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Not happening. The head of programming knows its audience poison. They may try and justify it by saying it was confusing because they hadn’t finished Naruto yet, but you really don’t need to know that much

What’s funny is that with every expansion earlier into prime time, there was always talk of them airing different things, but it always just ends up being KOTH. The FOX shows raise the bar to a level that the originals can’t meet and many of them can’t really strike a tone that’s going to capture that wider audience. They wouldn’t have gone that deep into prime time without having those shows. I fully expect them to bring back FG as soon as they are legally able since there seems to be a shift in strategy over at the Disney owned networks

I don’t think it ever did well on weeknights in the early years, but they were forced to rely on it because there just wasn’t enough episodes of their originals to fill out a schedule. Not even AD had enough to strip out until it got to like season 3 or 4. Hell, I don’t think they doubled up on FG until they lost Futurama

As cutting edge as AS seems to some people, they don’t really give things a chance for very long with the nightly lineup before reverting to playing it safe again

That’s going to be an issue for them if they are expecting it to lead the block. It being available for a week means the main audience for the show will have already tuned in and seen it multiple ways. That plus it being subbed means it already has that going against it it is kind of sad that anything with the remotely wide appeal can’t premiere on Toonami because it’s on Saturday night. But they also won’t ever take the branding outside of Saturday either

Without a doubt, AS will expect huge things out of it. That fan base didn’t even like the changes of s7, you think they’ll be receptive to this? I guess they will have plot elements like the other Beth, but I seriously doubt it’ll tie into the main shows storyline Ultimately, my main fear is they’ll force it to the block because they don’t want to have the slot to deal with and not much else. But it’ll be a subbed show that probably aired days ago and it’ll have both things working against it

They’ve already had 2 TOM/SARA preview promos for it, which leads me to believe it’s definitely going to be on Toonami in some fashion. It’s still weird to me that they are doing this. The RM fan base can be a bit fanatical, but this will lack much of the flavor of what makes the show what it is. It seems like this will be tying into storylines of the main show which is probably designed to get those fans engaged. There is no proper season of it this year, so the anime will be all they get. I do think Saturday before the block is a best of both worlds scenario, but AS seems to have this aversion to putting anything they consider mainstream on other nights. But they have to realize this probably won’t be on the level as an actual season

I agree with you, just don’t underestimate their tendency to overestimate an audience potential. Especially when it also means they don’t have to figure out a time slot for a few months

It’s yet to be determined where else on the schedule it’ll be too. Lots of questions Is it going to be a Thursday premiere, Saturday rerun? Or will it actually premiere on the block? Will it have a decent amount of action? Would leading with a subbed show of any kind be poison for the Toonami audience, but not at midnight any other night if the week? It would be fun if they had sub/dub versions, but they won’t

No chance for Lazurus this year?

Yes mostly because CR still doesn’t have closed captions on most of they’re dubs

Hey why not break Superman up into 2 weeks with DBZ KAI at the end? might as well while they are at it. Then they would quietly chop off 3am It’s their own lack of planing if Ninja and Superman were this far apart. This the one area they CAN control since they are both originals. They could’ve done something there Of course you can’t discount the possibility that CR is once again making MHA hard on them by withholding information on their dub premiere. Then they’ll fight them on whether they can have it, then finally, they’ll make them wait until the Monday before the premiere to announce it Whats annoying is that despite the fanbase being disgusted with this, they’ll be a huge effort those nights to hashtag and trend it

https://www.animefeminist.com/crunchyroll-fails-to-meet-industry-standards-for-closed-captioning/ This is an article going over the current state of closed captioning from Crunchyroll Toonami plays an interesting role in this. Basically, if they air the show, CR has to add captions because all shows that air on TV are legally required to have them per the FCC

Thanks to all of you!

Thanks! Happy retirement

What’s Twitter?

It’s always a little weird to me that some get so worked up about people having opinions. I’ve seen some who before anyone even says anything, will immediately get defensive over decision they make and that viewers don’t have any right to complain “because they don’t understand how TV works”. I’ve even seen this done, when we get GOOD NEWS. Like if we get a show we thought we couldn’t get, the lecture is at those who said they couldn’t get it. However, this is usually because Demarco himself has said they couldn’t get it so it’s not completely unreasonable to believe what the man is saying. Maybe he shouldn’t say this stuff either, but that’s another conversation But I’ve said it’s like sports fans on a forum or on X. They all have their opinions and get worked up, but it doesn’t really matter that much and people aren’t as worked up as they seem. It’s just online chatter

So surreal to see Shippuden end

Can you imagine how quick the block would’ve ended if they decided to go full nostalgia? It would’ve been crazy expensive and the novelty of it would’ve be worn off after a few weeks History had proven bringing in an old show doesnt lead to success no matter how many requests it gets

Especially considering half the people were expecting a nostalgia block and the other half a block with all new shows. Neither of which was what we got. Being upfront that it was only going to be 2 new shows alongside Bleach and ASA reruns helped lower expectations of what this Toonami would start out as

Seriously. Last minute schedule drops don’t do anyone any good I feel like this is revenge for Soul Eater showing up on a guide early Remember Lupin 5? They were going to take that all the way to Momocon until Epcar himself confirmed it in late April of 2019

I think I speak for many when I say that the constant stalling, hoping for a new show and then not getting a new show is getting a little old. We keep trying to rationalize it and be positive but You can only blame CR so much. it appears to me that they are intentionally backing off acquisitions and prioritizing originals. But, what they have in the works isn’t coming any time soon and won’t be able to fill a 3 hour block

Next time he has an AMA, someone should ask him

Yeah. I can’t see them being too excited for a short term deal on something unless it’s paired with a multi year MAX agreement

I’m guessing also they got a commitment from AS to share UWE Superman and Rick Anime and that caused them to back off having to look for new lead shows Also, the ratings haven’t been terrible despite all this and that’s taken the pressure off them to look for new things WBD’s tendency to be cheap could see a lack of value in an acquisition that doesn’t have reuse potential or max streaming I also think it’s always going to be easier to get approved to acquire a known entity or even if it’s an average performer because of predictability. If they have Lupin show available to air, they’ll always pick that over a brand new show because they have some idea of how it’ll perform vs risk something else bombing entirely So in my estimation, there is an intention to some of this vs them just continuing to chase dead end deals. If WBD is serious about Toonami’s future, throw them some stuff to keep them going. DC stuff, I think Scavengers should be a simul premiere also if they are trying to showcase the block