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I wonder if that means this weekends Production IG panel is going to be light on information. Or Demarco is just embellishing how much they will actually have to announce. By that point, Dr Stone will be running low on episodes, and One Piece will be close to the end of Punk Hazard, so that’s two possible slots to announce something for. So maybe we actually will see a show announcement ahead of time for once.

I have always hated their weird obsession with holding slots. For a week? Fine, but more often than not in recent years it’s been for multiple weeks to months at a time. Just shuffle stuff around, with only 6 slots nothing is making any radical moves. On that matter though, Dr Stone moves to 1am to accommodate Superman. If they have something fresh, now would be the time to add it at 12:30. As far as double One Piece goes, we still don’t know if they are jumping into Dressrosa or not. If my count is right, there are 5 canon episodes left, then 3 post arc filler episodes that are bundled with Punk Hazard’s episode count. They may want to conserve that as much as they can if Dressrosa isn’t in the cards. Sunday is that Production IG panel, so regardless of what will be announced there, I can see them keeping things quiet this week to drive engagement to that panel. They might announce FLCL for August or something, but I can’t see it starting in 2 weeks. But, that lingering question will drive more to check it out.

That’s a shame, but their reasoning doesn’t surprise me. Full picture ratings for everything keep getting harder to find, and cable has cratered so much that what we do get doesn’t tell us much. Not to say it’s entirely worthless, this weeks Toonami ratings show us it was a moronic choice to loop Food Wars, so hopefully that’s gonna change. Is Spoiler TV still doing numbers? That may be the last source we have.

Aren’t a couple big She-Ra names working on this as well? That’s probably where the comparison comes from

Not sure what anyone was expecting. It’s important to not forget this is something heavily sanitized for CN run. The odds of it making an impact with that limitation were always pretty low. What I expect from this is a bit of fanartist engagement for tomboy Lois during its run, then it will just fade away into obscurity. Of course, if Toonami doesn’t beat it’s reruns to death.

Not even 1 full month ago that was the reality for the lineup for about a month. At least back then the reruns were contained entirely at the start/end rather than being an interruption in the middle. Naruto is typically just along for the ride. Doesn’t matter what it’s airing, it has little, if any influence on the ratings. People have been begging them to do this for about 2 years now. The “thats old” argument has always been flawed considering AssClass was over 5 years old on top of being fairly popular at the time, and still did great for the block. The trick is not going too old, 10 years is usually a good baseline. Plus, you can’t really argue “people have seen it before” as a bad thing when the alternative is an eternal loop of Primal. I think I have said before, but the thing Toonami viewers value the most is engaging content that is fresh to Toonami. As long as it’s not boring and has never aired on Toonami before, it’s got a good chance of people tuning in.

Toonami is in a confusing place when it comes to that. You would think if Toonami got a “hey stop wasting money!” notice from higher up, the first thing out would be those short animations. They are neat, but have almost no return on investment. Yet they continue to come, so it doesn’t seem like Toonami is on the impending chopping block. But then we look at the actual meat of the block, and there is just nothing there. What it seems like from my point of view, is they would rather the schedule have a 3-4 month gap on it to conserve money to afford a pity sequel from Crunchyroll, rather than having a year round properly stocked 12-3 block with more affordable shows. While that has not completely failed them yet, I don’t think that will be sustainable in the long term. We have this Food Wars gap coming up, plus we have Dr Stone taking an early exit in August which I’ll bet they didn’t plan on. And what was supposed to be our gap filler in One Piece, they refuse to utilize as such, and Naruto is getting dangerously close to its end that they can’t double that either. I’d be interested to see what the higher up plans are for the block after Superman is adequately shilled. I think a big thing keeping us going is being an extra avenue to shill Max projects, but there won’t be a constant stream of those.

I feel like we have this same exchange every few days. Yes, their typical AAA title path had long since been closed off. But plan B over at Sentai and some of Viz legacy titles are still an option. They wouldn’t be the most in demand pickups, but they would be something, which we have long been in need of. The best case scenario for the block right now is having a schedule drop that makes people say “huh, I have never heard of that one.” Is it a budget issue? Maybe, but Toonami doesn’t feel completely destitute. Our bumps refresh much more often than last year, and they keep making those little short animations, so the block isn’t completely broke. We often see Demarco comment how he is still trying to make a deal for stuff like JJK and Demon Slayer S2 despite being firmly told no on both. Time that would be better spent researching Sentai titles they actually can get. Never underestimate their marketing tactic for Toonami. As long as they know internally that it’s coming out this year, they will gladly let everything ride on it. Even if the audience only learns about it 2 weeks ahead of time.

Why? It’s dead and it’s never coming back. And while it was its daytime successor, it really has nothing to do with Toonami nor AS. Most everything to discuss on the matter has already been well discussed. If it didn’t get cancelled when it did, it would have got cancelled a year later when CN was restructuring for the Real era.

I had kind of assumed when this all started that Season 7 would still have him. Even way back then, casting someone new would have been tight. If he wasn’t the two main characters it might have been doable. I don’t think he will come back. But I do think AS has explored the option and gotten a feeler for what it would take to get him back. Hulu is gonna he just fine if this change kills Solar Opposites. AS has no back up plan if R&M fails with this change. So they are more nervous and methodical when it comes to their voice choice.

Oh boy! Instead of a panel of people saying no to anything that isn’t a Family Guy or Rick and Morty clone, now a machine will do it!

Adult Swim was the last one to pull out of Roiland, they know how important this choice is for the network considering Rick and Morty is the only thing they have justifying their continued existence. And then they ended up with a curve ball where the case got thrown out so they also had to weigh the option of bringing him back in, which contrary to what they said at Annecy, I believe is an option they have not completely shut out yet.

That’s true as well. It’s hard to get excited for the lineup when it never offers you anything fresh. Our last acquisition that wasn’t a sequel was in Jan 2022. More than enough time has passed for some hopeful people to give up their hope the block will ever grab something fresh. It’s for sure a saving grace that the block isn’t treading in any new all time low territory. The question is, how much longer will that last? These past few weeks have been the lowest averages for 2023, and I have no doubt the last two weeks of Unicorn have had some of the lowest lead in ratings the block has ever seen. We need a pickup that gives the spark back to people. FLCL won’t be what does that, so I hope they haven’t placed all their chips on that.

I appreciate making the change a gag at least. I don’t think this works for Rick though, so hopefully AS goes a different route Probably because they were unprepared. From what they said, they haven’t even made a decision yet. I assume they are torn between an impersonator or going full Tracey Morgan

From what I have read, it was built as a contained, 10 episode mini series. So unless that changed late in production, they don’t really need to worry about an S2 anyway. Still though, not good for Toonami since it’s dragging all of our other stuff down, and I’m expecting Superman to do the same when people catch on that it’s not an action show. Right now, the block needs more than one solution. Even if Superman does great, the rest of the night is severely lacking. They need something that is a huge audience resonator to replace Food Wars, and every week that passes with no news increases my doubts that they can pull something like that off. Even then, I still think they have an uphill battle ahead for audience retention. While Dr Stone is viewed in a much more favorable light, it’s going the same path as the Food Wars anime, rather than a detailed journey about how the cast cooks/invents, they just pull things out of their ass. Just last week they snapped their fingers and had an oil refinery, a combustion engine, and gasoline. Not a single step shown, just here it is. And it wouldn’t surprise me at all if that’s burning some people out on it as well.

Yeesh, what a way for Food Wars to end its Toonami run. Even more reason to hope next week’s rerun is just to stall for one week and not a full loop of the season. What was the turning point for UWE? Two weak nights in a row, seems to me like it wore thin for people and they have given up on it.

I need the refresher course or something, I have no idea why I thought it went down that way

I could have swore Baratie happens after Arlong

“Some anime influence within the animation” ”Some”

I’d consider it if I was being paid $45.

This isn’t quite right. Streaming was their competition, even if not from a direct standpoint. When a distributor is looking for a western home for their show, did they want it to be a stream exclusive headliner, or give it to Toonami for them to bury? That’s where they made a mistake, streaming was always their competition even if they insisted it was not, and now they are paying the price where the only anime afforded to them are sequels that are a month and a half or more behind their stream release. Toonami got a brief taste of what it felt like to be the gatekeeper of anime in the western market back in the 90s, and they never really seemed ready to accept that wasn’t the case anymore.

Toonami treated it like garbage it’s entire run even though the show was always reliable to them. It would be poetic to see it’s success on Netflix drive it’s price out of Toonami’s window.

It looks extremely cheap. Like distractingly so. If that’s what they are putting in the promo, I shudder to think of what normal scenes look like. They dumped all the money into a couple set pieces and the rest will suffer. That aside, it actually does feel like One Piece. The characters feel like who they are supposed to be. So often we see a live action project where the entire cast are nothing like the original. I still don’t think it will be good, but it looks like it will be mediocre enough to give a chance for a few laughs. The cheap looks and pedal to the metal pacing is gonna be a huge hurdle for it though.

Nothing is confirmed, but I would be shocked if it doesn’t have the Thursday premier, Friday Max, Saturday Toonami rerun model.

It’s starting to look more like the spigot is willingly turned off just to save money. They don’t need to tap Viz or Sentai for content if they can keep a steady flow of this Max bound stuff filling up the block. With only 3 flexible slots, they can easily get through a year of Toonami with only 2-3 acquired shows.