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Perhaps Kai is the placeholder show for MHA S7, which is about to drop its first dubbed episode. Couple weeks into June, Kai leaves Saturday, MHA takes 12:30, and the other 3 premiers bump down by 30. Then Zom gets a 1am tier replacement when it ends. Ideally, there should be zero overlap between the two nights. We don’t need Kai on Fridays at 2x speed and Kai on Saturdays at the same time at 1x speed. If nothing else, drop Saturday Kai and finish IGPX. Then in the future, IGPX can be a Friday candidate. In a logical world, Friday should have its own separate budget. It would be like giving Saturday a 2 hour expansion in the front but no money to fill the time. I don’t put it past AS, but I hope they are smarter than that. Demarco seems enthusiastic, I hope that’s a sign that they are properly funded here, and not just him celebrating getting to air more reruns.

Oh you mean Twitter knockoff #2739 that no one cares about or takes seriously? Like I said, give it a week. That feeble 500 follower count doesn’t hit the same as his 50k on twitter. He is taking a pout break because someone didn’t fellate his ego for once and other people laughed about it instead of running to his defense. Once that blows over he will be back

Give it a week, he will be back. He is an attention vampire, he will die without periodic twitter engagement. He didn’t quit when Blumpf was elected, he didn’t quit when Elon took over, he surely isn’t gonna quit over some gigachad calling him out for spending all day every day bitching on Twitter despite all the projects he claims to be working on. There is no way he is gonna let a retro Toonami start airing without being able to bask in all the people talking about it.

“Hey guys what shows do you want to see on Toonami Rewind?” ”lmao jk stick them suggestions straight up your ass fuck y’all I’m deleting my twitter entirely” This has been a hilarious day

Weird attitude to take before it even starts, you would think he would want a month or two of it in the books to see if it’s even going to do well enough to survive before getting people jacked for other shows. Wish he would get this passionate about actual new shows for Saturday. Already a ton of people bitching that it’s Kai instead of the original. Don’t know why people want to wait a full month for Goku to charge the spirit bomb but whatever. I wonder if it will be open to shows the block never aired. “Toonami Rewind” certainly implies it’s only going to touch old Toonami or possibly ASA titles.

BOOM

YYH would have been a good pick. Maybe it was on the shortlist and they couldn’t materialize it for whatever reason. I’d say it’s a more appropriate fit than Naruto. Just as we do with normal Toonami, we have to consider the roadblocks put in place by Crunchyroll. We got 2 Viz dubs and a Toei sidestep, so the CR catalog seems to still be off the table. If Demarco has any involvement with this block, Kenshin would never be considered because he needs to virtue signal as loud as he can at all times, and supporting Watsuki in any way would go against that.

If it lasts long enough, I could see certain segments, like the Chunin Exams, being much higher rated that other sections. Same with Kai when one of the major fights is happening. Other weeks, people won’t hesitate to skip. Which will be brutal for Naruto once it hits its filler. If they could skip around and not air episodes no one cares about, maybe that would spark some interest. As for programming choices, I’d assume this block operates the same way Checkered Past does and the content has to be CN friendly even though it’s AS. So just defaulting to things CN aired in the past makes that task less work.

It helps that with these shows it’s not just a random dump of episodes, all of these have a linear storyline so if you tune in week 1, you have to tune in on week 2 to keep up. Not sure if that will be a saving grace or a curse though. Kai will chug along at two episode a week, but who out there wants to start Naruto over again at 1 episode per week? You are looking at 200 weeks of dedicated viewership just to finish part 1. I don’t think you are gonna find many people down with that idea. Especially when a lot of long term fans are right on the cusp of finishing the 500+ week commitment needed for Shippuden. I really hope they were smart with this and only bought a trial size portion of episodes, like 10-20. So in the likely event this doesn’t work out, they can abort and move on to a new idea.

Well, that certainly wasn’t on my bingo card for Toonami this year, or ever really. On on hand, I welcome a dumping ground for the old shit they can’t seem to stay away from. Quarantine it on Friday’s rather than having it clog up Saturday’s. On the other, looking at the shit state of Saturday currently, I really hope this isn’t coming out of the yearly Toonami budget. SM and Naruto are not cheap licenses. I have to wonder what the performance expectations are. As far as I know, Checkered Past doesn’t perform all that well, but that was balanced out by all the things running on it being free. Now it’s got 3 expensive anime licenses on it, but I don’t think the numbers will budge all that much. Nightmare scenario is the Friday block flopping, and SM and Naruto getting tossed on Saturday. Now if we could just get Kai removed from the Saturday schedule

Any decent sources on this? Heard the rumors, but also seen the rumors come from nobodies on Twitter. I wouldn’t put it past them, I just don’t see any good sources. Hoping real hard it’s not true cause that shit is sure to be dumped on Toonami otherwise.

Channels that fall under FCC guidelines have a lot of extra rules they have to follow. Just a random example, the reason every season of Yugioh has an anime original design for the cards, rather than how they look IRL is due to FCC regulations on advertising products to children. The Family Man wouldn’t fly on one of those channels https://youtube.com/watch?v=8_XZwXtpPiE

Toei has gone to great lengths to make sure the only easily accessible dub of DBZ is the current Kai one. Has DB ever been redubbed? Anyway, would an anime channel even be feasible? Maybe I don’t understand how it works, but surely it’s not just all free to air, right? And with every dub studio trying to start up their own projects I doubt they would lend anything out at a bargain.

I’m pretty sure Demarco has claimed every original so far has done great, his bosses were super excited about it, and S2 was possible. Then 3 of them got written off, so I don’t think Demarco is a good source on how the originals perform. Plus, I have seen my fair share of 1 cour anime originals, and this one has all the markings of a single season show, right down to showing the title card in the last few seconds. A new season would essentially be an entirely different show because all the major plot threads were resolved for the cast already.

They need to showcase something because I’m pretty sure right now you can count their upcoming projects on one hand. They need some new stuff in the pipeline, and it would also be nice to know what active projects are coming back for another season.

Thank god. I don’t care if the reviews are good, I did not like the prospect of this clogging up a spot on an already very tight lineup. That said, are we sure it’s off the table? I’m pretty sure Zom 100 is on Netflix too

Oof, that’s tied for the all time record low lead in

It will probably be 3 shows in since I’d assume One Piece will bump down to 1:30 and whatever they get to replace Naruto will take 1

Did you miss the schedule update? They quietly slid Kai up to Naruto’s long time spot, and Naruto up to 1:30. That’s slot 4 of the block, it’s plenty relevant.

Thanks, you are the real MVP. Funny answer for Uzumaki since I’m pretty sure he has made that exact same claim on it about 4 times now. If production was going great, it would have dropped years ago. No surprise about the timeslot, small surprise about the packaging since we have had this for over 2 years now. But, he did say when we got it that it probably wouldn’t change, so it is what it is. Not the kind of comment we wanna hear about CR while we are waiting for MHA. Not gonna be good if we can’t even get that. And if sequels are off the table, it goes without saying Witch or any other CR show is out. Good that they have an idea of what’s replacing Naruto. Bad if the answer is Boruto.

Anything of note? Or just the usual fluff nonsense? Elon, in all his great wisdom, decided you can’t read twitter unless you log into twitter

Did they say Toonami premier, or just that it would be on Toonami? Unfortunately, I do agree that a Saturday premier, Sunday encore makes a lot of sense, I just really don’t want it to be the case because that almost guarantees it gets parked at midnight. The R&M crowd doesn’t care about it, the anime watchers don’t care about it, it will make for a brutal lead in if that’s the case. Then the obligatory rerun, and marathon, bleh.

Honestly I liked the show, best original we have had so far by a huge margin, but the finale felt incredibly rushed and certainly lowers my final score for the show. We didn’t even get to see what became of Demarco in the end. I suppose this does tend to happen a lot with single cour, anime original projects. The last episode seems to creep up on them and 22 minutes isn’t enough to resolve it all. Not sure who they are trying to kid with the season finale stuff. Rushed or not, they didn’t leave anything meaningful on the table to do another season with. Ninjas are back to the shadows, Higan got his revenge, Morris got his revenge, Joseph is in jail and Demarco brought down Auza. Everything is tied up. And maybe I blinked and missed it, but did they ever do anything with that dudes weird double eyeball that they showed at the end of last weeks episode? Seems like it never came up again.

I didn’t even consider this. 3 premiers and 4 reruns, and 2 of the premiers are weak shonen. Would have been a trash schedule to rival last year. Might be all our luck for the year to save us from that.

1. Naruto probably will get better ratings simply by airing earlier, but why does that matter? There isn’t really an audience benefit there. 2. They have the stuff they already aired available. Not really something anyone will be excited about, especially with how much you have to trudge through to get to it. 3. It will either replace Zom or Superman. My money is on Zom because MHA will be yesterdays news by the time Superman ends. Ah my favorite show, The Writers Barely Disguised Fetish.