Mr. Idea Box

Thanks, but my brain only has room for one or two DC Comics primates, and they're Gorilla Grodd and Detective Chimp. No disrespect to the show, but Mallah is a sincere oddity.

Maybe I need to catch up on DC Comics history, but... Why the gorilla?

Honestly, I'm more surprised the kept the Turner Program Services logo instead of the more widespread Turner logo. That surprised me.

An expansion to before Midnight, a Shippuden finale marathon, Suicide Squad subbed, and G Gundam being the mecha of choice? As much as I'd like to see these for the beginning of August, I have my doubts. I'd be one to enjoy adding the MHA Prelude to the schedule, and Witch From Mercury would turn a couple heads. Sounds like September 28th might be a burn-off night. Uzumaki getting both Subbed and Dubbed wouldn't surprise me, and if there's any month to get twice the Zom 100, it would be Halloween season. But seeing Housing Complex C air from 5-7 PM would be the ballsiest prediction you have thus far. Two new seasons of Demon Slayer in 2024 alone? Thousand Year Blood War? These would be major surprises. A five-hour Toonami Saturday block. What year is this, 1999? Looks like your prediction wouldn't have major gaps until Valentine's Day. Man, I wish Toonami had a lineup like this in the books for this year. Shows like Thousand Year Blood War and Witch From Mercury, more subbed anime like Suicide Squad Isekai and Rick and Morty: The Anime, an expanded block running from 11 PM to 4 AM, Toonami Rewind airing Housing Complex C. My inner self would love a schedule like this, while my more realistic outer persona would be just as amazed.

I thought we'd have to wait another week for next month's schedules. Judging by the general response, maybe pushing the July announcements a week in advance was a blessing in disguise. As for the programming in question, I'm just as gobsmacked as the rest of you. Dressrosa Two Piece at 12:30 AM? Double (or even triple) Demon Slayer? An all-night Superman marathon? Not a pretty picture. I hope August is an improvement over this, with 2-3 empty slots to fill, both Shippuden "premieres" and Kamui reruns winding down, and Toonami Rewind catching up to Saturday on DBZ Kai's episode count. In fact, I just hope Toonami Rewind doesn't become Saturday filler. As for this month? If I regularly watched Toonami, I would've slept through most of this.

I knew it.

I'll reserve my reaction for if/when we get a trailer for this. Right now, it just feels like the execs are trying everything they can to win back audiences. Does anyone remember Mao Mao?

Sure, Superman may be Metropolis's most eligible bachelor, but if the trailer is anything to go by, Jimmy Olsen might be the second.

I actually don't mind that MAWS has a third season on the way. At least Superman is getting something between this and the upcoming movie, rather than being overshadowed by Batman again. Whether Season 3 is going to be good, I can't say for certain. But dammit, the show gets results.

I like the idea of Safari Heist, but maybe it should just be an Adult Swim Smalls episode instead. I have a gut feeling that these characters would be the exact same if they were humans. Overall, if I wanted to support a new comedy by Genndy Tartakovsky, adult or otherwise, I'd just watch Fixed instead. And that movie's co-distributed by New Line, which is a WB division, so that says something about this here.

YES! With what passes for Adult Swim's comedy margin, this is great news.

Okay, so a boatload of WB announcements came in today at Annecy, with more presumably to come this week. Let's go over all the ones that happened this far into the event: New Adventure Time projects. From the reconfirmation of the movie in development, to a preschool series starring BMO, to a new series throwing back to the earlier seasons with an episodic nature, it looks like they really are banking on Adventure Time again. Revivals of Regular Show and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Regular Show seems to have its creator and tone intact, which I hope proves well. By contrast, Foster's Funtime for Imaginary Friends sees Bloo act as a teacher to new imaginary friends. At least Craig McCracken is back for this one, but I'm definitely too old for that. Go-Go Mystery Machine. If that name doesn't clue you in, pun intended, we're getting an anime-esque cartoon, if not an out-and-out SCOOBY-DOO ANIME. This has been on my list of properties to mine since Suicide Squad Isekai was announced, and I won't lie and say this wasn't one of my favorite reveals today. Original projects like Bad Karma and Lovey Dovey. Honestly, I'd rather watch one over the other, and the one which the plot centers around pigeons screwing what I assume to be a Big Bird expy won't be the one I watch. Gumball Season 7. From what I've heard, it's essentially the reverse of Moana 2, in which a movie is getting split into a series, rather than a series getting fused into a movie. Your guess is as good as mine on whether this does well. Primal Season 3 and Get Jiro. I'm excited about both of these, but I feel like Adult Swim has enough as is. Frankly, I'm going to presume Regular Show, Mystery Machine, and Lovey Dovey move to Adult Swim. Maybe even Adventure Time: Side Quests too, at this rate. But I'm glad they're still doing SOME things with the animation library they have.

On the bright side, this means Toonami has a slot free this Halloween for "we all know what".

Well, they gotta hype up their Cable 2.0 bundle somehow. An anime based on a DC Comics team headlined by Harley Quinn and The Joker would be the thing to whet shareholders' whistles. But the question remains: Dub or sub?

Asking this as calmly as I can, could you elaborate on why Toonami is full of kids shows?

If you think that's odd, Toonami wasn't the first place Tenchi was spotted in America. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQEH Yes, you're reading this correctly. A PBS affiliate aired the Tenchi dub before Toonami.

I mean, I originally thought of putting Yu Yu Hakusho on this list, even though Adult Swim was its original home. I'm glad someone agrees with me about that. But I'm also glad there are people on this site who try to prevent such gripings as well.

In light of recent rumors, I thought I should look back at Adult Swim's history and see if they've aired kids shows before. Turns out, they have. Rocky and Bullwinkle Tenchi Muyo Tenchi Universe The Ripping Friends The Popeye Show ToonHeads The Bob Clampett Show Cartoon Planet (1995) The Gary Coleman Show Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos Mr. T Saved by the Bell Pee-wee's Playhouse The Super Globetrotters Voltron Astro Boy (1963) Star Wars: The Clone Wars ThunderCats (2011) Sym-Bionic Titan IGPX Beware the Batman Samurai Jack Adventure Time Pelswick (Canadian exclusive) The Super Dave Osborne Show (Canadian exclusive) Unicorn: Warriors Eternal My Adventures with Superman Checkered Past shows Dexter's Laboratory Ed, Edd, n Eddy The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Courage the Cowardly Dog Grim and Evil Cow and Chicken I Am Weasel Evil Con Carne Sailor Moon OG Naruto Invincible Fight Girl (I hope not, but it's coming to Canada.) Granted, a lot of these had some reason to be here, such as: Adult Swim needed something to air between 5 and 6 in the morning. (Pee-wee's Playhouse, Mr. T, The Popeye Show, etc.) Toonami had to return with some American cartoons in 2012. (ThunderCats, Beware the Batman, Sym-Bionic Titan) Some of the Cartoon Cartoons got away with some nasty stuff. (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Billy and Mandy, Cow and Chicken, etc.) Time filler, but before the Fox reruns. (Adventure Time) John Kricfalusi (The Ripping Friends) Canadian requirements (Pelswick, Super Dave) Cartoon Network just doesn't air action these days (Unicorn, MAWS, Sailor Moon) Sure, Adult Swim has pushed its boundaries last year, but Invincible Fight Girl might be the straw that breaks the camel's back for me. Call me over-emotional, but that's my two cents. I dunno, man. I just hope MeTV Toons comes to my neck of the woods, because I shudder to think what the future holds for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim.

Honestly, you make a fine point about this.

Frankly, I don't know which is sadder: Adult Swim having another kids show on its block no thanks to Z*****, or Scavengers Reign being overshadowed by a prestigious anime of its own.

But why does this....make sense tho?

Coincidentally, DiC would later adapt the Sabrina sitcom into animation, complete with Nick Bakay reprising his role as Salem.

It's nearly June by now, and I'd like to see how well these predictions have fared: The expectation may have shifted to July at the earliest, but I still think MHA would be one of Toonami's premieres for 2024. If they're airing reruns of Entertainment District before November, I think it's safe to say we're getting more Demon Slayer on the block. Mashle would be a fun surprise, but I wouldn't count on it. Hulu picked up UU this year, and Disney's doing nothing with it. Maybe if they're desperate enough, they can put it on Disney X.D. or something. Eizouken might be a neat pickup, especially with Lycoris Recoil and Zom 100 getting slots since January. Who knows? If either of these two come back to Toonami, my money's on One Punch Man's return over Fire Force. Nothing changed here. Second verse, same as the first. I actually think Boruto might be more likely now, between Shippuden's finale, Naruto Classic coming to Toonami Rewind, and Boruto's own resurgence in the manga. Despite all this, I would give it a 2/10 at most. I hope so too, but who can say how that happens.

I know I'll watch the first night...afternoon....evening. Adult Swim's gotten weird lately. I think that's because of how much that show got away with, even by Cartoon Network standards. So it fits as a lead-in to Adult Swim in general.

I can bet you such an action figure doesn't exist. But I did laugh imagining such a concept. Thanks for that.