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https://amp.tmz.com/2023/08/10/king-of-the-hill-dale-johnny-hardwick-voice-actor-dead-dies/ Law enforcement says no foul play suspected. That’s what THEY would say though.

Oh when Robot Jones used this voice, it’s was bad. But when AS uses it for their promo, it’s great. Really though, hype for this. And it looks like they are putting a little more into it than just tossing these shows on the air. Kinda reminds me of those old school bumpers where the various characters were in the break room or cafeteria.

>make a non argument blind insult towards something you took an L on >have it explained to you exactly why you are being served the L despite doing nothing but making an insult >double down, hit ‘em with the “BLOCKED BRO” >act like this doesn’t make your clown nose and wig get bigger Dont care if you don’t see this, others need to.

I told y’all it was a dumb idea to repeat the episode. Nobody wanted to listen. People actually believed going backwards, rerunning, then forwards was what the audience wanted. And they didn’t even announce any of this on air, so irregular viewers were thrown way off. They should have aired them both back to back the following week as they had done with SAO when it had its issue. Sorry that I was right.

Oof, I’d be willing to bet that might be the worst ratings average Toonami has ever had. It’s almost like an unannounced Dr Stone rerun rather than just pressing forward was a bad idea or something. But hey, at least they actually made the chart this week. A shame we won’t be able to see the two upcoming rerun marathons, they will probably make these numbers look like a home run. We need a lineup refresh ASAP with some actual new content. Grunge ain’t enough Demarco.

Interesting note about this episode, at release, Matt Shipman (Chrome) voiced Senku for the entire episode as Aaron Dismuke was unavailable. I don’t know when exactly Crunchyroll had it redubbed properly, but as we hear in the promo, Dismuke is back in the driver seat. I wonder if anyone will bother to preserve the Shipman dub or if it will just fade away as lost media.

Anybody ever notice these tiny words that are occasionally on schedule graphics? They aren’t always there.

What’s more surprising is that Demarco kept them around and somehow resisted the temptation to beat the reruns to death for 5 full years. He didn’t even beat them a little bit. Putting the normal schedule on ice that long doesn’t sound like the best idea. In that scenario at least half of Grunge airs on odd schedules which would be sure to harm its performance even further than it’s atrocious appearance will. With how long they have waited on AoT, I’d much rather see them either air both in one night, or air them back to back between two weeks later in the year. As for Dr Stone reruns, does it NEED a rerun? Most of the Toonami audience is one and done and isn’t interested in reruns. If the 9/9 schedule dropped with the MHA rerun removed I doubt anyone would care. Plus, with the odds of 2 new shows being super slim anyway, I could see something like this. 12 - Grunge 12:30 - New acquired show 1 - One Piece 1:30 - Naruto 2 - Dr Stone rerun 2:30 - MHA rerun Of course, followed up by empty promises of 2024 not sucking as hard which of course, they will not deliver on.

Well, that’s not how I expected them to cover these weeks, but it works. This is the first time since 2018 that either of these have aired, and if we have to see them again, I think most people will appreciate them bundled in two easy to skip nights. I wouldn’t hold your breath on any permanent expansion, they are just doing it to fit these in, but also not screw over Dr Stone watchers, and as usual with a Thursday show, those can’t stop for anything so Superman marches on. Once 9/9 drops we will be back to 6 slots. On that, here’s how 9/9 currently looks. 12 - empty 12:30 - empty 1 - empty 1:30 - One Piece 2 - Naruto 2:30 - MHA Of course, we know Grunge takes one of those slots, but 9/9 still remains a monumental shift for the block. And just to account for it, that OP on 8/19? That’s the last episode of the Punk Hazard bundle of episodes. I suppose the question to ask now is how long will they make us wait for the actual show reveals? They have effectively bought themselves yet another month of stalling, they could easily get away without revealing anything till the first days of September. Remember back in April when they claimed to be so close to announcing a show?

I think this week was an anomaly, considering the first 90 minutes of the block was reruns this week. Not really conducive to good ratings. But this week we get back to normal with only 30 minutes of reruns up front so things should make the top chart again.

Am I blind or did OP and Naruto not even make the premier cut?

I at least understand why completely unregulated prostitution is frowned on, but if you are going to an ADULT theater which is obviously going to show porn to the audience, did they expect people to just chill and eat popcorn from a container that does NOT have their dick in it? Why even let the place exist at all if that was an issue? Just seems to me like someone was out to tank his career.

Modern day AS would never have the balls to do something so absurd. Airing things like this are what helped put AS in the history books. I’ll never understand his “crime”. What do they expect you to do, watch porn and then walk out of the place with a big boner?

That would also be an appropriate fit for the fall months. Something I think we have forgotten about was the show promised way back in April. I wonder if that’s still on the table or if they are just hoping everyone forgets they made that promise.

I know I call out their dumb scheduling often, but even I don’t think they are dumb enough to think they can run those specials more than one time. Maybe they toss them on as filler for one of their certain marathon nights, but that’s just a guarantee of cratered numbers. Idk, I just figure with this being the actual for real end of AoT, they would make a big event over the finale. It’s -1 week of content in exchange for being able to promote a cool event, something they don’t get to do very often anymore. I dunno man, we have been chilling on Punk Hazard for what, 9 months? And I can count on my hands occurrences that were actually cool/interesting/well animated. If you aren’t a die hard fan of One Piece (or any anime) only the truly stand out moments are going to be worthwhile. And what hardcore OP fan is gonna subject themselves to this torture session a second time? This is certified “read the manga” territory. Most isekai are mid, I agree. It’s a genre that somehow despite gross oversaturation, manages to rarely fumble completely. But so many boil down to just being a fantasy adventure, often with the isekai element being tacked on in a way that is tossed out after the first episode. But you know what? Mid is a big step up from where Toonami has been lately. I admire his tenacity on the matter, but when the isekai craze is in year 7 with no signs of slowing down and entire anime seasons are literally half isekai, it might be time to just cave and give people what they apparently want. Especially when the other half of anime houses a lot of that super popular stuff that is now off limits. If they could get some stuff from the past few years that is NOT isekai, that would be the ideal path forward. But if they feel like they gotta draw from current year anime, it’s gonna be isekai or nothing.

Well, I missed. Will be interesting to see where they take this now that the old formula is out the window. Superman is significantly weaker in this series and seems to be capable of taking damage from anything. As we saw in the first episode the robots beat him up real good, and it seems he has to manually trigger his healing. Since Superman has only existed in this story for like 2 weeks, I don’t see any reason anyone would be developing kryptonite weapons, they shouldn’t even know he is weak to that. I’d guess we will see a real piece of kryptonite in a later episode where everyone finds out he is weak to it.

My thought on AoT is it’s either going to air back to back with its second half during a special night, or it’s not going to air at all. It’s been ready for months, I really don’t see them saving it for a certain time and instead just can’t air it for whatever reason. I’d really rather we not have to rely on garbage isekai, I was simply illustrating a point that the most generic, uninspired, forgettable isekai of the season is an upgrade over Dressrosa, Naruto filler, or nothing. One Piece fans always say it has “great moments” but omit the part where it takes 25+ episodes of crap to get to that moment, often which amounts to maybe 2 minutes of quality. We could get through an entire trash isekai before One Piece does one memorable thing. At least a garbage isekai packs its bags after 12 weeks, and if it has just one enjoyable moment in that timeframe, it did its job. With the sheer volume of isekai on the market, I feel like the odds of Demarco landing on an irredeemable one are low, even if he picks entirely at random. Last season over half of ALL anime released was isekai. There’s no way all of them can be bad.

We know the big boys are at the table, but at the same time none of them really seem like they care to be there. They drop some racks on whatever their marketing team told them was popular, some like Disney and Netflix seem to throw a dart at a list of shows and take whatever they land on, regardless of how it meshes with their brand (think Disney and Heavenly Delusion) and then they go home. That leaves Toonami at the table without any steak and lobster, but they could still grab some potatoes so they don’t go home hungry. I highly doubt any of the big boys are making a serious play for Seasonal Isekai Slop #4790, so there are options, just not the ideal ones. And before someone says “bro isekai is le bad”, it’s not bad when you look at it from a POV of the current lineup. The worst isekai of the summer season (no, not the vending machine one), is a huge improvement over impending Dressrosa and Naruto filler. Or our second option, reruns. We are so many years beyond the point where the block can be picky, and being so picky has put us in this scenario where the worst things of the current season actually feel like they would be an upgrade for us. I really don’t think it’s a good idea for the block to get into another end of year rut where the normal schedule only airs once a month. We really don’t need to be taking time off for Labor Day, but since we are, they should aspire to keep things normal till Halloween. Another weekend we don’t need to be pausing for, but you know they will.

I’m expecting this episode to be 22 minutes of wacky misunderstandings that ultimately lead to Lois no longer suspecting Clark is Superman. Seems like episode 5 of possibly 20 is way too early to have Lois know the truth.

I think there is a lot of truth to this one. Back when we were getting the first FLCL sequels, Demarco talked about wanting the block to be more subsistent on its own productions. And people were somewhat responsive to the idea because they had yet to see how bad the content Demarco makes is. Back then, it seemed impossible because they had 4-5 hours to fill and the project announcements were few and far between. Now though, it could be more realistic. Let’s say hypothetically, they do chop it down to 2 hours. 12 - Original 12:30 - One Piece 1 - Naruto 1:30 - Rerun Of course, even with everything they announced, there aren’t anywhere near enough originals to fill the lead for a full year. So they occasionally tag in 1-2 acquired (likely sequel) series in just so people can’t accuse them of completely abandoning acquired content. I get the vibe that the new brass just thinks acquired content is a waste of money. Even if they don’t cut an hour, I could see UWE and Superman tagging in for a rerun hour on 9/9. What the brass fails to understand is the same thing they failed to understand in 2008, if your extremely small offering of content doesn’t appeal to the audience, they won’t tune in for any of it. When the block is better stocked, you have better odds of people turning out for one show, which also leads them to consider sticking around for 1-2 other shows they may be on the fence on just because they are already watching.

I think the most interesting thing we have coming up is on 9/9, there is going to be 3 separate empty slots. They will throw some filler for a week where FLCL is, and Superman will air over Labor Day as all AS premier/Toonami rerun shows do. But as we have seen in the past, they really hate to double dip on a premier night, let alone triple dip on a night where one of the shows is an original. How they will handle that is anyone’s guess, they may have their hand forced on a mass premier night on 9/9 because I don’t see a realistic way they can cover an hour for one week. Timeslot wise, seems like all originals are going at midnight, so if Grunge isn’t the midnight show I’d be pretty shocked. Only way I could see it is if they got a certified triple A acquisition like Bleach to take midnight. The 1a slot could be anything. As far as what acquisitions we could see, there is basically zero info to go on. There are no sequels that were recently released, so they either need to go backwards to something like Bleach, or do what they fear most, branch out to an untested title. We do know from Demarco’s past statements that Eizouken was something he really wanted, so if that tweet ends up being something more I won’t be shocked. Other than that, there are zero hints at what they could be looking at. As much as I’d love for it to go away, I don’t believe we will be so fortunate to see One Piece hit the road before its worst arc starts. That would be 4 openings on 9/9, I don’t even have faith they can handle 2. I believe Uzumaki will probably follow up Grunge immediately at completion. I think they are opting for this sub premier because they can’t pull the dub together before that point and they don’t want to delay the show for another full year. So they are just coming out with what they have. There is always a chance there is nothing besides Grunge and they are going to chop off an hour. But as much as I love to be a doomer, I don’t really see that after they just dropped the details on another original. Gotta be a Toonami to air that stuff on.

I dont expect it immediately either. I have a strong feeling that the only reason they are considering a sub run at all is because they can’t get this dubbed in time to replace Grunge. What I expect is sometime in the future we will be pondering what will replace a gap in the schedule, only to be disappointed by the Uzumaki dub which they will spin as some kind of privilege to get over something new. Will be even more frustrating if Uzumaki ends up sucking.

Don’t forget this version will have all that yucky problematic fanservice removed. Which is a bit ironic considering the animation is reminiscent of shows made for toddlers.

So 10+ years of telling your audience that subs = ratings death sentence, and now you are gonna roll out one of your pet projects under those conditions? I don’t really care either way (though I do agree on a visual dominant show like this it’s a unique issue), but more hypocrisy from the big man. Place your bets, they will double dip on it, the premier subbed, then rather than a proper replacement, we have to spend another 4 weeks premiering the dub.