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It’s stated to be a simultaneous premier with the US, so it appears Ninja Kamui will be the replacement for Dr Stone on Feb 10th. Kind of a similar out of nowhere drop like we had with Shenmue 3 years ago. Same time of year too.

All marathons do is sour peoples mood on stuff. Have a custom intro on its finale night where TOM and Sara say nice things about it and let it go. It will have been on for 10.5 years at that point, we don’t need to extend its stay. I don’t remember the exact episode breakdown, but it would be nice if the last 2-3 episodes aired on the same night. Yea, they lose a few weeks of content doing that, but it would be a nice send off and make the finale a bit more memorable if the meat of it is all in one night.

I literally said I don’t think the merger will happen. No merger, no worries. I’m not stressed about the prospect in the slightest because I don’t believe for a second that it’s ever going to advance beyond the talks stage.

It’s not even a doomer thing to say, if the merger goes through (I doubt it will personally), then Toonami is coming to an abrupt end. We would probably be lucky to even get a sign off from TOM.

I get what you mean, it’s Oda’s storytelling quirk. The crew rarely does things together. They fracture off into 3-4 groups, all do their own thing, then it all comes together in the end. But yes, most of those plots feel like they exist just to give non spotlight characters something to do for awhile. My hope is, let’s take Dressrosa for example, rather than 110 episodes of torment, they trim it down to 30-40. That way we don’t spend an entire episode of Usopp jerking around the little people with his lies but instead just do it and move on to something interesting. It ain’t a perfect solution, but actually feeling like you make progress in the arc each episode is something at least. At some point the anime is adapting one chapter per episode. Singular panels get 5+ minutes of screentime. What the anime feeds you as a long drawn out side story may very well only be a single manga page. So hopefully this remake is going to address those issues.

The live action cuts out a lot of the cringy side humor that has always been a turn off for people. They only have time for the main course and that’s all you get, none of the side stuff. The core part of each arc is usually pretty good, but then are like 5 side quests going on at the same time that range from mediocre to bad. The anime remake probably won’t cut any of that stuff, but just cut the padding. Which honestly should make the side stuff more tolerable if it doesn’t feel like we spend an excess amount of time on it. As for the title, One Piece Kai, One Piece Brotherhood, and One Piece: The Abridged Version were all shot down.

MHA and Dr Stone have been consistent returners for the block, so no doubt on us getting those. MHA will probably come around May, and I’d say November for Dr Stone. Still don’t know on Demon Slayer until we see what happens after Entertainment ends.

Let’s be real, it’s long overdue that some of these networks shut down anyway. Teen Nick has been running a near 24/7 loop of Henry Danger for MONTHS. These channels exist but quite obviously have no audience and no one that cares about their management. Even if this deal does not go through, Teen Nick, Boomerang, Nicktoons, Nick Jr, and Discovery Family could disappear tomorrow and no one would care. The only reason I didn’t include CN is because it’s name and legacy still hold weight, even if it’s schedule does not. Trying to survive the cable hellscape in 2024 by everyone combing their last few successes together is logical, but I just can’t see it getting through the courts. Spongebob on CN and South Park on AS are lines I just cannot see being crossed. Only if the fireball is the one they use for ATHF when Shake throws something.

The funny thing is that I’m pretty sure Paramount is also in a dire financial situation, so this would be like taking two small problems and combining them into one giant problem. Unfortunately though, I believe both sides are comfortably in the too big to fail zone. So we will see lots of reports of their impending bankruptcy, but an unseen hand will make sure it only stays reports.

I have my doubts that this will actually make it to an actual deal.

I figured it only had a seasons worth left of material. Unfortunately this series kinda races to its endgame, I assume Jump gave him a deadline to get it ended. Hopefully the anime will end on the epilogue chapters that are currently releasing.

I was willing to believe that Demon Slayer number, then I saw the 900k for Dr Stone and knew something was wrong. Oh well, at least the real numbers are passable.

I’m an expert at one of those things.

I agree, Dragonball spin-offs of any kind should be banned.

A couple months ago Demarco was floating that Uzumaki might premier subbed too. I really worry about what this R&M will do to the block if they insist it take one of the lead slots. As a 2:30 rerun when IGPX ends it would be fine but I don’t think we will be so lucky.

Between the live action and now this remake, I’m thinking some younger people are starting to move up the decision making ladder at Toei, while the out of touch boomers who think cable is relevant are retiring. It would be a godsend for Toonami if Netflix announced they would be the exclusive home for Dragonball Diaper. Sooner rather than later so Demarco doesn’t think he has a shot at it.

Toei and Netflix are getting pretty cozy together on their self made money train, so down the road I could see them cutting out the Toonami side project, especially once this project actually is ready to roll out. Probably not 2024, but I could see Toonami having an issuing renewing their next episode batch for 2025.

There isn’t an anime out there that needs this treatment more. Netflix isn’t fucking around, that’s for sure. Live action does good so they immediately set their sites on fixing the anime. Unfortunately, it seems Toei is still going to be heavily involved, so some of their bad influences might stick around. Meanwhile we are stuck with the Dressrosa dumpster fire on Toonami. Netflix will probably crank out two seasons of the remake before we finish Dressrosa.

I would not be surprised if the recap is there purely because they don’t have enough material for a full season. They usually don’t want to just stop at a random place, and it’s this point in the manga there aren’t clear stopping points so they just have to wing it now.

It’s not a bad theory, at least at the start of last year with the future of AS and Toonami in question, only having a backlog of 50 episodes mitigates the risk if things go south. I assume being on months and months of stall mode isn’t in their core plans which stretched their 50 a little thinner than anticipated. But given the abrupt nature of the change, it does feel like someone was checking the episodes for Saturday and realized they were one short and needed a quick fix. If that’s how they plan to do things again next year, they really have to have things in order because OP will be the only schedule filler title left.

If we can’t get Swordsmith this soon, I could see this being the time they squeeze in Ninja Kamui. Originally that was supposed to be a 2023 original, so I assume it’s pretty close to release. That fills up 12 weeks and MHA can follow it immediately after.

Yea this is a little unexpected, I thought Dr Stone would migrate to 1am here. This strongly implies we are NOT going back to double One Piece for awhile and they have something of significance for 12:30. Kinda thought they would do a little more to announce Lycoris since it’s their first new title since Jan 2022. Just threw the schedule out there like everyone already knows what it is.

Yep, exactly as expected on this one.

I miscounted the days, it’s on the 16th. If you want to get technical like the app does, Toonami does air on Sunday every week, so it’s not wrong to say it’s on the 17th. I do have to wonder their reasoning for this, as I find it hard to believe they already have another show lined up they need to get on ASAP. Unless they were given a timeline to get Scavengers on. Did the exact same thing

It is strange to see the episodes that build up to the action do great, then when the meat of the action happens, everyone disappears. This wouldn’t be the first show this has happened to either.