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The OP ep airing on 10/18 will be the 51st ep to air this year and the 3rd ep of the 4 ep filler arc after Dressrosa. They probably will air 52-60 eps this year which either means they start Zou and can double it up a few weeks or they have one ep left in November. However if they had just 1 ep left in this year’s deal then it would make more sense to air that on 10/18 instead of doubling up Blue Exorcist. So that also has me leaning toward more than 52 eps airing this year. But I won’t also rule out the possibility that before 10/18 they will pull OP from the schedule and they merely miscounted. Kinda surprised they aren’t stalling with Daima or Bleach and I’m somewhat hopeful Mashle or another cheaper show will start in November. Bleach probably moves up again when Daima ends and they stick Daima reruns in the back. i was kinda expecting a Dan Da Dan marathon on 10/18 but the first Saturday of November makes for a better night to do that due to the extra hour. So maybe that’s what they have in mind for November 1st on Halloween weekend.

Fixed was a passion project and Sony did not really want it in the end.

I swear everyone wants to own Warner except the people who currently own it.

Channing Tatum put in the work. I won't say he's on par with the seasoned VAs in this dub but he didn't phone it in. I flet like he fit Keizo pretty well. Lucien Dodge absolutely stole the show as Akusaka but the raw emotion from Zach Agular was the best he's done yet as Tanjiro IMO and Aleks Le as locked in Zenitsu was pretty great too. I honestly don't know how well these would work as episodes so it was probably better they did films. It did feel long though. I kept wondering where they were gonna pause. Demon Slayer's tendencies to shove the backstories of demons into their dying moments or in the middle of their final fights doesn't always feel satisfactory. Doma's back story and upper sixth's just kinda dragged things out while oddly enough Akasuka's backstory while being significantly longer felt much more worth seeing. I guess that's the difference between demons with personalities that are interesting and demons that lack personality. A whole bunch of revenge was going on in these fights but only one felt like it mattered in the slightest. Despite how long this was it also feels like they probably should have kept more of the lead in sequence of the slayers attacking Muzan before they started falling into the infinity castle. It feels really abrupt as it is. As an aside, I recently started reading the manga of Demon Slayer and boy does it give off a way different vibe than the anime. It's not just because of the animation either. I feel the anime staff put a lot more oomph into the dialogue and everything feels much more grandiose. I was surprised by how different the anime and manga feel compared to say Naruto or One Piece which feel pretty much the same as their counterparts despite extended scenes and annoying filler.

For the record, I asked the guys on the video about this and they clarified that the anime snobs that the rest of the network didn't like were gone by 2012 when the block was revived. So that is to say Jason, Gill, Kim Manning, the video editors and the sound designer that worked on Toonami since 2012 (and during the CN eras) were not among the anime snobs that was rubbing other creatives the wrong way. One can only wonder where these disliked people even found work elsewhere. I'm inclined to think Sean Akins also wasn't among the problematic people given he went on to develop the You Are Here block and stayed with the CN side longer than Jason and Gill did. Not sure when he left but he was gone by 2012, maybe he left around 2011. Through past conversations, Q&As and interviews we have heard the Toonami crew fought to get PPG and Samurai Jack onto the block when the network wanted to keep them off of Toonami. Though they could be the exception besides other works from Genndy, Craig or other well regarded cartoonists. Considering there was a time when Toonami filled a lot of hours on CN between afternoons, late night and Saturdays morning/afternoon blocks there probably was a time when the people working on it thought they were hot shit. You would think the drastic cut backs in 2003 and eventually 2004 would have humbled them but I wouldn't be surprised if Naruto becoming a golden boy inflated those egos again but it wasn't sustainable with so many anime failing to meet expectations at the time.

Bull confessing his true feelings to Honey as he takes it up the ass to protect her virginity from Sterling is certainly... uh... something. The journey was a lot more entertaining than the destination IMO. I'm pretty critical of Genndy's track record as of late and I thought this was a good time and quite a bit better than his prior attempts at writing relationships and romance. Most of all it's a fun buddy comedy.

I'm guessing you didn't watch Fixed. I mean it's not about dog schlong it's about dog testicles. Really it's the animated equivalent to 40 Year Old Virgin and you have to admit if nothing else that's novel for animation even today. And it's not playing safe with something like Family Guy or Rick & Morty and it's tremendously better done than Sausage Party. Much better visual gags and much better dialogue. Genndy certainly understands dogs and funny things about their behavior and leans hard into that.

Yeah probably

Generally mergers aren't a good thing for the workers of either company and I don't want to diminish that but... hard to imagine Sky Mount will run things worse than Zaslav and Casey Blows

Man he flat out said nobody but DIsney is making kids cartoons now... Yet another Genndy project that he slowly cooked for decades, he originally pitched the movie in 2008 and obviously the industry wasn't ready for that yet but the Sony exec at the time did like it but they got promoted and the next person didn't. Can you IMAGINE if this came out in 2010?

They were in the same dang company when Toonami tried to get Mob season 2. That was also when CR priced Toonami out of JJK, Shield Hero and KonoSuba (allegedly). He really wasn’t throwing CR under the bus until after Sony bought CR but CR was always difficult to work with even before Sony. And unfortunately that merger pushed all those attributes to FUNimation now under the same leadership. DeMarco certainly didn’t help but by the time he was public in his frustrations with CR that relationship was probably already burned by CR first. Like really what did he say that was so egregious besides “we would have promoted G Witch if we got it” and “they priced us out of X show”. It feels like CR management have always had a grudge against Toonami (and probably hated sharing originals with Toonami) and I really don’t think it’s because of DeMarco or anyone else that has worked on the block. We don’t even know if AXS got MHA from CR or if Toho controls the TV rights now. Fate is under Aniplex. The crypto bros might have gone directly to the Japanese companies. It would explain why they don’t have translated credits even though they exist for at least MHA.

They confirmed Spring 2026 which would be April-June for the anime Spring season but did they confirm April specifically?

You mean besides two more seasons of Ninja Kamui? Also they’re showing the first dubbed ep in October? I guess an early 2026 launch is feasible.

Mashle would be acceptable and I would welcome it.

Looks like Bleach is sticking around for part 2 of the Thousand-Year Blood War as well. Seems like Toonami is pretty well stocked until Daima ends in mid-November and there's a non-zero chance they actually will roll right into the 2nd cour of Dan Da Dan when the first cour ends. They should just stop being cowards and give Futurama Toonami bumps.