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It's probably not going to be a total surprise, but debuting the new 12:30 show promo halfway through the Blade Runner premiere sounds like a pretty good stratagem to me. No, Daos, the only MHA premieres that are airing for the foreseeable future is that hour from 12-1 AM on 11/6, and the following week that is replaced by Blade Runner: Black Lotus, but otherwise I'm expecting the lineup to be the same with the exception of course of the bonus hour. Why don't you go back to torturing Lufia's ancestors or something?

Batman: The Long Halloween was anything BUT predictable and disappointing, even if you could argue the ratings may have been. But strictly in terms of something I wanted to see, Fena and the Bat-Movies were all great. Well, except for Under The Red Hood, which I STILL haven't seen all the way through.

I'm probably gonna be at a party on 11/13. Might TRY to get them to watch the premiere of Blade Runner Black Lotus, Yashahime, and MAAAAAAYBE Food Wars, but they WILL have live music and that usually kills Toonami possibilities.

Or perhaps replays of Iron Maiden videos. It would be interesting if we got a Halloween-themed one buried among the Fenas this weekend, and then they replayed the entire trilogy in the bonus hour. So, I'm thinking Midnight Run Special Edition 2021, just at 3 AM. Another possibility is the original Blade Runner Black Out 2022 short as somewhat of a primer for Black Lotus.

That was...strangely intriguing! Sure to be better than that crappy Death Note remake, at least!

Flashback to other Batman events on Toonami: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-8-15-2020.html Batman Year One with 512K and #2 18-49, while Dark Knight Returns Part 1 got 433K and #4 18-49. https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-8-22-2020.html The next week, Batman movies again made the Top 10, with Gotham Knight taking the lead with 525K and #6 18-49.

Well, it happened. We FINALLY had a Toonami block that was all network premiere animation released in the current calendar year (2021)! That said, the ratings probably could have been better: https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-saturday-10-23-2021-top-150-cable-originals-network-finals.html Batman: The Long Halloween Part 1 landed at #54 with 206K and a 0.08 in Adults 18-49. That's a bit better than Batman Ninja did last week in total viewers but worse in Adults 18-49. Still, it didn't receive as much of a windfall from Fena's penultimate episode as Long Halloween did from the finale. As for Long Halloween Part 2, who knows? It doesn't even appear in the Top 150, but it's difficult to imagine it doing much worse than Part 1 since it followed it. More likely than not, it just accidentally wasn't considered a network premiere for some reason like Black Clover was treated last year. Hopefully we'll find out how it did later today! Also, if you look at the spoiler tag, you'll notice that this time the 12-34 Female category outrated the 12-34 Male category by almost 2:1. For whatever reason, ladies have been somewhat fickle with Fena. And unfortunately since the Bat missed the Top 50, I guess we'll never know if this girl power carried over to Catwoman's somewhat surprising heroine-ism in The Long Halloween.

That would make sense! Actually, this ending was foreshadowed in the first episode. The "blue water" she could have chosen was the bio-ark floating around in an empty sea. Instead she chose to be with Yukimaru--and therefore "storm clouds". Those storm clouds will probably begin to take effect in Season 2.

Aww, how cute! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

He didn't. But I guess he was responsible.

DAMN!

And now we're FINALLY going to learn who Holiday is...

Her name was actually spelled "Sofia" according to the captions!

Hoo boy. Here we go again!

Hi, Penguin! BYE, PENGUIN!

The Bat just kissed the Cat!

Yeah, I did LOL at that!

Yeah, I think it MUST be Dent's wife. But why did Calendar Man somehow have a way to help?

Well there you go! It WASN'T HARVEY! But now he's an asshole!

Maybe it was also Labor Day?

Hey, extended Blade Runner promo!

I guess that IS what happened! Wow, turns out this IS a Two-Face origin story!

Good grief, I can't believe we have 75 more minutes of this! LONG Halloween, Indeed!

Also true!