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I’m hoping too. It would be a shame if it’s capped out because of what comes before it

This will be a trend unfortunately even as people become less adverse to subs. Toonami will still have its place as a showcase for good shows to screen for the general public for awhile though

I think they should try to do the reruns on Sunday to get it in front of a different audience rather than the audience that just watched it.

It’s very possible that this wasn’t IBOs original replacement. Whatever it was most likely wasn’t going to air at 11:30. They were all set to keep that slot as an “FLCL” slot for now leading into Progressive. That changed quickly once they secured MHA. It may have been in the works for awhile but they possibly weren’t planning on running it until after Kai was done.

So the only question is will Funimation try and one up Toonami by streaming the dub first. This had SUCH good potential if only it wasn’t airing on Sunday!

I hope that Toonami has a first rights deal with this. I can definitely see Funimation doing a same day dub with it and if Toonami gets it on a delay just because of the day it airs, it could further splinter the seemingly impatient AoT audience. Even being behind her sub last year took some of the wind out of the sails for the viewers who just couldn’t wait. Much of the cast is in LA, so that may not make a sane day dub possible. Most likely, they’ll get it in a similar set up to last year. The contract that they got was very protective to not allow Funimation to stream ahead. For a show like this, you have to try and get a deal like that. its too bad that they have no ability to air a small block on Sunday nights in order to do this same day.

They should just keep it going to troll us. But if I said didn’t look at Facebook every hour for the last month I’d be lying 😀. We’ll all get excited and they announce the return of SJ season 5 and the lineup shifting again

Wanna take any guesses about when that news comes out? It HAS to be this week you'd think?

I think when taking DVR into account Super dominates Family Guy, because who is recording Family Guy?

Also of note, no further episodes have been scheduled so far

Attack on Titan Season 3, then Made In Abysss in the fall

There’s also a Funimation stream of it starting on May 8th. I don’t think that a home video release is a big deal, but a stream is. A lot of people seem to be excited to watch this show in English and if Toonami doesn’t start it first, most of the attention will be there. But then again, I don’t think it matters much from a ratings perspective, it’s just that it would be nice if Toonami could have a dub premiere so viewers have something brand new to watch

I think this could be a good replacement for Space Dandy when the time comes. I’m pretty sure Gundam Wing is coming at some point so it would make a good pairing with that. Definitely not the 12:30 AM timeslot, it’s not going to engage the Shonen audience since it’s a drama

It should get a run, just a little more towards the back. It kind of has a retro look to it that probably won’t do well up front. And yes, that’s how people are unfortunately

Only if he’s also voiced by Bryce! Are all the girls in love with him and he’s perfect at everything?

That looks like the same exact guy I both shows!

I can see Demarco trying to get that since they wanted it before. It also has another season starting. I just don’t see this Toonami audience getting into something like that.

Can’t wait to end this speculation this week, just so we can start speculating about the NEXT thing 😁

Don’t worry, the week is young, we still have plenty of time for that

Not really, I just kind of think it’s an unnecessary move from Sunrise, but that’s just my opinion.

Others (Sam on Twitter and Sketch on Reddit) actually pointed it out and I didn’t see it at first because they aren’t in the playlist. I hope Toonami includes this kind of stuff in future contracts. It’s one thing if this was 2002 and they put the DVD out. At least there’s a purchase barrier there, but when you put stuff up for free on YouTube in this day and age, you really tempt people to watch ahead- as you are right now. Don’t see the benefit to Sunrise to do this since it’s free.

Just found out today that Sunrise has uploaded the rest of the IBO English dub to their “gundaminfo” YouTube channel as of the last week of March. So we’ve technically already lost a dub premiere unfortunately I wonder if it’s a miscalculation on their part. If IBO played without interruptions it would have ended on Toonami a few weeks ago. They may not have taken all that into account. This is something you think Toonami would’ve covered in their contract

Yeah he's like that because Sean Akins was the opposite. He'd give interviews and basically tell people "Yeah we're looking at this show, we really want to air that show,...."ect. Then FOX KIDS or someone would go and grab it before Toonami could. It's almost baffling to think he was that naive when you read it now. They lost out on so many shows that way. After that kind of stuff happened, i think the interviews were less frequent. Although, I don't see the harm in announcing something when it is secured. We usually don't find out before 2 weeks of its premiere. I think its because they want to announce the show and its date and timeslot all in one and that usually isn't finalized until that point.

Keep in mind too that it can regain that status once it gets to episode 13 depending on when set 2 comes out. We’re hoping to hear something this week. A lot of the actors and the director are promoting the upcoming stream but it’s possible that they would have no idea of a possible Toonami airing. That streaming day almost lines up perfectly

The set (episodes 1-12) comes out mid June- that’s been confirmed. The dub looks to be streaming episode 1 on May 8th on Funimation but I don’t see any further episodes listed. I certainly think the block should have at least 4 dub premieres in order to give viewers things they can’t watch dubbed elsewhere. I think that if they can’t get a show as a premiere that they should hold off a bit and run it later when people might be willing to revisit it. I think it’s counter productive to let’s say run episode 1 an ongoing simuldub while Funimation is actively promoting on Twitter that you can watch episodes 1-10 right now and 11 is coming next week, for example.