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Well, we might be able to put the speculation to rest early. Despite total radio silence since announcement, Rooster Fighter is premiering its entire episode 1 at AX. Probably gonna be followed up with a reveal of it premiering on July 19th. That would explain the “hurry” to start Daima, because there was no hurry since it was never gonna get midnight in the first place.

I suppose we know what to look for then. If there is no post on Friday, then it’s almost guaranteed we hear something from a panel over the weekend, and Demon Slayer makes the most sense. Its hour long episodes are also a good excuse to pull One Piece a couple times to help with that problem. Triple stacking the block with 3 big titles at once seems kinda irresponsible though, because next year we will be back to stalling and won’t have anything to stall for. Crunchyroll shows lmao, we got a dreamer over here boys

They could always give Naruto or Sailor Moon the boot at any time. I’ll be honest though, I feel like getting Bleach and demoting it to 1am a month in is kind of a waste.

I’ll admit I forgot about Dandy, it’s easy to since there were so many guest animator episodes, it doesn’t feel like a pure Watanabe project. The other two I did not forget about, they were steaming garbage, though in direct comparison to Lazarus, they look like masterpieces. Carol and Tuesday in particular had many fans wondering if Watanabe had lost his touch. Lazarus wasted 11 out of 13 episodes on meaningless side quests. Maybe they were meant to world build, but they fell short of that goal. Then when it tries to cram the story into the last 10 minutes, it gets even worse. Oh haha, all you guys were at the airport that day but don’t remember and also I didn’t tell you till now even though it’s very important info. And how convenient the 5 of you grew up to be a parkour escape master, a Russian spy super soldier, black, a super hacker, and good at crossdressing. How convenient none of you 5 random people didn’t grow up into a mailman or something. I do find it amusing that Toonami has two separate originals under its belt now with a pointless assassin side plot. Though credit to Lazarus, the assassin actually showed up in the story, unlike Fena where he is mentioned, then forgotten about till the epilogue.

I suppose that would be a clean way to fix it, though I feel like it leaving again, likely with no proper replacement, would scare the few people watching it into thinking it’s cancelled again. Toonami would have to make a hard, dated commitment to it coming back to mitigate that. Why the secrecy? If all this smoke and mirrors is just to slide everything up 30 minutes, what does that accomplish? Most times when a Toonami show comes off for more than a week, they take the promos out of rotation during the week, so that shouldn’t be showing too often, but why not keep the audience in the loop? There is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t have been able to announce the 19th schedule yesterday along with the Lazarus marathon

The assassin plot line was completely pointless and added nothing to the story aside from a cheap attempt at giving this show a Vicious. Every bit of it feels as though it was lifted from another story. Ultimately the fight ends with him accidentally crushing himself in the rubble from an explosion he caused. Back to our actual plot, it just felt like a big fat deus ex machina to quickly end the show because it had wasted the first half of the episode on a tangent plot line. Here’s the cure, also you five were at the airport the day the king of morons tried bringing strange powder onto a flight and that makes you immune or something idk. Absolute waste of time. I know a lot of fanboys don’t want to hear it, but this show, along with his other string of recent flops, should really cast doubt on Watanabe’s “legend” status in regards to anime. He got lucky with Bebop and Champloo, it’s been nothing but trash since those, and each one is a little worse than the last.

Seeing how things are playing out, you really have to wonder what their logic was here. I really don’t see why Daima couldn’t have waited and just been the replacement for Lazarus. If the issue was One Piece, they easily could have just put Naruto or SM on double duty for these 3 weeks. That’s not a sustainable way to run the block. They need to accept most of the big names they want are off limits for good. I fear their success with Bleach might send the wrong message, that if they just pester forever eventually they will get a show.

Uzumaki marathon at the start of the year, Lazarus part 1 marathon in May, two in July. So we have 9 to pay back. Yea, thats a tough debt to make up for, so they better hope they sprung for a few extra ones at the start of the year, otherwise it’s gonna have to leave Nov-Dec to make up for what isn’t covered. If they pull it once per month starting in August, that would cover 5, and the other 4 would be resolved through marathons.

Yea, like announce that it’s being made, maybe drop a short teaser trailer. Not announce it premiering 2 weeks later. It’s gonna be a 2026 drop almost guaranteed. Maybe Jan-March for S3 and then S4 can drop in the fall. The MAWS marathon is happening to promote Superman in theaters. If not for that, this Lazarus marathon would probably be happening on the 5th instead.

Oh wow, they are actually sacrificing a night of primetime ratings to squeeze the whole Lazarus run in. We got a lot of weeks worth of double One Piece to pay back, so we shouldn’t be too surprised. Why do I see so many people think MAWS S3 is a possibility when it hasn’t had any teasers, promos or discussion of any kind since being announced? They aren’t gonna just drop it on the schedule, we are gonna know about it many months before it goes on air.

Yea that doesn’t make much sense. If it’s not a simuldub, there should be no reason they can’t have a show in their pocket for a month or two. Not to mention when the block has reruns, it’s not full. A rerun should be able to be dropped at a moments notice for a new show. Of course, he says this immediately after dropping everything to get Daima on the schedule ASAP. They will make room, if it’s for one of their favorites.

The criteria for fits Toonami is “has action”, and even then, they break this rule any time it’s convenient like they did with Common Side Effects. Sentai has plenty of that, every season. So that’s not a good excuse. Plus, I’m sure the audience would have preferred ANYTHING over what we had to suffer through Jan-mid May. We heard it right from Demarco, they just sit around and ask for Bleach over and over again till they get it. If they aren’t getting those shows, they just don’t bother.

If you actually do want to throw one out they might answer, Demarco confirmed in this interview that Sentai is their go to dub studio for all their originals, so why do they not air shows out of the Sentai catalog as well? That seems like it should be easy synergy that they aren’t utilizing. And for a few they probably won’t answer. 1. What is the status between Crunchyroll and Toonami? The block has not aired a new show from them since the start of 2021, and the last sequel from them was from 2023. Toei owned shows make it on, but nothing else. Does Crunchyroll no longer license shows to AS? If you need a follow up trump card to a non answer, point out that AXS was able to secure MHA. So Crunchyroll will license shows, but not to Toonami. 2. Why was Toonami allowed to go nearly 6 straight months without any new acquired content in 2025? Should the audience expect further long stretches of stall schedules when first choice shows cannot be secured?

“I need my co hosts to commit to only ask meaningless softball questions that give little, if any insight on the inner workings of Toonami” Like I get it, Demarco is a manchild who will turn tail and run if you don’t spend the entire interview jerking off his ego, but let’s call it what it is.

I can’t believe the audacity they have to actually make that dude in the homeless camp that Doug talked to, looked at, and promptly disregard as not important despite looking exactly like Skinner, to actually have been Skinner the whole time. Doug gets an F- on detective work

So this has been bugging me, sometimes AS runs a generic promo for Lazarus, rather than the episode specific one. It goes something like, “this team could save the world, if they could stop trying to kill each other first”. But like, not one time in this entire series have I felt anyone on the team held any animosity towards the others. Worst was Axel being a little salty about being caught, but he was cool with the crew almost immediately. Really, all of them get along quite well. Did AS even watch their own show?

Lazarus is mid ”Zaslav wanted to cancel it” Lazarus is the greatest anime ever created because I was told Zaslav was against it. That should about sum it up. I’m noticing Colt is not on the cast list, an intentional omission so no hard questions would be asked?

99.9% chance it’s gonna be Daima. No originals are ready, we would have heard something by now. Get Jiro was shown to still be in the production stages at Annecy, and we haven’t heard a thing about Rooster Fighter or MAWS S3 since their original announcements. And I don’t think there are any acquired titles they would place above a Dragonball show. So most likely scenario is our current lineup slides up 30 minutes, and Lazarus reruns get parked at 3am.

Well, at least we aren’t seeing the usual Dragonball nosedive between shows. Seems my theory was right that DBZ fans aren’t gonna turn out for something more reminiscent of DB. Will be interesting seeing if anything changes when it takes over as the lead show next month.

I imagine the casting for this must have been hilarious. ”Ok miss, we are gonna have you start at the top of these stairs and run down, and while you do, we will get a recording from this seismograph. If you can make it move, you got the part.”

Schedule goes out to July 8th and it’s KotH all the way. It’s done.

Whoever was in charge of action direction for this show should never be employed again. First off, we have Axel fall at LEAST ten stories off a bridge, onto a moving tanker trucker, that judging by the interior shot, was doing at least 70-80mph. Our protagonist doesn’t even drop an “oof” from this bone shattering impact, he just rolls it off. Then, our assassin character apparently input the cheat code for the infinite grenade jacket. But that’s not the best part. After knocking Axel into another (easily fatal but nowhere near as silly as the first) fall, somehow our assassin gets down, gets on the boat, gets IN the boat, all in the time it took Axel to stand back up. I hope whatever meager check Watanabe got from AS was worth this major stain on his career. And we ain’t even done yet.

They didn’t. Tax write offs only affect the US market. So a shows reruns can still persist on in non US markets while being written off. In order to do a reboot, they would have to fully pay off the tax break they got on the show in the mid 00s. If they bought it back, it would be available to CN (or let’s be real, AS would get it just like Jack) to air and stream. Not saying it’s impossible, but I think this article is oversimplifying things a little and a reboot wasn’t as close as they are implying it was.

I don’t care about taking the 5th off, but I hope we don’t have to do another marathon for the second half of Lazarus.

Starting on June 28th, the online schedule indicates the Checkered Past hour on weekdays is being replaced by King of the Hill. A month and a half short of a 2 year run. It was fun while it lasted. Any final thoughts on this block?