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They are also encoring ep 1 on Thursday after some actual wrestling, which only makes sense

Good point about keeping people in the dark and forcing them to see the theatrical screenings on one of those days. Then theoretically they could announce the broadcast for November 23rd, November 30th or December 7th (or January) at the end of the screening.

I was told today that the Daima theatrical run is set to be just 3 days in one week. So November 16th on Toonami is plenty viable. This week is NYCC and Aniplex has a panel so if Demon Slayer is trucking onward on November 2nd or 11th we will hear about that there before the schedules post. You’d think if they had MHA S7 lined up that they would be able to announce that by now without issue since the dub is 2 eps away from finished on CR. Though I would not put it past CR to hold it at bay until after those last 2 eps are up.

Trimming is absolutely happening. They said it will be 21 episodes recut from the original amount (which is 58). That’s slightly more than a 3rd the original amount. I think at this point it’s more for the sake of being able to revisit the earlier arcs without all the bloat primarily for the existing audience. For new viewers there’s live action and WIT Piece. My statement about pacing was regarding newly adapted material like the next part of Egghead. But I suppose I should curb my expectations regarding that because Oda puts out less and less pages each year so Toei needed more of a buffer to compensate that or they’ll have to do less than a chapter per episode eventually. I shouldn’t expect them to suddenly be adapting 2-3 chapters per episode when things resume but 1.5-2 is pretty reasonable..

I dunno about replacing it with Daima exactly but they are now going to be behind Rewind so they might as well pull Kai off Saturday. And they decided to let One Piece air instead of prioritizing a rerun, which is how it should be.

Never thought I'd see the day but I welcome it with open arms for the sake of the pacing improving significantly. My one caveat is that it kinda sucks to do this in the middle of Egghead rather than before the arc started. I always dislike this kind of disruption mid-arc like they did in Bleach and Naruto Shippuden but it's a bit different this time because we're not getting a bunch of non-canon stuff out of nowhere. Fishman Island Kai wasn't on my bingo card but I like the prospect of cutting down that all that bloat from the original anime and they're going as far as to recomposite and recolor the whole thing and do new animation cuts. Seems like a lot of work, quite a lot more than Toei did for DBZ Kai. I'm salivating at the prospect of them doing this with Dressrosa or a trim down of Wano (obviously Wano alreadly looks great its just bloated) along with all the other post-time skip arcs. I'm all for them doing the same with Punk Hazard after they finish Egghead, that seems rather appropriate doesn't it? But if they don't remaster the living daylights out of Dressrosa that's a huge missed opportunity to make up for Toei's shoddy animation during that arc. If they alternate a new arc with a remastered arc that could essentially make One Piece a seasonal show. Though with the new time slot, its possible it will become seasonal even without remastering more arcs. And the decision to remaster Fishman Island and possibly other arcs after the time skip makes me a lot less concerned that The One Piece and Live Action One Piece will not make it to The New World and make Fishman Island, Punk Hazard, Zou, Whole Cake, especially Wano and Dressrosa more enjoyable to watch animated. One Piece fans are eating good. Anyone who whines about the main anime taking a break doesn't understand how good that will be for the anime pacing and the quality of the production overall.

I also want it to succeed and wish the premieres were on CN or at least at 7pm on Friday (probably will encore there though). Its stupid that they threw this to Adult Swim and I strongly doubt it will get renewed but here's hoping for a miracle.

They really shouldn't have tossed the Jack in the Box kid in at the end there, I know it's supposed to be a pay-off for the jump scare at the end of the 2nd episode but all he did was fall apart and then the scene was over. It was abrupt and pointless.

It's not episode 1 good but this was much better than episode 2. I can live with this if episode 4 is at least as decent as this one or better. This whole twisted town love Kirie it seems. Babies talking right out of the womb certainly was creepy, wanting to go back in is even creepier but the doctor performing a reverse c section? A very happy un-birthday.

They've given this a few different promos already. If they don't want it to succeed they sure are making it seem like they do.

We can't really base Toei's choices this time by what they did with Super because Super was when they were very stuck in their old ways and they didn't even simulcast the show in Japanese until the Goku Black arc. They're already doing something very unexpected by offering the dub in theaters a month after the Japanese broadcast starts. Given it's 3 episodes, that will put them just a few weeks behind the simulcast. They're also less than 30 episodes behind the sub with the dub of One Piece and that was unthinkable a few years ago. But it really depends on the show because most of the time they still wait a long time before dubbing things that aren't Dragon Ball or One Piece, even Digimon shows tend to take a while to get dubbed. Daima's dub is obviously a priority since the dub is already in production and I'm sure CR and other streamers would pay good money to get the dub on before next year and so would Adult Swim (even though they most likely can't outbid the streamers). It's a 20 episode show so it will lose it's luster much sooner than Super which ran 131 episodes and that also means the dub isn't nearly as much of a commitment and production delays shouldn't be a big concern either. And regardless of how well the screening does in theaters, they probably already have a finalized dub roll out set which will be announced soon (possibly during the theatrical premiere). Oh dang how cool would it be if at the end of theatrical screening they played a Toonami made promo announcing the show will start airing soon? That would be fantastic promotion! It would be more reasonable to expect Daima to air in January or even December (possibly without weeks off) but November 16th, 23rd and even 30th aren't out of the running just yet.

I suppose we should consider Toei wanting more than one week of Daima in theaters before a dub broadcast... but since they're showing 3 episodes in theaters maybe they're good with Toonami showing the first episode on November 16th or November 23rd. But on the other hand they may want to wait till December (easy enough just do a Thanksgiving marathon if there aren't enough premieres) or even January (yet more marathons at the end of the month and maybe double One Piece if they need a temporary fix). Hard to imagine Toei would make Crunchyroll wait until January to start streaming the dub exclusively (or shared with Hulu and/or Netflix) when it's already in production and has been for weeks. December maybe. It would sure suck if streamers got it in December and Toonami didn't till January or later but that's up to the whims of Toei.

HCC plays best as a marathon due to it's drawn out pacing in the first 2-3 episodes but it seems like they missed a good opportunity to run weekly on the same nights as Uzumaki. Since they were real boneheads and didn't run the dub on Toonami and forced people to wait till Thursday I'll say what they should have done was run the Uzumaki dub after One Piece and HCC on the same nights the sub episodes premiered. They could have done that for the entire month. Awkward as it might have been they could just run double MHA after those if they didn't want to disrupt that. BTW they're doing an Uzumaki dub marathon on Thursday October 31st. Makes sense to run it on Halloween night (even though it's not Halloween after 12am) but they could have ran the sub that night and the dub on Toonami to switch things up. I swear if they toss the dub of Uzumaki or worse the dub of RATAM on Toonami in November airing once a week I'm gonna flip some tables or something. I can definitely see them doing one or the other as filler if MHA is back in premieres and Demon Slayer stays in premieres but if Demon Slayer can rerun in the back then they don't need either of them to fill a slot. Cap the block at 3am except on the weeks when Demon Slayer runs long. But RATAM seems destined to fill a post 3AM slot on Saturday, it just doesn't have to be as part of Toonami.

It’s beyond asinine at this point to withhold the dub of Uzumaki from the Toonami faithful to this extent. 2.5 hours of subbed anime we just finished watching and probably don’t want to revisit because the production fell apart. Great idea programming! 👍🏻 It was so easy to play this off as a red carpet premiere of the dub for Toonami but they blew it. I will not put it past them to use the dub as filler in November to try to squeeze out one more airing of the dub this year. At any rate the decision to keep MHA on probably means season 7 is coming in November but there’s still 6 episodes to rerun in November before that. They can use DST to add at least 2 more without cutting into the pre-2:30 space but they might as well run 6 episodes either after One Piece or omit One Piece and DBZ Kai to make it a theme night with just IFG and MHA to promote MHA season 7. Alternatively if they plan to continue Demon Slayer into the next 8 episode arc then they could run IFG from 12am-1am followed by the long premiere of Demon Slayer’s Hashira Training arc and then either blow through 6 eps of MHA so it can also start season 7 on November 9th. I call that the “we can’t get Daima till 2025” scenario. Mainly because there’s no sense using 4 potential headliners simultaneously in the last two months of the year. Exceedingly better to save at least one for 2025, granted MHA and Daima both last about half a year so even if they both started in November they will still be headliner material till Spring. Starting Daima in November would be disruptive no matter how they do it, but that won’t likely deter them from airing it ASAP if Toei grants them dub premieres. Even if it means three weeks of strange schedules where current premieres get shifted around. DBZ Kai on Saturday will now be encores of the episode on Rewind. They should drop it from the Saturday block but they’re so short on good rerun options if MHA is back in premieres and/or Demon Slayer continues to the next arc. Sure would be nice to see IGPX season 2 but they just refuse to bring it back. So they’re probably keeping DBZ Kai on both blocks. I edited my builds to accommodate the announced Oct 26th schedule.

Thanks for catching that numbering error with Daima. Yeah it’s time to let Naruto get the extra episode for a bit in all fairness but honestly my reasoning was because the first season of Sailor Moon is 46 episodes and I’m not sure if they have more than that.

I love Beast Wars so I’m all about this!

It was at least relatively straightforward storytelling for once but hell if I understood it all.

The trailer wasn’t great though it did show off the animation well enough. I swear most modern trailers make me want to watch movies less than I did before seeing the trailer. Companies are just bad at hyping up their stuff these days. I’m still gonna go see it but I’m definitely less interested than I was prior to watching that trailer. I love Bauza’s Bugs and Daffy but his Porky is nowhere near as good as Bergan’s and that’s not doing the movie any favors. Also why the hell isn’t Marvin the Martian the antagonist? Bauza’s perfect as Marvin too. I really hope this doesn’t flop.

I made several builds with various options. Some with only two additions, some with three. None with a Thanksgiving marathon because I kinda feel like they wont take that week off with IFG starting in November but they certainly could. Plausible additions being MHA S7 with various catch-up methods before November 9th, Mashle (or sub in anything here they could possibly get from Aniplex or Sentai here), a not zero percent chance of Demon Slayer continuing into Hashira Training arc and finishing it before January and of course some chance for Dragon Ball Daima to pop in on November 16th (at the earliest) but because they started IFG on Nov 2nd and can't feasibly start Daima's long premiere until two weeks later, that one requires getting a bit more creative. I'd straight up just run two episodes of IFG for two weeks but according to press release there will usually be just one episode a week (I'm gonna say an hour finale is plenty likely still despite that). And I'm not too partial to the 3am slot so I don't think they need to keep it just for the sake of including another rerun. I've all but lost hope IGPX season 2 is ever going to air. Here's the link to my schedule builds. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hv-nyPzJYWQ2hAg6h-4295UM4CvevsJvXa9O8vkvmVE/edit?usp=sharing

Honestly if that does bomb they kind of have every reason to not only fire DeMarco but also to close down that anime and action animation long-form division entirely because who else are they gonna get to run it and why even have it? They can keep co-funding anime without it, the first Batman Ninja had nothing to do with DeMarco or that division of the WB Animation, the 2nd one and Suicide Squad Isekai were gonna happen without that division as well. I suppose they could wait to see how Rooster Fighter and Lazarus pan out and Ninja Kamui was a successful enough project but between underwhelming critics and not making any real money, the majority of DeMarco's co-pros are a bad enough track record already so failing with Lord of the Rings could easily be the last straw. Unfortunately for him, even if its a great movie, it will not likely have a great box office. Potentially enough to offset production and marketing but it would be unusual for a movie like this to do well in theaters.

Maybe in 2021 this was still true but it sure didn’t stay that way.

Like I said the only somewhat surprising thing is Toonami didn’t just get the encore. That was always in question.

One hour premiere on November 2nd on Toonami. I’ll say I’m at least a little surprised Toonami gets the premieres instead of Thursday. Probably will get encores Fridays at 7pm like Superman did. We know the first November show now.

Sounds like it's well into production. About half the episodes are animated out of the 10. He's excited for Common Side Effects. Fixed is complete and Sony is trying to find a distributor. His other movie at Sony is coming along. Man... Disney turned him down for making a super hero cartoon? WE COULD HAVE HAD PEAK MARVEL! Instead he worked on Iron Man 2's action storyboards and well... can't say it saved the movie at all. He also touched on Sym-Bionic Titan. Encouraging that he thinks there's a possibility to make more but discouraging that he admits the Netflix numbers weren't good enough to get companies interested in paying for more episodes.

I guess it was overly ambitious to believe every episode would look as nice as the first one did. The story is still compelling though.