notes i took from the podcast (i put most of these in quotes, but 98% of it is paraphrased):
"the details of our deal with Funimation allows us to choose from one of several different shows at once"
"we know people tuned in originally for nostalgia"
"concerned with building a future for our block"
"one of the first shows we asked about was One Piece"
Funimation was uncomfortable with giving them One Piece under the terms of their original deal, but once Toonami proved it wasn't just going to fade away they got used to the idea.
"we have a list of shows we would like, they have a list of shows they would like"
One Piece came up "six months later"
DeMarco seems pretty fixated on the idea of airing new episodes
"next time on" segments for Toonami fell to a certain writer who was assigned to a show.
"couldn't get the stuff from the guys at Funimation quick enough" to create Toonami recaps for One Piece, which was the original plan
"we thought about [the starting point] for months", talked with Funimation "a lot", "could we show two episodes a week?"
"we knew a lot of the people watching would already be One Piece fans"
HD played a large role in the decision, catches the casual viewer
says no more than half the viewers are hardcore fans, the rest are just people watching TV
seems to imply Funimation suggested Davy Back
"in a perfect world, one hour a week, maybe more", not possible financially
MAJORITY ON TUMBLR SAID START ONE PIECE LATER
people who said start at the beginning were "hardcore One Piece purists" or people who haven't seen it
"not a lot of effort was made for ASA, to up-res shows, we came onboard and got Bleach in HD"
"we have a minute or two to play with each week" for Toonami stuff
will create future One Piece promos "when we know a good arc is coming, when we have a chance to draw people to it", possibly character stuff
"when Toonami started we had much more of a say" in programming
"around Gundam Wing/Tenchi, people started coming to us"
"ratings will have to do better than they're doing for expansion, it's possible one day, not something in the immediate future, i do not see another night happening; doesn't make sense"
"we grew Toonami slowly the first time, we're growing it slowly the second time; we're playing a long game"
"all we want is for Toonami to slowly grow"
"One Piece is not a gamble show like Deadman Wonderland"
5 year period where programming department took over
One Piece has to absolutely TANK to get the boot. example DeMarco gives is a million dropping to 100,000 total viewers.
"ADHD and SNL are not directly competing with us, they're just going after males like we do"
"we get a lot of viewers for the time of night"
"we are not worried about One Piece's dip; we were surprised by how it did on its premiere, and the dip just brought it back to about where we thought it was going to be when it premiered"
"you're not going to get a sense of how a show is doing for 6-8 weeks"
