenced on The Simpsons and has plenty of merch in specialty stores.

Weebs wont care for this, it's not showing subbed. That's kind of a problem since they're relying on an audience that will watch the dub but are aware of events that happen in the Dressrosa arc lest they have those things spoiled for their own viewing. I gotta imagine there's not a huge number of people that fit that description. I got the screener and I can honestly say I don't think it was as good as Strong World or Film Z. It's entertaining but it's more flash than substance. It's would be a fine taste of One Piece for a new viewer if not for the major spoilers.

Including ASA only shows, really? And yet nobody said Pilot Candidate Bottom 10 (the shows I would argue were the worst Toonami has ever aired) 10 ) Blue Exorcist 9 ) Akame ga Kill 8 ) Pokemon Chronicles 7 ) Dragon Ball GT 6 ) Tenchi Muyo GXP 5 ) 4Kids One Piece 4 ) Yu-Gi-Oh GX 3 ) D.I.C.E. 2 ) Wulin Warriors 1) Bakugan Battle Brawlers Dishonorable mention to the Card Captors, Sailor Moon and OG DBZ dubs because they have NOT aged well but quality of those shows can still shine through their overwesternized, censored and/or poorly acted dubs. Gotta be honest, I like SAO, Beware the Batman and even the 2012 ThunderCats well enough to keep them off the top 10 but they were close and InuYasha: TFA barely missed the list. I maintain the stance that while Hamtaro was a terrible show to air on Toonami it was cute and not a bad watch. Top 10 (the shows I liked seeing on Toonami the most) 10 ) Batman: The Animated Series 9 ) Parasyte - The Maxim 8 ) Black Lagoon 7 ) One-Punch Man 6 ) Space Dandy 5 ) Justice League / JLU 4 ) Gurren Lagann 3 ) Megas XLR 2 ) Hunter x Hunter 1) One Piece Top 10 (what I would argue are the best shows Toonami has ever aired) 10 ) Sym-Bionic Titan 9 ) Black Lagoon 8 ) Gurren Lagann 7 ) Justice League / JLU 6 ) Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood 5 ) Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 4 ) Space Dandy 3 ) FLCL 2 ) Cowboy Bebop 1) Batman: The Animated Series Top 10 OVERATED 10 ) Dimension W (strictly from a Toonami ratings stand-point) 9 ) Gundam Wing 8 ) InuYasha 7 ) Naruto 6 ) Sword Art Online 5 ) Akame ga Kill (mostly from a Toonami ratings stand-point though this shit is oddly popular) 4 ) Naruto: Shippuden 3 ) Bleach 2 ) Attack on Titan 1 ) Dragon Ball Z One Piece would have made this list if the Toonami ratings weren't as low as they are.