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We have only gotten a reveal that S2 and 3 are happening, nothing more. And that was in June. At the absolute bare minimum, it would need a year before a season is ready to air. And I can’t see it stealth dropping either, we are gonna get lots of lead up teasers and reveals before they actually commit to a date. I don’t even have it on my 2026 bingo card. We would sooner see S3 of MAWS than Kamui that soon.

You would think so, but Demarco did say at one point way back in the day that the recording sessions for Blum do take up a noticeable chunk of the budget. Granted, this was back when Toonami had TOM and Sara say something unique at the start of every broadcast, so that may have been running the tab up.

Blum is union, he literally cannot do jobs for free even if he wanted to. At least, not under his real name, which he does use for Adult Swim. I believe he takes the bare minimum union rate to do TOM which is as close to free as is he is allowed to do. Still money out the door though, and more bumpers means more money. Hey it’s better than the Primal S2 marathon it looked like we were gonna get. Available or not, DDD S2 is the freshest dub we will get these days.

On the DDD night, they are just running two hours of American Dad right after the block. Not really sure why they can’t just stick to that and boot Zom and R&M Every slot they add increases their Blum expenses and general workload with promos and bumpers. Which is why I find this pointless expansion confusing. Could have kicked off 2026 slim and trim, which will be important as the year goes on and content is harder to secure. Maybe someone in scheduling finally turned their brain on and realized that airing reruns of it on Toonami immediately causes and audience split and ratings reduction from people who intentionally skip the Sunday premier so they don’t have to start Toonami with reruns. As you say, it can be filler later, but maybe we can be spared its blight for the time being.

I’m trying to save you from suffering. Instead of wasting another 190+ weeks waiting for Toonami to spoonfeed it to you one at a time, you can go blitz through chunks of it on your own time. You can even skip the filler which saves you about 100 episodes. You could even do 4 episodes per week during the two hours of reruns the block has. We slogged through 500 straight episodes of Shippuden, only taking breaks for marathons. We have EARNED a Naruto-free Toonami experience. There is one more slightly more urgent question to ask. Where do Primal S3 reruns go? Even waiting on Dan Da Dan S1 to end puts them a few weeks out from their premier. I wish I could just confidently say they aren’t doing them, but why wouldn’t they? They love making us suffer.

Fresh schedules just dropped. First up for Dec 27, we have a Dan Da Dan marathon with a surprise sneak peak of S2. Episode 1 of S2 I guess? Never seen them do this before. Then the next week, the final piece of the Rerun mistake is FINALLY off the damn schedule. We start the new year Naruto free and it feels good. But at what cost? The shit ass R&M anime getting another run, and Toonami extending 30 minutes for god knows why. Also Zom 100 is getting a rerun I guess? And Dan Da Dan goes back to airing what it was prior to the marathon? Maybe S2 replaces Mashle.

I know it’s been removed from on demand, but I’m hoping they just had 2 years of cable run time for the episodes they bought and are pushing one last run out of them. 10 per week will carry it to February which is right around the two year mark of it coming back to AS. It would be MONUMENTALLY moronic for them to have relicensed that damn show as filler for 5am when Home Movies will perform exactly the same for free.

Optics for attempting to do this I get, they don’t care about that. The attempt will be made if things pan out this way. The optics I’m talking about is how deeply ingrained it is that CNN is left wing media. Just as Fox is ingrained as right wing media. You can’t just phone up a couple right wing talking heads and change the direction of the channel. You give George W. Republican his own show on CNN and right wingers will just question why he is on the liberal network instead of Fox. I guess a different angle could be just tossing the network to the side to prevent it from reporting anything of value. But honestly, CNN has already completely destroyed its own credibility over the years and spends a lot of time reporting inane garbage just so they can talk about Trump more. Right wingers won’t watch it, left wingers will believe anything they say, and independents will get their news elsewhere as they already are. It’s a 100 billion dollars into the pisser to achieve goals that have already happened naturally. Even a willingness to ignore ratings, any TV network loses all its power if no one watches it. CNN really struggled during the Biden years because they had nothing to complain about. “Biden does thing” is not engaging to viewers. “Trump does thing and it’s BAD and you need to be MAD here’s a 3 hour panel” holds a few more people’s attention. I dunno, maybe I’m just thinking about it too hard. Seems like in the cable bigshot sphere, it doesn’t matter how much money you piss away or lose, your mistakes all magically go away and you get millions of dollars for the effort. Why care if something is stupid if you can’t lose?

Pretty bold move, because optics for the channels is gonna be really hard to shift. They could hire Trump himself to read the news on CNN 24 hours a day and it’s still gonna be perceived as the liberal biased network. Same on the flip side of Fox, if someone left wing picks it up, it doesn’t matter how hard they change the programming, people will still write it off as the right wing news network. The only way I could see this working the way they intend is to subliminally feed talking points through a left wing lens. But I don’t think anyone involved with this is clever enough to do such a thing.

Probably gonna be this one. Not like they really have a choice in the matter unless they are gonna try to lock down a different Fox filler title. And I believe AS has long since cast away their final cares about the ratings of 4am. Something needs to air there, and something will.

As theorized when KotH expired, Adult Swim will be letting the license for Futurama lapse on December 28th, exactly 4 years since it returned to the network. Home Movies will fill in its late night hours, and in a shocking choice, Dexter returns to 5pm. Now, if that means Checkered Past is back, or if it’s just airing solo, remains to be seen.

Why does Paramount want it so bad? All I ever hear in discussions about WBD is about what a bad state it’s in and how much debt it has. 53 billion seemed overvalued, 108 billion just seems insane. Do they even have that kind of motion to drop on one single thing?

In 3 years, CNN will be completely worthless. They saw their ratings plummet in 2021-2024 because they didn’t have anything to bitch about. If people can’t watch CNN for the sake of making themselves angry, they won’t watch. What I’m reading is that CN/AS and all other linear cable channels are being spun off into the doomed debt dump company. What I’m not getting a clear answer on is if Netflix actually owns this. It seems that it’s going to take most of 2026 to iron everything out, so we should have at least one more year of AS/Toonami before anything dire happens. And even before this deal, I had seen a lot of people thinking the block runs out of gas by 2027 anyway, so this may just be the natural stopping point.

Toonami will likely get absolutely nothing out of the change, but it is amusing that Jojo part 6 now has a non zero chance of airing on the block.

Quite the vivid imagination on some of you. If the new owners do end up doing something with AS, it’s gonna be all or nothing. They are either gonna leave it be to do what it’s currently doing, or take it out behind the shed. There will be no middle ground option. &nbsp And what’s with all the expectations for Yaiba? Shit looks like it is meant for toddlers in 1990s Japan. A worse fit than Daima that at least has the Dragonball legacy behind it.