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Sailor Moon is probably doing the worst and they decided Lazarus subbed is a better use of the slot. Pretty sad TBH. I don’t think the contract just ends in the middle of July. Booting SM is much better than eating a premiere slot though.

Maybe just making up for taking Daima off 3 weeks after starting it. Timing won’t work out as well even a week later but if they could still be stalling for Hashira Training. There’s plenty of other possibilities but it’s also plenty likely they got caught with their pants down again or ran out of money after Bleach and DBD.

AoA Panel already happened. CR and GKIDS still have panels but I would not expect anything from those.

At this point I don't think they care that much about audience perception. Taking it off obviously works much better if they have a cheap show to throw on in the meantime but they could very sensibly just cut a time slot. Not like it would be surprising at all if they intentionally waited another week to say a show is joining on July 19th. They're so annoyingly allergic to giving out info more than two weeks in advance unless a distributor announces it at a convention. Speaking of which, AX is next weekend. Much to my chagrin (because I was at AX) Aniplex waited till SDCC to announce Swordsmith last year but Aniplex (or Viz or lol even Sentai) could confirm something at any of their panels next weekend. With the movie coming September 12th, I very much expect Hashira Traiing arc to start on July 19th. I suppose there would have been no harm in confirming Daima at midnight and Bleach at 12:30 if that was the plan but confirming Bleach for 1:30 would have been an awfully big clue Hashira is starting July 19th.

You did not just call Carol and Tuesday, Kids on the Slope and Space Dandy trash. They weren't hits but C&T and KotS are good and Dandy is the best thing he ever put his name on (I contend it's really more Shingo Natsume's show though). Terror in Resonance left me wanting but those other shows were fantastic by original anime standards. I don't even think Bebop and Champloo are his best works just his most popular by a wide margin. But as for this show, it's better than TiR but none of the others because it didn't use it's time well at all and basically never gave me a reason to feel for these characters even if I did ultimately like the group dynamic. You don't usually have to worry about a Watanabe show wasting episodes they tend to have some something worth showing or saying even if they don't move story forward but the side tracking in this show got frustrating and finding out they were so close all along makes it feel all the more pointless. There was world building more so for the sake of world building and nothing else. I also don't like the assassin side plot. It felt needless as soon as it was introduced. There were plenty of other ways to give Axel a good opponent and paint the military in a bad light. And of course they kinda tried to give him some sympathy at the end which was giving me Fena flashbacks.

Chisato busted up a tower better! Most of those are C's in my opinion and while I think overall this show is probably also a C that ending was oddly satisfying. It had possibly the best ending a Toonami original has had since IGPX, though Housing Complex might be in contention depending on if the massive info dump sat well with you or not. I'm just kinda baffled at that because this show dragged it's feet so much and I don't really think it lived up to it's potential at all but the ending worked for me despite that. They gave it finality but left it open to continue and that's rarely been executed well by a Toonami original. But I do think they didn't do a good job with explaining Skinner's motivations by the end and why would INSCOM wait so long to tie up their loose ends and not manage to track down Skinner at that homeless camp in all those years? Having all 5 of them being at the airport incident is corny but at least the Lazarus name finally makes sense.

Kim Manning will try for it at any rate. Meanwhile it works out perfectly for them to start Hashira Training Arc on Toonami on July 19th and finish 8 weeks later just before the first movie hits theaters in the US.

Promos for Daima and Bleach say they will return on July 19th but they don't say what time they will air.

They certainly don't need to only do marathons to take One Piece off for a night but if they have a marathon for Labor Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving that's 3 and they could take all of December off unless Rooster Fighter is playing at the time. That's 7 weeks but they still need 2 more pre-emptions. Here's another option though. Once One Piece finishes post arc Dressrosa and they could simply take One Piece off until some time next year. I'd rather they not do that but it handles any debt problem they might have because they will have aired exactly 49 episodes this year.

Yeah they will make room for a favorite even when they will end up taking it off two weeks after only airing 3 weeks… I will rationalize they save money to get certain shows and wait till past the breaking point to add something else. Even with that being the case they tend to save a little bit of budget for a cheaper show maybe once a year so I agree they should get one at the beginning of the year and hold it for an opening.

One Piece was doubled up for 13 weeks. I don’t think they will take it off for 10 more weeks this year but I guess we’ll see.

It would… but nothing at Annecy leads me to think MAWS S3 isn’t airing this Summer. If they show it off at SDCC in late July then maybe it airs this Fall but otherwise it’s probably airing sometime in 2026. Well taking 2 weeks off right after adding Daima is pretty stupid but on the bright side it gives the podcast a break.

Kuro asked him about Uzumaki and he deflected immediately. I expect no real answers for anything he’s either been told not to talk about or chooses not to talk about. In this kind of interview he’s just not gonna answer. Get him to a bar and he’ll spill then swear you to secrecy. Toonami isn’t really his job these days anymore but what are these hard ball questions you want answered? Maybe I can corner Gill or Kim at San Diego Comic Con and ask them at knife point.

I’d like to see him try Fry man

I need my co-hosts to respect the guests boundaries and Colt has not proven capable of that. His little fit on Twitter more than proves to me I made the right call.