“Yuuta, you must complete your mission. This is only the beginning.”
– Gridman, SSSS.Gridman (Ep.01)
The Toonami Trending Rundown for Jan. 16-17, 2021. After two years of fans waiting, Studio Trigger and Tsuburaya Productions’ SSSS.GRIDMAN would make its debut on the Saturday night lineup.
On Twitter, #Toonami would trend in the United States alongside Sword Art Online (SAO), Fire Force, Assassination Classroom, and SSSS.Gridman. We also saw a pair of character trends from both Attack on Titan and SAO. Attack on Titan’s buzz would lead to Zeke trending, as he formed a plan to resurrect the Founding Titan. Meanwhile, Sword Art Online had Kirito trend as he battled Gabriel, while Asuna escorted Alice to the End Mountains to get transferred to the real world.
The full list, including statistics and tweet counts from the Twitter app and Amr Rahmy’s Fan Screening analytics app, can be seen below.
This week, Toonami showcased a new animated music video for “Alive After Death” by John Carpenter. You can check it out below.
Aniplex released a new English dubbed trailer last week for the upcoming Demon Slayer film, Mugen Train. Aniplex USA and Funimation plan on debuting the film in theaters stateside subbed and dubbed in Early 2021. However, with theaters ordered closed or capacities drastically reduced due to COVID-19, fans are understandably wary on how Aniplex can safely pull off a safe premiere.
https://twitter.com/DemonSlayerUSA/status/1350140951809941506
In an interview with SAO composer Yuki Kajiura (reported by YouTuber Gamerturk), A-1 Pictures have completed production on the upcoming film Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night. Producers are aiming for a release in Japanese theaters this spring, but with the uncertainty of the pandemic, Aniplex has held off on announcing a premiere date.
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Legend: The shows listed are ordered based on their appearance on the schedule. Show trends are listed in bold. The number next to the listed trend represents the highest it trended on the list (not counting the promoted trend), judging only by the images placed in the rundown. For the Twitter tweet counts, the listed number of tweets are also sorely based on the highest number shown based on the images on the rundown.
United States Trends:
- #Toonami [#5]
- #SwordArtOnline [#4]
- Kirito (From Sword Art Online) [#29]
- #FireForce [Trended with #Toonami, #AssassinationClassroom and #SwordArtOnline]
- #AssassinationClassroom [#10]
- #SSSSGridman [Trended with #Toonami and #SwordArtOnline]
Tweet Counts:
- #Toonami [7,842 tweets]
- Zeke (From Attack on Titan) [8,080 tweets]
- #SwordArtOnline [2,745 tweets]
- Kirito (From Sword Art Online) [5,518 tweets]
- #FireForce [3,828 tweets]
- #AssassinationClassroom [1,928 tweets]
- #SSSSGridman [2,493 tweets]
- Naruto [69.4k tweets]
Notes and Other Statistics:
- #Toonami: @WhoTrendedIT reported that @MikeMcFarlandVA and @CliffordChapin were responsible for the show trending in the United States.
Special thanks to @sdurso5 and others I forgot to mention for spotting some of the trends on this list.
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