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Many years ago, I remember someone asking Demarco why they don’t air new western stuff. And he just flat out told him, there wasn’t any to air. And that wasn’t even really an exaggeration, until recent years, the only real action animation coming out of the west were straight to video DC and Marvel films and Korra. Anime has single handedly kept the Toonami lights on for about 9 out of 11 years of its revival. And the only western show to PREMIER on Toonami in 11 years has been Samurai Jack S5. Things change, and I don’t blame a single person who considers this to be an anime block. Besides the odd little kid anime, this is the only home for anime anywhere on cable. A tiny, 3 hour window once per week. The frustration of not being able to have that 3 hours a week without some random western reruns getting thrown on it is a valid frustration. Maybe in the good ol days it was an action animation block, but the west chose to turn its back on action animation for about a decade. Can’t blame people for becoming diehard anime fans when few alternative options were on the table.

That doesn’t make any sense though. If this was always the case, we would have more examples of this in the blocks history. Really, with more frequent content, we logically should have seen more delays like this if they are the norm. And that’s just not the case, it’s a brand new phenomenon that started around 2020. Demarco used to say they had almost all their deals done and settled 4-6 months ahead of time. In recent years, every deal feels like it’s still be worked on 4-6 days before it needs to air. There has obviously been some kind of change with how the AS side is doing things. And returning to my earlier point about Demarco’s obsession with controlling the news flow, when schedules are running tight, at the very least they could slot the episodes that are NOT new onto the schedule. We are well beyond the point where shows might shuffle around. The rerun, One Piece and Naruto are never moving from their current timeslots. So why do they need to be hidden on the schedules as well? It’s just more slots messed up on DVRs Genndy would have a stroke if they did that

The 29th was the cleanest option. Food Wars takes a rest for a week and the open hour up front covers the rest of the time. If they do it the following week, they either have to park it behind an hour of Genndy reruns, completely taking the wind out of its sails, or lead with it and put the Genndy reruns at the end (where they should be) and make everyone mad the following week when they take over midnight. My hopes that AS holds any sanity and would put those reruns in the 2:30 slot are incredibly slim. If they did, AoT can tag in whenever, but yes that would mean either putting the brakes on a new show (those tweets don’t make it seem like any are ready) or just having the lineup continue it’s stall tactics. Would not be surprised at all if CR is intentionally holding it up just to cause problems. I guess we will find out next week.

Let’s not forget the meltdown he had when people dared to use that old backdoor schedule to see that they had picked up Soul Eater. Or that time that food truck told us they got Parasyte. There are plenty of examples where they could have made announcements and chose not to because of this bizarre obsession with controlling the flow of information as tightly as possible. But hey, at least back in those days they had the decency to stick to the two week thing. It was actually kind of an oddity to have a show announcement delayed to the 2 week mark, but when they were they still made the cutoff. It’s either ready or it isnt, they should already know. If it’s not ready for the 29th, that’s really gonna botch up their Unicorn Warriors plan.

As much as I like on air reveals, Toonami really needs some W’s right now. We are on the edge of it being May and have only had a single thing added to the block since the start of the year. AoT will probably be one of their biggest things of the year, 7 or less days of promotion is no good. Plus, announcements are usually made during the first show, which a lot of people will likely skip this week. We still have a few hours left for something to go up on Facebook, let’s hope something appears.

It’s kinda funny that Demarco actually bit the bait though. It’s very obviously an insincere post but he took it seriously anyway. Ok, but why was this NEVER a thing prior to around 2020? There were the occasional hiccups, like Mob and Food Wars, but when those happened, they gave us a reason that made them outliers. These days, we never get schedules on time. Now and then, the schedules don’t even have anything new on them. It’s really hard to believe that nearly every schedule update for the past 3 years or so has been late because Japan wouldn’t let them announce.

Hopefully this just means Crunchyroll is being a jackass about AoT and not an admittance they don’t even have anything secured.

Realistically, airing any of their shows on the block has little, if any effect on potential CR viewers. But that hasn’t stopped them from being petty as hell about it since 2018. CR still has a long way to go to prove that they are a supportive ally to the block.

For Dr Stone and other possible CR pickups, we also have to consider how CR has taken what AS did with MHA here. They made them stall with reruns for 5 weeks before it started, for no discernible reason other than putting a larger gap between the CR dub release and Toonami airing. Doubling down once or twice probably wouldn’t have been anything to sweat, but 6 weeks in a row to an end of only being 2 weeks behind the simuldub may put the block into another CR embargo scenario. An optimistic viewpoint would be that CR encouraged them to blast through MHA to get on Dr Stone or something else, but so far we have seen absolutely no evidence CR would do something like that for the block, so I find it difficult to think positively when it comes to CR.

To me, comments like these make leaks seem more realistic. “Hey that super negative review that’s going around is total baloney just don’t read it DONT READ IT STOP!!!!” Then people like that will likely push a “real” review in a few weeks that Netflix paid to sing praises.

Still dumb cause they know better than anyone that their schedules go live 2 weeks out. At least with AoT we can give them some benefit of the doubt that CR is being a jackass about it. If Titan is the 4/29 answer, I won’t hold it against them too much for that being late since it’s news is directly tied to CR. Beyond that, I’m not affording them any further leeway. They have been burning off MHA for 2 months now, the paperwork for its replacement should have been settled weeks ago, if not months. There is absolutely no reason to not have a double schedule reveal. One week for Genndy’s thing, and the following week for what takes the other slot after the double premier. Don’t leave us hanging, we have been strung along week to week long enough.

Business as usual unfortunately. We should hear something by the end of the week. Though, you’d think having like 2 months of preparation for this, they could have gotten this schedule out on time.

I always love people that write an entire dissertation on why a leak is no good, as if they know any better. It could be all horseshit the person made up, or they could have legitimately found some inside info somewhere. Unless you are actually on the staff you know as much as we do.

Demarco said when it happened that Toonami lost all fan art privileges, including for their Facebook page. Apparently they trust the intern in charge of the AS twitter account to actually vet the content before posting it. Had fanart continued, I think someone could have snuck the Daily Dose into some artwork.

He genuinely believes Taint is still relevant. He is stuck in the very brief time period where Taint was significant enough to open for Papa Roach. As Meatwad would say, I got it. It ain’t making me laugh, but I got it.

You completely missed the joke. Theo’s entire gimmick is that he is a washed up 90s rockstar. He genuinely believes Matt would know who those bands are because Theo listened to them when they were popular, roughly 30 years ago. Then they lay it on even thicker when he has to google Post Malone.

So instead they are just going to blatantly advertise wrong? I’d rather believe they simply made a mistake over them intentionally doing it wrong. And like I said, this is far from the first time they advertised wrong, and in the past they actually did get the guy to come in an say 12:30. I doubt they will this time, but that’s a silly excuse.

This happens a lot. I feel like the team in charge of promos is entirely separate from the team who schedules. They had to make a late promo this week and obviously did not get the memo that it’s not at midnight this week. And you never know, they may do this intentionally to try to salvage viewership for the night.

My ears picked up on it the first couple of times the commercial for it aired. It’s super rare to hear her outside of Naruto so I was skeptical but there was just no one else it could be. Has there been a full cast list reveal? I’m interested in which other voices I should be listening for. I know Stephanie Sheh is the executive girl at the office, but I’m so used to her Hinata/Orihimie voice I may not have picked up on it.

Seems kind of boneheaded if that’s the case. As much as we bemoan Primal reruns, I don’t think swapping in a different rerun would really change anything performance wise. Dropping their most powerful lead slot asset nearly 2 months early just to do a rerun no one will care about isn’t a good use of their limited resources. Titan mania ended quite a few years ago. I can’t see there being much of a weeknight audience for that, for like 80 straight weeknights. It’s novel to watch things once a week on Toonami, it gets much harder to sell vs streaming when you ask people to dedicate daily time to something.

They would if they marketed that way. Give it a mascot, Steve the Stellar Starfish, he loves watching all of Disney’s wonderful properties in a pineapple under the sea. Disney has the power to do something like that. WB, not so much. And that makes this come off as yet another thoughtless rebrand.

Wubalubadubdub Morty-sama. I have invented the waifu beater 9000.

I just don’t see a point in adding extra time when they are still struggling to just fill the time we have. We still don’t have a replacement for a show that ended in February, and we have a seemingly permanent loop of a rerun in the last slot. A bump to 11-2 benefits the entire block by getting every show to a more reasonable hour. Let’s start there, see if we can do better with the 3 hours we have, and if that goes well and if they have the budget for it, add more time.

Had a good laugh at that Food Wars crater as we enter the meat of why this season is considered so terrible. It’s pretty rare to see a middle of the block show crash like that with a big recovery into the rest of the night. We have a big schedule shift coming up soon, and with AS grabbing another hour at the same time, I’m really pulling hard for the block to shift to 11-2. If AS thinks lead slot reruns are a good choice for the block, I’d like to see them put some skin in the game by putting the block at 11. If things nosedive, maybe get us some new shows instead of Genndy’s sloppy seconds.

I considered this, if OP doubled up soon, we would be at the end of Punk Hazard in 2 months. But that said, a big criticism last year was being months into Punk Hazard and still running Fishman Island bumps. The ones from last night fit the two arcs better though, Dressrosa has a lot of stuff from the current arc bleed over. Naruto really threw me off though, even if we doubled up next week and it had no interruptions for the rest of the year, I don’t think we would reach that fight between Naruto and Sauske. I probably wouldn’t have even given this matter much thought without that particular one.