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Uh oh https://screenrant.com/lazarus-tv-review-2025/

It’s been moved later since TNA Wrestling is airing. TBH I think they have already written off the block and are just airing out of whatever obligations were paid for. It shuffles around the schedule so much without warning there is zero hope of it building any kind of audience.

Uh oh

I believe Milhouee had his VA retire as well. Side cast they seem fine with replacing. When something happens to Homer, Marge, Bart or Lisa is when there will have to be a real talk about the future of the show. And I think we all know it’s probably gonna be Marge that forces the discussion.

Yea I ain’t sitting through an hour of rerun trash to get to two episodes of something I don’t care about. Ask me again in May if one or both of those reruns are replaced by a new show.

There was a strict NDA on this project

Ok time to place your bets 1. they are spoiling it 12 hours early because it’s an R&M advertisement and they need maximum eyes on it 2. they are pretending to spoil it with the most obvious choice for a prank but it either won’t be directly associated with S8, or won’t have to do with R&M at all

If he is ok waiting and dodging spoilers, there is a full 1-10 marathon on April 4th as well

Here’s the main reason I don’t trust them. 5 episodes is a lot to hand out early. That’s right on the edge of half the show. AS didn’t hand those episode out to just anyone, they are going to people financially incentivized to at minimum, not say anything outright bad about the show. The age of being able to trust the word of any kind of pre release review is long gone. I’ll be there with everyone else forming my own opinion, and as I said, I truly do hope this is good.

Huh, I felt like the story was gonna be contained. I hope they don’t get too wacky for an S2. A lot of ways this good story can turn to a shit story if they pivot down the wrong angle. Maybe it’s just the angle, but is that white dude that is standing kinda have the same body fat as Marshall? If Toonami survives long enough, hopefully they will add it to the block a bit sooner than the halfway point. Toonami premier? I doubt it, but we can at least be within a week.

The difference is simple, anime generally doesn’t get handed out to review goobers to pre watch. Lazarus is an AS show so it’s working a little differently. TiR and C&R were just seasonal shows among the boatload there is 4 times a year. Since Toonami didn’t spoonfeed those to anyone, they just didn’t get discussed that much outside of diehard anime communities. Good luck criticizing Dandy in the presence of any Toonami fans who was there in 2014. You will be attacked for having the audacity to consider it anything less than 10/10. Among non Toonami viewers, opinions are much more varied. I hope Lazarus doesn’t suck, I really do. Especially since it’s gonna be the only show on the block for 2/3 it’s run minimum. But I also don’t trust the integrity of reviewers to go against the acceptable public opinion.

Gotta take that with a grain of salt though. No one wants to be the reviewer to say “this Watanabe project sux” because they will get absolutely destroyed by fanboys. It would have to be Uzumaki tier abysmal for someone to get up on that hill. Now, when the project is out to the masses, then if it sucks people will be more willing to say it because it’s more than just dude trust me bro. Plus, I stand by Ninja Kamui staying solid for 6 episodes until the CGI slop really started to take hold. Lazarus has to start AND end good for a W.

The more I see of this, the more it feels like Demarco just trying to make a Bebop fanfic with donut steel characters. He promised to not make a new Bebop season, he didn’t promise to not make a new Bebop entirely with Schmike Schmegal and his pals.

So it’s going to be disgusting, right? A devil fruit themed ice cream shouldn’t taste good.

What? You think Mike “women are not funny” Lazzo would have turned down a show made by a woman primarily for a female audience? Birdgirl Teenage Euthanasia Tuca and Bertie Three Busy Debras Oh My God… Yes! Maybe ol Mike one of those “they hated him cause he spoke the truth” kind of guys.

I couldn’t tell you. I have watched a total of 30 seconds of the show. The commercial for it they kept airing leading up to it. And from that, I determined it was shit not worth my time. Sounds like I was right. Anyway, I don’t think it belongs on the block. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s possible they add it. Maybe if we all keep saying it as a sure thing, it won’t happen. Like reverse manifestation or something.

That one article did say that Lazarus subbed would be airing on cable with a month delay, that’s probably what they are saving that slot for. It is the bonus function of making it so there are 3 premiers on the block rather than 2. I still stand by it being crazy they are sending Lazarus onto center stage with zero other shows to support it. Basically guaranteeing it fails. May 3rd isn’t quite a month, so One Piece could give up a slot on May 10th when they slot OMGY into the CSE slot. That’s a LOT of OP episodes burned though. 8 weeks worth, so 7 they need to make up for. Our best prayer for a new show is BE S2 replacing S1, which would be on the 17th. Nearly the halfway mark for the year before seeing them spend any money.

Fresh schedule update, though it’s nothing we didn’t already know. Not sure why they made us wait so long for this one. It is interesting to see that they are keeping double OP. I suppose it can be removed at any time, but I’d sooner bet that the schedule goes unchanged until CSE and BE end. They are looking at a 6-10 episode debt for the show, which won’t be fun to deal with later in the year.

Let’s take a short break from bitching about how much Toonami sucks to instead bitch about how much this years April Fools prank will suck. The schedule for midnight 4/1 just populated on the AS website, and nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. Perhaps the 2 week schedules will have a better hint. What, if anything, do we expect this year? Last year they raised the bar a little, two episodes of Smiling Friends redone completely with puppets. Amusing, but also extremely short. And the first year in a long time where they didn’t force R&M into the prank somewhere. Not great, but an improvement over 21/22/23. Unfortunately, I don’t think we will go 2 years in a row without R&M as the focus. And with season 8 still sitting with an ambiguous 2025 release date, this seems like the perfect time to either stealth drop an episode like 2017, or somehow drop the actual premier date in between a joke episode.

Space Dandy was also not a Toonami original. Success or not, it’s still one of the most fondly regarded shows the block ever aired. Something that likely would not be the case if Demarco was allowed to smear his shit all over it as a “producer”. That’s the main hurdle for Lazarus. And I know we all love Watanabe, but he is not an infallible wizard either. If AS gave him pocket lint for a budget or Demarco kept interfering, it’s gonna suck.

Losing out on dub premiers is something I can deal with. As streaming gets more powerful every year, this was an inevitable outcome. Especially with the growing animosity towards Toonami for holding shows hostage. Eventually distributors wouldn’t even want to bother offering the block dub premiers. An unfortunate loss, but that’s how it goes. Where I take an issue is that while waiting for those big shows to cool off price wise, they just air nothing. They have to “hold” slots for 3-6 months for some reason, even though 1-2 shows could air to completion in the time that they stall. And then after many months of drought, they land a single show that is long since yesterday’s news and expect praise for it. The ratings are close to a rock bottom holding pattern. A super expensive popular show is gonna do roughly as well as an unknown B show at this point. I’d rather see them invest in a full block of B shows, rather than one slot of a big show. Viewership will not vary much between the two options. And if they really are debating between anime value vs Family Guy ratings, then it’s time to just shut er down. They got plenty of Fox slop in their tank to completely replace the block. Just do it if that’s the plan and stop jerking us around. I don’t believe it’s a coincidence that once Family Guy was secured was the same time that Toonami expenditures ceased.

Man, I won’t remember that at all. I could have swore the dub existed before Toonami got it. Say what you will about the block being “necessary”, but it had carved itself out a relevant niche at one point dropping dub premiers of what at the time, was one of the most relevant shows on the market. Now we can’t even get decade old B shows from Sentai. Or anyone. It’s actually astounding how far it’s fallen in a relatively short window of time. Well, if they get first crack at it, they absolutely should grab the dub premier, cost be damned. At least have one reminder out there that Toonami exists. But I suppose we will just have to be content with them maybe getting it a year later.

Of all the legacy titles the block has lost access to, Gundam should be the least surprising. None that aired were exactly ratings blowouts, and needing Demarco to fly out to Japan personally each time to license them was an excessive extra expense. When they got Origins, Demarco was very confident it was airing at like 12:30 or 1. Programming put it where it would do the least harm and apparently kept that info away from Demarco as long as possible. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Toonami premiered the dub for either season of OPM, so not getting S3 as a premier wouldn’t be much of a deviation. As long as we still get it eventually. Which with the current state of things is certainly questionable.

So they are actively running the Lazarus promo, I wonder if it’s a good or bad sign that they haven’t dropped the full 4/5 schedule yet. Is there more on the plate? Or are they just needlessly secretive as they often are?