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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.

It gets kinda old talking about hopes knowing most things on the market are out of their reach. Sure we could talk about how much I’d like to see them air Chainsaw Man, but what’s the point? Odds are they won’t. All we can do is make educated guesses based on actions they take. If they are this rushed to end MHA, it means either FLCL or Bleach is coming. Which is another roadblock for speculative discussion, if you have been watching this block long enough, you don’t need to speculate or share your hopes, you already know what’s probably gonna happen. Even Food Wars isn’t shocking, if they could do it, they were obviously going to. This post wasn’t meant to be doomerism, just a simple update to spare people checking Facebook next week. And maybe spur a little discussion on why they seem to pressed to get MHA done.

I’m not new, and I have a fairly good memory too, which is why it’s hard for me to believe they have a plan. Let’s recap the past couple years. 2021 - Stall mode starting mid October. No show replacements, double ups and more Black Lotus marathons than I care to count. 2022 - Primal RERUNS as the lead show for 20 straight weeks starting in May. Brief Naruto double up stalling in June. MHA lead slot reruns for a month at the end of the year. 2023 - Yashahime doubled up to clear it off the schedule in February. As of April 2023, still has not been replaced. Made in Abyss also concluded in February, no replacement until mid March. They aren’t sitting on the best track record right now. Obviously, burning through MHA makes it appear they have a plan, but we said the same about Yashahime/MiA. I’d be marginally more confident in them if we weren’t still waiting on a second show announcement. It’s hard to believe #3 is a sure thing when #2 is nowhere to be seen, and #1 only made an appearance 5 days ago. Like I said, I have no enjoyment issues with this lineup. I’d much rather get through one of our running anime than have to skip weeks because they chose to air bottom of the barrel DC table scraps. But I’d also like to have a decent block to tune into later in the year. Nobody is saying it’s going to end, but it easily can go down a path of becoming barely watchable as it has in the examples above.

From an immediate and shortsighted viewpoint, it feels good. We are moving briskly through MHA which makes it feel like we are actually taking notable steps in the story every week. However, this is going to cause some major problems later in the year. 1. The lead slot show is always the most difficult for them to commit to. We saw how much extra time it took them to get something as subpar as Food Wars S5, and they are still short another acquisition going into April. And now they are burning through another show? 2. MHA is currently the most significant show they have on the lineup, and has good odds to be one of the top 3 of 2023, so it’s strange to rush through it especially how hard fought getting it from CR was. Dont get me wrong, I will be throughly enjoying the Toonami schedule for the rest of March. I’m just concerned for the state of the block later in the year, I don’t want to see it in perpetual stall mode or leading with reruns in the next 4-6 months.

The elephant in the room is why not just move MHA to 12:30 and air whatever they are clearly trying to clear the lead slot for right now at midnight? I could see maybe landing something they think warrants 12, but when they already have an open timeslot, why not extend their mileage out of MHA as a 12:30 show? Im kind of starting to wonder if this is just some petty game with Crunchyroll to narrow MHA down to the dub gap we saw from S3-S5. We did have that 4 week S5 rerun stall session back in November, and 4 weeks of double ups eliminates the gap that created.

Sure gets the noggin joggin

May have done them some good to air That Time I Was Reincarnated as a Slime rather than just shilling it’s movie for no ones benefit besides Crunchyroll for a few weeks about a month ago. I fail to see how airing popular content would generate negative ratings

That may be partially true now, but the surge in LN adaption popularity started around 2015 when Demarco was still firmly in the driver seat. His lack of knowledge on the matter is a major factor. Gill really isn’t any better, they are both late 40s dudes who are way out of touch. This is a difficult topic to discuss because blindly hating isekai is the “cool” thing to do these days. You can immediately detect a bad faith argument when people say things like “isekai #1234”. There ARE good isekai, which are the ones that would be most likely to get the crews attention. The generic seasonal ones would be unlikely to be picked up or even noticed. The fact that the isekai train is still going strong and pumping out generic adaptions every single season is the evidence for why Toonami messed up not getting on the train when they had the chance. For most of the popular examples, isekai shows are action oriented. So they fit the blocks theme, and as an added bonus, usually skew towards a bit older audience, so the block would be airing stuff that doesn’t feel like 4pm Toonami material. Which leads to another point, you see people complain all Isekai is the same, then turn around and praise Toonami for picking up every single generic shonen adaption every season. The fact that the person you were arguing with had the audacity to suggest isekai isn’t even popular goes to show how little they know about what they are talking about. And that just goes to show how out of touch Demarco is, because SAO isn’t even a damn isekai in the first place.