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Unless there's an explicit Sentairoll partnership, that's not going to happen. In fact, I wonder if CR even wants that, as there's a possibility another company might buy Sentai to get in on the anime game and cause them to split from VRV.

Simuldubs don't really work for a television block, as it's impossible to know if a show will be good based on how much is available. Sometimes, the first few episodes can be promising, but you ultimately end up with a bomb like Dimension W that you're embarrassed about but still have to air the last few episodes of. Even Adam West's Batman would scoff at this idea. I also want to say that Toonami doesn't need to air the freshest stuff in order to get good ratings. The shows can succeed based on if they're good and nothing else. That's how the [as] revival started off, and it eventually blossomed into the block we have today. Now they're getting Megalo Box, which will be airing its dub less than six nine months after the Japanese premiere... but it also happens to be a great show. That's got to account for something.

Ghost Hunt #1 Planet With #9 to #11 Ajin: Demi-Human #1

I agree, albeit for personal reasons. Considering how early some of the premieres air now, I'd love to be able to watch them at a more typical time via a repeating block, and without needing a DVR.

If you're going to go that far, you might as well air actual porn.

Could [New Life+] Young Again in Another World be coming to Toonami? [no]

It always sucks when a dude dies of a preventable cause. My condolences to his friends and family. Although, and this is just something I'm pointing out, it feels odd whenever we point out whenever there are multiple famous people deaths in a short period of time. I guess the events of 2016 made us all more sensitive to this. At least the other seiyuu died at 83, and of natural causes.

Believe it or not, this rerun held DB Super better than any of the three episodes that premiered after it. That's probably due to that show having lower ratings this week, but it's worth mentioning. The first two hours were much weaker (except for DBZ Kai, somehow), and the back stretch utterly collapsed. It's crazy to see a rerun getting a five-digit total for A18-49s. This could be the new normal, but I think the numbers will snap back when Mob premieres this weekend.

Wow.

Bang Zoom! reportedly had a bad time with DRRR!'s simuldub, and they haven't done any others since. California seems to be cursed regarding this idea.

Hot damn! This is a great announcement. I can't wait for the great animation in this show to wash over us and make everything trippy. The fact that they're announcing a show for next week means they definitely went down to the wire on this one. And it's quite the surprise, as I assumed nothing new was coming until Megalo Box. Heck, there's still a chance we could get another new show after Attack on Titan takes a break, which would make this last part of the year even sweeter.

So it looks like we have no indication of whether this rerun will continue past tonight. Personally, and I think I'm in the majority on this, but I don't see Toonami removing it. It'll stay until after Thanksgiving for easier show slotting, and next week, they'll remove an episode of Samurai Jack and move stuff down to compensate.

No matter which season you prefer, your opinion is perfectly okay to have. I think it's obvious that Alternative is liked better despite being less popular on MAL. By the time it premiered, the hype for new FLCL was straight gone due to Progressive being a disappointment. But would both seasons be better received if Alternative had aired first? I'm actually not sure. On one hand, it's a more character-driven series, oozes with personality and style, and has a much better climax. On the other, the lack of references to the FLCL mythos and reliance on SoL antics would've bored many, and it also has inferior animation. And then having Progressive be the second series would've lead to a weaker ending to the franchise as a whole, and I feel just as many would be pissed off and disinterested in that case. All in all, we got one new series that was somewhat decent and another that was genuinely good. As someone who had no expectations going into either of them, I'm satisfied.

To put it simply, Ben still going at it on the Animegate thread made me mad. I posted to wonder why, even though the reason should be obvious to anyone who's been on these boards for a while. I then recanted it almost immediately and then wondered if I was starting to fall off my perch as one of the only sane (well, most sane) people on the boards, so I asked for a three-day ban from the mods when reporting my post. It's over now, so this ain't a big deal.

Well, I'm now back on the forums after exiling myself for three days. I said it was for a mental health break, but the ostensible reason was because I was posting in various threads out of impulse and then quickly asking for them to be removed. I'm surprised the mods didn't get annoyed at that after a while and ban me anyway. Regardless of a deep-seated psychosis that comes and goes at random, I might pop in the Toonami folder tonight during JoJo's, but otherwise, I'll just post in here tomorrow afternoon.

Moving the Alternative rerun to a later slot would cause ratings instability, and the Toonami crew doesn't want that less than a month after shuffling much of the block around. Additionally, Progressive's rerun went the whole six weeks without being removed, so it must not have been a particular threat to the rest of the lineup. We're probably at a point where every world premiere will get another run right after it finishes, so there's no use in complaining. The situation with AoT S3, regardless of if it took Jason off guard, shouldn't affect where or when Megalo Box airs. They can just replace the former with a brand new show come December, maybe even on the same day the latter premieres. Sketch has theorized about this and posted his thoughts as of late. I'd love to know what the deal is with Toonami's wording, since they called MB their "newest show" while their other post implied that they wanted to have a new one ready to go when Alternative ended. Maybe these semantics are referring to "newest show" based on when they get announced. If they actually have something new coming and it was delayed, and it's wasn't Scavengers Reign, it's likely an acquired show from Funimation. For whatever reason, they like to announce the Funi pickups very soon (usually between 2 and 3 weeks) before airing, but ones from other companies will be announced more ahead of time. Both Sentai shows were known months in advance, all of Aniplex's got announced at least a month before, and even the direct-from-Japan acquisitions like Lupin Part IV and the Gundams have gotten a few weeks' worth of leeway. Viz has been all over the place, going back to when HxH was announced just 15 days from its premiere, but their more recent show announcements have come early, including that for Megalo Box. I'm not even getting into what would happen if the new Scavengers episode is what's holding stuff up, largely because I can't comprehend that. But what I'm really curious about above all else is why they thought they could wait until just six days out to announce that they were getting a new show to begin with, and that it was delayed. Does DeMarco want to go back to the "good old days" when you didn't know a show was airing until the week before it premiered? He tried to do that early on in the [as] Toonami's history with Soul Eater, but external schedules spoiled it. At least he's found a roundabout way to try and pull it off, but I'm not crazy about it.

We now have an updated schedule for 10/20, but the 27th is still mostly empty. Does this mean they're scheduling the block one week at a time right now? I've never seen anything like this in all my years of watching Toonami. For that matter, they could be deciding whether or not to do a marathon for Halloween. If not originally planned, it would help them buy more time.

Planet With #6 to #8 [this night wounds time]

Especially since there's no better way for Megalo Box to be slotted. Although, but I might be reading too much into this... the way they announce the rerun of Alternative implies that they're only rerunning the first episode for now, and this is a temporary schedule. Maybe they'll get the new show in very soon and things will change again; the doubling up of Jack corroborates this, although changing that is the other way they could mix things up.

Doing a parody of a certain show has no correlation with anything, including broadcast rights.

The unique set of circumstances the first series was made under might never be matched. You had a group of world-class animators emotionally drained by working on End of Evangelion who just so happened to have a lavish OVA-sized budget to test some new animation equipment with. If you force someone to come up with something even half as creative, you're not going to win. Although, maybe something involving the staff of the final Rebuild movie could've been more fruitful, at least if Studio Khara were to work out a truce with Production I.G. to do it. They could've demanded something to appeal to American audiences, but I doubt it.

I did catch up on FLCL Alternative in time for the finale, so I was able to watch it and decided that the series as a whole was pretty good. Here's a brief Twitter thread about it, since I'd rather not regurgitate my thoughts up here. The only other show I'm currently caught up on is JoJo's, so I watched that yesterday. And now, some thoughts on the entire season thus far: The whole idea of the Stand Arrow is interesting. It was previously said that a person has to have a "fighting spirit" to wield a Stand, whereas this device can give anybody one, assuming they can survive the hit. Perhaps just getting hit by an arrow like that and not dying is enough fighting to warrant a Stand's creation. Since Enyaba originally possessed the bow and arrow, did she whack all of DIO's lackeys with it one by one to give them their own? For that matter, have any villains in the whole show naturally possessed Stands? The only one I assume has is DIO himself. When Jotaro told Josuke that it isn't possible for a Stand to bring back the dead, I feel like he only did that to shut him up. If not, the latter probably would've been moping for days on end, akin to Akame ga Kill!'s example with Tatsumi wanting to revive his friends with an Imperial Arms. But in that show, there was a finite number of weapons with certain abilities compared to a theoretically infinite number of Stand users, so it's possible we'll see one with an ability to reanimate the dead, even as an unintentional benefit, given enough time. It's possible Araki didn't use it by now because he thought it was too easy of a power to give, as there are quite a few Stands with abilities that can't be classified under simple tropes. It wasn't explained why the Nichimura brothers wore clothes with references to money until the show revealed their backstory. That was a nice touch. Those episodes had some really good horror direction. I'm sure Al enjoyed them for that reason, but I don't know if he's explicitly said so. I'm surprised the protagonists let Tamami work for them even though he was a tremendous asshole. Threatening Koichi's friends and family like he did puts him on par with Dan of Steel, and he suffered one of the most intense beatdowns in the entire series. At least his Stand offers an interesting power that I'm sure can be abused under pressure. Finally, I've been scouring the credits for any interesting seiyuu that were in the voice cast. It's irrelevant to the Toonami airing, but that doesn't mean it's not of personal use. So far, the only one to catch my eye is that Yuuki Kuwahara had a minor role as one of Yukako's classmates in one episode, and I think I already knew that. For what it's worth, this is my favorite show/franchise currently on Toonami, and DiU's quality increase in just about every department has only bolstered my feelings. I feel like I could discuss it for hours on end.

So why are they not labeling the next batch of episodes as Season 4? If you're taking a six-month break, and this was all planned ahead of time, they should be considered separate seasons. Heck, Overlord divvied up two different seasons between three months. I mean... son of a gun. At least Toonami has more than enough time to pick out a replacement for November-ish onward.

You know, this is a genuinely good point, and it's one I haven't seen expressed anywhere else. If they had combined the best ideas from Progressive and Alternative into one plot, and then expanded it out to a full cour, this sequel experiment might have been better. Here's the ANN review for the finale, and it does get a B. I agree with the reviewer's points, particularly about the finale deciding to go all out with an Akira cameo, of all things. I would take that even further: the fact that the finale effectively indulged on a bunch of anime-esque cliches like Kana achieving a super form, a hot-blooded rousing speech immediately after that, and then launching the characters into space is rather disappointing. The show ended on a shallow western parody of anime, which is very unfitting for a Japanese-made production. My expression was that Kana ended up creating a new world, or even an alternate universe, where she got to live a happier life, and maybe Haruko and/or Medical Mechanica don't exist so things can be normal for everyone. This was probably on Mars, as going into space wouldn't have a good reason otherwise. Haruko's situation is also interesting to think about. Maybe she was witnessing the events of the first FLCL as something she'll be a part of in another timeline?

Uh... my apologies. I thought that post was in the FLCL Alternative thread. My rage was directed towards someone apparently thinking the finale was filler. It is true that ANN gives out lower grades a lot of the time, but I could've been better about saying it.