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Funny, I'd say Super has the least business airing on Adult Swim, yet it's going to air on Adult Swim even outside of Toonami. Go figure. But seriously, that should be on a children's network, it requires next to no censorship aside from God, Satan, Hell and death.

You would think Adult Swim was trying to be greedy or screw over Toonami when they're on the same dang side to begin with. : The 8pm airing was probably something Toei wanted in return for letting Toonami air it at 11:30pm. I have no doubt they wanted to market Super as broadly as possible and air it on a children's network but the options are so limited now that they settled for Adult Swim. If you ever want to see action air before 11pm, I recommend we all watch the 8pm airing or both I suppose. If the 8pm airing gets no support it only proves that action can't succeed in prime time. Which is a sad statement considering Toonami was airing 7PM-11PM on Saturday nights for 3 years and airing in the early evenings for even longer than that.

Zeni are you at least happy they are airing Gundam Unicorn? They do in fact work too hard. They arguably put too much effort into their packaging. On the week's they run marathons they make a new set of bumpers for the commercial breaks. They could simply repeat the same bumpers every slot but they go that extra mile for whatever reason. They make something new for the block most weeks out of the year and also do immersion events. They give every series premiere promotion and promote any deviation from the regular schedule and every change to the regular schedule. No other part of Adult Swim has regular line-up promos that include every show that is airing. The amount of effort they put into promotion and packaging is far and beyond any other venue out there. And the Toonami staff don't even get paid for all that. They are definitely working too hard and bless them for it. Toonami definitely has an identity Zeni, you simply don't like what it is. The home of mainstream action animation on basic cable. Arguably still the home of the best action cartoons on US television.

The amount of money Adult Swim is spending on action programming is astonishing at this point. I'd have to figure this dipped beyond the usual Toonami budget big time. Something only allowed because it's fark'n Dragon Ball and it prints money. They'll probably make an exception for Attack on Titan season 2 next year as well. It exciting to see Adult Swim go above and beyond for action though a bit less so since so much of their spending is just on Dragon Ball series.

It's a brave new world now. They'll probably get 11pm for Samurai Jack and encore it at 8:30pm or even premiere it at 8:30pm with 11pm encores. I feel like they're kind of blowing their load with this by airing both at the same time but I suppose airing Super as soon as possible is the priority here. I figured they'd just skip Buu if they had Super but I have once again underestimated how far they will go not to drop a show mid-run.

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FUNimation did add swearing in the uncut dub of DBZ and Kai. They somewhat eased back on that later in Kai's uncut dub but early on there was a bit and even an S-bomb IIRC. Granted there are lots of ways to translate Japanese "swears" and they don't have to be as crass as the harsher known American curse words though so an s-bomb in particular is out of place in DBZ but at least they don't drop f-bombs like some fansubbers liked to do. I expect the uncut Super dub to be along the lines of Kai and relatively light on cursing but they are also producing a censored dub in case a children's network picks it up. Sabat confirmed that on Twitter recently. Mr. Satan would be Hercule, all mentions of God and death would be censored as well. You know just like the Y7-FV Kai dubs. As for violence. I have not seen Super beyond the first episode. I'm told there is an instance of stabbing but other than that it's not very violent. So it shouldn't need many visual edits for violence. I've heard something about Goku catching Bulma in the bath or taking a shower or something but that's easy enough to cut I would imagine. There's really no reason content wise it's too much for children's television.

A nice upswing from November. Hey AL while you're waiting for the rest of the ratings could you track down the series averages of Parasyte, AGK and Dimension W? And if you're willing also the series averages for KLK, SAOII, Michiko, Final Act and Champloo if you have them on hand? 18-34 averages for what is available along with 18-49 and total viewer averages. Only if you have them on hand, don't go to the trouble if you have to do all that math again.

Oh good you understand why they wouldn't air the only existing English dub. Here's the thing though, Build Fighters isn't getting a dub done in America. They already released it on Bluray and included the Asian English dub so you can consider the book pretty much closed on that baring very unlikely circumstances. Gundam really isn't sabotaging anything. It held DBZ about as well as anything else has for those 4 weeks and then it held One-Punch Man about as well as anything has held DBZ. I hate to say it but JoJo is actually proving more of a ratings problem than IBO. Toonami's ratings woes started around the time IBO started but not infact because of Gundam. Adult Swim declined this year across the board to the point that even Family Guy and DBZ can't get what they used to but so has the rest of cable so all things considered Adult Swim is still living at the top of the heap. As difficult as it may be to wrap our brains around it, these ratings aren't an indication that Toonami is doing badly or is even in trouble. It competes well just about every week and that's really all that matters.

Build Fighters English dub was recorded in Asia. No thanks. It's a good show though very intended for children but without a passable English dub they should not air it. I think the fact that even DBZ and Family Guy have done much worse than usual the past several months is indication Gundam is not the main reason the ratings are down. Gundam has managed an average very close to Parasytes despite everything being lower than when Parasyte was in premieres. Though I still hope Battle Tendency and Unicorn fair much better than Phantom Blood and IBO have since October.

If it airs on Toonami it's possible but very unlikely to hit that threshold right out of the park even with initial curiosity. The first couple of episodes are a little cute, kinda boring and very childish. About the same as Bleach filler but a bit more charming. With Adult Swim's ratings being down across the board lately I have serious doubts that Family Guy will regularly break 2 million viewers again. Maybe just maybe Super can actually beat the Family Guy episode that would air directly before it on the first week due to hype or some time after when the action kicks up. Its honestly very difficult to gauge how well DBZ Kai Buu saga or Super would do for Toonami other than better than Kai's average this year. DBZ Kai's 18-49 went from 802,000 down to 763,000 down to 700,000 and now 692,000 this month. Each week worse than the last. It's best in October was 851,000 but most of the other weeks it was below 800,000. So I honestly am not sure if Super could even regularly crack 900,000 18-49 but those would be super ratings for Adult Swim regardless.

I wouldn't go quite that far. They occasionally speed up a distributor regarding getting a show dubbed but if there is no dub planned they aren't known to get one in motion. They don't exactly have the financial clout with their regular budget to make dubs happen if they were not going to unless they wanted to air a show.

Viz licensed the show and said they were dubbing it quite a while before the cast was announced and Toonami announced they were airing it. While it's possible for Toonami to pick up a show from a Japanese distributor as they did with Sunrise for Gundam but that tends to require a prior relationship with the Japanese company. All you can really fault Toonami on in this case is perhaps not having Re:ZERO on their radar because it's not licensed. Even if it was on their radar there's only so much they can do to get it if the Japanese producers don't want to work with them directly.

To the surprise of probably no one. JoJo marathon on Dec 24th DBZ Kai marathon on Dec 31st

Seemingly nobody has the TV rights or home video rights to Re: Zero here. A similar situation to what Parasyte and HxH had while they were simulcasting on Crunchyroll before Sentai and Viz were able to secure the distribution rights. The rights may be caught in a bidding war.

Okay I'll bite. What are the redeeming qualities of Gundam: IBO in your opinion? The pro's IMO - Mika isn't a typical mopey Gundam protagonist - The emphasis on family and brotherhood - Some side characters are likable despite how little we got to know most of them - The space mafia stuff has a certain charm to it - At least Kudelia isn't Relena Peacecraft - The battles are not poorly choreographed The con's IMO - Far too much meandering in the middle of the series - A sense that very little gets accomplished in the first season - All that talking yet characters aren't more fleshed out? - Kudelia taking so long to "do something" - Arguably poor attempts to make you care about some characters right before they die - When interesting things are happening they tend to rush through them, it's very "hurry up and wait" most of the series - Over the top / cartoonish enemies like Carta and Tiger Pants that feel very out of place in a serious drama and not in a good juxtaposition type way - Occasionally jumping ahead weeks into a battle not allowing viewers to experience the battle first hand Bottom line, it has it's moments but it meanders way too much while rushing through "the good stuff" to meander some more and doesn't get much done in 25 episodes. Considering it's not an adaptation of a novel or a manga the pacing should be considerably better and from what I've seen of season 2 it has only marginally improved in that regard. I do hope it manages to make good on everything that has happened thus far but I get the feeling it wont.

No, Academia isn't bad at all. And no they are not editing out battles. IBO's problem isn't even the frequency of battles IMO. It's boring and it spends a lot of time talking yet doesn't do a great job of fleshing out most of it's characters or giving me a reason to care. For the general audience the lack of battles might be a problem but the general audience stuck around for Michiko & Hatchin. If IBO's character interactions and story were more gripping then it probably would hold more of the audience because it has some genuinely cool moments and Mika is a welcome change of pace from the typical mopey Gundam protagonist. But everything else is decidedly lukewarm all around IMO. There's nothing magical about it airing on Toonami that made IBO worse it was always just this mediocre IMO. Or at least it quickly became mediocre after a decent and promising start.

It's very solid shounen. It's not exactly original for super hero stuff but it's unlike most shounen anime because of it. As for Gundam Unicorn. I liked what I saw of the OVA (2 or 3 episodes I honestly forget) so I hope the TV cut is just as good or better. At one point I figured they'd air UC between IBO seasons but when they were down to one rotating premiere slot I was of the mindset that they'd give Gundam a short break, well so much for that. Definitely a vast improvement over IBO. I hope people give it a chance.

We all know you're just trying to rattle cages. Man if FG and DBZ aren't also significantly down due to competition, hoooooooooo boy that is unfortunate for the rest of the night.

Which means they are at least aware of it. You can't say that about the majority of anime any given year.

It's not that Jason doesn't want to play a sports anime it's that the network wont let him air another one. After IGPX and Prince of Tennis, I can't say I'm surprised but they really should have tried Fighting Spirit and Keijo!!!!!!!! honestly does fit and the fights are surprisingly technical despite how ridiculous they are. We're talking over the top on the level of JoJo or DBZ sometimes.

Darn it AL, I wanted to be the first to call an encore of CWCLV on the 17th. Or a double JoJo perhaps.

Folks had better watch if they want the regular lineup to air on Thanksgiving weekend next year. Last year the Parasyte marathon did as well as a regular lineup. Halloween on the other hand tanked last year and it did this year as well so I guess they felt Thanksgiving weekend would do fine. On the other hand this could be to finish Kai before January but it also causes IBO to finish on Dec 10th. So it will be interesting to see how the Dec 17th lineup looks.

FUNimation can and probably will make a Y7-FV dub for Dragon Ball Super at the behest of Toei who is the company that is really going to decide where the show ends up.

I feel like I've seen this coming for a while now. Cartoon Network which once treated Pokemon like a golden goose has pushed it aside and limited it to one airing a week on the main network while Boomerang has an hour a day around 10PM EST on weekdays and nothing on weekends. I didn't think much of it when Disney got BeyBlade's backlog recently, I just kind of figured no one else was interested but now that they're throwing down big bucks for the 19 previous seasons of Pokemon on top of the new episodes and 15 movies I gotta started thinking they have some plans brewing. Even before this I thought DXD was a strong possibility for Dragon Ball Super but this has erased any remaining doubts in my mind. At the very least I'm sure DXD has interest in acquiring the Dragon Ball franchise and they can most likely outbid Turner for Super and renewing Kai if they want to. 2017 is going to be an interesting year for anime on US television but it looks like starting early next year the only anime on basic cable will be airing on Toonami.