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Oh come on!

Seriously could they not spare one extra airing of Teen Titans in 2006 to run TMNT on Saturday Toonami after it lost favor with the Miguzi audience? I'm still mad.

Now this? THIS could legit kill Toonami, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Here's the scenario... Warner Bros. Studios and Max split off from the cable business entirely taking all the IPs and leaving the Cartoon Network under Discovery Networks with the scraps (if even that). A situation where every single program has to be sublicensed from the split off company. And most of the debt gets passed to the cable network company. You know how hard it is to get Warner to play nice with Adult Swim and Cartoon Network and charge out the nose for various WB productions. Imagine that but potentially 10 times worse and the network would have even less money to pay those hefty sublicensing fees with. At that point they're setting up the kids TV business to die drowning in the debt so that the studio and streaming business can dig itself out of the hole AT&T made. I can't even imagine how CN/AS will function if there's nothing they can air for "free" anymore (obviously royalties get paid for every airing but you know what I mean). A potentially positive outcome is if CN and Adult Swim (and Toonami with it) are split off from the rest of the cable networks and kept in the studio and streaming side. That would potentially mean they not only survive but they also get to use more WB programming. But even in that scenario they're setting up the linear network to bite the dust in favor of Max. If they value the linear network enough then maybe that could work out in Adult Swim's favor but the only cable networks Zaslav values are Discovery's lot, CNN and the channels that run sports (TNT/TBS). And here's hoping whatever the situation ends up being doesn't also kill TCM.

Man… that was not a schedule update worth anticipating. When I saw that I felt tremendous rage. Not only because it’s a needless marathon of an arc that already had a marathon but because they have the gall to keep August 10th a secret too. I’m going to give them a heaping helping of benefit of the doubt that they are trying to start Swordsmith Village on August 10th before Rickanime claims midnight but at this point I expect more stalling.

Forget Naruto x Batman. Give me One Piece x TMNT. But anyway this crossover seems decades overdue. I’ll never understand why CN didn’t pair TMNT 2003 with Naruto even once.

This is so idiotic. A panic move like this will only turn off the current viewers and not draw in enough to offset the loss. They should have left Naruto alone and trusted that sandwiching it between double Moon and Kai would be enough to get over a rough patch if it was having one. I think Sailor Moon can keep Rewind around if Kai does well enough but Naruto is likely to be late night filler on Saturday when Shippuden ends.

3am was tacked on for Kamui subs, they added 3:30 to double up Demon Slayer. Theoretically they could use 3am for dubbed Rickanime but they have two weeks before that would come into play. Maybe double Kamui to finish that sooner? More likely some Rick shorts.

I think in this case the Swimpedia Discord chat is looking at the AS backend schedule but I could be wrong.

The advanced schedule for August 3rd blanks out Toonami but it does show Primal at 3:30AM so unless that changes (and it certainly can) then Toonami is losing 3:30am but probably keeping 3am for now. What they intend to do with that slot for two weeks to keep it warm for an extra Rickanime encore is anyone's guess. Yes that's not confirmed but we all see it coming right?

It's from the AdultSwim.com internal schedule but it's reassuring to hear the correct episode is listed on DVR schedules. Does the DVR also have two episodes of Sailor Moon schedule for the 19th?

Hopefully an error that happened when they doubled up Sailor Moon and moved Naruto to 6pm and hopefully asking DeMarco about it on Bluesky (as I did) will fix it before July 19th. Otherwise, this is asinine and will only tick off people who are actually watching Naruto on Rewind. GREAT JOB PROGRAMMING AND/OR DEMARCO! The battle on the bridge is some peak Naruto and skipping it intentionally to get to Gaara or whatever sooner is a bad call.

Good for Andy! Poor guys needed a break. He was bit by a dog during an Amazon delivery recently which of course Amazon will do nothing about. This and What a Cartoon gets me more jazzed for this block than I have been for months. So that's something.

Yeah it should actually air before the wedding so I'd prefer they run it on August 3rd and the final 4 on August 10th but whatever. They should air it, you know... as a little treat.

It will not pay off. This will be a disaster or at least it would be if the ratings could get much lower. The dub and (probably) sub will be on Max on Friday so this might not even be premiere for the sub. Programming and/or DeMarco are off their rocker if they think this was the best way to air this show that is already a hard sell to Toonami viewers and Rick & Morty fans. And maybe WBD don’t even have much faith in it given they cheaped out on the dub and didn’t even use the current Rick & Morty voices. Needed the extra scratch for the pointless promotion tour I guess.

They really ought to do a 4 episode send-off for Shippuden. All the better if they got The Last from Viz. But AL is probably right that they will do a send-off for Shippuden on August 3rd and start Swordsmith Village on August 10th. That or they run a movie. No mention of Swordsmith Village airing on Toonami at either the Demon Slayer or Aniplex panels at AX doesn’t bode well for it airing soon. Thursday dub premieres and Saturday sub airings (it will probably already be available sub on Max by Friday) is quite possibly the worst way they could be rolling Rickanime out. It’s gonna be a disappointing turn out on Thursday and tank Toonami on Saturdays. And did you have Sentai dubbed Rick & Morty on your bingo cards? It was looking likely after Suikai’d Squad but I still can’t hardly believe they’re going that route with Rick & Morty. Seems like only the co-pros Maki is involved with are getting union dubs (though Fena wasn’t union).

I didn't even know HOW right I was.

Yeah that is a mixed message if ever there was one and the hashtag has people thinking CN went off the air.

I'm figuring either cheers or indifference. If it looks neat enough it will get some cheers.

The studio has been fused into Warner Bros. Animation and the CN Studios brand is little more than window dressing to identify some shows that started on CN. Essentially CNS is just like Hanna Barbera under Warner control. A library of old IPs to occasionally trot out for nostalgia or if someone has a "new spin" on them that the company approves of. The culture is gone and a sizable chunk of the jobs are gone and the people with them. The channel? It's a walking corpse being strung along by Adult Swim. With no vision and little purpose. So it might as well be dead but it's still on the air and probably will stay on the air for years to come.

It's a co-production for FUNimation now Crunchyroll. While FUNimation was willing to air it on Toonami (probably in hopes to expand the show's reach), Crunchyroll inheriting could shut down any future deals for it unless FUNimation built a long term renewable contract for it like Attack on Titan. David Productions is just an animation studio for hire they don't handle distribution like TMS and Aniplex. Somewhat related: based on the movie poster which completely omits Crunchyroll and SONY, TOHO International is releasing the next MHA movie themselves. Meanwhile the Demon Slayer trilogy does mention Crunchyroll and Sony on top of Aniplex.

Rooster Fighter is something. A co-pro that's an adaptation that isn't Uzumaki. Now all the press stuff omits it so clearly that wasn't supposed to be mentioned yet. No preview for Get Jiro is a bummer. Wonder what the crowd reaction will be to Invincible Fight Girl?

Crunchy is 100% in control of Fire Force unlike Demon Slayer (Aniplex) and Dr. Stone (TMS) sooooo I dunno about that one chief.

Well they might have come to their senses. Unless this means the dub is 2 to 4 eps behind the sub here. My friend theorizes that they might have had trouble captioning the ED and that caused a delay.

If neither MHA nor Swordsmith are August then they have plenty of room for both Rickanime and Suicedkai Squad but one of them has to double premiere to end by October. But I would be very surprised if WBD is letting Toonami premiere the dub outside of Asia. And if so, why the delay till August? There’s room as soon as Zom ends and the dub has at least 3 episodes finished now if not significantly more.

Pretty good so far. It’s unfortunate they cheaped out on the dub and went with Sentai like Ninja Kamui. Also unfortunate that the dub is not available outside of Asia (legally) which makes no dang sense. DeMarco’s name is in the producer credits but that’s hardly a guarantee it will air on Toonami. WBD making the dub exclusive to Adult Swim also seems very unlikely.