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Rubicon is a one off episode to conclude the series.

I did not. However, technically these are not proper replacements, and more just one night covers, so the question of what replaces Yashahime and MiA still stands. With this new information in mind, I’m ready to revise my speculation. I now believe that FLCL Grunge is a strong possibility in March. Maki was tweeting about it a few days ago, but they didn’t come off as “2 more weeks” types of tweets. They do however, feel like a month from now tweets. I recall other discussion that the dubbing process was under way. So I’m gonna say Grunge at 12:30 in March. Prior FLCL seasons did not lead the block, and given the rocky road the other originals had, I’m gonna say they keep MHA at midnight just to give the block a fighting chance. As for the other slot, given the fact that they are stalling as early as February, I’m gonna stand by them having nothing else and it just going back to One Piece.

You beat me by a minute. Anyway, not really sure how to feel about this. I don’t think this is a panic stalling technique, as Demarco did seem to have some stuff on deck to announce which was probably this. But, it’s still a form of stalling and makes me worry about their prospects for the normal schedule. This means we have to wait another damn month to know what is joining the regular lineup which is the most frustrating part of this.

Nobody had these on their bingo sheet. A little concerned to not have proper new show announcements though

I highly doubt a dead of Saturday night run of 10+ year old episodes of One Piece will have any effect at all on the audience for the Netflix adaptation. I figure there are two audience brackets for the Netflix version. 1. People with very little knowledge of the source material. These are the people they will loop in with advertising. And almost all people in this group probably don’t even know Toonami exists. I’d also say most people in this category don’t even have cable. 2. People well versed in the source material who are going to hate watch. People in this category are either keeping up with the subbed release of the anime, or are keeping up with the manga release. Maybe some of them watch Toonami for the novelty, but Toonami isn’t selling them anything they aren’t already well versed in. I have no clue what caused them to cut OP down to one episode. Perhaps it was never the plan to leave it doubled up and they simply didn’t have enough episodes last year to keep that up. Or maybe the speculation that Toei just wanted it on the block to promote Film Red held some truth. Maybe Toei doesn’t think Toonami is doing enough for it to succeed. Whatever the case, one of the last reasons I could see it leaving is due to the Netflix adaptation. It’s a total non factor for that project.

I can’t even make a guess honestly. A week ago, I probably would have put my chips on Witch from Mercury, but as we know now, that’s not gonna happen. I will bet that at best, we are only getting one new show. The other slot will be given back to One Piece. Just to leave a shot in the dark here, Dragon Quest The Adventures of Dai. That seems like something that would pull Demarco’s attention.

Wow that’s a solid night. When was the last time we saw 0.10 way down at One Piece? A weird thing that seems to happen a lot, a show can be an absolute blight on viewership it’s entire run, then the few weeks leading up to it leaving, it does solid. We never saw such tight retention from Yashahime any other time. Now the question is, can Demarco keep this momentum going with some decent replacements?

Is no show allowed to just rest in peace? This would make the most sense. Lucky was not a well liked character, so it means little if he doesn’t appear. They can have Peggy open a holiday card or something from Lucky and Luanne who got a house across the country after Lucky got more peepee money.

Vic would probably still be voicing anime if he did hire a circus clown to be his lawyer. Shit, he may have actually faired better with a circus clown, or a monkey, or a brick he found on a stroll. Is it? Vic never had any charges against him. His entire situation was he said/she said. Many of the stories that came out against him were walked back or admitted to being exaggerated. Vic was the fujo dream of the 00s. It’s very believable that some clout chasing girls of the time spread rumors that stuck about their exploits with Edward Elric. The only thing believable that came out about him was he doesn’t understand appropriate personal space. Unlike Roiland who has felony charges hanging over his head which are quite obviously the reason he is out on his ass, Vic was a very clearly dog piled by people within his own industry that wanted him gone for their own ends. The fact that Todd Haberkorn remains employed despite similar allegations only further supports this.

I don’t think the nature of the charges are the issue. It’s the fact that they are very public and on everyone’s headlines. They had no issue with him being a creep at the office because that was a mostly private matter they could keep a lid on. Now that he has something major public, they don’t really have a choice but to cut him lose to try to save face. Imagine you are the head of advertising for Wendy’s. Are you going to keep up your expensive deal with that show that has the guy with felony domestic charges working on it? Probably not. That’s the kind of thing Adult Swim is trying to salvage here. They didn’t fire him because it was the right thing to do, they fired him because he was becoming a greater liability than he was worth financially.

Given his connections at Sunrise, I’m surprised Demarco wasn’t able to seal the deal on this. The timing is perfect for it to have started on 2/18. Best case scenario is they blew their wad on something of greater significance, and Gundams rough history on the block made it second choice.

Mike served his time. He was convicted in 1992. He got his show in 2015. Plenty of time had passed for people to let that go. I don’t think Roiland should be barred from the industry forever. If he is still relevant in 23 years, then go ahead and give him a show. Of course, assuming he stays out of trouble in that time. This would be a really dangerous gamble for AS. Let’s say they let the trial play out and he is guilty. AS will get torched for not throwing him out months/years prior when the charges first dropped, especially with the supplemental information coming out. There is too much bad press swirling around Roiland to keep him around. Their number one priority is going to be attempting to salvage R&M as best they can. Plus, as I mentioned earlier, AS set the bar really low for themselves with Unknown Hinson. That’s just even more fuel to the fire, you will boot someone for mean tweets, but not for felony charges? Action was not optional for them here, Roiland had to go. If he gets off, they will cross that bridge when they come to it.

You may be thinking of live action One Piece which is supposed to have notable input from Oda. Bebop is often cited in discussions about it for NOT having any input from Watanabe. The hope being, with gentle guiding from Oda, live action One Piece will at least not be an insult to the source material as Bebop was.

Skimmed every VA with Sebastian in their name and he is the only one that is active with anything. All Marvel stuff though. Unless there is some newcomer isn’t listed outside of credit reels yet. That seems like a pretty big dollar expense though. If that does end up being the case, hopefully they aren’t trying for a Gen:lock angle where they attempt to cover up a terrible project with celebrity names.

Strange to call it a secret project it’s no secret they are working on it. And yea, those shoes make it obvious. At the absolute latest they would have to have it announced by next Friday. And I highly doubt something in the “coming soon” vague twitter teaser stage is gonna make that window. So, I’m at a total loss at this point for what could be coming. More and more, I’m feeling like double One Piece is one of the things we are getting. Two curveball pickups is just unimaginable to me at this stage.

Perhaps I should rephrase. Considering his success at hitting on teenagers despite his doughy, babyface appearance, I’m gonna guess his financial windfall from Rick and Morty is pretty healthy. If he was just your run of the mill creep with no looks or money to lean on, he wouldn’t have gotten away with this as long as he did.

Considering his confidence in hitting on teenagers despite his doughy, babyface appearance, I’m gonna guess his financial windfall for Rick and Morty is pretty healthy. And unless AS is willing to flush 60 episodes worth of reruns, it’s gonna stay that way.

I’ll enjoy them if they are good. Late stage ATHF was suffering bad. Hopefully such a long break and short episode count will help it actually be decent. My main point was this won’t keep their lights on. While I wouldn’t mind a return to their roots, it’s hard to convince executives of that. They are going to want to see R&M numbers ASAP.

I think we had a few warning signs before that. Probably the biggest was CR blocking Mob Psycho S2. A popular title, but not that popular, so why couldn’t the block have it? I believe that was our first warning sign that Crunchyroll was going to block EVERY show they own. Next major red flag was during Covid. 2020 started out with Toonami cutting a lot of slots, which they later tried to blame entirely on Covid despite most cuts happening prior to the lockdowns. Then we are mid lockdown and all our planned dub premiers go out the window. Toonami wasn’t able to tap anyone at all for cheap content to fill the time. Not a single ally in the industry came to our aid. We finally got half of AssClass, which between the long wait and the fact S2 took a year and a half to show up, was likely a full price pickup. That was when it was made very clear Toonami was no longer a player in the market at all. As for Demon Slayer, I believe that is something even peak era Toonami may have struggled with after the films blowout success. The fact that the block still can’t get it long after it’s relevance is telling, but I think even in the best times the block still would have had to have waited a year or so to air S2.

Wow they didn’t waste any time hitting the panic button. Sorry AS, those three may be the most iconic faces AS has ever had, but 5 episodes of them is not going to motivate people to regularly tune in to AS.

Difference is Ren and Stimpy was for children and that was in the 90s. A lot of kids probably didn’t even notice the change, and without social media the news of his removal from the project would have likely only found adult eyes. This is a prominent adult oriented cartoon, even if AS didnt say a word, people would immediately notice Rick sounds funny and Roilands name isn’t in the title credits. We are well beyond the point where a change like this can happen and just blow over. As for replacements, their backlog options are limited. ATHF had major seasonal rot in its later seasons. Not every episode was bad, but it was too the point more episode per season were bad or forgettable. A big reason Mike Tyson Mysteries was cancelled was because Mike Tyson was losing interest in the project. I highly doubt he would want to get saddled with another show. Tuca and Bertie was cancelled due to middling performance, the Haddish controversy never picked up any steam after breaking. I doubt it’s creator would even want to come back after being swiftly cancelled. AS burned quite a few bridges thinking that King Roiland would keep the lights on by himself and now they are gonna have to face the music of that choice. Lucky for them, they have Cusack, so they have at least one popular up and comer to make stuff for them. Can you imagine if we go through this entire song and dance and all charges get dropped? R&M fans will demand he be reinstated to the show, but all the power will be in Roilands court. He will be able to ask for the world and a little more for him to return to R&M and AS will most likely have to give it to him to preserve their top show. Im no legal expert so I don’t know how, but I do believe AS has a window to information we do not and used that to make their determination. Remember, they didn’t say a word on this topic for over a week, that’s probably the time they were getting the facts.

The fact that charges have been filed means its beyond just a he said she said. Someone had some meat to put on the table to get charges filed. I imagine adult swims legal team was able to negotiate their way into some details of the case to make a determination of how bad things are. I highly doubt they just threw out their bread and butter on a whim. They know something we don’t, and like what they know is Roiland is boned. Even if they didn’t, they tossed out Unknown Hinson for a handful of tweets that were against the current approved narrative. They don’t need an actual legally based reason to toss someone out. Right now, Roiland is bad for the brand, and they will be lucky to salvage any of their advertising contracts without him, it would have been impossible with him.

I can’t believe they actually followed through and did it. Even though pressure was probably mounting daily, I put a little respect on their name for following through despite this crippling their cash cow. Would be comedy gold if they cast Tracey Morgan. Just send Rick and Morty to the Tracey Morgan dimension that warps their voice just by being in proximity. Kinda like what was implied would happen on the cob planet

I agree about Bleach. They gotta think a little different than they used to and spread out the shows they can get that can handle the lead slot. If they pick it up to replace MHA, they should be able to smoothly transition to the second season in the fall, that deals with the lead slot question until next year. The originals may temporarily grab the lead, or they may reassess a 12:30 run for them. Either way, that would only be a brief moment for Bleach outside of midnight if they opt for original leads. I also agree about spreading out the originals. That’s their only consistent marketing point anymore, so they need to always be able to tag one in every few months. FLCL in Feb, FLCL in the summer, and Uzumaki in October makes sense. That said, I believe the window on Grunge in February gets narrower by the day that it’s not announced. Perhaps now that Yolo is no longer their main new project they are promoting, they can starting running Grunge promos leading up to its premier. If we get to the end of this week without a Grunge reveal, I’m gonna think it may need a little more time in the oven. Ever since it was announced, I have seen a lot of people say Urusei Yatsura would be in their crosshairs. I can’t say I understand the sentiment. It’s not action as far as I know, and it’s not something ASA used to run. The only factor I see in it’s favor is it’s a Rumiko title. Is that it, or is there more to why so many people think it’s Toonami bound? I’m not against it, though I can’t say I’m enthusiastic about another Rumiko title after Yashahime, but I just don’t get why it’s expected.

Personally I hadn’t entirely written off the chances for Witch from Mercury. Yes, it currently does not have a dub announced, however many times in the past a show has had its dub reveal coupled with a Toonami reveal. Unfortunately, that may be something that’s left entirely in the past though. The way Demarco was talking about it, it seems like it may not be accessible to them at all, so there may be even more issues with it that we don’t know about. As long as we are actually getting new content, I kind of look forward to seeing some pickups most of the fanbase didnt predict from a mile away. I did notice one strange thing while scrolling, quite a few people asked various questions about Bleach. Ranging from its potential for Toonami to just his opinion on it so far. He ignored them all. Read into that how you will.