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If they’re going that route I could see Toonami’s name enduring as a FAST channel on digital TV and a continuous branding for the action cartoons. “Toonami Presents.”

Mashle S2 1 Macross Plus the Movie.

As for Toonami, I think unless they want to keep the name around as a brand, the best thing they can do is try to wind down the block gracefully, especially if 2025 sees the beginning of efforts to wind down the Cartoon Network gracefully and divest it from Warner, debt and all. I think Toonami and Adult Swim are fascinating time capsule of the highs and lows of animation as a medium and how it is distributed, but no one can deny the sun is setting on the ideas DeMarco championed through his block. Late night appointment television, the idea of a “bespoke” action block containing things you could not find elsewhere, and DeMarco being the tastemaker. Crunchyroll passed 15 million registered users last year. Netflix stock is through the roof. Designer clothing brands sell hoodies with manga panels from Berserk on them. And I would be willing to guess that the average age of the Toonami viewer is skewing older and older, while any Toonami original that does break through the zeitgeist is breaking through thanks to Max viewership and/or piracy. And now we have the old guard faithful pondering their own ways to wind down since they clearly see the writing on the wall. Crunchyroll-hime has scored the TKO win over TOM and he oughta be pondering hanging up his gloves. You know, I remember DECADES ago (Christ I and this block are old) during the infamous Giant Robot Week debacle when ADV wrote a check Standards and Practices would NOT let them cash, that everything they were going to show would be uncensored. Everything was heavily censored and the Toonami faithful IMMEDIATELY ran defense for the block, telling “haters” to shut up and that if they wanted uncensored content, they could put on Nickelodeon and watch uncut Wild Thornberry’s (Smashing!). Nowadays people immediately go to the streamer and/or the pirate site to not only avoid censorship, but to watch things on their time. There wouldn’t be that loyalty to forgive them for such a debacle since they were the only game in town unless you wanted to pay hefty premiums for home video releases. So maybe it’s time to wind down the block and find new life as branding for adult action cartoons.

You’d figure between the Netflix show being a megahit, the anime viewership skyrocketing in the US (no thanks to Toonami unfortunately) and the freaking Thanksgiving Day parade balloon he’d be pretty happy with the franchise in the US.

Miss Goldenweek's being aged up.

You know, even if Toonami as a block dies, I'm curious if the name has enough value to be used for branding on Max.

Sakamoto Days 1 Kinnikuman Perfect Origin 12 - Invincible Fight Girl, but good.

Steak fillet, onions, mushrooms and sweet peppers sautéed in butter, and garlic bread.

More specifically, they moved onto union work. With the biggest anime dubber still being non-union, it takes union projects like this which hire pro wrestlers and established actors to get them to dub anime.

Nosferatu (2024) - 9/10. Focuses on atmosphere and tension, although it does indulge in a few jump scares, which I felt were a crutch for the much creepier atmospheric horror.

This show is the one bright spot in our horrible lineup and the real kicker is you can watch it elsewhere. Mash continues to prove that if there’s a wall, hit it. It will break.

Short rib beef adobo, mashed potatoes and salad.

Perfect is the enemy of good. In this case, instead of "mid", Toonami has -

Well, so much for Lazarus being ready. The start of the year is going to suck. At this point, the Rewind stuff is time-filler given the ass end of Saturday/Sunday morning it's on, not to mention that everything on the block, even the Flop Girl, is available elsewhere via streaming. Still, like any cook on a budget, DeMarco can't let a single part of the animal be wasted.

And the cherry on the sundae? …Mashle’s entire first season is now on Netflix.

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/most-popular-anime-series-and-movies-on-netflix-in-2024/ Why that doesn’t extend to Toonami viewership is another matter.

Here's the...surprisingly packed cast. https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2025/1/9/sakamoto-days-anime-final-trailer-english-dub-cast Featuring the live-action Blue Beetle, WWE wrestler Alexa Bliss, and a lot of names like Matthew Mercer.

Finished S1 of Mashle.

With Sony investing more money in the animoos, Netflix investing more, and even Disney investing more, I can see why Warner would be hedging their bets. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ces-sony-group-deepens-investments-anime-1236102709/ Even as Cartoon Network is in fewer and fewer homes, I can see why they might view Toonami as a value add for the brand, but unfortunately, that means DeMarco and his shit taste are along for the ride. They're not going to put the block out of its misery until Adult Swim and Cartoon Network itself mean more as branding on Max than they do as linear programming blocks. Otherwise, they're going to be leaving Sony or Amazon MGM the inevitable Jujutsu Kaisen movie.

Shenmue was arguably the best Toonami original to date, more screwed over by licensing nonsense than its story. I stand by that, I really liked it and wanted them to fix the dumpster fire that was Shenmue III.

So what is Crunchyroll’s non-DeMarco exclusive anime going to look like? Oh.

Filet mignon, cheddar bay biscuits, and salad with red wine. The nice “not in the snow” dinner.

Mashle 5-7.

Trust me when I say, at least the comic is not light on the action. There’s plenty of food porn and waxing poetic about good food and etiquette, but a guy dies in the first ten pages, violently may I add. From there there’s a lot of violence, gang warfare, and fight scenes.

The original novel is a culinary tale mixed with a crime drama while the prequel is a far more traditional yakuza story that just happens to have food as a central motif.