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There are usually two key problems that all of them have. First, they miss what actually makes anime popular, and often times actually rebel against it. They think it’s just the style that carries it, not the substance. So you get something that looks like anime, but is painfully western when you actually sit down with it. The second is the people on the staff for these shows usually have extremely narrow anime knowledge. Ironically enough, mostly just stuff Toonami aired in its after school days, and maybe a dab of a recent FotM if it has extreme culture impact such as AoT. So when we get fake anime stuff like this, it’s ripping tired tropes from DBZ and Sailor Moon rather than things that weren’t out of date 30 years ago. They had a lot of extra space in that tweet they could have plugged Toonami with. If they are forcing us to run this crap instead of getting new shows at least give us a shout out. “MY ADVENTURES WITH SUPERMAN premiers tonight @ midnight, next day on @streamatmax. Also catch an encore at midnight Saturday night on #Toonami”

Why not? It’s pretty tame all things considered, especially since it’s an OVA. With AS gaining more time, I could see it at 8pm. That’s two hours deep into the night, and I think the most notable piece of fanservice is Haruko’s ass in the towel. Everything else is just implications, like when Ninamori loses her pants. I mean, I doubt they would, just cause they want to keep all the anime contained on Toonami, but I don’t think it’s impossible.

Just throwing it out there, that’s also roughly the time Punk Hazard runs out of episodes too. I don’t think AoT is something they would wait for a convenient time for though. When they can air it, they would clear the schedule to get it done. One of two things is happening, something behind the scenes is preventing its release (we know at minimum the dub was worked on, so it’s not that it’s dub is untouched), so either a dispute between CR and Toonami about who is entitled to the first run, or maybe they have to wait till part 2 for some reason. Or second option, Toonami is being unbelievably petty with their last leverage over Crunchyroll and just sitting on it for shits, knowing their contract allows them to do so. I highly doubt it, but it’s funny to think about.

Maybe if Maki or Demarco actually said something on the matter this would be good advice. If you delay something year after year and never show any signs of any progress on it, it shouldn’t come as a shock that people start treating it as something that will never release. Coming out to the panel and immediately doing damage control like this instead of sharing some actual information certainly doesn’t inspire confidence.

I guess thematically it works, there trouble in a dangerous parallel world where we might not be able to come back. Send the Suicide Squad then. Title needs some work though. I know a lot of isekai use “isekai” in the title, but this one just comes off as lazy.

Well don’t you worry, in a few weeks we will have the AS festival panel and im sure Demarco will find a way to fuck that up and give me something nice and juicy to complain about.

Rant? Why? This is exactly what I expected to happen. I have been given nothing to complain about. And hey, they didn’t say anything about it NOT meeting this years deadline, so id say we actually came out of this slightly positive.

We did. And then Demarco went to twitter and told everyone that the show he was talking about wasnt Dr Stone. Then after that we had another schedule update claiming they will still working on the show. Should they have lied and just said Dr Stone was the show they were waiting on? I think so, that would have at least deflated expectations for people for a bit. I wish it was at 12:30. It’s always super annoying having to tune in, tune out, then tune back in. It’s barely worth it, but skipping the first hour, and just dropping by for 90 mins would have at least been tolerable.

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It’s rather obvious, production issues for FLCL. They never said the show tied up in Japan was an acquisition, and we have never seen an acquired show get tied up on the Japanese side anyway. And this schedule drives home that the wait has always been for FLCL. The better question to ask is why did they seem to think they could get it started back around mid May? There’s a pretty big gap between May (even earlier really) and early September. We could have aired an entire 12 episode anime in that time. The IG panel on Sunday will probably just be for Uzumaki since it’s been on ice for so long. FLCL will get its big debut and release date teaser later in July at the AS festival. They have left themselves in a bit of a schedule pickle though. Because unless it doubles up, FLCL can’t air a full season before October. They may end up just sucking it up and having a week or two of overlap. Then the second season of FLCL gets us from November to mid December. The door for some acquired content isn’t completely closed yet. For certain, Dr Stone will be out in August, and Superman will follow not far behind. Obviously FLCL and Uzumaki will take midnight, but that slot is still open at 1a. Then there is the One Piece wildcard for September if Dressrosa isn’t happening, but I have a bad feeling it will be.

So SIX more weeks before any new content, which they have now telegraphed extremely hard will be the new FLCL. So as feared, they are going to continue stalling to have things to announce at the festival. They have been promising they have new shows since APRIL. Demarco needs to be called out on this. Because at this point it’s just straight up lying to keep people tuning in without actually having content. If this doesn’t convince people that Progressive and Alternative aren’t rerun options anymore, I don’t know what will. The only other explanation is they know both of them are abortions and don’t want to preemptively taint the runs of the new seasons by reminding people how bad the previous new seasons were.

I kind of don’t, but I’m keeping the option out there just in case. Especially with the promise of “a ton of announcements” and not really a ton of space to put them without some kind of shift to the norm. I do agree with Sketch though, the announcements will likely all be original focused. The AX panel may simply be a heads up that Uzumaki isn’t dead, while the AS one delves into details. Same for FLCL, especially since there is a solid chance one of those is what replaces Dr Stone. I think for now what we are all wondering is if they will continue to stall the Food Wars replacement so they have another thing to tack onto their announcement reel.

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.