One Piece is being cancelled. It's last episode airs this Saturday. It will be replaced by Tokyo Ghoul at 1am the following Saturday. Everything else moves down. World record didn't help ya, huh?
Sand Whale and Me starts this Saturday at 12am. Each episode is a 5 minute short so it's just being squeezed in, nothing else changes.
Adult Swim is funding two new 6 episode seasons of FLCL. Expected release 2018.
We finally made it, this was the first week of the new Samurai Jack. Everyone had high expectations for its performance and its effect it would have on the rest of the block, and while it didn't beat AgK, it was the number 2 show of all cable, only being beat by a basketball game. That's pretty solid. The rest of the block though went all to shit. Kai fell under a million, Jojo plummeted to the 600k range, and everything stayed around that level of shit. Thank DST for that weird up and down.
11:00 Samurai Jack 1552 0.76 973 11:30 Dragon Ball Super 1251 0.57 733 12:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 903 0.42 542 12:30a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure 672 0.32 405 1:00a Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 569 0.26 339
1:30a Hunter X Hunter 569 0.26 337 3:00a Naruto: Shippuden 674 0.30 379 3:30a One Piece 657 0.28 364 4:00a Ghost in the Shell (r) 602 0.26 334
8:00 Dragon Ball Super 0.51 865 0.28 000 8:30 American Dad (r) 0.47 721 0.27 000 9:00 Rick & Morty (r) 0.50 760 0.31 000 9:30 Rick & Morty (r) 0.57 873 0.35 000
10:00 Family Guy (r) 0.79 1264 0.56 000 10:30 Family Guy (r) 0.91 1468 0.66 000
Mason Nguyen
gundam isn't doing well, neither is HxH
Gavin Scott
>Tokyo Ghoul at 1am And the TV will be muted.
Caleb Young
Short reruns from DST
4:30a American Dad (r) 617 0.28 360
5:00a King of the Hill (r) 657 0.30 387 5:30a King of the Hill (r) 598 0.26 339
Lucas Martin
Best
Ian Robinson
So what the hell happened with the ratings crash? And Tokyo Ghoul replacing One Piece? Is this for real?
Adam Howard
>more people want to watch Ghost in the Shell that's aired for years at 4am then HxH
Isaiah Barnes
huh. who knew that people would only watch samurai jack and nothing else? except...everyone.
can`t wait for toonami to eventually marathon the new samurai jack and get the most viewership in the history of toonami
William Bailey
Ghost in the Shell is good tho unlike HxH past the first few arcs anyway
Ethan Butler
Tokyo Ghoul is okay. They should've kept with the manga ordering.
Re: is shit though after the 1st arc.
Austin Ortiz
Odd drop from Jojo to HxH compared to last week IIRC
Jeremiah Miller
>funding a new season of Fooly Cooly >New samurai Jack episodes
is cartoon network having their version of a midlife crises? Will we get a new season of Courage the Cowardly Dog out of it?
Jaxson Hall
In one hour it's officially Toonami's 20th anniversary!
Hunter Reyes
>Will we get a new season of Courage the Cowardly Dog out of it? Didn't the creator of Courage try to get another seasons/reboot through with a CGI short a few years ago?
Hunter Rivera
I would wager that drop in the middle and gain towards the end is a calculation error caused by DST. The real concern is the ratings nosedive starting at Jojo
Hunter Rogers
>is cartoon network having their version of a midlife crises? Not Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and CN are two different channels that are run at different times. [as] isn't beholden to CN and is pretty independent when it comes to their own autonomy and decision-making.
Andrew Reyes
>calculation error caused by DST I forgot entirely about DST. Seems like a reasonable explanation honestly.
Jaxson Lopez
Calling it now,Spider-Man for the April Fools day joke.
Jason White
Someone red pill me on Tokyo Ghoul. The concept sounds great but anime fans either love it or despise it
Christopher Ramirez
Toonami related April Fools joke won't be till next year. This year AS has to make up for that pitiful attempt at humor from last year
Aaron Butler
>Samurai Jack becomes a massive success and Adult Swim ends up rebooting every show we grew up with in the 90's-00's >Galactic Kids Next Door >Symbionic Titan season 2 >Genndy directed Dexter's Lab Season 4 >Mission Hill season 2 >Birdgirl Attorney at Law >Courage The Cowardly Dog 2 >Swat Cats >Megas XLR >Starts a new golden age of animation Mite b cool.
Charles Jones
Nah, The April Fool's joke this year was cancelling One Piece.
Grayson Morales
>Courage The Cowardly Dog >on Adult Swim
Nathaniel Jenkins
>Jack comes back >ratings hit WWE numbers right after it
Good job nostalgia niggers you've effectively killed the block
Jayden Hall
Where is the One Piece Guinness World Record user now?
Blake Martinez
>Symbionic Titan >Megas XLR Can't legally happen.
Evan Robinson
Time to drop them too. I think it's about time for some spring cleaning for this block.
Gavin Gray
>Courage >On Adult Swim
I don't think I could watch that, normal Courage episodes gave me fucking nightmares as a kid.
Evan Long
>>Galactic Kids Next Door GKND sounded like the worst bullshit/edgy piece of crap show that was as far from the source material as it could be. I'm sorry.
How about CN/Adult Swim try and create new things instead of rebooting old classics?
Nathaniel Gray
T W E N T Y W E N T Y
Y E A R S E A R S
Cooper Lewis
These are genuinely the most bizarre ratings in months so I'm assuming DST had something to do with it. I expect Jack to get better ratings over the next few weeks as word of mouth spreads.
For what it's worth I saw a lot of people on my twitter feed who normally don't watch Toonami tweeting about Jack, I think my favorite was a roomful of Final Round casuals stopping to watch the show.
Chase Reed
that "the joke is there no april fools day joke ahaha were so good watch rick and morty on our reddit stream"
Bentley Myers
That's why there was a drop off. People were only there for Jack.
Joshua Harris
The dropoff wasn't normal. Super's ratings were within the norm but the middle of the block collapsed. The lowest ratings Unicorn and HxH had gotten before were in the low 600s. Ratings went back to normal with Naruto, One Piece somehow managed to get great retention even, guess people turned out after hearing it was ending its run.
Isaac Baker
ahahah they spent money advertising on non-turner networks and couldnt crack 2m.
they got less viewers then alvin and the chimpunks rerun.
seven nights of adultswim when?
Matthew Mitchell
I wonder how it will work. I'm assuming Toonami will at least maintain 11:30, so will the joke hit mid block?
Slowly but surely, the Stardust Crusaders dub is making progress.
Aiden Anderson
>DBZ under a million >HxH didn't lose anyone from Gundam >people came back for Naruto It's like opposite day. Also, why the hell are people saying Naruto will be the next to go when this shit happens every other month? Isn't it on a really shitty filler arc now?
Leo Bell
The west actually likes Naruto, unlike Rubberman and his band of circus freaks.
Noah Howard
GKND was the logic sequel after the last season really
Isaac Cruz
And the last season was the absolute fucking worst shit. I want to go back in time and make sure it never existed. End it at the previous season. Don't give a single shit if it leaves things open, every single part of the last season was awful and the very last episode was Warburton taking off his pants and shitting on the audience. Not even the person you're replying to.
Hunter Russell
I genuinely don't understand how we are still using the rating system when the demographics advertisers are most interested in are mostly watching online.
Jayden Ward
>the normies don't give a shit about Buu Kai, considered the best part by DBZfags >the normies don't care about Super anymore and fuck off before the actual unique plot starts after adapting the two movies, in fact losing interest before BoG's adaptation ends >the normies don't care about Jojo anymore because, depending on how normie they are, Le Dio maymay they loved so much is gone, or the "Trump" character they hated so much actually won, and they can't get into Worst Jojo Joseph because he's not as much of a meme in the dub This is just BTFOing every single established weebbase on Sup Forums, except maybe Sup Forumsjojo who rightfully hate Joseph.
Jacob Wilson
>buu saga >considered the best part by DBZfags
typically when you make a post you don't want to open with the most blatant of your horse shit
Owen Richardson
It isn't? I thought it was, since Freiza Saga is mediocre and Cell Saga is ass.
Joseph Martin
>dropoff from some other show to DBZ
How's it taste fucker! Shoe's on the other foot now!
Joshua Martinez
The only thing mediocre about the Freeza arc was the strange power scaling and the only thing shitty about the Cell arc was the poor pacing (which wasn't toriyama's fault), both of which Buu saga suffers from far worse.
Kayden Ross
Because with OP gone Naruto is now the lowest rated show on the block. As a bonus it has 500 episodes we will never get to even if it stays
Elijah Peterson
Funimation made a huge mistake deciding to start the Super dub from the very beginning of the series. I don't think Americans will have the patience to sit through 2 arcs that are just worse recaps if the films that they already fully dubbed and released in theaters.
At this rate it's going to take 2 years to until the first tournament against Champa.
Andrew Gomez
How about no.
Reboots are killing off creativity and originality in the entertainment industry.
Asher King
Maybe they were banking on people not nowing the first two arcs are movie retellings with slight changes or even knowing what DBS was until the announcement.
Sebastian Nelson
They should have just played the movies and had the series go right into the Black arc.
Juan Hill
>Adult Swim brings back The Boondicks. It would be great.
Ayden Scott
>I find this Gundam extremely confusing >After Jack and the Dragon Balls, the best thing I like his HxH
Jaxon Hall
will the Kai Buu arc suffer from this as well?
Hudson Walker
Why? The fourth season was mediocre, and that was with Aaron ghostwriting.
Thomas Cooper
>WWE numbers
Toonami would kill for low 3s and high 2s
Isaiah Rodriguez
I gotta put a brave face on.
David Campbell
Reminder that AS has NEVER rerun the 4th season until last week
Cameron Williams
Maybe it'll fix some of the shitty pacing, but the the power scaling canonically goes haywire.
Thomas Martinez
>it was the number 2 show of all cable, only being beat by a basketball game. It was a basketball game, then a shitty, kids awards show followed by Samurai Jack.
Levi Hughes
>not watching Tokyo Majin during Tokyo Ghoul
Ian White
No, Jack was number 2
Jack King
The Cell saga is only popular because of Gohanfags.
David Nelson
>mfw Naruto's ratings beat JoJo's Meme Adventure. Mobile Suite Gundam Robot Unicorn Attack. and Homo x Homo. >And it's in filler.
Yet they say Shippuden is the one that needs to be removed out of the bunch instead of One Piece.
James Nguyen
>At this rate it's going to take 2 years to until the first tournament against Champa.
Unless huge marathons come out of nowhere, we'll be there by late 2017. Do you remember how short the arcs are?
Samuel Butler
Everything except Jojo and Jack needs to be removed. That's not even being biased for those shows. It's being biased against everything else. Because it's shit. Put in fuckin' Madoka or something, I don't care, anything's better than what they have right now.
Total viewers means little. Key demo always is king
Lucas Torres
>Someone red pill me on Tokyo Ghoul
Read the manga. The anime is more than 50% filler (despite being only 24 episodes) and is one of the worst adaptions I've ever seen.
Basically, first season is average. Second season is a complete disaster, almost entirely filler (based on some ideas by the author which weren't good enough to get into the manga) an obvious rushjob because the studio couldn't wait until there was more manga to adapt. The result was a season so poorly received it basically destroyed the franchise. It's still a relatively popular manga but its potential to be more than that is basically dead.
Not quite SAO-level terrible, but it's close.
Aaron Johnson
>One Piece's second to last night >it beats Gundam, and Hunter X Hunter and is a hair from beating Jojo
YOU'VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE
James Reyes
Usopp, why is your nose a small penis?
Ethan Martinez
Gundam will probably just ride out the full 22 episodes. It's not worth it to ditch it when it's a short, standard length series.
HxH on the other hand...They were probably hoping it would have had the appeal Yu Yu Hakusho did on Toonami back in the day. They were wrong. Both the waifu AND husbando game are much weaker than YYH, the setting isn't as fun, most of the villains are bland and unmemorable, and while Yusuke was a fun, likable son of a bitch street tough with a heart of gold, Gon just falls kind of flat in the personality department. Especially this early in the series. Hell, YYH reruns would probably outperform HxH.
I don't see it lasting the full 148 episodes.
Noah Cooper
user, why is your penis a small penis?
Anthony Wilson
>Gundam will probably just ride out the full 22 episodes. It's not worth it to ditch it when it's a short, standard length series. Chances of IBO S2?
Jace Martin
Gon is just Luffy on steroids.
Parker Jenkins
fuck man. i`d be down for some YYH reruns than watching little kids getting molested by a clown. that demon tournament arc still gets me erect.
Henry Cruz
>one freak night erases years of terrible ones
Colton Bennett
Considering they just last minute swapped Unicorn to 2am for the 25th, I'd say not high
Adam Hughes
I keep hearing this one bastard say "Surely they'll give IBO a better timeslot than 2am. It had better ratings than Unicorn."
Skipping over the fact that this dumbass constantly lies and throws fits in order to defend IBO, what a crock of shit. Toonami's ratings as a whole were higher back when IBO was airing and it wasn't because of the murderhobo. IBO was often pegged as the weak-link of the night that saw some pretty bad retention from it's lead-in. Not as bad as Jojo's, but people were calling for it to be moved later into the night.
I am a huge Gundam fan, but for fuck's sake let's be real here. IBO wasn't a draw for the block. The fact it generated little buzz outside of the Gundam fanbase should have been a huge warning sign. People aren't going to flock back to it just because Toonami airs season 2. The show had one chance to make it's mark, to get people hooked and it blew it.
Evan White
Gundam isn't popular in the west. Don't know why people can't accept that. >but it aired next to muh dbz 20 years ago Yea and how often do you normies sharing gundam memes on facebook or remembering the Gundam games they played in the schoolyard? Oh right never because most people never gave a shit about Gundam, it just happened to be near the most popular anime in the west for awhile which gave it some temporary, artificial popularity
Nathaniel Peterson
Too much lewd not enough implied rape.
Owen Price
I've been putting off getting the series on bluray but fuck I gotta.
John Smith
>all this lewd for characters who were on screen less than 60 seconds >series only premeried 6 days ago
Aiden Turner
Sup Forums is a spider, hiding in a toilet paper tube, waiting for the party to end so it can check it's web. This inane shit has nothing to do with it. Weeaboo are not Sup Forums.
Anthony Gray
By turning a profit at a lower cost.
Mason Ramirez
Well, we had seen them quite awhile ago in the trailer, some of that stuff isn't brand new
Sebastian Johnson
How many more years of HxH?
Bentley Rogers
>The Stardust Crusaders dub is making progress That's awesome. Judging from the test episodes, the VA's they cast are perfect!
Bentley Johnson
>Also, why the hell are people saying Naruto will be the next to go when this shit happens every other month? Because it's ending next week in Japan.
Cooper Campbell
why is it taking them so long?
Kevin Lewis
Because like Free! Crunchyroll was probably holding the dub rights hostage.