The Toonami Thread

Gundam has/will have aired enough episodes for a marathon, wouldn't be a bad idea.

My only concern is the ratings.

There's a lot of long runners now. My only concern is a stagnant lineup.

Those are 2 "Only" concerns. Pick just one PLZ LOL.

One's short term and one's long term.

I do worry that if the block is nothing but long runners it might become stagnant.

Toonami has always thrived on long runners though so I don't worry about "stagnation." That and, on the flip side, you could argue that constantly rotating the lineup and having to frequently license new short runners is too unpredictable.

They don't have the budget to constantly rotate out shows once they've completed their runs and we saw what the block looked like running almost entirely on complete reruns.

edited 26th Jul '16 6:56:43 PM by Lionheart0

Really, I'd be okay with the longrunners if they got rid of Shippuden and One Piece. Naruto's pretty much Deader Than Disco at this point, and while I have nothing against One Piece, it airing once a week is doing it no favors.

But would it be worthwhile to put Brand Spanking New shows at such a late hour?I agree with Naruto Shippuden being dead now but Who is One Piece harming? Its at such a late time that it would be meaningless to air new stuff in its timeslot.

edited 26th Jul '16 7:11:49 PM by AegisP

I will admit though, after watching higher quality adaptations of shonen like Hunter X Hunter and My Hero Academia, it's hard for me to go back and watch what Studio Pierrot did to Shippuden. It's like the original DBZ, far too much filler and padding, and that doesn't even touch the series' decline following the Pain arc.

edited 26th Jul '16 7:24:07 PM by Lionheart0

Shippuden's slot would be the perfect place to air HD Bebop, which they never actually finished. It'd also free up another slot for reruns, or even double up on Kai.

One thing to keep in mind in regards to the new longrunners is that they can easily be switched out for newer shows once they catch up to all the dubbed episodes. Jo Jo's especially can easily be rotated out after Battle Tendency ends, and I doubt the HxH dub is complete just yet.

So with JJBA's structure, the slot can easily go Phantom Blood & Battle Tendency > new show > Stardust Crusaders > new show > Diamond is Unbreakable > new show, etc.

Worth keeping in mind the realities of the block's actual budget though. It's easy to say you'd like to see shows rotated more often, but is it actually feasible for them?

Dragon Ball Z was no where near as bad about filler as Naruto! Last year there were 8 slow paced canon episodes and the rest was flashbacks or dreams.

Yeah pierrot's adaptation of naruto is honestly awful imo. The manga is alright but the anime is so full of padding and Off-Model frames that i see no reason to bother.

I'm kinda worried about the block growing stagnant as well.

God Damnit, Vegeta.

...how many recordings of Dragon Soul does this make, now?

Six? Seven?

Krillin's got some apologies to make, too. Though he has a slightly better excuse than Vegeta.

That sorta sums up about half the series, really.

edited 30th Jul '16 8:34:29 PM by LeGarcon

Damn, Gohan throwing some serious shade on Goku.

I'm sorry Gohan, you will only be able to surpass your dad for only a couple of episodes, Akira Toriyama won't allow any more than that.

Toriyama actually wanted that.

But alas the editors wanted Goku back as the star.

Cell's a dirty cheater! The Destructo Disk cuts all! All, I tell you!

Current Power Level: Several times as hard as Frieza's tail

And then Gohan did get better than Goku

Aaaaaaaaand then BOG happened.

@Slimcoder

Well that's convenient! "Don't blame me for nerfing Gohan, those mean old anonymous editors made me do it! They made me do it in the manga, they made me do it in GT, they made me do it in Battle of the Gods, they're just big meanies!"

Did Toriyama do anything in GT?