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Coming together BEAUTIFULLY Team needed more time to get it PERFECT Thankfully Demarco had turned his Twitter back on a few months ago so we can find these gems. Also it seems the Bluesky comments have been deleted so he seems to have realized it was stupid to make them. Too late now though.

Stopped following him years ago because most of his tweets (something that was an all day, every day affair for him) was bitching about politics. If he ever posts something about Toonami, someone else will find it and link it. Back to the topic at hand, I can’t even see why he thought this was a good thing to make public. For one, the timing makes it obvious he spent the past few days reading reviews, and had an “uh oh people hate it” moment and decided he needed to get it out there that this was not HIS fault, but instead some mystery person he may well have just made up. I get that he has to be the hype man for his projects, regardless if they are shitty or not, but to pivot from 5 years of “this is gonna be so fuckin sick bro you don’t even know” to “woah woah woah it’s shit, and the rest of it will be shit, but don’t blame ME” within the very first workday since it aired makes him look like such a soft fool. Genuinely would have been better off just not saying anything, let it run its course then have people forget about it by November.

For YEARS and multiple delays, Demarco always made snide remarks to people asking about Uzumaki, telling them that quality takes time and they are working hard on it every day. Now that it’s out and people think it’s shit, he is saying he actually has known it would be shit for a long time. And of course, when Toonami related news is negative, Demarco wasn’t responsible for it at all. Demarco needs to get out of the TV biz and start doing politics. He has the perfect dishonest temperament needed for it. It was the same way with FLCL last year where we conveniently didn’t learn each was only 3 episodes until the first one was ending.

That’s the exact reason. Episode 1 was handled by real, expensive talent. Episode 2 was farmed out to China/Korea while the huge wad of Demarco’s money they saved went to hookers and blow to enjoy during one of the many delays. Thats why I was constantly warning people that more time does NOT equal a better product. The best animation has just been the stuff from the promos, which wouldn’t surprise me if it had been made specifically for the promos.

“So sorry we have to delay this for 5 years to make sure every single frame of animation looks amazing” The animation -

There are quite a few of these, but none of them seem relevant at all to the plot. They are just there so people who do watch the show can say “oh haha yes that’s a reference”. It must truly be baffling to newcomers when they see Mr Nimbus appear, for no real narrative reason at all besides being a character the fans like, and then mention he controls the police with no other context. Watch the actual show? You get it right away. It’s a silly joke that he inexplicably can control the police and no one will explain why or how. Apparently the guy who is working on this is a huge R&M fan. Perhaps the biggest in Japan. So all these little nods and references are just him flexing his knowledge. As well as using his position to fix things the fanbase didn’t like, such as poorly using Cronenberg Jerry. The other half of the show is whatever this time nonsense story is which probably won’t ever make sense. So who is this for? The creator. He got a free pass to make his fanfiction of his favorite show real. A dream many have, and few will achieve. But, just because you are in the industry doesn’t mean your fanfiction isn’t shitty drivel.

I gave episode one the benefit of the doubt, there were some questionable budget saving choices like the CGI mocap, but it kinda worked with the creepy vibe. Now here we are at episode 2, and it’s the exact same shit we get with every original where the budget drops like a lead weight. Half the episode felt like someone just holding manga panels up to the camera, while the actually animated parts were abysmally low quality. The punch early in the episode and all of the running animation in this episode makes Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer look like top notch animation work. What the hell were they doing for 5 years?

Uzumaki has a pretty raw deal here playing second fiddle to a very controversial show with wildly inconsistent ratings. I have seen mostly all praise for it so far, I just don’t think people want to sit through Rick and Morty for it. October is gonna be an annoying month for ratings with all the political drivel going into overdrive which bumps all the news networks up. Barely even got the Uzumaki numbers this week. And it seems SotB stopped doing Toonami numbers as quick as he picked them back up.

I really want to crack open a bottle, but it doesn’t say anything about the dub or if it’s exclusive to Netflix. This might be a situation like Zom 100 where it ends up everywhere. So I don’t think we are safe from this turd just yet. But it’s a little bit of hope.

So whose bright idea was it to use white subtitle text on a show where the backgrounds where there text sits are almost always white themselves?

So combing through this, I don’t see the Crunchyroll logo anywhere. Not sure if that means anything. Anyway, we know for certain now this isn’t airing on November 2nd for Toonami.

Looks like people are starting to find theater listings for the Daima dub staring on November 10th. So if this holds true, it’s unlikely to fill in one of the upcoming open slots. Of course, ol reliable Two Piece can hold a spot open as long as they need it, but we are looking at an absolute earliest being 11/16, but I doubt it hits cable 6 days after a theater special.

Hey, GGO S2 could have been Toonami related news if Demarco wasn’t an idiot/soft pansy ass and got S1 on the air when he had the chance.

I agree that double episodes make the show a lot more tolerable. It feels like we kinda take a step forward. One step, but that’s better than some weeks where it feels like nothing at all happens. I just wish people would notice we aren’t actually moving through it any faster and getting it doubled up is the equivalent of getting nothing.

At the very least, that would lead the room temp IQ fanbase to the correct conclusion, that we actually got nothing. ”Oh kick-ass double One Piece is back!” <- Moron after moron who is completely blind to One Piece completely leaving the schedule for X amount of weeks that it was doubled up. “What the hell FLCL Grunge again? What is this shit! Where are the new shows!” <- Same moron who has been lead to having the correct reaction to the current state of the schedule. They are very clearly capped on yearly episodes, so I don’t know why anyone would think this would have stuck around. Really it’s all gonna hinge on Daima. Did they get it? They will cobble a schedule together for 11/2 even if Daima is the only new show. Did they not get it? They could easily stall till next year. There is no real rush for them to start MHA since they are already a full season behind it now. I don’t know how much they actually care about IFG. If that’s just a turd they need to get flushed, it could double up as the lead show for 5 weeks and solve most of their schedule concerns for the rest of the year.

Interesting that they never dropped a 9/28 schedule. Is that episode 45 minutes or nah? Seems like if any would be, it would be the first one. I have slightly higher hope that Uzumaki won’t suck with these extended episodes. Anyway, this is about what we expected to see. One Piece pays off 1 of its 3 episodes of debt, and will most likely cover number 2 on 10/26. I wish more people noticed this and would stop cheering for double One Piece. 11/2 is when they are gonna have to pull some kind of magic out of their hats.

“Maaaay see some footage” That’s not November talk. Every AS show gets at least 3 weeks of on air promotion, so that would put it late November at the earliest at which point it’s tripping over holidays. Probably another February-March original.

Then getting to do the dub has never been in doubt. They are basically entitled to do it. The million dollar question is where the dub ends up. If it was any other show, we could confidently say anywhere but Toonami. But since we know Toei can trump Crunchyroll in these decisions (even going as far as forcing script changes they do not like), Toei could force their hand and get it on Toonami. Exclusive or not, this will easily be the most expensive thing Toonami has picked up in years, if they end up getting it. The only way “costs too much” will be a factor for them not getting it is if it literally puts AS in financial danger if they pick it up. Which is where we have to wonder, how bad to big name players like Disney and Netflix want it? I’d say there is some level of interest, but as neither of them are exclusively working with anime, they may not try as hard as their bank account allows.

It’s a good thing to have SotB back in the game since he will report Toonami premiers regardless of performance. Without him, we would have nothing at all for 8/31 because the block just did so shitty that night. Anyway, my opinion on Rick subs has changed. Demon Slayer did great last week, but with absolutely no help from Rick since DS actually gained about 30k viewers off it. Very rare for us to see spikes like that in 2024. There is definitely merit in the notion that subs aren’t good for Toonami out front.

So after multiple years, SotB just returns from the shadow realm out of nowhere? It’s kinda funny how many times it has almost looked like ratings reports would die just for someone else to step into the role. Unfortunate that R&M isn’t being reported since that’s all most of us care about. But based on Demon Slayer, it seems to be one hell of a roller coaster. On 8/31 it held Demon Slayer down to a pitiful 100k. The following week, Demon Slayer is up to 209k. Evidence that subs are both disastrous and not a big deal. Guess we will see how other weeks pan out. Thankfully, Uzumaki is our premier, so if SotB stays in the game, we will get those numbers.

Cool do a sendoff for Naruto during a show people skip, a week after Naruto is gone and those Naruto watchers are likely gone too! Excellent planning!

Option 1 won’t happen. If we get Daima, we aren’t getting anything else because it will destroy the budget. We probably won’t see anything till spring at the earliest. Option 2 I could see just because they love to have their cake and eat it too so a Daima premier followed by rerun marathon fits. But, with the only other premier being One Piece, that’s not really even a loss anyway. Option 3 id give slim odds. They may or may not already have MHA secure somehow. If they don’t, see option 1. Option 4 id also rank at zero chance. As I said at announcement, if Rick and Morty can’t bump this block to 11:30, nothing ever will. That includes new DB. And again, there will be no further pickups if the block gets Daima. IMO every potential block should have IFG slotted on it until we see AS make a commitment to air it elsewhere. It absolutely does not belong on Toonami under any circumstances but it wouldn’t be the first time a vastly inappropriate for Toonami show has been forced onto it. Here’s a hypothetical to consider following up on your theory about Toei and timeslots. What if, purely to appease Toei, Daima premiers on Rewind and then has a Saturday encore? I know what you are thinking “that’s stupid!” “That’s not Rewind if it’s a premier!” AS does not give one single shit if it means they get the Daima deal. If you recall, a chunk of Super premiered at 8pm on Saturdays and then reran a few hours later on Toonami proper. AS is not opposed to doing something obtuse if it makes Toei happy to sign a deal.

It’s 4, 22 minute episodes. Still will have to cram but it won’t be that tight. Strange how they claim Covid stopped its production for a year, yet the studio continued making other shows during Covid.

There were a couple weeks in there where they didn’t update it for 2 weeks then just did two at once. We also had Labor Day this week so they didn’t do anything then. We currently have 2 nights unaccounted for. If we don’t see an update by Saturday it might be time to worry.

Demon Slayer is still suffering from Demarco poisoning the well and tell everyone it would never air. That won’t clear up till the next arc, which came after we got Mugen Train. We have also yet to see how a Toonami without Naruto bait at the end does. In a bit of strange synergy, Daima starts the 11th. Toonami has R&M, DS and Uzumaki all end simultaneously on the 19th. Theoretically, Daima could start right on the 26th if they are serious about a simuldub but are also giving themselves a bit of holiday buffer time. Of course, that means skipping a Rick marathon, skipping an Uzumaki marathon, as well as semi locking themselves out of marathons (except Christmas and New Years) until Daima finishes its run. Is fresh Dragonball enough to make them make those sacrifices? Maybe. If Toonami is getting some kind of early deal, I’d wager we learn about it soon, that’s not news you sit on. IF they land it, I could see this being the post DST schedule. 12 - Daima 12:30 - Invincible Fight Girl 1 - One Piece 1:30 - One Piece 2 - MHA 2:30 - MHA As I have suggested before, DST as well as a DB pickup, would be the justification for cutting a rerun slot off the block. Not one person would question it or complain. Kai would be the cut show since it would be redundant, don’t want a Shippuden/Boruto repeat, and i assume they want to keep MHA moving. But of course, those are all big if scenarios. As you said, all big money players in the market are motivated to add this show to their catalogs, preferably with an exclusive deal. If the only deciding factor here was money, Toonami would already be out. If Toei is willing to influence the deal, that’s the only way Toonami can get a foot in. Option A (or any similar big money player like Netflix) landing the show and clearly blocking its shot at running on Toonami would be the best outcome. IF we get Daima, the block is going to suffer for months because they will likely shoot 4-6 months worth of budget directly into Daima. And they will just try to coast on it because it’s the new DB so why do they need anything else? It just going elsewhere isn’t enough. It needs to be like Jojo where there is a 0% chance of Toonami getting it so Demarco doesn’t spend years trying to make a deal for it like he did with Demon Slayer.