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As far as Bleach goes, we should get the confirmation Saturday night when the schedule updates. If it’s not, something might be changing. There was no blank schedule between cour 1 and 2 so it shouldn’t be tied to an official announcement. Though I guess there is also the risk of a Thanksgiving marathon. Given we just got some new shows, I hope they don’t feel the need this year. OPM not airing this year might be a blessing for it. Maybe the second half of the season can make up for the atrocities of what’s been shown thus far. If it starts in December it’s going in hot on its hatewave

Unfortunately this is exactly what they are doing. 5-8:30 is gonna be Bob’s Burgers 7 days a week. The extensions they got were very reliant on KotH and Bobs being around to fill them. Now Bob has to do it all himself and I doubt that is sustainable.

If we get stuck with Primal reruns, it won’t have any choice but to move down to 2 for awhile. Later in the year, it could migrate back to 1:30 if they can’t find anything to replace Bleach or BE when those wrap up.

Good news, all 3 schedules have been updated to swap DDD and OP. So things are as they should be.

According to the online schedule, King of the Hill increases its airtime to 6 hours per night starting next week. On 11/21, it will air its original finale episodes, and on 11/22 it is no longer on the schedule at all, with Bob’s Burgers increasing to 7 episodes a night to cover the normal slots formerly occupied by KotH. 11/21 also marks the 4 year mark of the show returning to AS. Thoughts? Pretty strong chance the success of the reboot is a big contributing factor here. We also have the 4 year mark of Futurama coming up at the end of the year. Given how little they air it, think they will let that go too?

So the 11/22 schedule is up, and DDD is still shown as airing ahead of OP. The last two weeks I could see being a mistake since they were updated late, but this one was just a normal transition to the next day and it still is holding so they seem committed to doing this.

I am simply 95% certain that Bleach is moving to its third cour without any fanfare. There is just no logic in moving it up to that slot just for it to leave a few weeks later. Considering AS did not treat cour 2 as a new season or pickup or something worth even noting was separate, it’s not out of line to think they have everything available thus far ready to air. TYBW very well may have been a single rights deal for the whole thing and they are already entitled to cour 4 whenever it’s ready. If it’s not moving on, Primal S2 probably isn’t too far out of line as an expectation as it can easily be made to end the week before S3 is ready to go out. Obviously none of us want that, so let’s hope my confidence in Bleach pulls through.

If there is one thing that’s eternally consistent, it’s our year end marathons. Christmas and New Years are one of the few times it’s actually bad for ratings. The good news? We probably are going to evade a thanksgiving marathon this year, and unlike last year, we won’t have the first week of 2026 shit up with a marathon. Oh yes, I 100% expect it at midnight. I was just saying DDD is gonna be the show to end the soonest, and that’s the slot Primal reruns will slide into. Why they would pregame One Piece’s trip 2am is what doesn’t make much sense. Toonami viewers consistently hate reruns. DDD might be a big deal but that doesn’t mean people are jumping at the chance to watch it again, especially right after its premier run. If this is what they are planning, it just means people go to bed an hour earlier since OP isn’t exactly priority TV to justify staying up through a dead slot for. While true, they didn’t really have a choice at the time due to not having anything else. And they took the risk, and it immediately started clocking in record low lead in ratings. Just looking at the schedule, their faith in it is clearly shaken with BE getting a promotion and it becoming the third show of the night. I just have a hard time seeing Viz as quick turnaround dubbers who would want to allow themselves to be put on a clock. Correct me if I’m wrong, but a quick google search states the dub hasn’t even released episode 1 yet. So that’s definitely not on a Toonami timetable here. And really I just think we lucked out hard getting two new shows this late in the year. One more, right on the edge of the year ending, is hard to put much stock in.

Regardless of the plan here, I’m interested to see what happens with Mashle’s OP after the first week. DDD not only aired a full OP its entire premier run, it continues to run a full OP even as a rerun, so it seems that something prevents Toonami from cutting that OP. Is it GKIDS telling them no cuts? Or Creepy Nuts record label saying no cuts? Or did 12 years into this block life did they finally decide to prioritize popular OPs rather than just whatever the lead is? It’s hard to believe they elevated Bleach just to pull it a few weeks later. If I had to guess their hurry, it’s because Bleach is one of the only titles they trust in the lead slot. Right now that’s a problem. Next year, the lead slot will be filled by an original or AS castoff almost every week of the year, so they don’t need to be pressured into conserving a trusted lead show. Im sure OPM is in our pipeline, but not this soon while it’s still airing and being dubbed.

Online schedule finally updated. Blue Exorcist S4 has been added to 12:30 and Mashle has moved down to the advertised 1am slot. One Piece has also been added and is moving into its next arc, putting an end to the 50 episode cap theory. Strangely though, One Piece is listed AFTER the Dan Da Dan rerun. So the schedule is, as the website shows it 12 - Bleach 12:30 - Blue Exorcist 1 - Mashle 1:30 - Dan Da Dan (rerun) 2 - One Piece 2:30 - Daima (rerun) 3 - Naruto (rerun) If that is correct and not a mistake, that’s quite the strange choice. I’d assume the DDD rerun slot is the one Primal will take over in January which would push OP down to 2 anyway, but I don’t see the logic for setting it up this way 2 months out, especially when the traditional year end marathons act as a bit of a schedule reset anyway.

Adult Swim’s official schedule tells a different story. Dan Da Dan is listed but at the wrong time. Blue Exorcist and One Piece are absent. The 11/15 schedule is completely blank. They ran a promo for Mashle, confirming a 1am start time. However, the schedule has it listed at 12:30. If nothing else, I’d expect DVR troubles for people. That is asinine. If they want to show them, they would just show them. Not ask the audience to commit for 220+ weeks.

If they did make a mistake, I would not be too expectant of the real schedule being one worth celebrating. With DDD earlier, that strongly indicates 4 reruns. I’ll admit, it would be hilarious if they had to go back and retcon an above average schedule update most are happy with. But I also don’t think they are quite that incompetent that they would make the mistake with Blue Exorcist S4. Now, One Piece is a different matter. The 52 episode cap could be real, and the schedule graphic maker didn’t get the memo that Toonami is tapped out for the year. Or, second option, the 52 episode cap WAS real, and Toonami reupped with Toei a little early. We should get some clarity in two days when the following weeks schedule populates.

Strangely, the online schedule tells a different tale than what was posted. 12 - Bleach 12:30 - blank 1 - Mashle 1:30 - Dan Da Dan 2:00 - blank 2:30 - Daima 3:15 - Naruto I don’t recall us ever getting a schedule update, and having the online schedule update still have blank slots. And even if we want to wave off Blue Exorcist, Dan Da Dan is in the wrong slot with 2am blank. Just a hiccup or something more?

On demand has up to episode 57. I really do not see them spending money to go further than that, but it does seem they will allow it to stick around until exhausting those episodes. Or perhaps they pull the plug a few earlier right where the arc ends. I believe that’s around 52 or so. Last I looked, the on demand page has it set to expire in May, so if nothing else, that’s probably the deadline.

For a late year schedule update, I can’t complain. Two new shows when the expectation was zero. And it looks like One Piece can air beyond 50-52 episodes per year now. Bleach in the lead slot also heavily implies it’s gonna flip right into cour 3 as well. Funny thing, at around the same time last year, Blue Exorcist and Mashle were added to the lineup at the same time. Seeing Diaper go straight into reruns after its subpar response is a little groan inducing though. I don’t watch reruns, I didn’t even watch its premiers since I have standards, but just like Naruto, it’s the principle of the matter. Anyway, that pretty well sets the schedule for the rest of 2025. Got a few marathons no one cares about to reveal, but we are good till next year when they reveal how Primal will shit up the schedule.