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I should probably take a break from doing this at some point, but considering that a thread only takes one minute on average to whip up, it's not really my loss for still doing it. Hey, at least someone will post a cute picture that means nothing to my self-worth in the process.

Actually, soon after I posted that, we got an announcement that Sentai is going to be simuldubbing stuff... err, they're called "dubcasts", since Funi owns the trademark for the basic term. It's kind of funny. I personally don't think that this'll impact whether or not more Sentai shows air on Toonami (since they already never do), but you never know.

I can disqualify it just because Aniplex never does simuldubs, unless they somehow outsource one to Funi. I think it's an underrated proposal, mostly since it would give some serious catharsis to people who were upset by Rick and Morty preempting anime last year. But I won't name anyone in particular.

They're not going to expand the block for that when Ghost in the Shell ends two weeks before. Everything should move down after Memorial Day. Speaking of which, if they preempt it for the April Fool's schedule, that would leave it with 8 episodes to air in seven normal weeks before the next holiday. They could rerun the original FLCL for six of them and then double up on GiTS for the last week just like with Bebop.

I have no idea where this date came from, so it's not official to me. Maybe the ANN writer made it up out of thin air. However, Ghost in the Shell does end the weekend before Memorial Day, so that would be the easiest show to replace.

Almost nobody expected that [adult swim] would preempt primetime for a second gag last year, so the risk of losing viewers was rational, albeit still rather overblown. You should cool it with the fearmongering for right now and just enjoy whatever funny shit ends up airing.

I don't think that's the implication at all. In fact, it might even bolster Re:Zero's chances, because it's a seinen and pretty deconstructive of the isekai tropes anime has been saturated with lately. More western cartoons on Toonami would be cool. I'm actually somewhat hoping for Children of Ether to show up, since the pilot Crunchyroll made showed some... uh, potential.

That could be interpreted in multiple ways, but maybe it refers to graphic content in a show. As in... children bleeding from their eyes?

Yeah, it is a good ED. Pat Metheny should've gotten more credit for that. I have a feeling Part 5 will use a song from the early 2000's as its ED, as they've generally trended towards the time the show is set (and Vento Aureo is an early 2000's thing)... but I also think a good potential choice would be "21st Century Schizoid Man", because it is a lengthy progressive rock song, and especially since the main villain's stand is literally named King Crimson. And with the sociopolitical lyrics that could reference anything happening in the show, what more could you want? [partitions: ambient intro/first two verses, long middle solo, and the last verse/ending]

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Actually, the KLK announcement was in January 2015. Hellsing had been over for a month by that point.

Maybe it'd just be better if the show had no gay characters at all... since you have annoyingly high standards regarding them. Alternatively, there's a good gay character but the show does a mean-spirited parody of Vegeta. That's how I'd expect things to shake out.

Yeah, I definitely sympathize with all who thought the "Seven" were underused as villains. Only one of them ever got any character development, and that was only for her to be killed off at the end of the episode.

Yeah, even if the wording of "finish out the arc" means they're going to restart Bebop in April (I don't think they would outside of trolling), it's not going to air for an hour, even on the April Fool's schedule. They must have something ready to replace either it or Outlaw Star.

I would recommend putting the episode number in here somewhere.

Oh boy... it's been one of those days, I think.

It figures how it took until a historic upset happened for this thread to become active. And this thing wasn't even close. A two- or three-point upset would've been enough, but why not go for twenty? I did pick UVA to win it all, but... yeah. Villanova winning their second in three years probably would've been a better look.

Huh... those offenses don't sound like MA material to be. Maybe you just put them up here considering that the show is already at the level on violence alone. The iDOLM@STER Episode 19: "Like the Moon, That Disappears Behind Clouds"

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That doesn't guarantee it'll stay there. And truth be told, I can't see how Re:Zero could air in the first half of the block without moving stuff down. I would say that Toonami isn't going to expand again just four months after the last time, but they have surprised me multiple times in the past, so I guess it could be the case. But I do think Dandy at 2:00 will be just a one-time thing.

Make that two of us... at least.

Y... you know, I somehow never managed to realize that until now. So we could potentially get Re:Zero and my prior snap judgment pick of The Big O in HD at the same time. Or they could shorten the block by a half-hour.

Fucking finally. It's going to be awkward for Space Dandy to air one episode at 2:00, and then maybe get preempted followed by probably moving back down when Re:Zero the new show premieres, but there's really no other option.