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Think this could have been part of the April Fools prank for this year that escaped a little early? This would make a lot more sense to have seen after a Post Malone style sneak peak of an episode rather than out of the blue during KotH. Would also explain why AS is so quickly smashing the DMCA button. I have three issues with it. One, the show was created for Cartoon Network. We already struggle with half the block being shonen that barely clears the AS bar. Second, they are once again seemingly bowing to Genndy’s absurd hatred of Toonami and premiering the show on a Thursday, rather than just premiering it on Toonami. Lastly, it’s looking like the reason they burned off a hard fought pickup in MHA was to replace it with a rerun. This is the one the rubs me wrong the worst of all. They made it look like there is some grand plan in the works and it’s actually nothing. I know, I’m making a lot of assumptions here about it coming to the block, but all the signs we saw with Primal S2 are present here. And if MHA doubles up on the 15th, and AoT takes the following weekend, that leaves just one unaccounted for weekend before May 6th when this would presumably start.

Oh great, now there will two eternal Genndy shows eating up space on Toonami. And I’m sure despite premiering outside the block, for some reason it’s also going to have to do a full rerun at midnight on Toonami.

I could see that this year. I feel like Friday/Saturday years they try a little harder since more people will tune in since they don’t have work the next day. Another thing I could see them doing on the first before Toonami starts is having all the comedy shows before Toonami starts run with proper Toonami bumpers, complete with TOM and Sara quips about the shows. Maybe even tailoring the episodes to ones with “action” scenes for the bumps, like the KotH episode where Bill steals the tank

Some years they have done the night of the 31st and the pre midnight of the 1st, but never in history have they not done something on the night of the 31st. They have also never had a prank leak into April 2 before, so the actual Toonami part of Saturday isn’t going to see anything happen, as when TOM walks down the hallway it’s officially April 2. The hours before Toonami are fair game though, and there is certainly the possibility they get changed into Toonami for some kind of prank.

So I have been kicking this around in my head all day, I’m still team Venture Bros movie prank, but do we think they may try to wedge in something for FLCL as well? I know, Toonami is narrowly outside the prank window this year, but anime projects are still AS originals and don’t necessarily have to be married to Toonami. Im considering it because it’s kinda been full on radio silence on the FLCL projects, despite both allegedly being on deck for this year. And we have this bizarre MHA burnoff going on, that would conveniently potentially allow a Grunge premier a few weeks after pranking with it. Imagine it, 11:30pm on Saturday, TOM walks in without a word, and pops in the first episode of Grunge subbed. Midnight rolls around, TOM makes a quip about how it’s the first time he has seen the audience in a week and MHA rolls on like any other night. Realistic? Or are my Sunday idle thoughts too ambitious?

We are on the home stretch to April Fools, whatever they are doing is going to happen on Friday night. Guides are showing a 2 hour block of Aqua Teen at midnight, so it seems whatever they are doing is gonna be another short one. What’s everyone guesses? Think they will do anything with the comedy shows before Toonami? I have been seeing discussion that certain people have gotten a screening of the Venture Brothers movie and it’s complete. Just airing it outright wouldn’t be much of a prank, but I have a good feeling the Venture Brothers audience will be the butt of the joke this year.

I’m over here trying to figure out where Progressive and Alternative are. Like, we gotta be getting close to Grunge. Are they just planning to never rerun those two ever? Yes, they were terrible, but something being bad has never been how AS decides whether or not to rerun it, otherwise [insert your favorite show here] never would have got a rerun! Waka waka!

Can we reach lucky number 7? Can the audience maintain their sanity knowing there is another Primal loop incoming?

Adult Swim was 100% OK ignoring all that stuff and pretending it didn’t happen. The entire reason they cut ties with him was because of mounting pressure that was triggered by the formal charges. And now that the charges are dropped, the legitimacy of all claims against him will come into question. This whole debacle is going to be more entertaining to watch than the average R&M episode in recent years. I have no doubt AS will try to get him back since they need him, but Roiland will be able to ask for the world in return, and weaponize the fanbase if he doesn’t get it.

https://twitter.com/JessicaCalvello/status/1637923118390845446?cxt=HHwWjICxkb2ZibstAAAA Jessica Calvello (Hange) said she has been in the studio for AoT. So we know for certain Crunchyroll is already in the process of getting it ready. I could absolutely see a 4/9 release on CR after a 4/8 premier on Toonami. That’s roughly the 5 weeks we are accustomed to seeing. Conveniently, that’s also the week Primal will be gone. So something like 12a - Attack on Titan 1:30a - Food Wars 2a - One Piece 2:30a - Naruto If we really luck out, the bottom half of the schedule can just stay that way for good, and on 4/15 they start a new show at 1a. Then a few weeks later, MHA is done and they can move forward with whatever they had planned for the first hour that justified a MHA burnoff.

Maybe I’m reading the wiki wrong or the screenshot I got off Zap2it uses the wrong numbers, but the way I see it, our last episode on Saturday was 17, The Wrong Way to Put out a Fire. That means this Saturday, 3/25, is 18 and 19, Izuku Midoriya & Tomura Shigaraki followed by Full Power!!! Then, 4/1, as is shown in the OP, is 20 and 21, Hired Gun and The Lovely Lady Nagant. That leaves 22, 23, 24 and 25 unaccounted for, and if both weeks double up, puts the end date on the 15th.

Did I count wrong? I figured it would be more like 4/1 - 20/21 4/8 - 22/23 4/15 - 24/25 When it comes to Titan, I don’t think Grunge will be a factor. Titan airs when it needs to air, regardless of anything else. It will for sure air in April, just a matter of when. The simplest method would be airing it on the 22nd with 2 open slots and preempting one other show. But that all depends on when the dub drops. CR could have it done as early as the 8th. Another factor to consider, unless Primal is looping again, they need to release an official schedule update sometime this week for the 8th since Primal will be over. If they are willing to bump OP and Naruto down for a week or two, OP could double up for 1-2 weeks and give them an easy 3rd slot to use for AoT.

I feel the same. I really wanted to like this, but I can count on one hand times that actually got a smile out of me. The first half of the movie was painfully boring, and the second half was barely better. No matter how you slice it, Aqua Teen just can’t work for more than 11 minutes at a time. I had wondered why I saw almost pure negativity from people who watched it at release. I figured they were just being too harsh, but I get it now. I definitely would not have been happy having paid money to watch this. And a random side question, am I the only one who thinks Markula sounds way different? I first noticed it in Aqua Donk.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=KRvAQ0HweOU If we want to talk about shows that would benefit from a cut OP. Parasyte is right next to it, the Toonami cut was tolerable.

It’s a 25 episode season, that means 2 more potential double up weeks for 22-25. Unless AoT is seeing a major slowdown, I think that’s too far away to finish MHA and then use the two open slots for AoT. So what could the game plan be?

You ever second guess requesting a show for the block, purely because it would be absolutely criminal to cut its OP or ED? This is definitely one of those shows.

Just average iirc. Pulled it’s weight but also didn’t have any impressive nights. It’s probably still a longshot, but I don’t think Akiba Maid War is entirely impossible just because it’s the hot new toy right now and is getting a lot of requests, especially since Demarco narrowed the window down to Sentai stuff only. At a time many years ago, Sentai did want Princess Principal on the block. If the desire is still there on their end, Demarco shouldn’t have to work too hard to talk them out of it. I do see it come up periodically when the discussion of Sentai content comes up, so it has some level of demand.

Lol, lmao even

I just don’t think it’s a fair comparison outside of the video game aspect. SAO is more focused on the combat and action element, while Log Horizon is more, as you put it, cerebral. If you go into LH with a mindset that it’s going to be similar to SAO, yea you are going to be very let down. I don’t dislike LH, but I don’t think it’s right fit for holding the average Toonami viewers attention, especially since a lot of them are going to go into it with that wrong mindset. Big O would just be a waste. With their funding troubles as bad as they are, they can’t spare a penny for a rerun. If Sentai has their catalog open for Toonami to look at, it would be foolish to waste that opportunity getting something they already aired.

They are gonna have to start making some choices pretty soon, I think MHA can only double up 2 more times before being completely aired. Even if they don’t, 4 weeks goes by pretty quick. Idk if a month is enough time to pull something together with Sentai, but from when Demarco first asked this to either end date of MHA would be roughly a month to see if any of the more requested titles were viable for the block. One slot could, and likely will go to Grunge, but something else needs to take 12:30 or 1.

Oh no, I’m not suggesting the younger demo doesn’t pirate. They absolutely do. There are simply more of them who don’t consider a CR/Hidive/whatever subscription to be a mark of shame, as we see in the growth stats in the article.

Guess we just have different experiences then. Back in my day, me and the boys took great pride in whatever we were pirating. If you weren’t getting it for free you were doing something wrong. These days, when the topic comes up with my nieces and nephews they either chastise the practice, or spew falsehoods like how it will kill your computer no matter what. Maybe my family is just a bunch of tech illiterate goody two shoes. Also, a lot of online anime communities have a strict policy about discussion of piracy. You can argue they are just doing that to cover the sites ass, but often times mods in those places treat it very personally as if they are the ones losing money. There’s two types of piracy, people who actually go through the trouble to download the episode, or people who just use stream sites. Most stream sites were pretty shitty until recent years, but they have improved a lot since then, so much so I’d argue the quality is comparable to a cable broadcast. Personally I’m a one and done watcher, so I don’t see much value in filling up my hard drive or finding a niche show with seeds when I could just quickly stream it. Obviously that opens me up to the above issue, stuff may not be available so easy forever, but unless I absolutely adore the series, that’s never going to be an issue for me.

New generation has been very well conditioned to believe piracy is on the same level as a war crime. Id also say it’s just kind of a generational gap thing. This is the first generation of teens that have grown up where it wasnt all that unusual to live in a house without cable. Not because it was an expensive luxury, but because it was outdated. Similar to how our generation saw the cable bill as just one of those things you had to pay, the new one sees the streaming bill the same way, though it’s certainly more economical for a teen to afford CR than it is for them to afford cable. Another thing our generation didn’t have many options. If there was an anime you wanted to keep up with, the official release was always way too far behind, and DVDs cost a fortune anyway.

From what I gathered, for a long time he had wanted to be in the drivers seat. He was finally able to roll out some of his own ideas. And they were generally terrible and got the series cancelled. But hey, you don’t know till you try, right?

I had expected the first episode to tank the entire night since it was a partial recap. I think Sketch is right though, double MHA has been kind of a quiet change to the schedule. If you are here for just one show, you probably turn the TV off before the credits finish. They never even made this weeks schedule official, so no doubt some people assumed MHA doubled up was a one time deal and just didn’t follow up on it’s replacement.