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I can't say that I blame him. It must be frustrating to see the same question over and over again, especially when he can't really say yes or no most likely. They probably can't give a clear cut answer in order to avoid potentially hurting their chances for a relationship with Sentai. That's probably why Sentai also didn't give a clear answer before.

MadMan400096 said:

That's too bad since I looked forward to their Q&A sessions, but I can understand why they'd do that too. With Pre-Flight, they have a better means of answering questions and interacting with the fans than a Tumblr Q&A session every couple of months. At least that should make Pre-Flight more interesting if they provide some answers to interesting questions.
 
They probably can't give a clear cut answer in order to avoid potentially doing business with Sentai in the future. That's probably why Sentai also didn't give a clear answer before.
Why would they want to avoid a Toonami/Sentai relationship? That doesn't make much business sense to me. What makes Sentai so different from FUNi or Aniplex anyway?
 
Why would they want to avoid a Toonami/Sentai relationship? That doesn't make much business sense to me. What makes Sentai so different from FUNi or Aniplex anyway?

I messed up with that sentence. Sorry about that. I meant to say that potentially avoid hurting their chances for a relationship with Sentai by giving a clear yes or no answer. I'll edit my post in a moment.
 
I messed up with that sentence. Sorry about that. I meant to say that potentially avoid hurting their chances for a relationship with Sentai by giving a clear yes or no answer. I'll edit my post in a moment.
Oh. In that case, good point. From what I heard, breaking NDAs got Blake Lewis replaced by Vic Mignogna for Season 2 of Durarara.
 
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The Tumblr Q&As became increasingly infrequent over the past year, and most of them asked the same stupid questions.

If anything, good riddance.
 
I guess I'll do SAO next week since I did nearly the entirety of last season.
 
Apparently, One Piece is losing the 8:30pm encore slot after this weekend. The schedule for April 4th is as follows:

8:00pm - Dragon Ball Z Kai
8:30pm - King of the Hill
9:00pm - The Cleveland Show
9:30pm - The Cleveland Show

10:00pm - The Boondocks
10:30pm - American Dad
11:00pm - American Dad
11:30pm - Family Guy
12:00am - Dragon Ball Z Kai
12:30am - Kill la Kill
1:00am - Sword Art Online II
1:30am - InuYasha: The Final Act
2:00am - Naruto: Shippuden
2:30am - One Piece
3:00am - Attack on Titan
3:30am - The Cleveland Show
4:00am - The Cleveland Show

4:30am - American Dad
5:00am - American Dad
5:30am - King of the Hill
 
Well that's a shame. I didn't think that the ratings for the repeats were that bad. We haven't even seen the ones for last week yet. It might have been a better idea if they started the reruns earlier in the current arc or at least after the filler episodes. They were enjoyable filler episodes, but still filler episodes, so that might have turned more people off. One Piece not nearly being as popular as say DBZ doesn't help matters either.
 
Well that didn't last long. At least Kai is going anywhere with those ratings.
 
Well, it was an experiment. To me it's really hard to tell if it really 'failed' though -- I agree though on the filler part likely turning people off. It made me think of (dare I say) movie month and restarting AoT at the lead.
 
Well, it was an experiment. To me it's really hard to tell if it really 'failed' though -- I agree though on the filler part likely turning people off.
I think the fact that it's One Piece turned people off to it.

Anyway, yeah, that's unfortunate, but I can't say I'm really surprised.
 
I think the fact that it's One Piece turned people off to it.
At this point, there could be a number of reasons as to why One Piece isn't being as overwhelmingly successful as other shows have been on Toonami.

One could argue it's the slow pacing of these big arcs, but then again, one could also argue the lack of presenting other pirates beyond the Straw Hats and Foxy pirates since it started airing on Adult Swim and that it makes the show seem misleading. That or it could be new viewers don't feel properly invested in all of the main cast beyond knowing just their quirks and personalities. They may be likeable, but beyond say Robin and Franky, they wouldn't know much about any of the Strawhats without seeing their back stories and I doubt those recap episodes helped much. Then there's the matter of its visual setting and aesthetic and choice of fantasy elements could not be clicking with people the way other grand fantasy stories have.

Given all of those possible issues, I can't help but wonder if Adult Swim starting the show on episode 207 as oppose to episode 1 was really the best idea in retrospect. It could've properly developed a pastime experience on TV. Though it doesn't really matter at this point. Of course none of this is to say that the show is failing. I'm not trying to make that argument. Between being on the only cable network that still cares to air non-toyetic anime, season 7 being licensed recently, being simulcasted for years, the manga being serialized at the same time as Japan and how the movies and games have been coming out, we can at least generally agree that One Piece is doing well enough for it to be at a decent place in the U.S.
 
Well that's a shame. I didn't think that the ratings for the repeats were that bad. We haven't even seen the ones for last week yet. It might have been a better idea if they started the reruns earlier in the current arc or at least after the filler episodes. They were enjoyable filler episodes, but still filler episodes, so that might have turned more people off.
That's my thought as well. With two weeks of the experiment consisting of filler episodes (and it having to go up against UFC and the NCAA Basketball tournament), a lot of the experiment's failure can be attributed to Adult Swim choosing the wrong time to do this.
 
How many times does One Piece have to under perform on US television before people stop making excuses for it?
 
How many times does One Piece have to under perform on US television before people stop making excuses for it?
Jason DeMarco himself has stated that it's not leaving Toonami anytime soon, if anyone is thinking it's in danger of being pulled. Bottom line, it does perfectly fine in its current timeslot, and has shown much better retention there. It's even outranked Gurren on quite a few occasions, despite Gurren airing in front of it. The encores were a bust, but again Jason has said that the encores are irrelevant to Toonami itself.
 
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Countrymen,

The anon he responded to has my utmost respect. He/she didn't come off as having a bad attitude, they were just being unflinchingly honest. That's how straight shooters are.

The odds of DBZ Kai giving One Piece a boost were slim to none. OP never was and never will be one of neo Toonamis heavy hitters. It would have made a lot more sense to put Bleach, Naruto or Attack on Titan in the 8:30 slot first. If things panned out then they could have slowly added another half hour of a Tooanmi show and then another. They jumped the gun by thinking there was crossover appeal. Sad to say but this little "experiment" of theirs was doomed from the onset. Anyway....

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LEGITIMACY HAS RETURNED

After watching the recap movie on Hulu I remembered how truly epic this series is. The direction, animation, music, acting, characterization. Its rare to see a studio firing on all cylinders like they did with this property. Toonami hasn't aired a first-rate anime in a long time. Hopefully its an even bigger success for them and Aniplex than the first season.
 
I don't see much of a point in them airing Bleach reruns outside of Toonami when the show has already finished. At least Shippuden is new and Attack on Titan has a second season on the way, so those choices would make more sense. The idea of One Piece airing after DBZ Kai certainly wasn't a bad idea and I do think that the anon in that comment was being a bit rude, but I still say that the main problem came down when they started the rerurns. One Piece has never been a huge ratings hit compared to some of their other popular shows, but that might not have been as much of an issue if they started this experiment at a different point in the current arc or waited until the start of a new arc, even though I don't know when that happens. DBZ Kai reruns started right before Goku vs. Vegetta I think, which is already one of the more popular fights in a popular series, so that gave it a major advantage ratings wise. It still might not have worked out even with a better starting point for the reruns, but I think that would have given it a better chance. They might still be able to get another reruns slot at some point and One Piece is doing well enough on the block itself, which is what really counts here.

As for Sword Art Online 2, even seeing the trailer last weekend reminded me too much of why I hate the first season with a fiery passion. It's just such a shame that it replaces a show that I genuinely loved and enjoyed, which is actually pretty rare for a show on this block now that I think about it. Most of the shows I end up watching either start out good, but become worse over time, are bad from start to finish or are just okay/good, but nothing that I'd want to watch again. The list of shows that Toonami has aired that I really enjoyed would probably be pretty small if I checked the list of shows Toonami 2.0 has aired thus far. Oh well. At least I can easily avoid it and Kill La Kill in just one hour and either watch the other shows later on in the block or just watch them On Demand the next day.
 

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