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I dunno. He did say this in mid September and it took till the tail end of October for him to deliver half of this promise. Excluding the 5th, there are 5 normal Toonami nights left in 2022 if we assume a Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years marathon are on the table. I highly doubt anything else new will fit into that timeframe

The block has been struggling for most of the year to handle 4 hours. Primarily with the bumpers, some of which have stayed the same the entire year. Yes, it’s just the rerun portion, however that still needs bumps and dialog which is work + money. Not to mention the loss of the recent originals means they don’t have a huge pool of reruns to choose from. Id assume if the hour is being cut, they will just put more Futurama or KotH there. Both of which will likely do better and alleviate some of unnecessary workload for the Toonami crew.

If they had something close, you would think they would have opted for a more temporary solution. Double Naruto or Yashahime being the obvious picks. Instead opting for the 6+ month solution doesn’t make it seem like anything else is lined up

No idea why he insists on being so snarky all the time. He should not be surprised people are upset that what amounts to an entire arc of the series won’t air on the block, and people have a week and a half to source it to be caught up for Toonami. Not getting my hopes up for more announcements. Where are they gonna go? We seem to be down an hour, and the next ending show is Yashahime sometime in January.

I’m pretty sure MHA swapped up to midnight after a week or two of outrage at it being behind Super. Then Super was sent to the end where it should have been the entire time. Then the later part of it was at 12:30 because of Fena. It’s probably for the best to bury expectations for MHA S6 ever coming. Or any other show from Funimation besides that last stretch of AoT. S3-5 aired on Toonami 5-6 weeks behind their dub release. So it’s already a major hit that we are missing that window. And as we have seen with Mob S2, CR doesn’t seem to care how many years pass on a show, they don’t want Toonami to air it. On the AS front, it looks like they may be considering a permanent dropping of 8pm based on some promos on other networks advertising 9pm. Previous years never advertised the time change.

Nobody was in a hurry to revisit Super as our lead show for 10 months either. I think we are getting MHA S5 purely because they still have a little gas left in its contract.

They won’t. That said, they will still probably pull better numbers than HCC did. We have seen this happen before. They just don’t want to start anything new or take any risks. We also don’t know what Zaslav is up to behind the scenes. Cutting One Piece down was not something I had on my bingo card and is something that actually does make me a little nervous

Oof, I knew this was the case with how short the blurb was on Facebook, but it still hurts to see it. A 6 month long commitment to a midnight rerun does not paint a bright future for the block. And now knowing they did in fact cross their T’s and dot their i’s, I have to assume the lost hour and lost One Piece was no error either. So Toonami has 6 slots, 2 of which are reruns. Why not just give us the Two Piece combo still? It’s probably not cost related, and more like Mob S2 where it’s simply not for sale to Toonami.

Now that Nov 5th is out of the way, it’s time to look at Nov 12th. Every single year DST screws me up, but I’m looking at the 5th, and it’s the same length as any other night. But when you erase the bonus hour, we lose 2 slots. I did hypothesize that they may opt to cut the rerun hour, so if that’s the case here and not just poor communication about DST, I won’t be surprised. The unfortunate implication here though is they are cutting an hour, but we keep one rerun and the second OP is the other victim. In the past, I have considered AS continues to buy OP by the arc, so if this ends up being a permanent change, should we be worried that AS only bought Fishman Island and Punk Hazard, and for some reason can’t get more so they feel the need to pad out Punk Hazard?

What on earth kind of mess is this? Going back to MHA S5 just screams confirmation CR shows are out no matter what. MiA S2 is neat, no movie is not. And thanks for putting it in front of Yashahime. I don’t love One Piece, but it tastes a lot better two episodes a week. Why are we dropping that? Personally I’m sick of Primal but given their rerun options, it’s the best card they have

With how it tanks every night, it really should just get dumped after Naruto so the rest of the shows at least have a chance. It’s the main cause for the rest of the block missing the top 50 most weeks. Starting out low certainly doesn’t help, but losing a huge chunk of that already low audience is the real killer. Bleach or MHA would be saviors if they got them, but we know odds on MHA are very low, and Bleach is still at 50/50. It certainly looks like the block could be the next day premier after the Hulu release, but you would think something major like that would have been announced by now. Total crisis scenario is if they have nothing and end up having an hour of Yashahime right up top. Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.

I guess we can take some comfort that there is barely anything else on AS that can fall victim to this. At worst maybe Uzumaki is cancelled (as if we were ever going to get it anyway), and if luck is on our side, maybe those new FLCL seasons get the axe before they tarnish the franchise name further.

I really enjoyed HCC, and I’m not afraid to call it the best original thus far, but there is no argument that it was a flop with the Toonami audience, especially comparing it to Primal rerun numbers just one month ago. No idea what they are planning for the 5th, but they need something damn good for midnight. And they really need to consider moving Yashahime later in the night

I think what they are saying here is the stuff they have already written off amounts of 2.5 billion. Which to the people asking why writing stuff off is an option they are taking, here is your answer. The concerning part is the 4.3 billion in restructuring costs. So they wrote off all that stuff, and they are still in the hole. So we gotta wonder where that other 2.2 billion is gonna come from. The write off options are starting to dwindle.

Watch this not acknowledge Tomoe in any way This is pretty tricky for them to pull off. Lupin and his gang have always stayed the same age while the world around them continues on. So timeline wise, this has to be in 40s or so, maybe even a little early, to work with Lupin’s age in the first part. Or maybe they just do a “hey what if Lupin was 12 lmao” and don’t try to wedge it into the timeline. Lupin has encountered plenty of sci-fi tech in his time, a de-aging device wouldn’t be out of place.

Not sure if this has already been discussed, but early promo material for HCC used the red splatter behind the logo. When it actually started getting ads on TV, it used the blue splatter. This piece of advertising used both. Was there any significance to this that I overlooked? Or was it just a stylistic choice? The red version obviously looks like blood and fits a horror theme. I didn’t notice anything that relates to the blue.

This is why the stalling stuff is so annoying. They are probably already committed to a schedule for the 5th at this point, but they just won’t tell us what it is for reasons. If the criteria is “has action” the Sentai catalog has a boatload of content they could be choosing from. It always irks me when I see people claim we don’t get Sentai shows because they don’t have anything that fits the block. Ushio and Tora is just one of many examples they could grab if they would step one foot out of their comfort zone

Well, I gotta say in its final stretch, this ended up being one wild ride. Among the originals, I’d rank this as the best so far, not that that is a high bar or anything. Biggest black mark for it is pacing, and a lot of people called that the moment we found out it was 4 episodes. This episodes mass info dump in particular, where the characters standard speech pattern was thrown out because he had to vomit out so much lore and info so quickly, was difficult to follow. Once we got over that hurdle though, it was a solid 9/10 up until the credits rolled. Do gotta say though, having another Demarco/Maki original that ends with the main girl being a god and the credits rolling over them with a different hair color makes them seem a little creatively bankrupt. In the end, I’m just glad my boy Khan survived. And I guess also his homie who hit the road last episode when he found out he was in a horror anime.

At this point in the year, if they are still stalling for time there’s a solid chance the above prediction of nothing at all is what we are getting. Accounting for standard marathons, we only have 6 regular Toonami nights left this year. If there is nothing announced for the 5th then we are most likely done for the year

That’s money out the door though. If they have Sentai on the phone and their checkbook in their hand, they don’t need to stall for time, they need to request something new to Toonami out of the Sentai catalog. With 4 open slots, the lowest priority ones are the rerun slots. It doesn’t really matter what show they pick for that hour, it’s gonna struggle to hold 100k viewers. Hasn’t the block just ignored DST the past few years? My first guess would be they throw an hours worth of those R&M shorts there. Of course, claiming on Facebook it’s part of Toonami, only to have it all air after the later

This is another thing worth discussing. In total, the November 5th schedule has a whopping 4 slots to answer for. HCC which is the major one, Lupin, and both MiA slots. Double Naruto could stick around which would handle one, but those rerun slots are tricky. With the 3 CR originals written off, the options for that slot are limited. The last run of Bebop made a pretty good case that fans are finally getting tired of it, and we have been so sparse on content this year anyway there really aren’t many acquired shows to fall back on. I would not be surprised at all if the a November 5th schedule drops and it’s one slot lighter, with the other rerun going to, unfortunately, the other 7 episodes of TPN S2. Then next year, that slot could be cut as well. It’s not ideal, but I do have a feeling that the block is currently overextended for its budget and staff. Slightly related, but as we are now at the end of the day on Friday and November 5th schedules will be going live soon and we have no announcements, my already low expectations for good news have decreased slightly more.

Been trying to figure this out since the start of the month when the October schedules came out, and there isn’t a single option that feels like a safe bet. Your first 3 options make the most sense, and if it was 2019, those wouldn’t be predictions, those would be inevitability’s. We would have a power hour of Bleach/MHA in the lead, and MiA tucked a little later. I’d say something like Kaiji had as much chance as anything else in the Sentai catalog. We did get MiA, so there is some precedent they don’t mind going back a few years, but only time will tell if they are willing to give another Sentai show a chance. As for the super old stuff, Demarco may want to air it, but I think he has a steep uphill battle convincing his superiors that stuff that old isn’t a money pit.

That drop was justified. Chiller just flat out did not care. They heard anime might be good for viewership and judged a few books by their cover and slammed an allegedly horror anime block together. Which started out with a comedy/harem that I assume they picked up because “zombie” was a keyword they were looking for in a show title. They didn’t even bother to do the subtitles which were crucial to know what one character was saying. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in the same boat of being encouraged to watch the show because of Chiller and ending up really enjoying it, but there’s no arguing that there was a theme they were going for and they missed the mark right out of the gate. And that’s a shame, because having a few other anime blocks on other days of the week on other channels would have been some nice variety. Having the Chiller block die so fast and in such a spectacular disaster probably discouraged other networks from attempting their own.

It would be better than the more likely alternative of nothing. This block is well beyond the point of getting dub premier content. As far as I’m concerned a 24 hour gap of the hottest anime of the year is damn good, especially with how subpar the blocks offerings have been this year.

At that stage it becomes even more frustrating though. They claim marathons are due to poor ratings, yet would be willing to keep what would be their main bread and butter show airing. What would be an easy skip night would then become something people have to set aside 30 minutes for. A deal like this pokes massive holes in the marathon argument. I do agree about late December though, Viz probably wouldn’t be recording or releasing an episode so they would have a bit of flexibility there.