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I do believe Bleach ep 40 airs on March 7th finishing the 3rd cour. Also that night RAMTA finishes it's rerun cycle. So that's an opening for both dub and sub and Primal would shift to 12:30 for the last two episodes. This makes for a nice birthday present for Toonami and perhaps Dan Da Dan will resume when Primal ends.

Okay but like what are they even gonna do? An animated series featuring wrestlers from AEW? Are we getting something like Hulk Hogan's Rock and Roll Wrestling for adults?

That's pretty neat that the guy who used to run Development Meeting is now head of development. I look forward to seeing what he brings to the table in his new position. Obviously they are taking steps to prepare for the split. With Warner taking all the existing IPs, Adult Swim will have to produce some new ones under Discovery Global. It's certainly a tough spot to be in but perhaps that will lead to some creative solutions.

This is long overdue but the time frame should be 7pm-9pm or even 8pm-10pm because 5-7pm is a time the audience for this probably won't be tuning in, especially if they're west coast when it would be 2-4pm. Toonami Rewind and Checkered Past both proved 5-7pm doesn't work for targeting young adults. Granted it being on YouTube makes it so they can tune in anywhere but unless it's just background noise or they're taking public transportation it's not a good idea to give people something to watch when they're driving home from work. I think they should have these streams as an alternative to Bob's Burgers and Family Guy. A little variety for people who actually care about variety. Currently it is up against an hour of Bob's Burgers but it really should be streaming after 7pm or at least after 6pm.

Thankfully the PNG Blue Lock doesn't happen until season 2 and from what I recall season 1 was a very solid production. Season 1 is 24 episodes as well. Both these shows will run 24 episodes before 2nd seasons become a factor. And who can say if Toonami can get more Tokyo Revengers when Hulu has everything after season 1. Maybe they can do another deal where they don't have VODs like with Bleach. I likewise don't see this as a solid sign the CR blockade is over. Probably nothing short of Jujutsu Kaisen getting added or My Hero Academia coming back will convince me otherwise. I very much doubt that Kodansha being the publisher for both these series that are joining right now is merely a coincidence. And if Kodansha is the bridge that could be what gets Fire Force back. I'm still holding out a bit of hope that TMS will bring Dr. Stone back to Toonami once it's over. Unfortunately Toho seems to be no help at all with MHA among other things. Also regarding Blue Lock and Tokyo Revengers, both these shows are shounen but they're at least not traditional battle shounen and that helps Toonami feel less monotonous. A sports anime and a time travel suspense thriller respectively. Still wish they'd run a seinin more often but this is decent compromise to loading the block up with battle shounen.

Very interesting and unexpected picks… They’re both CR licenses but I feel like they got a package deal for these through Kodansha. That’s quite a coincidence otherwise. Hulu has season 2 onwards for Tokyo Revengers so who knows if that will be a road block if Kodansha is the bridge. Both are good shows and Blue Lock is pretty popular despite the animation issues in season 2. Didn’t think we would see another sports anime on Toonami. Putting Blue Lock ahead of the slightly more traditional action thriller is a bit surprising but it is arguably the more relevant of the two. I guess Blue Night will wait and they’re probably saving Dan Da Dan for when Bleach vacates 12:30am.

One of my co-workers apparently knows someone who is working on that ReBoot remaster. Small world as they say.

I wasn't gonna dip again after getting the 4K with the old dubs but a friend was kind enough to rip the new dub audio for me and I'm sure this will be my preferred way to rewatching the movie now.

Aaaaaaaand it’s Primal, everything before 2:30 shifts down.

And they don’t seem to be dubbing it. Interesting enough first ep so I’ll keep watching.

11:30pm Primal would be before Toonami so they don't have to make bumpers or anything or expand Toonami for it.

It was a really neat project. Honestly great to see Adult Swim throw money at something like this.

Looks like the Dan Da Dan ep that’s airing on January 3rd isn’t ep 9 but rather ep 11. So I think it’s safe to expect Primal encores to start on January 17th and Dan Da Dan will be off the block until after Mashle finishes on January 31st. I won’t rule out the possibility they just want to start Dan Da Dan season 2 three weeks sooner but if that’s the case why not just start on January 3rd? It would however be pretty great if Primal was at 11:30 and both it and Dan Da Dan season 2 started on January 17th.

We don't exactly know how well Ninja Kamui would do on Netflix. Despite it's reputation for shitting the bed after episode 5 it did pretty well for itself on Max and theoretically would have done very well on Netflix and maybe still would if it was thrown on there now.

Kamui has a 7/10 on iMDB and RoR has a 6.6/10. RoR does have a better MAL ranking but both are sub 7/10 there. RoR might be more popular but to say it dwarf's Kamui popularity seems inaccurate. There's certainly Netflix anime that do dwarf Kamui's popularity though but also many that are much less known or even more infamous than Kamui became by the end. Netflix is always throwing basically whatever they can onto their platform so I don't think they'd cancel Ninja Kamui's second or third season given it's cheap enough to produce.