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I could see a scenario where we end up with a normal lineup on Thanksgiving weekend this year, and that lineup is headlined by MHA Season 6's Season Premiere. That would mean 4 episodes of Season 6 get to premiere in late November and early December before the obligatory marathons for Christmas and New Year's Eves. Considering only the rerun, PRIMAL, which is going to reair Season 2, that really does work out the best--or does it? With 7 episodes left and only 6 weeks, the rerun's finale would be pushed into 2023 before giving something else, perhaps Housing Complex C, a spin in the closer slot. Another possibility is that Adult Swim actually DOES get the 8 PM hour back AND Toonami expands to 11:30 PM to squeeze in Bleach: TYBW on 1/7/23. But that DOES seem kinda far-fetched at this point...

This might be fun: Comprehensive list of SERIES aired on Toonami in 2022 (thru 11/5): Blade Runner Black Lotus YashaHime Cowboy Bebop* Assassination Classroom Naruto Shippuden Made In Abyss One Piece Shenmue The Animation* Attack On Titan Lupin the 3rd Part 6* PRIMAL* Housing Complex C* The Promised Neverland My Hero Academia *Denotes series that aired in full Compare that to 2021...

Hopefully they can get Bleach: TYBW by then, but more likely we're talking June if Yashahime is any indication. Maybe even as late as August if Second Act is any indication... PRIMAL is an interesting choice for the closing rerun. It will be interesting to see which episodes they air. If they go all the way back to Season 1, that would be 1-3 from 2019.

Episode 9 actually did pretty damn good. Then episode 10 flopped. 🤷‍♂️

6 normal Toonami nights. December has 5 Saturdays. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are DEFINITELY gonna be marathon nights. Thanksgiving is iffy. But if they ARE still trying to get the rights to that MiA movie and it just hasn't happened YET, maybe they would air it, followed by a replay of the first 3 episodes, that weekend? After all, something similar happened last year... Naaaaah, wishful thinking. Guess if I want to watch the movie, I'll just have to use HiDIVE. 🙄

YashaHime and MiA probably both last until sometime in February.

You know what the craziest thing about this is? When MHA premiered last year, it never actually aired at Midnight. It followed Dragon Ball Super and Fena, airing at 12:30 AM instead. I wonder if this means we get Season 6 next May or something, but I'm not even holding my breath on that. Perhaps when/if we get the 8 PM hour back in 2023, this rerun moves there? Doubled-up, it could still mean we get Season 6 by March or so. Then again, IIRC, we DID have the Overhaul arc of Season 4 airing in an 8 PM power hour at the beginning of 2020 while new episodes of the back half of Season 4 aired at Midnight so maybe the plan is to do something like that again? T.O.M. certainly seems to have the Absolution on auto-pilot these days. Premiering Made In Abyss Season 2 is a plus but without first airing the canonical movie, it kinda falls flat. Guess we'll just ride into the holidays with only 4 premieres and hope better days are ahead somehow in 2023...

BREAKING NEWS: Still awaiting confirmation whether that's actually S6 or is indeed S5. Did they forget they aired 5 seasons? Yay for MiA S2, but BOO for not airing the movie. And I guess the first 4 episodes of TPN will be just a one-off after all. But this does beg the question as to what airs in the 3 AM hour that night... 🤔

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I think there's no question if Toonami somehow pulls off two new marquee shows, such as Bleach: TYBW and MHA Season 6, Yashahime will be 3rd in the lineup. It may remain 12:30 if MiA Season 2 is brought on board instead.

The End Of The Line for Housing Complex C premieres... https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-saturday-10-22-2022-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html So looks like HCC premieres made it into the lower reaches of the Top 50 3 times out of 4, and I guess that ain't bad. The other 5 premieres, of course, weren't so lucky. The 1 AM One Piece just barely missed it at #53, rebounding from a #71 Yashahime. Well, at least all 6 premieres managed to beat the trump rally in 18-49, so that's something, right??

It's set in the 1960's, which means modern-day Lupin is pushing 70. Damn, he looks good for late 60's!

Well, here's what we know so far: YashaHime returns in 2 weeks. That's it. We don't know what timeslot it will be in, nor what else is airing that night at all. It's possible we could get the MiA Dawn of Deep Soul movie at 12:30 or later, but it's a pretty safe bet it won't be at Midnight. One Piece and Naruto Shippuden didn't say they weren't returning in 2 weeks, but they also didn't say they were!

I'm here for the hour-long finale!!

That's actually possible. Episodes 5-6 WOULD fit nicely at the 2nd 2 AM hour, and Episodes 7-8 would follow at 3 AM. Then maybe finish off the rerun with 9-11 the following week beginning at 2:30? Not a bad stall tactic if they can't get a new show yet.

In 2021, Toonami ran all 12 episodes of Fena: Pirate Princess from 12 AM-5 AM, taking advantage of the bonus hour to squeeze 6 hours of Fena into 5 hours. They did likewise in 2020, marathonning all of The Promised Neverland Season 1 from 12-5 AM. That just happened to be Halloween Night. In 2019, the bonus hour was on November 2nd-3rd, and I really can't remember what they did for it. Consult Swimpedia for the answer. The last time Toonami really did something interesting for the bonus hour was November 5-6th, 2016, when Toonami began the movie Children Who Chase Lost Voices at the 2nd 2 AM (advertised as 3 AM).

Before this one disappears into the Abyss of the Archive, here's the ANN review: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/yashahime-princess-half-demon-the-second-act/episode-11/.180530 ★★☆☆☆ 2 Stars? Come on! It also had the resolution of Moroha's misadventures with the Raccoon Dogs! What this episode had going for it was a lot of silly humor! Well, at least I found it entertaining!

Never underestimate the power of Medical Ninjutsu!

Finally caught up with these 2 episodes, and I gotta say: wow, this really WAS "Yeti Night" on Toonami! Looks like Nami and Zoro could use a hand from Kohaku and the Demon Slayers!

Episode 415 (Season 20, Episode 2): "The Two Mangekyo" Episode 416 (Season 20, Episode 3): "The Formation of Team Minato" Not quite a "Science Fiction Double Feature", but these canon episodes should still have plenty of antici...pation! The Main Battle continues with the next 2 episodes of Final Season 20 tonight (10/22-23/22) at 2 AM!! Only Toonami!!

Things are REALLY heating up!! Get those HANDS UP tonight (10/22-23/22) at an earlier time! 1 AM, ONLY TOONAMI!! And don't forget what happened in Times Square 2 weeks ago... The film RED opens November 4th!!

Eat your heart out, Rebuild of Eva fans! And let the rage flow through you, Towa!! 12:30 AM tonight (10/22/22), right after the Series Finale of Housing Complex C. Only TOONAMI!!

All good things must come to an end. Really weird ones too! Midnight tonight (10/22/22), only TOONAMI!! Psst! Wanna "C" more??

Crazy theory for 5-hour expanded-by-DST-end Toonami: 12 AM - Made In Abyss Dawn of Deep Soul 2:30 - One Piece ×2 2:30 again - Shippuden 3 AM - TPN 205 3:30 - Primal or Lupin It COULD work!

Well we'll see how I do tonight as Made In Abyss Season 1 finishes off Mitty--again!