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UWE is going to be at the whims of its Thursday premier. Toonami is the only part of AS that has to take breaks on minor holidays, so it’s probably gonna keep on trucking and Toonami will just have to accommodate it. I assume on 5/27, the first episode of UWE will be the encore of that weeks premier. I believe we saw similar treatment of Primal last year. I believe you have forgotten that Superman show, which is almost guaranteed to replace UWE at midnight when it ends. I have a feeling the only time premier anime will take midnight for the rest of this year is if we get the new FLCL seasons. I probably sound like a broken record on this, but I will once again reiterate how much sense it makes to shift Toonami to 11-2. Especially now that we have an anime that can pull its weight, and hopefully a second one on the way. I think 11:30 Dr Stone would be pretty healthy. The questions to ask about the rest of the year now are 1. What is the mystery show replacing Food Wars? Dr Stone was on a lot of peoples short list but that apparently was not the answer. 2. Where does Titan fit into this puzzle? Does it fit in at all? Crunchyroll has yet to release the dub, but another month or more before release? I have seen a lot of Titan fans getting pretty irate at the silence on the matter, I’m starting to get a vibe we may not get it. 3. Where do FLCL and Uzumaki fit it? Demarco has already started floating a potential Uzumaki delay again, so if that’s out, there’s plenty of room to knock out both FLCL in the fall. Upfronts are next week, maybe we see some original discussion there. 4. Will Dr Stone take a cour break? If we get both, that slot is covered till next year. If there is a break, part 2 might be one of the first additions of 2024. As with most schedule updates, answers to current questions tend to spawn new ones. But that’s part of the fun, at least we got some good news this time around.

Huh, I’ll admit predictable sequel pickups don’t really excite people much, but you would think they would at least say something like “while you wait, we have Dr Stone S3 kicking off!” or something like that. This is only the second announcement of 2023 and they just tossed it out there without a word. That aside, I agree. It’s nice to have SOMETHING cooking. And now I’m a little more enthusiastic knowing a predictable sequel isnt the only thing we have been waiting for. I assume the mystery show will take over for Food Wars.

So they announced 3 more schedules and gave a bunch of excuses for nothing new. Yet the third schedule lists Dr Stone S3. Oopsie?

I assumed those shows are being removed because they are migrating over to Max when it launches. It’s just they are communicating poorly.

HBO Max got namedropped again. Laughed my ass off at Matt just sitting in his room playing with a boob slider on a game, especially since it was implied he was supposed to go on the trip. Kinda found it weird this one was rated MA S though. Really don’t see what warranted it.

Someone made that exact point to him, and he pointed out that the landscape had changed between then and that point in time. If I remember right, there had been a prolific shooting right around the time he had made those comments about GGO. Looking back at our recent years, we haven’t had many gun heavy shows either. Plenty of shows where guns are present, but not where they are such a primary focus. Best I can think of is AssClass, which has been a target of controversy since it’s release, but that was also a Covid emergency pickup, so we probably never would have seen it otherwise. I just find it strange for him to throw Demarco under the bus like that unprovoked. He could have just said nothing and that would have been the end of it, Toonami rarely picks up spin offs so it would not have been strange to never see it air. Instead, he redirected everyone to go be mad at Demarco, which makes it feel like they may have been working out a deal and Demarco pulled out and made him upset. Idk, it’s all speculation. I just don’t believe cast blame on someone by name for no reason at all.

I believe it though. That’s not just some rando making a claim, there’s no reason an ADR director would go say something like that if there wasn’t some level of truth to it. And we know the guy loves to virtue signal anytime he gets the chance. Don’t forget, we very narrowly avoided him saddling us with Yuri on Ice.

I hated how they just kept looping the movie episodes in the early months of getting it back. It got me in the habit of avoiding the show because more often than not it would just be one of those episodes. That’s a good thing though. The CC seasons are some of the most creatively bankrupt garbage out there, and based on the titles leaked for the new season, it’s going to be just as bad.

It would get people talking about Toonami, that’s for sure. We are at the point where any publicity is good publicity, so if Buttack on Titan will get the job done, so be it.

I could see it, Demarco loves to tell the fans they will never get a show then still bust their ass trying to get it when now a bunch of people probably watched it elsewhere. Sunrise is also known to be cooperative, but at the same time not easy to work with. Lupin would be weird being tied up since we know Sentai is cooperative so they don’t necessarily need to sidestep them. TMS hasn’t given them a hard time in the past either.

So they call that kid second last, I wonder who the first is? Obviously the block that it airs on! DOHOHOHOHOHO

Could be, but it seems strange to hype it up when it’s going to be gone the very next week. At which point, we would start asking what replaces Food Wars.

I definitely think it’s facing the same issue Primal S2 had and is being held back by a strange timeslot for a premier. If that was premiering on Toonami I think we could have scratched the 300k mark. But, two top 50 slots is nothing to sneeze at, it’s just a shame it can’t be a success shared with Toonami.

We are kinda stuck here twiddling our thumbs for the next week or two while we wait to hopefully see a new show announcement for the block. He claims it’s tied up on the Japan side, and despite his gaslighting on the topic, is an issue we have never seen before. So, what’s everyone’s guesses for what it might be? For me, I’m going with FLCL Grunge. Something actually being worked on in Japan for Toonami makes the most sense for having a Japan side delay. Wouldn’t want to announce it if it’s not ready to air. For a non original guess, I’ll go with Bleach. It’s a longshot because of its Disney ties, but the Japan side might be trying to help AS out with a loophole to sneak it onto cable.

On average, MHA premiers have been doing better than Royal Crackers premiers. Ideally, relying on acquired content isn’t the best path, but if it works and they don’t have anything else going on, may as well throw a few bones to the block to keep doing what it’s doing.

The question to ask is, are they allowing these hand me downs to make them complacent in securing anime? They shouldn’t have issues getting stuff from Sentai or Viz, but rather than take a risk on any show they have, they are content to coast on these reruns and pray in 10-20 weeks a sequel series is ready to take their shot at.

It’s commendable that they have managed to do all these teasers and previews without once having a character have a spoken line. And I will never not be able to see that girl as some type of goth Betty Boop

Based on prior statements on this matter, it IS possible, but it would have to air on another network or service. And whoever did approve the project would have to pay a pretty penny to balance out its tax break value. So it’s probably never going to happen unless some executive is a hardcore Genndy fan and is willing to drop that cash just to secure themselves a exclusive Genndy project.

No matter how many times people parrot this, it will never change the general audience opinion that Toonami SHOULD be anime only in its current iteration. The fact this is constantly repeated just goes to show how often people demand anime exclusivity. And is that really so much to ask for? Especially seeing AS is more than willing to give western action content time on their normal schedule. I could see the argument if Toonami was premiering any of this stuff, but they arent. “B-b-but Primal reruns mogged Housing Complex C premiers last year!” Im not suggesting any ol anime is gonna get the job done here, but if these western reruns are stacked up against some actual decent anime, they don’t stand a chance viewership wise. MHA easily got the drop on the Primal reruns. I’m not a betting man, but even I would put money down that an above average Sentai title at midnight would easily throw down better numbers than Primal or UWE. Now, if they were premiers, that might be a different story. But they aren’t, because Genndy has an ego to feed.

Pretty disappointed in the fanbase this week. This should have been with no argument, one of the worst performing nights in the blocks history. That was our ticket to getting AS to course correct. But people insisted on tuning in, and now AS has even more justification for loading the block up on reruns because they know people will show up regardless, so why spend money on anything new?

HBO Max namedropped twice this episode.

What time and which show?

The only thing I remember from this series is it’s one of the ones they let Ashly Burch have a lead role in. Crazy to think how fast her voice acting career exploded, from niche anime to prominent video games in less than a decade.

I could have swore it moved twice. Well, if I’m remembering that wrong that’s my bad. Considering the absolute asinine schedule choices they have made in recent years to not move a premier from its timeslot, I’d say they have some evidence that would support even moving it that one time was detrimental to its run. That aside, I still think there isnt any valuable information about future pickups gained from Hellsing except maybe avoiding OVA series because they might have weird rights that doesn’t entitle Toonami to all of it. I agree, AgK, KLK and Parasyte are better gauges since they were regular episode length and didn’t have such a chaotic in and out run. Giving up on an entire genre because one show did subpar is moronic. And I’m pretty sure they took that path with Pop Team Epic, because that was the start and end of diverse program choices. There is a lot more than just how “adult” something is. When the block came back, it felt like the world of anime was an open oyster to them now. And instead of utilizing that to its fullest, they opted to fall back on a lot of stuff they would have been airing on CN. We didn’t even get 6 months in before Naruto was back. People just wanted them to try to NOT air every single thing that came out of the Shonen Jump catalog. As long as a show didn’t have excessive nipples to censor, it was fair game from a content perspective.

This is why I suspect they may not move into the next arc of One Piece. I’m not exactly sure where we are, but I think it has 10-15 weeks left of Punk Hazard. Had we doubled up, MHA would be done next month and that would be wrapping up too. Like I said, the entire purpose of getting OP was for it to do duty as schedule gap filler when needed. The fact that they go out of their way to not use it for that is suspect. If they do drop OP though, I have no idea what they would do with the slot. Since it’s anchor content, that might worry me that they are planning to sunset the block. In that case, perhaps double Naruto to get us to the end quicker, or they just trim off an hour.