Toonamiguy321

On an unrelated note, there was NO schedule update on Facebook today. So that basically confirms they will announce Swordsmith for 8/10 tomorrow night.

Uzumaki on 9/28. Toonami does NOT get the premier, Thursday does. Really not inspiring confidence that this block has a future

Is it keeping the nudity? Usually when an old series gets a modern remake, step number 1 is deleting all the nudity that made people like the show in the first place.

Well that explains why they had to do fast damage control, this wasn’t their announcement to make. This feels like it could be its seasons fun meme show like Vending Machine Isekai or the current seasons deer girl show. Unusual main character. Hopefully Demarco keeps his dick beaters off of it as much as possible. The very first fight we see in the trailer being beamspam has me wary though. Probably something for next year. Since Viz is jointly responsible for cracking the whip, I don’t expect an Uzumaki repeat.

Well, the most logical home for it would be on August 10th since it needs 2 slots its first week. The panel is on Saturday. Schedule drops are on Friday. So if Friday afternoon gets here and there is no schedule drop, we know what’s happening at SDCC.

Does it matter? AS announced it, intentionally or not. Only one they can be mad at is the intern who made the graphic. Thats it? Just an Aniplex expectation? That’s actually pretty reasonable.

It’s Joever. We need to get into the house but the keys are nowhere to be found.

I wouldn’t say so. They may want it to be full blown sloppy seconds before giving it a cable run. Though, I guess we said the same thing about Scavengers which managed to get itself cancelled before showing up on Toonami.

More like the Toilet Bowl

Pretty much everyone wants it to be on CN, but the hopium for that died when the AS festival flyer dropped with it on the list. And on that topic, that is this weekend I believe. Don’t write off the chance of IFG premiering at the same time as Rick. It’s definitely a show they probably don’t care enough about to premier solo. Double premier on August 10, then move to 12:30 on the 17th? Very possible. I had hopes Mashle was on their radar earlier in the year, but at this point it looks like another show they don’t even know exists. I’d say for logistical reasons, Dragonball Diaper will be a Jan 2025 thing. They will want a few dub episodes on backlog, and if it premiers in Japan in November, that starts running into holiday delay weeks both for Toonami and the studio, so better to save it. Best case scenario would be them not getting it at all, but we won’t be so lucky.

“Positive” prediction has a rerun replacing Shippuden, cutting us down to 3 premiers, Primal coming back ever, and Bebop getting beaten to death after literally almost 30 runs on the network

Doom investors when Sketch gives an honest “it’s over” scenario. Of course, this isn’t the kind of change that happens in a day, but I wonder if the current state of the block is telling of an impending future where they just throw in the towel on the network. Toonami not getting acquired content would be one of the first warning signs.

Block skips an entire arc of a show to get to its more popular arc faster, BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN ANYTHING GUYS EVERYTHING IS FINE STOP WORRYING. Should I warm up you guys clown nose and wig, or do you already have it on? As for Battlebots, I’m pretty sure ABC was airing Olympic coverage at that time. I don’t think pulling it did it any favors since it was cancelled after only 2 seasons and relegated to the much less competitive Discovery network. Which it does seem to thrive on. Since we are on the topic, shouldn’t this years season of Battlebots be announced by now? I want to watch Riptide make manbun sissy seethe some more.

Well that’s quite simple, this entire scenario only exists in your head. And even if it didn’t, Rewind is dying and can’t afford taking any time off and giving what few people watch it an excuse to not tune in. Back to the schedule, why Mugen Train? They already did that for New Years. Are they really that financially upside down in it? Anyway, can the 10th schedule please burn off the rest of Shippuden? They are really blue balling us here in the final stretch.

I doubt Naruto is the sole problem, just their next attempt at a solution. It reminds me of the short lived Chiller block. The first show did leagues better than the rest of the block, but still terrible against the rest of cable. 8 weeks of Kai re-re-reruns did no favors for Naruto airing after it. What’s frustrating is skipping episodes is a great idea. Just not now. Imagine back in May, Naruto starting at the first episode of the Mist arc. Naruto isn’t new to anyone watching Toonami in 2024, we didn’t need nor want to sit through the early setup. We should have went straight to the action.

No more speculation, it’s now Facebook official. No reason given, they are just doing it. Which means the ratings are dire.

Oh my bad, had the wrong expansion on the mind. That said, did anyone besides Owl really think the current expansion wasn’t temporary for this burnoff? Id love if the dub Rick encore got parked there, but I doubt we will be so lucky. Worst case we get a midnight run of it after the sub. Best case we have an all night marathon of the dub one week. I think the biggest question right now is Kai. We are at major schedule shuffle where it should be making the switch to being Rewind exclusive. However, we are also seeing signs that Rewind might not even make it to the end of summer. That concern may result in Kai not making the jump. Consider the following nightmare for the fall. 12 - Rick/Uzumaki (lol)/Suicide Squad 12:30 - acquired show 1:00 - One Piece 1:30 - Sailor Moon 2:00 - Naruto 2:30 - DBZ Kai If people don’t start watching Rewind, this is a very possible future.

The 3rd and the 10th will be non standard schedules, so that could be part of the reason if they are doing something special and it doesn’t fill the whole time. But, losing 3:30 makes sense. Its only purpose was to give space for the Ninja Kamui sub. It was assumed they kept it around for R&M, but now that isn’t the case so it’s going away. If that’s the case, it lowers the odds that the Demon Slayer burnoff was to get to the next arc which makes the standard schedule potential more grim. We should be getting the 3rd and 10th schedule by Friday. Going by this years patterns, probably Friday morning. Strategically it’s best not to say a word because that just calls more attention to it. Very few people are like us and looking at the schedule every week. Your typical brainless viewer will say to themselves “weren’t we in the Zabuza arc? Damn must have missed a week.” and then think nothing more of it. Plus, there is no good way to have TOM spin the change that doesn’t make the block sound like it’s already dying. I wonder if we will hear from Demarco on the matter. Or since it’s a negative development, he will just claim to not be involved with Rewind.

The good news on debate week was Toonami didn’t do significantly worse than usual, but rather cable news did immensely better than it usually does and pushed regular entrants off for the night. Something we may not have even noticed if the daily ratings still were being posted. Wont be surprised if Toonami itself takes a hit this week since the debacle happened just 8 hours prior to Toonami starting and had live updates all day and night. Since it will dominate news coverage, next Saturday will probably end up like debate week with much stiffer competition with more people watching the news.

In theory it’s a good idea. Skip boring setup episodes and get us right to the meat people care about. But in practice, they skipped the meat and left us with the setup. The only hope Rewind ever had of success was being a “best of” block. No one wants to start these shows over from S1 Ep1 on cable. My guide said episode 8 on Friday and swapped to episode 20 on Saturday, so I highly doubt this is a mistake and rather is a late term change made due to ratings. We have seen this with AS scheduling in the past, when something starts flopping, they start making abrupt and questionable changes. Ultimately it will probably only make things worse. We leave the action of Zabuza to go to the setup of the chunin exams. Rather than the more logical option of starting us right on the chunin exam fights. I think they grossly overestimated how many viewers want to watch 20+ year old shows with 200+ episodes at a pace of one per week. And now they are in a panic.

Absolutely not. If it dies, guess where all that shit ends up? I want this block to live as hard as I possibly can. But this is just realism, the block working was a longshot and the cracks are already showing. He said it MIGHT be a mistake, but it’s not reassuring that he isn’t certain. Because that implies skips aren’t off the table. If they wanted to skip something, they should have skipped the first 6 and started us on day 1 with the start of the Mist arc. Probably would have helped the numbers quite a bit.

Yea have puppet Brak riff the shows. Probably not DURING them, but after the fact. But that was my point, that’s too much work and far too clever for AS. As you point out, they would rather just paste the characters on a few bumpers and never change them.

Major news about Rewind. After episode 7 of Naruto, they are straight up skipping 13 episodes and going straight to the chunin exam arc. The recent schedule shuffle was worrying, but had some logic to it. This change is a bright red alert that Rewind is failing. If Jason “we can’t skip a single episode” Demarco is willing to skip 13 (actually kinda decent Zabuza arc) episodes to get us to what most fans cite as the best and most memorable arc of the entire series, then this block is dire. Those betting that Rewind wouldn’t make it to the end of summer might end up being right. Sentai has been on the table since 2015. Years ago they were begging fans to convince Demarco to air more of their shows. Toonami has NEVER had a problem with finding content. Their problem is Demarco turns his nose up at everything unless it’s super popular. Which unfortunately Sentai doesn’t get too much of. They have quite a few seasonal hits, but those aren’t good enough for Demarco.

They have the perfect set up for it really. These early wedding arc episodes are just solo character stories, so the next 2 won’t feel too out of place if they park The Last on Aug 3, then blow through the last 4 the following week. This shouldn’t be that hard or expensive of a deal to hammer out with Viz if they really wanted to put the effort forward.

Sure, but a big reason people started falling off it was because they let the schedule grow stagnant. Rather than fix that, they seem to be trying to evolve the block into something entirely new. If it actually is MST3k style with Brak, they could air all kinds of shit in a “new” way. But, I doubt they are that creative.