Toonamiguy321

I will never understand people like Paul who just watched Rewind die with the rest of us, continue to suggest a further dive into rerun nostalgia. DBZ and Sailor Moon WAS a return to the best, and it was a huge disaster. Toonami can’t survive by constantly looking backwards. Get back into a 2012 mindset and just go for anything cheap and available. Let the audience decide if it’s a winner or not. Seems like as a long as a show is new to the block the audience will give it a shot.

Profits up substantially, subscriber count up, they are gonna be throwing ol Zaz one hell of a party. In the eyes of the stock holders, everything he did was justified and successful.

Oh and for those who care, which id wager is no one, the times on the 3/8 schedule are wrong since they do not account for DST. It doesn’t change the schedule, but the 2a shows are gonna be the 3a shows that night. DVR users be wary.

Not a bad guess, needing an hour timeslot for something is a safer bet than them planning for 2 shows at once. Just a bonus that it syncs its end date with Lazarus. Demon Slayer also helps prop Lazarus up since people will have motivation to tune in for more than 30 minutes. I joked with someone about this a week ago and the laughs abruptly stopped when we both thought about it and realized it’s entirely possible and realistic now that CSE has been added to the block. I hate that they added it because it opens the floodgate for various AS shows to be tagged in as slot filler. I hope you are wrong, but I have a feeling you aren’t.

Finally, a schedule update that improves the block. Not by much, but we are moving the needle in the right direction. Only a very small group of people like us who comb the schedules even knew it was restarting. They never publicly announced it was looping, so I agree this is just them not keeping up on their licenses and just now realizing Kai was running on empty. We are 1 week over the 1 year mark, which is close enough for me to assume these are 1 year contracts. So expect to see this mistake happen again in June with Naruto and Sailor Moon. With that in mind, I do agree it’s weird that they didn’t go with Naruto since we can assume thats going to expire right around the dull part of the chuunin exams. And as we know with One Piece, every week it spends doubled up is one week it can’t air at all. They have a few weeks to spare but I’d assume double OP ends on 4/5. Maybe that’s when they will swap to Naruto since at that point OP won’t be the only premier. With them synced up, they could have Lazarus subs replace one and BE S2 replace the other. 1 premier to lessen the blow of an unnecessary rerun. I wouldn’t hold your breath on two network premiers at once.

Here’s some extra details from Deadline, with one troubling section https://deadline.com/2025/02/shinichiro-watanabes-lazarus-anime-adult-swim-premiere-date-trailer-1236303203/ “The series will air on Adult Swim in English, with new episodes available the next day on Max. English-language encore airings will debut every Thursday at midnight beginning April 10. Episodes in Japanese with English subtitles will debut in the U.S. on Adult Swim and Max 30 days after their English-language premiere.” So they aren’t doing the Ninja Kamui sub/dub sandwich route, but instead the sub is gonna start at an undetermined time a month later. And it just so happens Blue Exorcist ends its run about a month after Lazarus starts. A positive perspective would be maybe Kai leaves to make the room, but it hasn’t exactly been a positive year for the block so far.

And there it is, the first official premier for Toonami took till April 5th. At least the block is actually getting the premier, it was starting to feel like there was a chance we didn’t. Another one from Crappa though, don’t set your expectations too high.

Looks like Zaslav just needed people to trust the plan. People may not like the way he got there but he turned the ship around.

I noticed this back in October or so, Spoiler TV only reports the 18-49 numbers. And even then, it’s like they only do 3-4 channels. Given how long it’s been going on I doubt it will be fixed, so they are probably burned as a resource for ratings now. Programming Insider gets them periodically but sometimes goes multiple weeks without reporting. And right now, the only show eligible for ratings is One Piece, which I can’t imagine is doing too hot with 90 mins of reruns in front of it. Can’t imagine ratings are all that important anymore seeing as they are willing to let FLCL slop reruns occupy midnight. They have given up.

They got lucky with MAWS, primarily because it’s been so long since Superman has gotten his own show. They are overplaying their hand here and likely going to have a gigaflop on their hands. They could have at least went with a different title structure so it wasn’t so blatantly obvious they were riding the MAWS coattails

Sounds like grasping at straws to me. If this resource is legit, we wouldn’t just now be finding out about it in 2025. And they aren’t going to have a show secured that hasn’t even started yet.

They have set Lazarus up with an unwinnable hand. If it had other shows around it, it could be “meh” but still perceived as an ok show. But it’s going to be center stage with zero support so it’s going to have to be a 10/10 every single week since it’s likely going to be the only thing on the block for a portion of its run, if not all of it. It will be nitpicked to death because no one will have anything else to talk about. I have to wonder if whoever is doing programming understand this, or if they just don’t care and just have to air the remaining originals.

The deadline for this years write offs is in a couple days. I didn’t pay this theory much mind, since before yesterday it looked like IFG simply had to step aside so BE S2 could come on with Lazarus. With new information, and seeing BE only double up one week and then get replaced by a wildly unfitting rerun, it certainly looks much more likely that IFG was tossed out with yesterday’s garbage and they had to make hasty schedule changes.

Anime gacha players are a different breed. NFT people at least are thinking about their financial future, even if it’s just scammers trying to out scam other scammers. Gacha players are just in it for the jpeg. Money does not motivate them, just jpegs. Financial security? Generational wealth? No, there is an SSR I need with 0.5% roll odds, I need to take out another loan.

Because the schedule is so jam packed, right? We have been coping they are holding slots since January, cope time is over. If they needed 10 weeks, they could have started Mashle S2 tomorrow and and stalled 12 weeks that way with actual new content. There is no logical explanation for adding this show to the block. Stop trying to rationalize it and just admit it’s a bad move. We would be. I don’t know why they are so insistent on keeping it alive while simultaneously refusing to support it in any way.