C&C - Anything Else/Cards/Schedule [2/25 - 3/3]

[Zach Logan]

New Episodes in Green, New Arrivals in Red

http://adultswimhq.com/sundays.jpg February 25th
10.00/2.00 Futurama
10.30/2.30 Aqua Teen
10.45/2.45 Robot Chicken
11.00/3.00 Family Guy
11.30/3.30 Smoking Gun
11.45/3.45 Tim and Eric
12.00/4.00 Saul of the Molemen
12.15/4.15 Moral Orel
12.30/4.30 Metalocalypse
12.45/4.45 Assy McGee
1.00/5.00 The Boondocks
1.30/5.30 Sealab 2021
1.45/5.45 The Brak Show
http://adultswimhq.com/mondays.jpg February 26th
10:30/2.00 Futurama
11.00/2.30 Futurama
11.30/3.00 Family Guy
12.00/3.30 Aqua Teen
12.15/3.45 Moral Orel
12.30/4.00 Ghost in the Shell
1.00/4.30 Inuyasha
1.30/5.00 Inuyasha
5.30 Voltron (SEASON PREMIERE)
http://adultswimhq.com/tuesdays.jpg February 27th
10:30/2.00 Futurama
11.00/2.30 Futurama
11.30/3.00 Family Guy
12.00/3.30 Aqua Teen
12.15/3.45 Moral Orel
12.30/4.00 Ghost in the Shell
1.00/4.30 Inuyasha
1.30/5.00 Inuyasha
5.30 Voltron
http://adultswimhq.com/wednesdays.jpg February 28th
10:30/2.00 Futurama
11.00/2.30 Futurama
11.30/3.00 Family Guy
12.00/3.30 Aqua Teen
12.15/3.45 Moral Orel
12.30/4.00 Ghost in the Shell
1.00/4.30 Inuyasha
1.30/5.00 Inuyasha
5.30 Voltron
http://adultswimhq.com/thursdays.jpg March 1st
10:30/2.00 Futurama
11.00/2.30 Futurama
11.30/3.00 Family Guy
12.00/3.30 Aqua Teen
12.15/3.45 Moral Orel
12.30/4.00 Ghost in the Shell
1.00/4.30 Inuyasha
1.30/5.00 Inuyasha
5.30 Voltron
http://adultswimhq.com/saturdays.jpg March 3rd
11.00/2.00 Futurama
11.30/2.30 Trinity Blood (SERIES FINALE)
12.00/3.00 Bleach
12.30/3.30 Eureka 7
1.00/4.00 Samurai Champloo
1.30/4.30 Lupin III
5.00 The Big O
5.30 Gigantor

[Rabi~en~Rose]

C&C - Anything/Else/Cards/Schedule/Ratings


Saturday, February 17th


Bleach: 410,000
Futurama: 393,000
Trinity: 363,000

happy?


Up: Trinity
Down: Futurama
New: Bleach

[Ahiru-kun]

OMG. Bleach beat both Trinity Blood and Futurama. Finally something good happens on AS Saturday.

[NickWhiz1]

*blinks*

Bleach...actually won?

Awesome.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Damn. Bleach beat everything out. Glad to see it being succesful.

Although that also means it probably won't be leaving AS anytime soon...

[Matt Hazuda]

Damn. Bleach beat everything out. Glad to see it being succesful.

Although that also means it probably won't be leaving AS anytime soon...Must every topic that mentions Bleach be about how it does or doesn't belong on Adult Swim? Give it a rest people :shrug:

[Rabi~en~Rose]

Sunday, February 18th


Family Guy: 1,063,000
Futurama: 699,000
ATHF: 599,000

viewers fleeing from anything past F-Guy? I WONDER WHY :confused:


Up: Family Guy
New: Futurama, ATHF

[Beat]

The new shows continue to fail at making a dent into the ratings. I'm not surprised, considering how polarizing they are here.

Also, yay Bleach.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

Futurama made it on Sunday? NICE


Must every topic that mentions Bleach be about how it does or doesn't belong on Adult Swim? Give it a rest people :shrug:

Nope, just 3/5ths.:p

[William C. Maune]

Sunday, February 18th


Family Guy: 1,063,000
Futurama: 699,000
ATHF: 599,000

viewers fleeing from anything past F-Guy? I WONDER WHY :confused:


Up: Family Guy
New: Futurama, ATHF

Considering that 3rd place was still 599,000 (a lot better than a lot of weeks), the other shows could have still been rated fairly high. No way to know really.

[Duke]

Not only did Bleach do well (I hope the trend continues, as the anime is finally starting to adapt the manga properly), but so did Trinity Blood. Nice.

[Dr. Anime]

Bleach should be on toonami but there is nothing we can do at this point. Hey look at it this way at least Bleach is airing on US TV. Anyway for the ratings not too bad for Saturday but I would have liked to have seen Eureka Seven get some ratings love too. Something tells me we won't be seeing Eureka in the ratings again espeicaly when it moves to 1:00 in a few weeks.

So in two weeks the schedule for Saturday changes again, I assume Sunday too but I haven't watched Sunday in awhile due to having 8:00 AM Classes. Hopefully we'll see a new promo for Blood + within the week or 2

[beren]

As soon as saturdays start to pull in consistent ratings (well regularly above 300k), AS always switches the schedule up ruining them. Anyway thats my prediction for saturday ratings to come.

[Master Moltar]

Interesting, I thought that the recent Saturday changes meant low ratings for the Action shows. But I guess not. Bleach did really well (guess that's why it stays at midnight). Trinity Blood also did well, not losing much of the Futurama audience. Maybe Eureka did poorly though, as it got moved later.

Family Guy does well once again, as did Futurama for its timeslot. Maybe that's why they're putting them together on Sunday now. ATHF also does fine, and no shows past 11:30 make it.

[Rabi~en~Rose]

about last nights Metalocalypse if Nathan and the others (sans Toki) hate Dr Rockso so much why did they hire him for Murderfaces birthday :confused: I know the birthday one came before it but still seems kind of odd to me

also with the earlier episodes I can actually understand what they're saying now for the most part :)

[The Myst]

about last nights Metalocalypse if Nathan and the others (sans Toki) hate Dr Rockso so much why did they hire him for Murderfaces birthday :confused: I know the birthday one came before it but still seems kind of odd to me

They probably didn't know who he was until they hired him. When he appeared at the party, they realized how much they hated him.

[Master Moltar]

I think this is a pretty interesting post from Torrent in a topic (http://boards.adultswim.com/adultswim/board/message?board.id=3&message.id=563376&jump=true) on the [as] boards. It defends the recent Saturday [as] changes by pulling out the "Anime isn't doing good enough on Saturday" card.


You know I'm a pretty big anime fan, right? It should be clear after all this time, so I hope that when I say the following it will be taken as honesty.

Anime hasn't been getting ratings.

Oh, it's been doing okay. But usually only when stacked against themselves; anime shows compared to comedy hardly ever wins.

What I see about the anime community as a whole (at least those that frequent the boards) is that they are almost always anime-vangelists, and they're often very loud. They trumpet the virtues of every anime they've ever seen and fervently believe that the majority of people would agree with them, if only they were given the chance to see what they have seen.

But just taking selections from the list you gave, it would seem clear that this isn't the case.

Ah! My Goddess: A cute show. I liked it. But Adult Swim isn't very "cute."
Zeta Gundam: Come on. Gundam is Toonami.
Azumanga Daioh: Are you really serious that you think this show would have a following among the Adult Swim crowd? Really?
Desert Punk: As a general rule we avoid Fan Service shows, and while funny, this one is a series of half-hour boob jokes.
Love Hina: Again, what says Adult Swim to you about this one?

I just don't understand the narrow mindedness of some anime fans. How can somone love Cromartie but think Tim and Eric is instantly bad?

And always with the threatening hordes of anime fans. If there were hordes of anime fans watching us, we wouldn't be putting an hour of comedy on Saturdays.

Personally, I think anime's in a little bit of a slump right now. There's some good stuff coming out - - but not nearly as much as there was only a few years ago. I think it'll cycle around and the numbers will surge again for anime...but for now comedy is king.


Also a bit further in the topic, he states that it's the shows like IY and FMA that are successes for anime, so they lean to pick up more shows like that, as opposed to dramas like Paranoia Agent.

But really...is it even fair to compare the anime on the least watched night of the week to the comedy on Sunday? Bleach and TB have over a 350K average looking at Top 3's (so it's probably lower than that in reality), so what kind of expectations do they have for anime (especially when their later shows are pulling around 500K on Sunday)?

[The Myst]

I kind of agree with him. Anime fans are far too demanding. AS gives and gives and they're never happy. They can never be thankful for what they have, they just want more. It's never enough that AS picks up shows like Blood+ because they want their favorite obscure anime show that would be a total ratings failure on AS. They're lucky AS stands by anime at all considering how big a failure it is for the most part.

If putting comedy on Saturdays will get Saturday better ratings and allow them to keep airing animes, it's fine by me.

[Beat]

Desert Punk: As a general rule we avoid Fan Service shows, and while funny, this one is a series of half-hour boob jokes.I want to say "This is why they fail", but I think Afro Samurai's success against their anime has proven this for me. Afro has proven anime doesn't need to be complicated to be watched by the masses. In fact, it should be the opposite.

Also, comparing the most watched day of the week, to the least watched, almost nonexistent advertised day of the week? And then he turns and goes Zeta is for Toonami? (What the hell was Pee Wee Herman then?!) Then he compares Cromartie to Tim and Eric? (The two are nothing alike) I think there's just so much I disagree with in his post it'd take me too long (not to mention I'd probably bore the lot of you) to describe it all.

[livingfruitvirus]

I kind of agree with him. Anime fans are far too demanding. AS gives and gives and they're never happy. They can never be thankful for what they have, they just want more. It's never enough that AS picks up shows like Blood+ because they want their favorite obscure anime show that would be a total ratings failure on AS. They're lucky AS stands by anime at all considering how big a failure it is for the most part.

A better example I'd use for anime fans are licenses. People wonder why anime doesn't sell as well as expected, and that's because the most rabid otaku seem to be the last ones to physically support their shows (stealing them is not supporting!). It's almost as if they just want the DVDs to be present on North American shelves so they can look at them and say "Ah, that makes me feel good." and sleep soundly. They're just fighting for the status symbol. Not the business side.

[The Myst]

Yeah, half of these people want these shows aired on American TV but refuse to even watch dubbed versions of the shows.

[Space Cadet]

Also, comparing the most watched day of the week, to the least watched, almost nonexistent advertised day of the week? And then he turns and goes Zeta is for Toonami? (What the hell was Pee Wee Herman then?!)


Well, Gundam has always been known for Toonami, and the only reason 0083, 0080, and MSG aired on AS was because they were placeholders.


I think that's one reason AS picked up Bleach. It's the animes that are easy to get into are the ones they pick up.

[Beat]

If you're talking about hardcore sub only but won't buy the DVD's because their translations differ fans, then the hell with them, and I've said that before. What you want is the audience that will watch shows because they're fun, not because Satoshi Kon made it.

Desert Punk to me, is more of an Adult Swim show than Paranoia Agent/Wolf's Rain/etc all. It says Adult Swim in that fun, Aqua Teen "Dancing is forbidden" way, not that pretentious "Paranoia Agent appealing to fans that wouldn't watch the first three episodes because AS forgot to subtitle the Japanese text" way. If I'm watching TV on Saturday night, I'd hope I was having fun, or the people watching with me are having fun. Paranoia Agent is not fun. It's a great show, one of the best of the new decade, but it's not fun the way Desert Punk is fun or even a violence fest like Berserk is fun.

[Ahiru-kun]

IMO 300K+ ratings are very decent. I mean anime has yet to become a mainstream media in the West. Most of the people who watched Speed Racer didn't even know it came from Japan.

[The Myst]

In the Moral Orel episode "Satan", Revered Putty refers to Coach Stopframe as a special guest but I thought everybody in town attended church regularly with the exception of Stephanie.

[jbanks97]

I kind of agree with him. Anime fans are far too demanding. AS gives and gives and they're never happy. They can never be thankful for what they have, they just want more. It's never enough that AS picks up shows like Blood+ because they want their favorite obscure anime show that would be a total ratings failure on AS. They're lucky AS stands by anime at all considering how big a failure it is for the most part.

If putting comedy on Saturdays will get Saturday better ratings and allow them to keep airing animes, it's fine by me.

100% word to anime fans being too demanding.

There have to be 100+ posts on this board alone talking about what a horrible god-forsaken travesty it is that ______ had their opening/closing credits shortened/cut. This knowing that actual credits can run over 1-2 minutes long.

I have to give them credit for sticking by it, when it seems like the most vocal anime fans seem to think everything AS does is some sort of conspiracy against them. (Witnesses the threats of violence in the thread linked to on the AS boards). I hope the ratings success of Inuyasha and FMA, however, doesn't mean from now on action=the exclusive genere of anime that gets picked up. While not every drama has been quality (WHR/Wolf's Rain/ quite a few others were essentially crap IMHO), it sucks that Paranoia Agent bombed so spectacularly-because I always thought it was quite a cool little show.***

***And I had no clue who Satoshi Kon was prior to the show airing. I just like semi-scary psychological thrillers.

[Beat]

Well when it comes to advertising and the like, the original programming will always get the lion's share of support and promotion because 100% of the profits fall into Williams Street's pockets. Quite different from Inu-Yasha where despite its success, Viz was the one making most of the money and Adult Swim was left putting up with a rabid fanbase.

I still think Kim Manning's deliberate avoidance of fanservice shows however, is a critical mistake. Maybe they wouldn't object if it was a co-production or American-made. Someone call Adam Warren.

[KuwabaraTheMan]

In the Moral Orel episode "Satan", Revered Putty refers to Coach Stopframe as a special guest but I thought everybody in town attended church regularly with the exception of Stephanie.

Daniel probably also doesn't, given the fact he constantly seems torn between God and Satan.

[Beefy]

I don't think Saturday is the main reason anime isn't pulling in the ratings.

Big O season 2 premiered on Sunday and it didn't do that well.

If anime did so much better on days that weren't Saturday, we would still have premiers during the week like they did with Inuyasha on Tuesday, Champloo on Wednesday, and Eva on Thursday.

[Rolling Cloud]

Well when it comes to advertising and the like, the original programming will always get the lion's share of support and promotion because 100% of the profits fall into Williams Street's pockets. Quite different from Inu-Yasha where despite its success, Viz was the one making most of the money and Adult Swim was left putting up with a rabid fanbase.

I still think Kim Manning's deliberate avoidance of fanservice shows however, is a critical mistake. Maybe they wouldn't object if it was a co-production or American-made. Someone call Adam Warren.

Kim never avoided fanservice shows!! She tried to get Elfen Lied and Gantz on Adult Swim. Those are pretty fanservicey. (Explicit yes, but fanservicey)

[Beat]

No, she said she wouldn't go after Elfen Lied and Gantz because the Standards department would hack them to pieces. (which is definitely true) Not that she wanted them for air. That said, if Gantz aired, uncut, the sheer controversy generated would cause a lot of people to watch at least once.

I don't see anything that makes Tim and Eric more of an Adult Swim show than Desert Punk.

[Rolling Cloud]

No, she said she wouldn't go after Elfen Lied and Gantz because the Standards department would hack them to pieces. (which is definitely true) Not that she wanted them for air. That said, if Gantz aired, uncut, the sheer controversy generated would cause a lot of people to watch at least once.

I don't see anything that makes Tim and Eric more of an Adult Swim show than Desert Punk.

That's what I don't understand.

Language: Can be bleeped, muted, or record scratched (Samurai Champloo refrence :anime: )

Nudity: Can be blurred (Ala Eureka Seven's Golden Bough book)

Violence: They aired the Eva unit-03 battle fully uncut and they're going to air Blood+. Those were and are going to be super violent.

[beren]

Yea whats wrong with fan service? Talk about not understanding your core demographic :sweat: .

Also if the people don't watch, AS doesn't get ratings, if it doesn't get ratings it doesn't make money, so if AS wants to make money it should probably listen to the fans, or try to appeal to the average person.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

Screw that, I bought both Naruto sets so far and I don't plan on stopping there. And now I'm drooling at even having the possibility of getting uncut One Piece DVDs.

I'm dissapointed they feel Zeta Gundam is ONLY Toonami seeing as Toonami does air Gundam anymore. Though I suppose now they could air Zeta just fine but there's another issue now... it's too old for CN to care about. If Adult Swim is going to air anything that really suits Toonami better then it should be the shows that CN wouldn't even look into due to their age not practically brand new stuff like Bleach.

I believe AS is trying to appeal to the average person for the most part and I guess they assume the average person wouldn't want to see anime fanservice.

On the topic of Tim and Eric VS Chromartie High. Even live action Chro-high is better than Tim and Eric if you want to "level the playing field" and that's pretty dang awful IMO (though occasionlly funny). What even passes for humor in Tim and Eric? Chromartie High is at the very least a decent concept. Tim and Eric is a sketch show that has no purpose what-so-ever. I don't hate sketch comedy at all. I love Whose Line is it Anyway and the like but this show is trying to make random stuff funny (which shouldn't be too hard) and failing miserably. It's not bad because it's live action (Saul is pretty funny), it's not bad because it's American, it's bad because it's NOT FUNNY. Cripes... learn a thing or two from Robot Chicken.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

I don't think Saturday is the main reason anime isn't pulling in the ratings.

Big O season 2 premiered on Sunday and it didn't do that well.

If anime did so much better on days that weren't Saturday, we would still have premiers during the week like they did with Inuyasha on Tuesday, Champloo on Wednesday, and Eva on Thursday.

I guess you have to look at the average of Monday - Thursday compared to Saturday to determine if weekday premieres at about 600k is better than Saturday premieres at 300k. A lot more is expected out of weekdays obviously and it shows in the ratings. But in general I'd say making roughly double the numbers they do on Saturday would indicate that weekday premieres can work just fine.

[Beat]

I believe AS is trying to appeal to the average person for the most part and I guess they assume the average person wouldn't want to see anime fanservice.

So now sex DOESN'T sell? :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

Someone should have told SpikeTV that.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

Sex definently still sells but fanservicey anime shows are really more of the otaku's interest than the general male population. You know the Americans tend to prefer live action fanservice if you know what I mean.

[Beat]

True, but to say anime fanservice doesn't sell is being prudish. I'm pretty sure people would rather see bouncing breasts than hear some guy with big eyes blabber on about Kant and Umar Tall for fifteen minutes.

[Kitschensyngk]

Kagome has such luck with men in the feudal era.

Gotta love Muso's dialogue. "That woman's mine! She belongs to me! Woman! You belong to me! You're mine!"

[Duke]

Anyone else find it funny that Sango seems more concerned about InuYasha this week than Kagome is?

[The Myst]

I think maybe the writers of the anime wanted Sango and Inuyasha to hook up eventually but Takahashi or somebody stopped it.

[Beat]

I think you're reading too much into it, but it wouldn't be the first time the original creator and the production crew disagreed on romantic tension (Oda comes to mind)

[Duke]

Well, Sango has said that she'd stick by InuYasha no matter what form he's in. Not to mention the fact that they trust each other completely. Plus, InuYasha's always the one Sango turns to whenever a problem with Kohaku pops up. And early on, Sango was the one who was first to run in and help InuYasha before either Kagome or Miroku would do anything. Obviously, Sango realized InuYasha and Kagome's relationship, and since she sees Kagome as more worthy of MuttBoy (not to mention the sisterly relationship between the two), she's resigned herself to Miroku. Poor Sango. :(

[vegetable]

Week ending February 25th.

* 929,000 households (#5) / -86,000
* 462,000 adults 18-34 (#1) / +12,000
* 575,000 adults 18-49 (#4) / -20,000
* 254,000 kids 2-11 (#5) / -15,000
* 182,000 kids 6-11 (#5) / -2,000
* 213,000 tweens 9-14 (#4) / +3,000

Top Telecasts (18-34):

#6 - Family Guy: 1,197,000
#7 - Family Guy: 1,175,000
#10 - Family Guy: 1,090,000

COMPETITION: WWE, The Real World, The Hills, I Love New York, White Rapper Show

[The Myst]

Well, Sango has said that she'd stick by InuYasha no matter what form he's in. Not to mention the fact that they trust each other completely. Plus, InuYasha's always the one Sango turns to whenever a problem with Kohaku pops up. And early on, Sango was the one who was first to run in and help InuYasha before either Kagome or Miroku would do anything. Obviously, Sango realized InuYasha and Kagome's relationship, and since she sees Kagome as more worthy of MuttBoy (not to mention the sisterly relationship between the two), she's resigned herself to Miroku. Poor Sango. :(

I see the relationships ending up this way...

Sango and Miroku end up living in the feudal era equivalent of a trailer park with twelve kids. Miroku is constantly sleeping around with other women in the village while Sango is forced to tend to his meth lab in the backyard. Or whatever kind of drug labs they had in the feudal era. Sango and Miroky hate eachother but stay together for the kids. Kohaku lives there but he's in and out of jail and runs with a bad crowd. When he's home, he's a total punk.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha and Kagome live on the rich side of town. They're civilized and have only one kid. They smile for the cameras but they've begun to loathe eachother and fight every night, screaming so loud that it echoes down to Sango and Miroku's house in the boondocks. Plus, there's constant shockwaves from all the sitting Inuyasha ends up doing. The next day, Inuyasha explains the black eye to the neighbors by saying he "fell down some stairs" or he "walked into a door".

[jbanks97]

I see the relationships ending up this way...

Sango and Miroku end up living in the feudal era equivalent of a trailer park with twelve kids. Miroku is constantly sleeping around with other women in the village while Sango is forced to tend to his meth lab in the backyard. Or whatever kind of drug labs they had in the feudal era. Sango and Miroky hate eachother but stay together for the kids. Kohaku lives there but he's in and out of jail and runs with a bad crowd. When he's home, he's a total punk.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha and Kagome live on the rich side of town. They're civilized and have only one kid. They smile for the cameras but they've begun to loathe eachother and fight every night, screaming so loud that it echoes down to Sango and Miroku's house in the boondocks. Plus, there's constant shockwaves from all the sitting Inuyasha ends up doing. The next day, Inuyasha explains the black eye to the neighbors by saying he "fell down some stairs" or he "walked into a door".

HA!
That's officially 1247 times better than the captastic crapitty craphole non-actual ending to animated Inuyasha. Insert some fantastically stupid plot by Naraku and a bunch of action that ultimately meets nothing and you have the 5th movie right there.

[J'onn J'onzz]

I see the relationships ending up this way...

Sango and Miroku end up living in the feudal era equivalent of a trailer park with twelve kids. Miroku is constantly sleeping around with other women in the village while Sango is forced to tend to his meth lab in the backyard. Or whatever kind of drug labs they had in the feudal era. Sango and Miroky hate eachother but stay together for the kids. Kohaku lives there but he's in and out of jail and runs with a bad crowd. When he's home, he's a total punk.

Meanwhile, Inuyasha and Kagome live on the rich side of town. They're civilized and have only one kid. They smile for the cameras but they've begun to loathe eachother and fight every night, screaming so loud that it echoes down to Sango and Miroku's house in the boondocks. Plus, there's constant shockwaves from all the sitting Inuyasha ends up doing. The next day, Inuyasha explains the black eye to the neighbors by saying he "fell down some stairs" or he "walked into a door".
This is your best post ever.

[HG Revolution]

* 254,000 kids 2-11 (#5) / -15,000
* 182,000 kids 6-11 (#5) / -2,000

OK, so using simple mathematics, we can all get freaked out over the fact 72,000+ kids ages 2-5 watch Adult Swim.:eek:

Did Blood+ get any promotion last night? You'd think that they'd want to promote a new show, especially if its a pretty big investment (50 episodes) and airing in a later timeslot than the Trinity/Bleach/Futurama trinity of Saturday night almost-good ratings.

[Otaku0013]

OK, so using simple mathematics, we can all get freaked out over the fact 72,000+ kids ages 2-5 watch Adult Swim.:eek:

Did Blood+ get any promotion last night? You'd think that they'd want to promote a new show, especially if its a pretty big investment (50 episodes) and airing in a later timeslot than the Trinity/Bleach/Futurama trinity of Saturday night almost-good ratings.

No, I didn't see a promo for it.

[Kyuss]

Looking back at Samurai Champloo, best way to kill some one that kills you/sets you on fire, stick a fiery arrow into them.

Myst,

I believe you're mistaken, especially since Sanga has never in any way expressed much of an interest (sexual or romantic) towards Inuyasha. Her own interest in Mirkou stems primarily from the fact he was one of the few to understand her pain. Inuyasha is much too self absorbed to care much about family, or family ties.

Also while I can understand some people's dislike of Rumkio's handling of her characters, some of the decisions I did find sound.

[Duke]

I believe you're mistaken, especially since Sanga has never in any way expressed much of an interest (sexual or romantic) towards Inuyasha. Her own interest in Mirkou stems primarily from the fact he was one of the few to understand her pain. Inuyasha is much too self absorbed to care much about family, or family ties.
What are you talking about? Inuyasha's the first one of the group to form any kind of connection at all to Sango, and until she formed a sisterly relationship with Kagome, Sango relied on Inuyasha's help. She and Miroku didn't have any significant screen time together until about 15-20 episodes after Sango's debut, whereas by then she and Inuyasha have already shared a bunch of trusting moments.

[Kyuss]

I base this less on the anime and more on the manga. So that is why I said that. In any case while Inuyasha did have an interaction with Sango, I hardly call it "friendly". Comradely perhaps but I doubt friendship.