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The whole panel is up? Awesome! I missed it because the line was insane.

This split would almost be good (besides the loss of jobs and projects) if AS/CN (and by extension Boomerang) and TCM were on the WB side with HBO. As it stands they feel like two islands in a sea of unscripted TV shows under the Discovery banner. Nothing much will change for Adult Swim because they mostly rely on Disney owned shows anyway and I don’t think they will lose R&M, the president spin-off, Smiling Friends or any other original series that does well for AS. I would not rule out HBO Max taking some or all of those away but they’re probably sticking with AS for a while yet. But now the network won’t own the rights to those shows and have to pay for the privilege of showing them. They can develop new IP for the network and on the AS side that probably will happen but the CN side? Not dang likely. Meanwhile WB will make shows for HBO Max or any streamer willing to pay the most. This could lead to interesting acquisitions for AS and maybe even some for CN if they even care to do that. Or CN will just air whatever WB catalog shows that are affordable enough and maybe WB won’t price them out of Gumball, Adventure Time and Regular Show reruns. Somewhat ironically TTG a WBA show itself is probably gonna stay on the network and even keep premiering episodes there. Its not all that different than when Turner was largely autonomous under AOL Time Warner but back then Turner had plenty of operating cash they pumped into CN and I don’t see Discovery’s regime doing that for a number of reasons. Honestly I don’t know why they don’t just kill CN outright. Maybe they’ll finally kill it now if it becomes too expensive to air library titles on it. But AS will probably be fine and Toonami by extension will stick around but Rooster Fighter might be the last anime co-pro besides more Ninja Kamui.

The night of new might maybe have the Rooster clip played at AX. It was like half the first episode. Maybe they will show something from Ninja Kamui season 2 but I wouldn’t expect much.

It does takes balls to both get it and air it given some of the content but it's Adult Swim so it shouldn't require edits. Would it really tick them off that Toonami got DDD now when it was already on Hulu and Netflix which are much bigger threats to CR's business? I suppose they would still be annoyed Toonami got anything hot thinking they could keep the block in destitute due to CR's monopoly of the industry. You'd think if anything they'd be mad that Aniplex still makes deals with Adult Swim seeing as that's a sister company. Yeah I get it, getting a dub a few weeks to a month after streaming isn't in the cards anymore but that's exactly why we'd all rather see something that isn't already popular right? Something Toonami could actually introduce to people? A few popular shows is good and arguably necessary but not when it's all they go after. But I will say getting DDD within a year is much better than say getting JJK or Spy x Family now. We absolutely should be satisfied with Toonami getting a show less than a year after it streamed. So when I see people say "why bother with Daima now?" when it hasn't even been a year I'm roll my eyes. I'm not saying getting Daima and DDD is pointless, I'm just not as excited about them as I would have been 3-6 months ago. Business is complicated and I don't want to just assume CR is being THAT petty but if MHA showing up on Anime dot com's block and a bunch of CR shows going to Hulu and Netflix doesn't say Toonami is the only venue they don't want to do business with I'm not sure what more would prove it besides them flat out saying it on the record. Though I did once talk to some CR reps at AX who were complaining about Hulu (mainly about how they weren't promoting anime) and when I brought up the suggestion to get Yu Yu Hakusho and Outlaw Star onto Toonami Rewind they didn't exactly seem enthused. Might mean nothing because they were just marketing people but it's kinda sus nonetheless. Meanwhile in Latin America CR is loading up Adult Swim with Freiren, Spy x Family, Haikyuu!, Apothicary Diaries, Black Clover and more of their big titles and I think they're also putting those shows on HBO Max. Quite a stark contrast. True, ratings mean basically nothing now so the focus should be on putting on the best shows they can. I just can't help but be less excited about shows that are already hits coming along no matter how good they are, especially if I already watched them once or more times. I think the Toonami audience will enjoy DDD a lot so that's great but now the most worthwhile part of Toonami for me is 1AM-2AM whereas before Daima I was locked in 12AM-1:30AM. Daima is fun but I don't really feel like watching much of it again. Also the guy I usually watched Toonami with will want watch Daima but probably not rewatch DDD to get to Bleach. So while this lineup is arguably better I'm both less inclined to watch it and less inclined to talk about the shows on the podcast but feel somewhat obligated to do both. Despite all that I am happy Toonami didn't miss out on Dan Da Dan and I like to see them prove to CR that they don't even need them to put on a great block. IMO they should talk to Hulu about getting the TV rights to a bunch of their anime licenses which would be another stab at CR. And if they could get a deal going with Sentai for 1 or 2 simuldubs acquired a year that would be fantastic.

CR didn’t have it exclusively so they probably don’t care just like they flat out told staff not to promote it because it wasn’t exclusive. Not sure if Toonami went to GKIDS or MBS directly for this deal but either way new partnership unlocked! I’m more excited about that then DDD itself. It’s a great addition but I’m not that excited since it’s streamed 3 places already and was a same day dub for all 3. Imagine if Toonami could have joined the party last year. That would have been awesome. But nah it’s season 1 while everyone else gets season 2. People said it was too popular and expensive to get but I felt it was a matter of time because they don’t know when to give up and it was an open license deal. They probably just had to wait till it was more affordable and/or they could convince the licensors they would promote it correctly and be able to get all the necessary approvals for using clips in packaging. Which was something Jason went into detail on during our interview. The same interview where he name drops Dan Da Dan directly as something people have been asking for. Which would reasonably suggest they weren’t able to get it but clearly that is no longer the case. I guess we’ll see if people will watch it once a week on Toonami or immediately realize they can watch the rest on a service they already subscribe to. Seems like that already happened with Bleach.

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.

What’s this? CBR posted an article based on an interview I and Kuro did with Jason? Ya’ll should really listen to the audio. It’s on the podcast feed, SoundCloud.com/ToonamiFaithfulPodcast and here’s a YouTube link.

It's entirely possible this new Megas was only going to be available legally outside the US. Either way if I didn't despise Zaslav before I sure as hell do now. Nice to know buying it on iTunes counted for something.

This was inevitable once they got Family Guy back. I do appreciate that they ran the cartoon cartoon shorts and Cartoon Planet but it’s such a shame they didn’t have the balls to play Johnny Bravo besides the pilot. Hopefully these shows move back to Boomerang and maybe even daytime CN since they have abandoned kids audiences. I say make CKP a block on CN like it always should have been!

Sunrise / Bamco Pictures bringing back Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors is pretty wild. Why that? Why now? Who could say. Looks pretty neat though.

Okay, let's try this half hour sitcom thing again Adult Swim.