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Why not just air it now? Why are they playing games?

Even if Lazurus is amazing, throwing out half the year and sacrificing everything is is not worth it. It’s also going to get 2 weeks of marathons and probably a top of the block rerun also That’s assuming the dub even premieres on the block I miss the days when we just had a stream of replacements. They weren’t the huge shows or even newest shows , but if one show ended you got a replacement.

That’s another thing The bumpers have been very low effort again. Too much “will be right back”/ “now continues” instead of the fun dialogue they used to do. This block is losing everything that makes it unique. Next they’ll stop using Steve and Dana’s voices

Why are they waiting until May?

The problem isn’t the type of show. The problem is it’s another rerun

Honestly this should’ve been a double lineup reveal just to rip the band aid off. Don’t play games, just give it to us straight

I really hope they don’t blank out the schedule just to reveal Shoegaze next week

I appreciated some of his information but his public trashing of CR and Sony probably didn’t help things.

Besides Rooster Fighter, what else is there? I don’t recall any others announced Superman isn’t confirmed and neither is Primal so who knows if either of them will be here this year

What if they don’t even have season 2 of Blue Exorcist?

If this is what they intend to do, then there really isn’t a point in the block continuing other than a vanity project just to say it isn’t cancelled. Obviously Saturday night isn’t their ideal premiere time and they aren’t willing to air the block on another night for legitimate reasons. It’s ok to let it go if it’s just mostly encores and reruns. The licensing problems just compound the problem. Just enjoy it for what it was while we had it good. Getting reruns isn’t a victory. I see all these celebratory posts about a 3am Sailor Moon rerun when it’s the same episodes that just aired on rewind. The same thing when Primal aired on the block as a rerun. I mean, it’s cool it airs with bumpers, but the show should’ve been there from the start. The network and WBD just don’t see the value in the block. On top of that, I see a lack of evidence that anyone working on the block cares anymore. We used to get Tumblr posts and Demarco was very accessible for questions and communications. Now we just get a “check out our lineup” with no context . Demarco is gone from social media because Elon Musk exists or something like that. I don’t really get it, but that’s his choice These originals have been the whole focus for the last 5 years and even more so since Sony has been an issue. We sacrifice months of the schedule to accommodate them to ensure it keeps the top of the block, gets marathons, and reruns.

People will act like getting MHA S7 or Daima way down the line while they stall all year to afford them is a victory I’d much rather have a revolving door of smaller titles like MASHLE vs them continuing to go after big shows. I actually miss the days when those were just off the table but we knew for sure a leaving show would be replaced with something new, even if it was an older show that just had never aired.

I believe it because MAX is the priority and it’s air date will hinge on what’s acceptable for it to be released on there

Just saying that Toonami isn’t introducing people to the show- just airing the seasons long after anyone cares. Them not getting it sooner is a Toonami problem- not the viewers who don’t tune in to something they watched months ago They have no negotiating strength anymore. They have to wait until it’s at clearance prices

Getting a year old season doesn’t bring the masses

So it’s safe to say the block is much lower on the list of priorities than years past

In a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants, a bloody culinary war is raging.

It’s bad enough when you have distributors starve the block of content, but I really font like it when its own network doesn’t give the block premieres when it REALLY needs premiere content. They should be doing everything they can to help it out

Do we even know that THAT is even coming to Toonami? Or is it another thing that’s “too cool” for the block?

Jiro might be ready very soon then is that mutant show Toonami material or a comedy show?

I blame Kim Manning and her programming department for being too close minded to “what can get the ratings” They only want the “big popular” shows and they are too expensive, hard to get, and if they can get them- too late to the party They need a new mindset

Which probably is why they’ll work with Netflix and Hulu- they’ll get a lot more money and reach those streamers who probably wouldn’t sub to their service, but may be converted if they want to continue the binge of the show they started on another service. With Toonami, we are down to the faithful of the faithful , we’ll hang back and just wait for whenever the block gets around to airing something because we want the block to be interesting to us. We’ve all been burned by watching a show and then finding out the block picked it up. I think the blocks viewers are people like us and those who are so casual about anime that they’ll never sub to a dedicated service for it. CR doesn’t get much from the deal. The blocks now suffers from 2 issues - For years, they could get big shows at bargain basement pricing out of goodwill. That’s no longer the case and AS will not allow them to spend anything more for those big shows - which leads to problem 2, they won’t go after anything other than big shows because they only want something that they have prior data on or is such a big name that is a ratings slam dunk. Other than that, a familiar name will always beat out an unknown show. That’s why they will always go after a Lupin or Gundam over anything else. Those shows may be mild performers, but they have data that ensures they’ll get the mild ratings vs the chance of a bomb The expectation of Cheap Price= Big Show= Big Ratings is still there despite reality changing. So until the attitude of programming changes, we’re stuck in this pattern of waiting for CR to go back to Funimation’s charity

It’s so weird that they are that worried about a tv block that gets 200k viewers streaming episodes on a 2-3 week delay. Do they think people will cancel their 9.99/month service to sign up for cable if they hear Toonami is airing something?

I’ll believe that mostly because I don’t think people will seriously be back in the office until Monday. But they could’ve had a deal in place ready to go live after the calendar turned to 2025. But I’m not hopeful anything meaningful will be announced. They might just sub Rick in with another rerun or repeat it again

Should we be worried that this is the demo they are targeting now? This is another one of their dirty little tricks. I agree, we probably aren’t going back to 5 premiers, even though that’s where we were at this time last year. We probably won’t even go back to 4 IMO. So how do they normalize this and make the audience accept this as the new normal? They make the block REALLY suck for a month or two, then “fix” it, and the idiot fanbase praises them for it. Right now, we have 2 premiers. By February, I expect us to be back up to 3. The fanbase and their collective handful of braincells will celebrate at how “Toonami is back” and we just had to be patient a little longer. They will be completely blind to the reality that the block is still running minus 2 on premiers. They only see a minor improvement and start popping the champagne. Two premiers will become the new bare minimum and three premiers will be the above average we shouldn’t expect year round. I was told it was completely normal to rerun an original high up in the block and it absolutely wasn’t a sign they were lacking in programming. Some of the fans are hopeless zombies