CountFrylock Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 i don't think toonami worried so much about ratings when they were on weekdays but now that they are really damn late at night on saturday's(only)is when the ratings become crucial doesn't make sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 i don't think toonami worried so much about ratings when they were on weekdays but now that they are really damn late at night on saturday's(only)is when the ratings become crucial doesn't make sense I don't know about that. I mean I'm pretty sure shows actually got taken off or death-slotted a lot more often back then. Yu Yu Hakusho and Rave Master come to mind. Some shows they just flat out didn't finish, like Zatch Bell, MAR, etc. The standards are less high late at night but there are still standards. Unfortunately One Piece didn't meet whatever the standards are that the higher ups set for it. Again this wasn't Toonami's decision, but their bosses'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 there shouldn't be any kind of standards for 1:30 AM....by that time your lucky to get anyone watching anything it should be a miracle for a show to get any sort of view time at that hour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 there shouldn't be any kind of standards for 1:30 AM....by that time your lucky to get anyone watching anything it should be a miracle for a show to get any sort of view time at that hour It is odd, I must admit. All I can figure is since Adult Swim is exclusively a late night network those slots must be more important and valuable to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 It is odd, I must admit. All I can figure is since Adult Swim is exclusively a late night network those slots must be more important and valuable to them. yeah and that's why the rest of the week it's filled with crap like cleveland show reruns or king of the hill....(I.E Fox Animated Rerun garbage that you can get on a number of channels) my mother thinks this was more of a licensing issue than anything else and i gotta agree since as i said...ratings in the middle of the night on saturday shouldn't be expected to be good in the first place you just don't dump one piece into the 1:30 AM Slot and act shocked that it's rating's are total garbo who the hell is even awake for most of these shows? by the time one piece comes on You are lucky if your legs aren't asleep already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben0119 Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 yeah and that's why the rest of the week it's filled with crap like cleveland show reruns or king of the hill....(I.E Fox Animated Rerun garbage that you can get on a number of channels) my mother thinks this was more of a licensing issue than anything else and i gotta agree since as i said...ratings in the middle of the night on saturday shouldn't be expected to be good in the first place you just don't dump one piece into the 1:30 AM Slot and act shocked that it's rating's are total garbo who the hell is even awake for most of these shows? by the time one piece comes on You are lucky if your legs aren't asleep already Well from what I'm aware that formula seems to do well for them. Programming for Toonami though requires more care and thought but you have to think the Toonami crew appreciates having some long-runners on the block because that means they don't have to go through the process of picking a new show for every slot every 13-52 weeks. And you need long-runners to get viewers in and keep them around. Viewers like familiarity and always having a show they love being there for them to back to. So, they come for these shows and then hopefully stay for the finite series. Having One Piece back there was one more slot they didn't have to program for and one that viewers came back for. Ratings must have been pretty bad for a long enough time to get The Powers That Be to ax it. Demarco did say the short answer was ratings. There was probably more to it but we'll probably never know what. And I mean we do know for a fact that the ratings weren't that great for a long time, so there's no real reason to overthink this. Though I have to admit I didn't see this coming since I figured the standards weren't that great for One Piece being the last show before the rerun and then AS comedies taking over. I suppose I was wrong and One Piece wasn't as safe as I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountFrylock Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 one piece will be back. Someday it's just too big to simply say "Yeah we're never airing you again" especially since the toonami crew loves the show... it just shocks me that in the toonami reboot a show actually got removed due to ratings in a crap time slot(a crap time slot that really shouldn't have been on One Piece if anything that should have been naruto from the start....) as you said the block needs long runenrs and since Jojo's rumored to take a break after Battle Tendencies finishes and Naruto probably will meet the same fate as one piece in that doomed time slot they will need a long runner...one or more of those shows will go down and DBZ Kai FC has what? like 64 or 63 episodes left once that ends they can't just pick up some random new anime and expect people to tune in for it like they would DBZ they need reliable familiar names Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 One Piece is gone forever and the block is better off. It's never coming back, the average block viewer isn't watching, it's over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jman Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Yeah, countfrylock being the new Moose got old quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Guess that one sailed right over your head, chief. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmpressAngel Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Man, I wish I had so little to worry about in my life that I can spend weeks on a third-rate message board focusing on a cartoon that comes on at two in the fucking morning not airing anymore. I'm genuinely happy for you, buddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Every time I start feeling down, I think about Jman's endless cascade of shitposting and immediately feel better about my life choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginguy Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Is it time for another shout out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misaka Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Is it time for another shout out? Drama related will get moved offline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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