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They care. It may not be exclusive but they don’t want Toonami to have anything, so them being able to sneak away a couple shows (pretty high grade ones at that) will definitely rub the Toonami haters on their board the wrong way, and that’s a good thing. We really need to be realistic with what we expect from the block these days. The days of having a dub 2-3 weeks behind its release are gone and they aren’t coming back. The simple fact it’s not a rerun alone is a big deal. It just further drives home that Crunchyroll is the core problem. Toonami can get the job done when either Crunchyroll is not involved, or someone higher up the license food chain is willing to put Crunchyroll in check. Prior to 2020, Dan Da Dan would not generate any surprise as a pickup as most viewers would have expected it as an inevitability. The audience really needs to focus in on Crunchyroll specifically when shows don’t air. Because that’s clearly where about 95% of the problem is. I’d rather the block be decent that worry about ratings. AS completely torpedoed their viewership share for Toonami from Jan-May, and as usual, these dumb marathons don’t help either. If AS didn’t give enough of a shit to stock the block and keep the audience, I don’t care if the shows they did get do well or not. I do care that we have a solid 90 minute chunk of anime on Saturdays again. And assuming BE and Bleach continue on to their next seasons, we will keep that solid 90 minutes till fall.

Well, that is unexpected and impressive. The hottest new shonen on the market picked up only 9 months after its original premier. Didn’t think Toonami still had the power to do that. Im sure Crunchyroll is absolutely seething that Toonami grabbed the show, as I assume they took the back route and went to GKIDS for it. Nice to know Toei isn’t the only one willing to sidestep Crunchyroll. If Bleach and Blue Exorcist keep marching on after their seasons end, we got a solid rest of the year ahead of us.

Imagine being a Cloverhater in 2025

It’s probably within striking distance of its expiration and they are just dealing with it now, while also relocating Naruto into the easiest slot to delete it as well soon. Not really a bright side. Primal will once again not premier on the block, so that’s 10 weeks of a rerun lead. Then we get Rooster Fighter which thus far, looks like visual dogshit.

Based on the trailer they showed today, it won’t be. Absolutely abhorrent CGI. The kind you see for monster armies in low budget isekai. It reminds me of the meme monster from Kamikatsu, except it looking bad isn’t a joke. I could see it just being catchup for Daima, even though Daima probably has to take weeks off later in its run anyway to make it to December. If they truly have nothing, I ask once again why they don’t just drop a slot. They fight tooth and nail to maintain 7 slots and never once have needed all 7.

Stalling for what though? Burning an episode of Daima is a big deal, and implies whatever they are waiting for is going at midnight. I can’t think of anything they would prioritize over DB. If this persists more than a week it’s gonna look more like they are trying to salvage Daima’s subpar ratings.

Huh, I’d imagine at the absolute maximum, Daima would only double for one more week since it was taken off for two. I feel like if they had Demon Slayer in their pocket, they wouldn’t be doing this. Wasting an episode of Daima is much more significant than using One Piece to stall. Im moving my money onto Rooster Fighter, we will see what they have to say tomorrow at the panel. Absolute good riddance to Sailor Moon, hopefully Naruto isn’t far behind so we can put the Rewind mistake behind us once and for all.

Well, we might be able to put the speculation to rest early. Despite total radio silence since announcement, Rooster Fighter is premiering its entire episode 1 at AX. Probably gonna be followed up with a reveal of it premiering on July 19th. That would explain the “hurry” to start Daima, because there was no hurry since it was never gonna get midnight in the first place.

I suppose we know what to look for then. If there is no post on Friday, then it’s almost guaranteed we hear something from a panel over the weekend, and Demon Slayer makes the most sense. Its hour long episodes are also a good excuse to pull One Piece a couple times to help with that problem. Triple stacking the block with 3 big titles at once seems kinda irresponsible though, because next year we will be back to stalling and won’t have anything to stall for. Crunchyroll shows lmao, we got a dreamer over here boys

They could always give Naruto or Sailor Moon the boot at any time. I’ll be honest though, I feel like getting Bleach and demoting it to 1am a month in is kind of a waste.

I’ll admit I forgot about Dandy, it’s easy to since there were so many guest animator episodes, it doesn’t feel like a pure Watanabe project. The other two I did not forget about, they were steaming garbage, though in direct comparison to Lazarus, they look like masterpieces. Carol and Tuesday in particular had many fans wondering if Watanabe had lost his touch. Lazarus wasted 11 out of 13 episodes on meaningless side quests. Maybe they were meant to world build, but they fell short of that goal. Then when it tries to cram the story into the last 10 minutes, it gets even worse. Oh haha, all you guys were at the airport that day but don’t remember and also I didn’t tell you till now even though it’s very important info. And how convenient the 5 of you grew up to be a parkour escape master, a Russian spy super soldier, black, a super hacker, and good at crossdressing. How convenient none of you 5 random people didn’t grow up into a mailman or something. I do find it amusing that Toonami has two separate originals under its belt now with a pointless assassin side plot. Though credit to Lazarus, the assassin actually showed up in the story, unlike Fena where he is mentioned, then forgotten about till the epilogue.

I suppose that would be a clean way to fix it, though I feel like it leaving again, likely with no proper replacement, would scare the few people watching it into thinking it’s cancelled again. Toonami would have to make a hard, dated commitment to it coming back to mitigate that. Why the secrecy? If all this smoke and mirrors is just to slide everything up 30 minutes, what does that accomplish? Most times when a Toonami show comes off for more than a week, they take the promos out of rotation during the week, so that shouldn’t be showing too often, but why not keep the audience in the loop? There is absolutely no reason they shouldn’t have been able to announce the 19th schedule yesterday along with the Lazarus marathon

The assassin plot line was completely pointless and added nothing to the story aside from a cheap attempt at giving this show a Vicious. Every bit of it feels as though it was lifted from another story. Ultimately the fight ends with him accidentally crushing himself in the rubble from an explosion he caused. Back to our actual plot, it just felt like a big fat deus ex machina to quickly end the show because it had wasted the first half of the episode on a tangent plot line. Here’s the cure, also you five were at the airport the day the king of morons tried bringing strange powder onto a flight and that makes you immune or something idk. Absolute waste of time. I know a lot of fanboys don’t want to hear it, but this show, along with his other string of recent flops, should really cast doubt on Watanabe’s “legend” status in regards to anime. He got lucky with Bebop and Champloo, it’s been nothing but trash since those, and each one is a little worse than the last.

Seeing how things are playing out, you really have to wonder what their logic was here. I really don’t see why Daima couldn’t have waited and just been the replacement for Lazarus. If the issue was One Piece, they easily could have just put Naruto or SM on double duty for these 3 weeks. That’s not a sustainable way to run the block. They need to accept most of the big names they want are off limits for good. I fear their success with Bleach might send the wrong message, that if they just pester forever eventually they will get a show.

Uzumaki marathon at the start of the year, Lazarus part 1 marathon in May, two in July. So we have 9 to pay back. Yea, thats a tough debt to make up for, so they better hope they sprung for a few extra ones at the start of the year, otherwise it’s gonna have to leave Nov-Dec to make up for what isn’t covered. If they pull it once per month starting in August, that would cover 5, and the other 4 would be resolved through marathons.

Yea, like announce that it’s being made, maybe drop a short teaser trailer. Not announce it premiering 2 weeks later. It’s gonna be a 2026 drop almost guaranteed. Maybe Jan-March for S3 and then S4 can drop in the fall. The MAWS marathon is happening to promote Superman in theaters. If not for that, this Lazarus marathon would probably be happening on the 5th instead.

Oh wow, they are actually sacrificing a night of primetime ratings to squeeze the whole Lazarus run in. We got a lot of weeks worth of double One Piece to pay back, so we shouldn’t be too surprised. Why do I see so many people think MAWS S3 is a possibility when it hasn’t had any teasers, promos or discussion of any kind since being announced? They aren’t gonna just drop it on the schedule, we are gonna know about it many months before it goes on air.

Yea that doesn’t make much sense. If it’s not a simuldub, there should be no reason they can’t have a show in their pocket for a month or two. Not to mention when the block has reruns, it’s not full. A rerun should be able to be dropped at a moments notice for a new show. Of course, he says this immediately after dropping everything to get Daima on the schedule ASAP. They will make room, if it’s for one of their favorites.

The criteria for fits Toonami is “has action”, and even then, they break this rule any time it’s convenient like they did with Common Side Effects. Sentai has plenty of that, every season. So that’s not a good excuse. Plus, I’m sure the audience would have preferred ANYTHING over what we had to suffer through Jan-mid May. We heard it right from Demarco, they just sit around and ask for Bleach over and over again till they get it. If they aren’t getting those shows, they just don’t bother.

If you actually do want to throw one out they might answer, Demarco confirmed in this interview that Sentai is their go to dub studio for all their originals, so why do they not air shows out of the Sentai catalog as well? That seems like it should be easy synergy that they aren’t utilizing. And for a few they probably won’t answer. 1. What is the status between Crunchyroll and Toonami? The block has not aired a new show from them since the start of 2021, and the last sequel from them was from 2023. Toei owned shows make it on, but nothing else. Does Crunchyroll no longer license shows to AS? If you need a follow up trump card to a non answer, point out that AXS was able to secure MHA. So Crunchyroll will license shows, but not to Toonami. 2. Why was Toonami allowed to go nearly 6 straight months without any new acquired content in 2025? Should the audience expect further long stretches of stall schedules when first choice shows cannot be secured?

“I need my co hosts to commit to only ask meaningless softball questions that give little, if any insight on the inner workings of Toonami” Like I get it, Demarco is a manchild who will turn tail and run if you don’t spend the entire interview jerking off his ego, but let’s call it what it is.

I can’t believe the audacity they have to actually make that dude in the homeless camp that Doug talked to, looked at, and promptly disregard as not important despite looking exactly like Skinner, to actually have been Skinner the whole time. Doug gets an F- on detective work

So this has been bugging me, sometimes AS runs a generic promo for Lazarus, rather than the episode specific one. It goes something like, “this team could save the world, if they could stop trying to kill each other first”. But like, not one time in this entire series have I felt anyone on the team held any animosity towards the others. Worst was Axel being a little salty about being caught, but he was cool with the crew almost immediately. Really, all of them get along quite well. Did AS even watch their own show?

Lazarus is mid ”Zaslav wanted to cancel it” Lazarus is the greatest anime ever created because I was told Zaslav was against it. That should about sum it up. I’m noticing Colt is not on the cast list, an intentional omission so no hard questions would be asked?

99.9% chance it’s gonna be Daima. No originals are ready, we would have heard something by now. Get Jiro was shown to still be in the production stages at Annecy, and we haven’t heard a thing about Rooster Fighter or MAWS S3 since their original announcements. And I don’t think there are any acquired titles they would place above a Dragonball show. So most likely scenario is our current lineup slides up 30 minutes, and Lazarus reruns get parked at 3am.