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Online schedule still shows a 7 slot gap for Jan 4 so it doesn’t seem to be. And that’s a good thing, they should focus on making the block we have not suck so hard before they even think about adding more time.

The rest of Saturday just populated, the missing Toonami chunk still comes out to 7 slots. So maybe not an IFG marathon? It’s not unheard of for late night Saturday schedules to change after posting though. If it’s not a marathon though, the only thing that makes sense is a 3 episode Daima premier. Episode one would probably be a 45 minute slot. But it’s unthinkable that Crunchyroll would agree to that, even with pressure from Toei.

It certainly is looking more like multiple shows are incoming at once. If it is those two, it makes Lazarus kind of tricky to work around since I highly doubt its premier will wait till early summer. There are shorter options though. If Demon Slayer is one of the choices, that’s only 8 weeks. Of course, that means it has to have an hour premier on Jan 11th

Another interesting observation is timeslots were not given for either show. If it is Daima, Mashle should still stay at 12:30. So that means it’s either more than one new show, or they are shuffling things are just for funsies. Uh oh, Demarco having a tantrum about leaving social media usually comes on the heels of disastrous Toonami news. Why would he leave before soaking up the positive attention from getting Daima?

Blue Exorcist also out till the 11th, so it’s a marathon

Mashle promo tonight states it will not return until Jan 11th, so something is happening on the 4th. Let’s see what the Blue Exorcist promo says. If it stays on the 4th, that means the new midnight show is a 1 hour premier. If it’s gone, it’s a marathon night.

I don’t mind the delays on getting shows, my concern is them actually getting shows. Take the current schedule for example, it is way too light in quality, acquired content that the block has not aired before. That is not sustainable. Earlier in the year though when we had 5 premiers and 3 of them were decent? That’s good enough for me in 2024. Most “toonamicore” shows are things I would never watch on my own regardless, so when the block gets them, they still feel new. Mashle is the first show in a very long time that I have watched prior to its Toonami run, purely due to thinking Aniplex shows were off the table for good. Thankfully I only watched S1, so going forward it’s all new to me again. There are not many new to Toonami show options that I would thumbs down. Even bad shows can be fun to watch. My single factor I usually cite for a bad show choice is if it’s really boring. Block is on way too late for shows that are a grind to finish a single episode of.

Interesting thing happening here though. The critics are not being kind to it, but the audience seems to have a very favorable view of it. Yet, that is contrasted with its dismal box office numbers.

The BE thing is a toss up. It’s clearly killing the OP ratings, but they also are doing the weekly promos and pretending it’s not a rerun so that might persist into the new year. Also, I did put down Naruto for stating over. Id be genuinely shocked if they manage to nail down Daima and MHA at same time. Even more so since Lazarus just dropped another key visual, further cementing my expectations of a Feb-March premier. That would drop MHA down to 1a for half its run, something I don’t expect them to want to do. Toonami does not need to add more time just to be half reruns. I recall not long ago I was treated as insane and unreasonable for expecting them to pay money for anything beyond 2am. Now it’s openly suggested they pay money for 4am reruns which is downright silly. The only reason I even float this schedule as a possibility is because there should have been a Saturday schedule update today. However, if there was, and Sailor Moon or Naruto moved into the rerun section, that’s an unintentional confirmation that Rewind is dead, something they seem to not want to admit till the last possible moment. I really want to be wrong on this prediction, because it just sucks turbo ass. If it was up to me, I think January should be used as a reset, especially now that’s it’s confirmed there will be no more Rewind eating up the budget. 12 - Daima or MHA S7 12:30 - Mashle 1:00 - Blue Exorcist (swapping to S2 when canon content ends) 1:30 - another premier 2:00 - One Piece 2:30 - the one and only rerun New year, new budget, new shows. None of this side crap siphoning funds.

I expect this as well. Checkered Past gets a phase out period because it’s free to operate. Rewind was not extended that courtesy as it would cost money and be a harder pill to swallow after the block seemingly dodged the new years cuts. Here’s a January 4th schedule that I came up with in the shower and greatly fear 12 - Daima or MHA S7 12:30 - Mashle 1 - One Piece 1:30 - Blue Exorcist 2 - Sailor Moon (S1 ep 1) 2:30 - DBZ Kai 3 - Naruto (S1 ep 1) A sickening amount of reruns and long runners leaving very little flexibility to the schedule for the entire year. But very in line with how they have operated in the past to pinch pennies that will never be used to the block’s benefit.

I am enjoying myself basking in their tears. I’ll never understand why the Toonami audience specifically is so incapable of even the slightest bit of critical thinking. Even now, I have still seen a few fringe posts of people saying not to worry and that Rewind will be back at full power the following week. They just haven’t secured Sailor Moon R yet, trust the plan. While the Rewind team never cared to hide schedule updates, the Saturday team does, so I doubt we will get a peek of anything tomorrow night except for maybe a timeslot confirmation, since if we lose or gain time, it will be reflected in the blank schedule.

I consider outright cancelling it to be a plan. Now, as long as Saturday doesn’t becoming a dumping ground for those old shows no one was watching, we are looking good. Let the Kai license lapse and get that shit off of Saturdays and let’s have a good 2025. Now the question, will TOM give us a bang?

It’s in the hands of the real audience now rather than just paid shills. The fact paid shills could only hold it up to 67% should have been a red flag. As much as I’d love to see it, it’s too late to toss Demarco out and get someone new. If it gets to that point, AS would sooner just cut their losses and can the whole block. But I agree, if the new norm is just 3 premiers (where one of them is eternally One Piece so really only 2), maybe it’s time for TOM to sign off. That said, if Toonami does end, that’s the end of the road for anime on AS. Yea, it doesn’t NEED Toonami to air, but the reason Toonami sucks is they can’t consistently get anime, or I guess in Demarco’s case, won’t settle for B shows. So there isn’t even a point in getting any without Toonami.

On a scale of 1 to Joever, where are we at right now?

Smash success? Not really. But it needs to sync up with its internal predictions. If they were expecting 10-12 and it’s looking more like 5-6, that’s gonna be a problem. Maybe not enough of a problem to get him fired, but enough of one to take his keys to originals projects away.

I feel like if they do commit to cutting Rewind down to an hour, they won’t bother licensing anything else since they have pretty much already committed to cancelling the block later in the year. The block is already losing viewers due to the Kai marathons, once they announce a 50% reduction panic and acceptance will set in quick. Right now a lot of people are sticking with Rewind because they think Kai is running holiday marathons and the block will come back swinging in January. When that doesn’t happen, even more people will give up. And I don’t know, Sailor Moon is still one of the most popular anime franchises out there. I have a hard time believing that license is a negligible cost. If the old nostalgiabait garbage was that cheap, Saturday would have been filled to the brim with it years ago. But they have always had an aversion to the old stuff, and we have heard from Demarco in the past that just because a show is old doesn’t mean the price goes down.

Yea, this feels like a cautious test run for how Bob and Hank do in those hours. If by some bizarro reason those shows flop up there, if they kill Checkered Past entirely, it’s kinda hard to un-kill it. But if they do fine, they can retire the block by the spring. The Rewind plan will be interesting. A one hour block doesn’t even feel like it’s worth the effort, even if they put it on a DBZ autopilot. But I suppose if they don’t want the fanbase to bitch that they killed it, that’s the best route forward. Then in a few months actually cancel it and blame the decline in viewership.

In a better than expected result, Checkered Past will only be losing one hour to start, rather than being cut entirely. Do they think Rewind worth keeping around at 1 hour? Tune in Friday night to find out.

What gave you that idea? He has always been pretty open that he would gladly air more capeshit on the block, if it existed and was available to the block. For a long time, there just flat out wasn’t any. Now more is being made, but it’s all spoken for on exclusive services. The main thing Demarco hates most is heterosexual fanservice.

Like, strongly implied or full on flaming skeleton dong on full display?

TOM pretty clearly said that CC would be exclusive to Max. Could that change? Sure, but not 3 weeks later. The fact that we didn’t get Suicide Squad Isekai should be all the proof anyone needs that CC won’t be coming either.

No chance it will flop like that. Futurama has just kind of fallen off the wagon as far as rerun power goes. And this was not helped by the excessive use of the CC episodes and the movie episodes and their rerun cycle. Family Guy isn’t gonna have that problem. Family Guy is a ratings juggernaut, and it will be even stronger if AS gets the newer seasons they couldn’t air back in 2021.

Family Guy is back, you may as well permanently put those forward expansion dreams to rest. Both of those were ancient relics by the time they got dubbed. The news wasn’t that urgent. Daima is gonna still be airing in Japan if we do get it in January, they need the fanbase to know as early as they can possibly announce that they have it so people make plans to watch it with Toonami and not CR.

I’d be fine with them dropping the news Friday. Not perfect, but still a solid 1 month lead up to the potential airing.