The1gairon

Toonami would never have done these HBO MAX deals if the pandemic never happened. DeMarco said in the Spring to expect a ton more reruns and marathons.

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I mean just get that CGI anime ninja Batman movie, if you're gonna shove it on Toonami!

And this is another thing that grinds my gears. Sucking HBO MAX is turning out to be a permanent thing Toonami has done, is doing, and will do for the foreseeable future, despite the irony of it all. When they ran Batman movies, I thought it was a one-time thing, but this announcment shows me it's gonna stick around. Yes. PLEASE tell me how great it is to abandon the one cable block that has basically kept me from ditching my sling.tv service. DOOooo tell!

I mean you have a point. Running a marathon on January 2nd, when the holiday is over, wouldn't be logical.

Well with the announcement of two Wonder Woman animated features running on the weekend before Christmas (because I guess most of the Toonami staff are Jewish people celebrating Hannukah), there will now be THREE different schedules instead of the usual rotation for three full weeks.

Good-bye, anime on Toonami in December. Good-bye you all.

It was only a matter of time. Their contract with the rights to Cowboy Bebop apparently lasts forever.

I am neutral-hesitant about this. I really have no GOOD emotion toward this news but I'm not panicking either. i do worry that this will mean committees won't have as many options ot choose from when licensing their anime to America, and also this may lead to layoffs and their services and products being more expensive.

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Legal issues?

GREAT PRETENDER 18-23

... I mean it's Marvel, and anime, and aimed at kids, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised places like Disney tried to license and translate it for American audiences.

You know you as a programming manager screwed up when the show airing at 1:30 AM, fourth in the block order, gets the highest ratings.

That was when Stan Lee was very gung ho about diving into the anime fandom by transforming his creations into anime in collaboration with legit anime studios. I mean he even executive produced two original anime IPs at that time.

... there was a fuckin dub of Disk Wars!??

AT&T is ruining Toonami.

GREAT PRETENDER 17

Because 1. Disk Wars is aimed at kids so he can't do any mature or sexual jokes 2. Japan doesn't have the same curse words as we do.

THey do, enough to include Deadpool in a Marvel anime