Toonami is having an AoT rerun marathon on July 1st even though the 4th is on fucking Tuesday.
Adult Swim is funding two new 6 episode seasons of FLCL. Expected release 2018.
Last week, ratings went up ever so slightly but were still in the gutter. This week we finally have the ratings black hole known as Unicorn off the block, and now we have an even bigger black hole known as Lupin which got embarrassed by Naruto. Everything else was pretty much the same, only big gain of note was Tokyo Ghoul
11:00 Samurai Jack 1085 0.49 631 11:30 Dragon Ball Super (r) 984 0.44 569 12:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 944 0.44 560 12:30a Attack on Titan 776 0.34 441 1:00a Tokyo Ghoul 711 0.32 413
1:30a Hunter X Hunter 650 0.29 372 2:00a Lupin the 3rd: Part 4 545 0.24 304 2:30a Naruto: Shippuden 588 0.26 330 3:00a Ghost in the Shell (r) 543 0.25 326
8:00 Dragon Ball Super (r) 0.46 698 0.28 359 8:30 The Cleveland Show (r) 0.36 577 0.22 282 9:00 Rick & Morty (r) 0.48 763 0.31 392 9:30 Rick & Morty (r) 0.60 922 0.40 519
10:00 Family Guy (r) 0.79 1178 0.51 659 10:30 Family Guy (r) 0.91 1354 0.61 771
Chase Robinson
And even the comedy reruns beat Lupin
3:30a The Cleveland Show (r) 558 0.28 357 4:00a Rick & Morty (r) 608 0.29 367 4:30a Rick & Morty (r) 615 0.28 363
5:00a King of the Hill (r) 574 0.25 315 5:30a King of the Hill (r) 605 0.25 327
Lincoln Diaz
Best
Nicholas Barnes
So when will Ryukofag come in to mock "Lupin the Meme" or "The Memeland Show"?
Logan Rogers
Weekly reminder that although the people who run Toonami may be idiots, One Piece is still the best selling manga WORLDWIDE!
Nathan Howard
I guess that's what happens when you air the version with the inferior soundtrack.
Hunter Ward
Too bad the anime is not as good.
Henry Johnson
Holy FUCK this is abysmal. What happened all of a sudden?
Wyatt Kelly
Lupin for sure, and he won't be memeing, he will actually be right
Julian Peterson
So, was Lupin's issue the timeslot (sandwiched between two shounens) or did people just not take to it?
Zachary Wilson
These are better than the last two weeks, even with Lupin flopping
Christopher Price
Your meme animes couldn't keep the Toonami bubble for long, and finally, it will be soon time for THE FINAL DELETION.
I'm really sad and sorry for everyone who believed in Toonami lasting longer than 8 years, though.
Landon Martinez
Why does anyone still care about this all-but-anime-only block? It produces essentially nothing of its own since after SJ, just let it die already.
This isn't the early 2000s, when you needed it to watch anime.
Leo Campbell
Probably both, it's way too different from HxH and Naruto to be between them, just as Unicorn was. Also it's probably another example of a memetitle a handful of people begged for that the masses don't care about
Gavin Mitchell
>What happened all of a sudden? More people started using sites like Crunchyroll for their anime fix instead.
But hey, its Space Dandy and Attack on Titan days were pretty cool
Anthony Thompson
Sorry, kind of naive to this stuff, but is Toonami actually going to be cancelled again if the ratings are shit? Has this been stated somewhere or is it just speculation?
John Morales
You don't need confirmation to know if something gets bad ratings that it will be cancelled.
That aside, last time ratings were this bad half the block was chopped off, so we know what happens when ratings dip
Carter Foster
Is the marathon a week before or after the 4th?
Lucas Price
Literally the first line of the OP
James Morales
Sorry,went straight to the ratings
Josiah Hill
Really though, you could say that about the entire Saturday lineup.
The problem is that it's always one show, not the entire thing. [AS] is the root of the problem, not just DeMarco.
Chase Collins
I wanted hero academy on toonami
Luke Smith
>another FotM shonen memetitle
Oh joy
Hudson Myers
>kaneki gets white hair because he got tortured
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit
Christopher White
Meant to say "it's only one show always singled out."
Wyatt Williams
High stress will turn your hair white, obviously not instantly but it's not that ridiculous of a concept
>t. 24 year old with white hair
Asher Williams
When does Toonami start airing something good?
Parker Foster
Your hair loses pigmentation because of stress.
Leo Murphy
>AgK was the peak of toonami
Jayden Carter
>More retards tuned in for Naruto than the Lupin premiere
I mean, I kind of figured it'd happen. But it still hurts to see in print.
Leo Ramirez
When DeMarco is fired. So never.
Parker Myers
Lupin the M3m3 killing the block even worse than Samurai Meme
Lucas Sullivan
Call it Pupin the Turd like any sane man with shit taste would, retard.
Joseph Diaz
no because it makes you so mad
Dylan Ortiz
Naruto is actually good so it makes sense
Levi Wilson
Idea for Toonami is dead idea >Old Lupin boxer scene with Fujiko >Tom's face over Lupin >Guy from the memes face over Fujiko >Jack-in-the-box punching Glove with 2 AM on it
Adrian Scott
So when do we hear what replaces Titan? By my count it should be done on the 15th
Nicholas Perez
This hasn't been sudden, it's something that's been building up over time.
Christopher Gonzalez
Dragonball power hour seems to be steadily crawling back up but everything else is stagnating at pretty mediocre numbers.
Cameron Watson
This is an improvement over the last two weeks actually. Ratings recovering gradually, but the drop after Jack ended was apocalyptic. Toonami might not recover from it.
Joshua Allen
Not a fit for this block at all. I was expecting poor turnout for it because the Toonami crowd are mostly millennials who grew up with DBZ and shit.
Logan Baker
Leave the pun for "The Memeland Show" and call it instead.
Dominic Green
If there is a god, it will be something like 'Another'
But knowing our luck, it will be IBO S2
Christopher Lewis
Did you remember the marathon in two weeks?
Caleb Perry
Yea I accounted for that
Owen Hall
Time was I looked forward to new show announcements now I barely even care cause I know it'll be disappointing.
Jonathan Powell
>getting really excited cause this is a good part of Tokyo Ghoul >remember how bad the anime fucked it up >remember than the terrible second season exists and we will be subjected to it Gonna be a long few months getting through Tokyo Ghoul
Parker Gonzalez
>give Demarco a chance and stay up till 2am for Lupin >trudge through 3 hours of pure crap to get there >they use the Italian soundtrack
Thanks for saving me the sleep Demarco
Sebastian Gray
>"Lord Demarco, this Japanese studio is asking us to air this new show" >"Let's put it at 2am and not air any ads for it until only a few days before it starts" >*ratings come in, it's a massive flop* >"Why are the ratings so low?!?", Demarco says Wew lad.
Ian Russell
Here's another good part
Hunter Morgan
...
Grayson Howard
>The fate of the entire block rests with a bunch of fickle DBZ fans who tune in for the first 90 minutes and then fuck off >that 112k drop in the 18-49 demo between DBZ Kai and AoT
Compare to last week:
>11:00 Samurai Jack 884 0.39 497 >11:30 Dragon Ball Super (r) 856 0.40 510 >12:00a Dragon Ball Z Kai: The Final Chapters 893 0.42 537 >12:30a Attack on Titan 717 0.36 465 >1:00a Tokyo Ghoul 583 0.29 377
>1:30a Hunter X Hunter 574 0.30 389 >2:00a Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn 530 0.29 372 >2:30a Naruto: Shippuden 513 0.27 341 >3:00a Ghost in the Shell (r) 469 0.26 331
When was the last time we had more than 2 million+ viewers for a show? I want to say two years ago, but I could be wrong.
Ryder Fisher
That's not in the anime though
Zachary Gonzalez
>nothing new or exclusive >tons of free anime online
Picking edgy bullshit like Ghoul and SNKs2 was a bad idea. People can watch that anywhere. Jack was a good gamble but failed in a way because it felt rushed. We need something special to keep this block alive. I kinda hope Dandy nets the rerun spot when GiTS is done. They paid all that money for it,why not show it again.
Aiden Rodriguez
Sauce me on that pic pls.
Bentley Nelson
This. Such a fucking disappointment. The Japanese OP and ED were phenomenal, you don't get OPs and EDs that good very often. And we didn't even get to see them.
Kayden Harris
The only time we had over 2M was for the DBZ Kai episode on the night of Akame's premiere. So yeah, about two years ago sounds right.
Noah Williams
Is that Discotech's fault or Demarco? I saw the OP online and it was pretty good. That said, Lupin is in a very odd spot.
>come off of three hours of action to a show vastly different in tone and could be argued to be one of the most humorous shows on the block
Damn, it's been that long?
Jacob Martin
>miss me yet?
Aiden Butler
> that massive drop from hunter x hunter to lupin's premiere Goddamn demarco is a dumb-ass to do Jack reruns in that slot and not lupin
Evan Green
It hurts looking at this block, boys. It's like watching a friend in the hospital losing their battle with cancer, but everyone keeps saying they'll pull through with the right kind of chemo, even though it keeps making their condition worse.
Anthony Russell
The block would have literally died two years ago if it wasn't for the autism of Dragon Ball fans.
Matthew Jenkins
Feels good being a Dragon Ball fan
Cameron Campbell
She really did save Toonami.
Wyatt Thompson
She didn't do shit, faggot.
Samuel Campbell
I really enjoy Lupin as well, its a neat entertaining watch once a week.
But your anger is not at me or Ryuko.
But at DeMarco
Brody Foster
whats wrong with being a faggot retard
Daniel Taylor
>mfw kill la kill makes an unexpected comeback only for the ratings to tank through its whole run
Cooper Campbell
Wasn't expecting that. I thought Lupin would be a big draw. I suppose it's not too surprising that Naruto outdoes its immediate predecessor; it does that fairly often.
Why isn't there an (r) next to Jack? Are they running the earlier seasons?
Isaac Fisher
2mil is unheard of Toonami numbers. We got it literally one time
James Rivera
>a rerun fails
And no one would be shocked
Ryan Gutierrez
It would certainly btfo KLKucks anyway
Thomas Roberts
I would assume it's TMS's fault. Discotek is just a distributor and Demarco probably had no idea there were multiple versions of this show when he got it (in his defense, the existence of the Italian OST is not well documented). TMS is the one footing the bill for the dub and they're the ones who sent the dubbing studio the materials.
Aaron Gutierrez
No it really wouldn't. Reruns of any kind fail on Toonami
Dominic Harris
Fuck, I phrased that wrong. I mean, when was the last time we had more than one show to go over 1 million?
Gavin Walker
>expected a niche popularity show like Lupin to do good
You weren't one of those guys who thought Lupin had popularity outside of a small group of weebs, were you?
Josiah Taylor
Idk, around the final episode of Jack id assume
Joseph Long
Lets be real, the 8 pm hour on saturday and sundays are basically dead zones now
James Taylor
I'm glad Lupin failed. It was an insult that they aired it with the Italian music.
Hudson Morris
Not him, but I thought it would appeal to the western audience.
Alexander Reed
Lots of different things can appeal to the "western audience". But it depends on which western audience. Toonami's audience isn't really interested in a comedy series from the 70s even if its done up in an incredible style with gorgeous animation. Toonami's audience are a mix of nostalgiafag 90s kids and scene hipsters from tumblr who obsess over the latest fad anime and then drop it like garbage as soon as the next title comes along. It's rare to find a show that appeals to both demographics equally.
Anthony Ross
I didn't see any waifus, so I don't see how you could have thought that
Landon Howard
>>I didn't see any waifus So you didn't watch the episode
Daniel Campbell
It's too bad they threw the show away before Saobaody. But it's a good thing they did it before Impel Down. The One Piece anime would definitely become a ratings sink. I'm surprised Funimation still wants to dub it.
Levi Gray
I can't waifu another mans wife. It just isn't right
Kayden Nelson
>I can't waifu another mans wife. It just isn't right
What? Half of all waifus are already somebody else's girl. Probably more than that.
Christopher Kelly
You don't "waifu" a woman you just met you dipshit. Waifu is not a synonym for "girl I think is cute and want to jack off to until I get bored of her."
Elijah Ward
Very few waifus are married. If they just hang around an oblivious MC that don't count
Christian Reyes
This. Fucking new age hippies ruining the sanctity of waifuing.
I don't ever think there was a show that hit 2 million
Luke Cruz
DBZ did on the week AgK premiered. Barely, but it did it
Adam Thomas
On one hand, they got some shows that weren't from the bottom of the barrel or not the channel theme like Chiller did. On the other, they are just airing shit Toonami already did, or in the case of TG, are airing right now. You can't just copy the big anime block and expect success. Probably dead in a month
Elijah Robinson
You can't really pin it on Demarco this time. How was he in any way supposed to know?
Xavier King
Now it gets interesting. Barring TG and Root A, their small block, while stale is better than half of the stuff we have now.
Maybe it'll be three months before it drops or alternatively, Demarco gets a fire under his ass and he stops slacking off.
Jordan Ward
I want to call you out for hyperbole but holy fuck chiller really did last that long
Adam Parker
>soon be time for FINAL DELETION Not so long as the Anthem-Hardy legal fuckening continues