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Huh, that’s kind of a weird time for it to start, as Primal should run till March 21st. Not that I’m going to bat for that rerun, it just seems like sloppy scheduling. 3/14 is the night Bleach ends I think, guess it makes sense having a Viz show replace a Viz show. I suppose Primal could be less than 10 episodes, though they never make Genndy pinch pennies. Maybe a back to back finale?

This should be entertaining to watch. The people who would usually be against this type of merger due to it consolidating too much power under one umbrella, will completely abandon those ideals and push for the merger to happen, for no other reason than Trump being against it.

I’d say it’s only gonna be a short lapse. Haven’t seen any reason they would turn on the block now. The main issue Aniplex has is lacking the types of shows Toonami would usually go for. We have pretty well exhausted their catalog. In slightly related Toonami news, DBZ Kai leaves the weekday 4am hour on Feb 23rd, exactly 2 years from the point the show started its Saturday rerun. It’s getting replaced by Daima. Which will still be airing on regular Toonami. Anyway, that validates the long assumed 2 year theory on the Rewind shows, and confirms they did NOT relicense Kai for 4am as some were guessing. So we should expect to see AS completely lose the rights to Naruto and Sailor Moon on May 31st. Will they do time at 4am before then? Daima does not work well for this format as slot filler. At 2 episodes a day, 5 days a week, the entire series will complete a run in just 2 weeks time. In theory, Daima could complete THREE full runs at 4am prior to the Toonami rerun concluding.

If there is just gonna be an endless stream of Dragonball slop every year now that they don’t have to pretend to care about Toriyama’s opinion on the matter, I’m pulling for cancellation.

Hey buddy, how does CAPTAIN Tang sound? Got a nice ring to it, huh? Of course you can be promoted to captain while we are out at sea, don’t be silly. This is the Titanic, this ship makes the rules.

They have said there likely won’t ever be another TIE. And they just rebranded the packaging a few months ago, so that’s another sign that TIEs probably are staying done.

That’s typically where shows start, yes. I’d say you are right on the stuff up till April, but I doubt we will be so lucky to reach all the way into the summer months without a single marathon delay. So it’s gonna be a messy March, needing schedule updates almost every single week. Since most of them are reruns, hopefully they just tell us all of them at once since i doubt anyone really cares. The important changes are Bleach and Primal, thankfully if Rooster does replace Primal, it should get the typical AS show 1 month away reveal instead of the Toonami standard absolute last second reveal.

I don’t give the staff much credit, but at this point, I feel like they would not start the show without guarantees of having access to all of it. They got all 3 seasons of Bleach locked down, this is a much less relevant series so I don’t foresee it being an issue. Revengers is something I could have seen Toonami going for back before the CR lockout, but not Blue Lock, so this does feel like a package deal. It would be nice to have the context though. Does Kodansha want these promoted? Or are they just being cool? Cause if they are being cool, they have a few other series in their lineup that could plug holes in the future. Whatever the case, the blocks future feels a little less uncertain. We went from expecting some major turmoil in summer, to having two pieces of fresh content that can carry us into fall on one season. And the shows we expected for February are all waiting in the backlog for another opening. Even that seemingly pointless expansion now feels like it might have some value down the road to allow them to slip in another premier since these two will fill slots for longer than average. This is also a nice perk. And if they do work with Kodansha again in the future, that variety might stick. Season 1 is pretty decent animation wise, the early episodes are an even higher standard. Season 2 is a huge step downwards, replacing a ton of animations with cheap stillframes and other non animation. It’s not as bad as OPM, but it’s close. The block was always going to get OPM S3. It’s a Viz show, and they have never once taken audience opinion into account in regards to pickups. The good news, is with this announcement, there isn’t really room for it right now so it’s a later problem for us. Maybe Viz will cut them a super deal for it and they will stick it after OP just to get it into the rear view and fill a little time for 12 weeks.

That’s quite the schedule update to drop without a single word. Looks like the DDD doubters were correct and that will probably replace Bleach in March. Both of these are Crunchyroll shows, but considering they are not more relevant sequels like MHA or Dr Stone, I assume there must be some type of back road that was used to secure these and the Crunchyroll blockade continues. Blue Lock has some truly ass animation that was overshadowed by OPM. Be prepared for a lot of power point presentations as we get deeper into it. I am glad to see a schedule update that we all didn’t predict from miles away, but it is a little disappointing pump the brakes on BE now after having its momentum going for 4 seasons, when we only had one more to go.

Finally some good news. Mediocrity does not deserve a season two.

I don’t think Bleach can rerun. People that had S2 episodes DVRed lost them as soon as S3 started. And of course, it’s not available on demand either. I think they had to take a VERY limited run contract to weasel it away from Disney without going bankrupt in the process. A full rerun would also trip over possibly getting S4 started this year. We could definitely see it in the fall. I suppose I could see double OP for awhile, it might explain that TOM promo from a few weeks ago telling people not to panic at the state of the block. I hope that’s not the case though. If only there was some pointless, third chance rerun in the lead slot, we wouldn’t have this problem. As far as Toonami is concerned, they want to space out their acquisitions, even if just by one week, because multiple nights of new content make the block look less dead. If you bundle everything into one night, one of the pickups is bound to be outshined by the other. They already might have to do a double drop on 2/7, which we should see an announcement for on Friday.

You hate to see it. Oh and here’s another funny thing, it’s gonna have a rerun on Fridays too. So Toonami is third chance theater for it.

The second they get access to a new Fox filler show they won’t hesitate to delete it again. It’s back out of necessity, nothing more.

So for anyone sticking out the whole night, I’m interested to hear if the OP runs in full for every episode. I want to know how deep the Creepy Nuts cut embargo goes. I did realize a few weeks ago that they did a clever sneak cut to the Mashle OP. They cut it down to 60 seconds by removing a few repeating sections of the song, which took me a few weeks to even realize was done. It’s not like their typical slop job cuts where they just end it mid verse. If it is cut, this would be the first, and likely only time, we hear a cut version of Dan Da Dan S1s OP

With their refusal to branch out and spend money, we are gonna get as much free schedule filler as they can find. It shouldn’t be this way, but it is. If nothing else, I wish they would at least stick it into their pocket for later, rather than having it run right on top of the premier. Everyone wants to engage with the live discussion so they won’t wait for Saturday. It would be nice if it didn’t have to lead the block. If they parked it in DDDs current slot, a lot of people wouldn’t be as irritated with it. Season 4 was announced for a July 2026 release at Jump Fest this weekend. So in theory, the dub should be in motion with plenty of 2026 to spare. If Hulu doesn’t have a huge window of exclusivity, maybe we could see it join the fall lineup.

Well, that’s an annoying revelation. I guess we were asking too much to be spared the rerun for awhile. A really ass way to go about making this happen. They could have finished DDD this Saturday, then just put Daima on double duty for two weeks. It’s got enough episodes and no one gives a shit about it anyway. I wouldn’t hold your breath on an off Toonami run at 11:30. That’s just now how they roll. They wouldn’t be speeding up DDD if that was the plan as there is no urgency to start S2. Good news is though, we still should have a double premier night if DDD S2 and BE S5 start the same night.

1. Toonami has long had a foot in the grave, and it’s only gonna get worse as our lingering sequel acquisitions exhaust their final episodes. We got a little resuscitation with Bleach, BE, DDD, etc, but those are ticking down. And Toonami still seems dead set on not branching out in any way. How soon we forget what Toonami looked like Jan-May this year 2. WB being sold off yet again, and this time the cable networks are being spun off in what appears to be a very negative way. This might not be a topic of Toonami not making it to 2027, but the network as a whole. Bleach, BE, Mashle, all of these end their seasons in the spring months. What replaces them? 2026 will start decent but it’s gonna be a slow march down the shitter as these shows end and very likely go unreplaced.

Yea, odds are Toonami won’t make it to this one, but it’s nice that it’s happening. I wonder if this will be enough to conclude the series or if it will need one more season.

Imagine they bring Demarco in and offer him the chance at maintaining a high level position. All he has to do is present his catalog of projects. Then, when he is done lying, the board just starts reading off one star reviews.

I really tried to give this one a chance. But every 11 minute episode felt like an hour. China, IL already did the gimmick of a slow voiced giant doing things with Babycakes. But Babycakes worked because he was insane and impossible to control.

I stand by S2 and S3 only existing as a vanity project so Adult Swim could claim that not all of their attempts at anime projects were colossal failures. Citing numbers in China of all places as fuel for a 2 season renewal is a pretty big stretch. Unless they haven’t started at all, S2 will probably make it. As you say, Netflix isn’t averse to just making whatever and seeing what happens. But, they are also quick to cancel stuff, so unless really ignites the popularity charts, it probably won’t make it to S3.

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.