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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.

As shown on the official AS schedule but NOT reflected on places such as TV Passport. Seems to have been a very last second change. People did observe that the Dr Stone marathon had one too many episodes, but burning an extra episode to make sure they had enough isn’t how I expected them to fix that.

Please someone stop them

Well, I think we know what our Demon Slayer replacement will be. They may have to stall a bit to get us there though. This season is going to get very close to where the manga is at since this is around the time its release schedule started to slow down. Season 8 is definitely going to have a larger gap between its release.

Lycoris Recoil was not something I ever considered them picking up, so if we see the best case scenario where Demarco roots around the Aniplex catalog, there are a lot of crazy directions we could see them go for replacements next year. Originals, I have my doubts Lazarus will be a 2024 show. Watanabe seemed to want it to be, but did not seem confident it would be. I don’t think they will hesitate to give that more time in the oven. Sequels, at least at the moment, I don’t think any are on deck. MHA has been consistent yearly, but it’s also starting to get close to the manga so they might pump the brakes on it for a bit. Special event wise, I do expect them to put together a little send off for Naruto. Airing 500 episodes of anything deserves a celebration. 2024 has the potential to be a major Toonami redemption arc since we are hitting the ground running the very first week of the year. Time will tell if they can actually deliver beyond the first 3-4 months of the year.

Double OP still costs them money to air, so I doubt they want to do that + have stocked new shows at the same time. Especially since double OP is their emergency trump card when they can’t line something up. If it’s already doubled up, if they don’t have a replacement for one of the above shows, they are SoL. A repeat of this years long term double OP and double Naruto time stalling won’t work, so they really need that second OP in their back pocket for emergencies. Like I said, if they had more budget and a clear content path with Aniplex, an expansion could work. Unfortunately, I don’t think they will be getting either of those so it’s smarter to sit at 3 hours. Even with their obligations to originals and reheated reruns, that still isn’t enough to cover all their bases, especially since none of them have a firm release date. They did say 2024 for the likes of Ninja Kamui and Lazarus, but hey they also said 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 for Uzumaki, and we have yet to see that.

The only way an expansion would make sense is if they are getting a massive budget increase for 2024, which I doubt. They have a pretty big workload cut out for them just in the first 6 months of the year. 1. Dr Stone 2. Demon Slayer 3. Lycoris Recoil 4. IGPX 5. Naruto All of these will need replacements before it’s even summer. IGPX is easy enough since they will probably slot in another rerun, but the other 4 need premier replacements. If it’s 12 episodes, the replacement for Dr Stone could also need replaced by June. That’s a big job, and we still don’t know the extent of cooperation Aniplex is willing to afford the block, so content might get tight again.

There it is, as expected. So in 2024, we close the book on two of Toonami’s longest mainstays, AoT and Naruto.

I’m glad to see that bad week of Demon Slayer was just an off night. And now Dr Stone is holding a little bit better too. I can’t remember the last time we saw over 200k at 1am.

I will concede Christmas and New Years because those are very travel heavy, and often night centric holidays. Labor Day and Memorial Day are not. People go out and have their fun during the day and come midnight are home and ready for Toonami. The only other holiday that warrants a marathon is the 4th of July when the 4th falls on Fri/Sat/Sun.

Yep, just what we expected. It’s cute how the Facebook page is acting like we don’t already know about Entertainment District and Lycoris Recoil. I guess we don’t officially know about AoT part 2 yet, but most people have already made that deduction.

Once again, a gaping hole is poked in the “holidays are bad for ratings” argument. Are Demon Slayer and Dr Stone just not a good match? I guess tone wise they are pretty far apart from each other, but even still that’s a pretty sizable drop from 12 to 12:30.

I think that proper new season is a lock boys. Those are healthy.

I mean, if the schedule isn’t changing, it’s not surprising they aren’t publishing updates, since there aren’t any. If they are going off script for the 16th, (I don’t think they will), that’s something we wouldn’t learn about till 2 weeks ahead of time. With Demon Slayer’s continuation put off till Jan 13th, they obviously have something on deck for the 6th, more than likely AoT part 2.

Haha, those mentalist tricks that Gen showed us in last nights Dr Stone actually work in real life. A little bit more hostility, but other than that, a flawless recreation. If offending the audience is the concern, showing most Adult Swim viewers what their insides look like is probably the faster way to do it.

Coming in on the heels of Plantasm, which was pretty bad overall, I was worried. But these felt like classic episodes. Not the best, but passable. It does feel like these kind of start in the middle of the episode though, old episodes usually start slow and then introduce the plot, where these just hit the ground running. Will probably never get used to the animation, but it’s less distracting than expected.

“We edited it as little as possible” turned into just cutting like 3 full minutes out of the episode. Like they had time to run the OP in full that week just to fill the gaping hole left by the sloppy cut. And if you don’t like that one, KLK has plenty of other moronic cuts. And it doesn’t change my main point. The Demarco of 21 years ago is a completely different person. He was actually kind of cool back then. The terminally on twitter Demarco has been warped by internet culture where you have to wear all the correct opinions on your sleeve for all your followers to see and pat you on the back for.

Buddy that article is from 21 years ago. Modern day Demarco hates fanservice. Look up his interview about Progressive and Alternative where he talks about intentionally removing fanservice from FLCL. And let’s not forget this gem from Kill la Kill.

“Why does that little girl have a gag in her mouth?” And that’s why that’s never going to happen.

I wouldn’t hold your breath on there ever being more. Anime has been growing significantly in the west, but in the grand scheme is still a very niche interest. Toei’s wallet helped Luffy get his time in the spotlight.

No, we had a few shows prior to that fall under 100k. But we are talking 95-99k at 3-4am so not a huge deal as 80k at what I believe was 10pm. That marathon was destined for disaster. It slid Toonami way forward on the schedule into primetime and Family Guy had just left a gaping void on the network. Add on that Fena was incredibly boring and you have a recipe for a night no one wanted to tune in for. If nothing else, it showed Zaslav these shows have almost no value as reruns.

That was like 2 years ago. And the vast majority of viewers don’t keep up with VA news or even know most of their names.