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I feel like if they do commit to cutting Rewind down to an hour, they won’t bother licensing anything else since they have pretty much already committed to cancelling the block later in the year. The block is already losing viewers due to the Kai marathons, once they announce a 50% reduction panic and acceptance will set in quick. Right now a lot of people are sticking with Rewind because they think Kai is running holiday marathons and the block will come back swinging in January. When that doesn’t happen, even more people will give up. And I don’t know, Sailor Moon is still one of the most popular anime franchises out there. I have a hard time believing that license is a negligible cost. If the old nostalgiabait garbage was that cheap, Saturday would have been filled to the brim with it years ago. But they have always had an aversion to the old stuff, and we have heard from Demarco in the past that just because a show is old doesn’t mean the price goes down.

Yea, this feels like a cautious test run for how Bob and Hank do in those hours. If by some bizarro reason those shows flop up there, if they kill Checkered Past entirely, it’s kinda hard to un-kill it. But if they do fine, they can retire the block by the spring. The Rewind plan will be interesting. A one hour block doesn’t even feel like it’s worth the effort, even if they put it on a DBZ autopilot. But I suppose if they don’t want the fanbase to bitch that they killed it, that’s the best route forward. Then in a few months actually cancel it and blame the decline in viewership.

In a better than expected result, Checkered Past will only be losing one hour to start, rather than being cut entirely. Do they think Rewind worth keeping around at 1 hour? Tune in Friday night to find out.

What gave you that idea? He has always been pretty open that he would gladly air more capeshit on the block, if it existed and was available to the block. For a long time, there just flat out wasn’t any. Now more is being made, but it’s all spoken for on exclusive services. The main thing Demarco hates most is heterosexual fanservice.

Like, strongly implied or full on flaming skeleton dong on full display?

TOM pretty clearly said that CC would be exclusive to Max. Could that change? Sure, but not 3 weeks later. The fact that we didn’t get Suicide Squad Isekai should be all the proof anyone needs that CC won’t be coming either.

No chance it will flop like that. Futurama has just kind of fallen off the wagon as far as rerun power goes. And this was not helped by the excessive use of the CC episodes and the movie episodes and their rerun cycle. Family Guy isn’t gonna have that problem. Family Guy is a ratings juggernaut, and it will be even stronger if AS gets the newer seasons they couldn’t air back in 2021.

Family Guy is back, you may as well permanently put those forward expansion dreams to rest. Both of those were ancient relics by the time they got dubbed. The news wasn’t that urgent. Daima is gonna still be airing in Japan if we do get it in January, they need the fanbase to know as early as they can possibly announce that they have it so people make plans to watch it with Toonami and not CR.

I’d be fine with them dropping the news Friday. Not perfect, but still a solid 1 month lead up to the potential airing.

If either of those are correct, Toonami needs to be making an announcement like, right now on the matter. It would be moronic for them to wait till two weeks before now that CR has their cards on the table.

We don’t need word, writing is on the wall. The only reason those two blocks exist is because KotH and Bob’s had to do the heavy lifting staring at 7pm. Now Peter is here to help. At the very least, Rewind is cooked since it costs money.

Oh no no no, we aren’t doing this again. Fool me once with Uzumaki, shame on you. Promos and teasers always wheel out the best shots to lure people in. If that is what they consider teaser worthy, I shudder to think of what kind of PowerPoint the rest of the film is.

If they had more than 50 episodes, they wouldn’t need to tweek the schedule like they are to include reruns of previous weeks episodes. Remember, this isn’t Kai’s first attempt at a rerun, they got burned on it back in 2019, so I wouldn’t put it past them to take the safe, experimental route and only grab roughly half the episodes for this trial period. I don’t believe they bought Kai for Saturday. The plan for Rewind was likely established early in the year, if not late 2023. Putting Kai on Saturday was just a lazy attempt at double dipping on a license because it’s DBZ. I don’t think Naruto was a first round draft pick for this block, but the problems they have with Crunchyroll and excessive costs of other more time appropriate options meant Naruto was the only choice. The most often suggested I see are YYH or some Gundam, both of which are off limits. I don’t think they could have picked a worse time for Naruto though. The same year Shippuden is about to leave and people are just about to breathe a sigh of relief that Naruto is off cable for the first time in 10+ years, and then they mess that up in the final stretch. Naruto fatigue is real, even if these episodes haven’t aired in a decade. I think that’s all gonna depend on their year end meetings where they discuss what worked and what didn’t. The key issue discussed is did Sailor Moon and the other shows do significantly better than the free Checkered Past shows it replaced. If not, what’s the point? For those of us who understand the nature of Toonami viewers, we knew this block was doomed from the start. These people beg for these shows, but forget they are so long and most of the episodes kind of suck without the optimistic eyes of a child watching them. So interest quickly fades away. Reruns never ever ever ever work.

I don’t think it will be that dire, I’m just saying the common belief that this automatically ends on January 3rd is misplaced. One or two things will happen, either by February they get the schedule fixed, or by then they officially pull the plug. Cause the block will have irreparable damage from a month of Kai, it ain’t gonna survive two or more months of that. If my math is right, by the end of the year, Kai ends square on episode 50, the same amount of episode they buy One Piece at. So there’s a chance that January swaps over to pure Naruto if they aren’t renewing anything for Rewind.

I believe the wording of the Facebook post is worth noting. Nowhere does it say this is a marathon, that it’s temporary, that it’s only for December, etc. It says they are all in on DBZ Kai. That means this schedule is the permanent one until they decide to change it. Last schedule update was in July, so this could possibly be the lineup for 4+ months for all we know. I know the optimists think this will change with the budget reset, but Saturday needs new shows too once that happens and I expect them to prioritize that over Rewind.

What an awful first example for people to see. The first 15 seconds of this “animation” is a blatant stillframe with the mouth animated and nothing else. That might be ok for some throwaway TV anime, but something you expect people to cough up for to see in theaters shouldn’t look like this.

I remember the same expectation for Suicide Squad Isekai. If the show is a hit, there is no sense dirtying it with a cable run when it can live among their long list of Max exclusives. Even if it did air, it sure as hell wouldn’t be in January. Plus, when has DC ever been an ally to Toonami in the modern day? They farmed off a couple movie marathons at inconvenient times to promote their own content, that’s it.

How niche is this channel? I have the bog standard cable package and I don’t think that’s in my lineup. Fate is a pretty popular franchise, so if this channel is accessible, I could see exceeding Chiller purely on show status. ItaZ is funny, and was an internet darling in its season, but doesn’t really have a huge following who would have raced to Chiller to watch it. Fate does. I could see them just rolling with an hour of Fate if the block is in a trial period. That resolves the extended episodes without any shuffles needed and keeps the story at a more brisk pace which should increase the chance of success.

“Here’s a new thing we aren’t gonna air!” One last humiliation ritual for the block before the new year.

Chiller’s block was a leadership and identity issue. They wanted some of that delicious anime money but didn’t know a thing about those damn Chinese cartoons that the kids love these days. A horror themed channel led their debut anime block with…a comedy harem show. Why? I assume because the word “zombie” was the only English one in its title. The other three shows didn’t even matter at this point, but they were garbage. Could the Chiller block have worked? Maybe longer than 3 weeks with better leadership. The channel was very niche and died entirely a few years later so I don’t think it was in the best place anyway. But an 89% loss of viewership going into week two is irredeemable regardless of how big or small your channel is. So looking at a potential new anime block, what is its identity? Do they have one or are they just gonna throw darts at the popular franchise board? I guess we will see, but the bar is pretty low from Chiller’s attempt. Personally, I welcome a competing anime block. For way too long Demarco has been content to just coast because he never had to worry about Toonami being compared to anything else.

Welp, I guess we never considered cable in other countries. Oh well. I doubt Toonami has any real interest in the show so I wouldn’t expect to see it. With that, I’m moving my chips back to February for Lazarus.

Now that we have a little more info to work with, here is my early 2025 prediction for the block. 12 - MHA S7 or Daima 12:30 - Mashle (continuing straight into S2) 1 - Fate (10 years old thus not top billing) 1:30 - One Piece 2 - Blue Exorcist (if they get S2, possibly replacing Mashle) 2:30 - DBZ Kai 3 - whatever rerun I don’t give a shit I know they have said that Lazarus is getting its finishing touches, but just because a show is finished doesn’t mean it has to go straight on air. Given it’s probably the only full size original that will be ready for 2025, I could see them saving it for the summer stretch. That of course entirely rides on them either having MHA or Daima. They could cram it in, just knock everything down a slot, but they tend to be more strategic with their resources these days.

It’s an Aniplex dub, which usually bodes well for us. And this was a Fate panel, not an Aniplex one, so they may have been more mindful of not spilling the beans the way Aniplex did last year with Lycoris.

I don’t see the word “Toonami” anywhere in this post, but where else would it go?