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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.

They could theoretically do other stuff to open up 3am for subbed airings of Rickanime besides burning through the rerun of Entertainment District so here’s hoping that that (and maybe an expiring contract) isn’t the only reason. I’m leaning toward the reasoning that they couldn’t get MHA yet so they are airing Swordsmith Village and will try to circle back to MHA after that.

Believe me I'd prefer variety but it would still be a major improvement to have two big shows join now even if they're both shounen. Unfortunately most seinin aren't any Toonami's radar and there's not many that aren't licensed by CR or Netflix. Zom is a rare breed in that respect.

That's the ideal and MeTV Toons is about to prove its doable but I understand why its not that easy to pull off after years of CN having an identity crisis. They are under the false impression that CN can't be an all ages brand anymore and they are surely being pressured by advertisers to separate the demographics for ad-space even while kids ad-space is becoming less and less valuable to advertisers. By now I would think that kids ad-space is so worthless that making the network all ages and running general all ages advertisements from 6am-7pm would probably work fine. That's the direction the network seems to be going in based on which ads air during the shows. But they could have some blocks that specifically target kids with toy ads and such like network television used to do. The other factor is lack of content being made for the network outside of Adult Swim and they seem to be shifting CN Studios from a house of fresh ideas to a stagnate IP mine like Hanna Barbera under Warner's control. I hate to see it. Nothing with kids in mind is guaranteed for CN as long as Max is a thing. Despite the fact that Max can't seem to make kids content work for them either. So the kids side of the business is just a huge mess right now and doesn't look to be churning out much other than rehashes of prior series. If they have to divorce CN from Adult Swim for the network to have any good time slots for premieres then I say they should replace Boomerang with a 24/7 version of CN which targets kids until late night, let Adult Swim absorb all of CN and run it similar to Latin America Adult Swim where they fill the earlier hours with Checkered Past programming, and Toonami. Then its a nostalgia network and a adult focused network 24/7 like advertisers would probably want anyway.

They wouldn't be making an extra Toonami block if that were the case. And I don't think they're winding down CN, they're just running it incompetently because they don't know what to do with the CN side of the network.

You're being too picky if Demon Slayer and MHA airing back to back premieres in August or September isn't good enough. Shounen is Toonami's bread and butter besides originals. If we're denied MHA and/or Demon Slayer there's still hope for Dr. Stone if that airs in October in Japan but that's not starting till at least November. They could very well have been holding one or both back till August because they know they don't have budget for much else for the rest of the year. Preferably they also have an actual premiere to replace Shippuden with. Maybe something from Sentai, Aniplex or even the Viz backlog that isn't Boruto. Hell, maybe they finally can show Bleach: TYBW because it's been long enough. That won't solve the shounen-overload problem though. Now that DeMarco is actually aware of Urusei Yatsura's dub, maybe Toonami will finally air that but if they blew all their budget on MHA, Demon Slayer and are holding back for Dr. Stone then they might not be able to acquire anything else and the network's decision to build a nostalgia block over bolstering the main block looks that much more stupid.

They had better get something in August because if they don't then they're down to One Piece and reruns baring a true replacement for Shippuden. That's it. Optimistically we get some premires in the 12AM hour in August and we could have this in September once Shippuden leaves 12:00 AM - Rickanime 12:30 AM - MHA 1:00 AM - Demon Slayer 1:30 AM - One Piece 2:00 AM - One Piece / Reruns 2:30 AM - Reruns OR we could have this in September until who knows when 12:00 AM - Rickanime 12:30 AM - One Piece 1:00 AM - Toonami Rewind Rewind Possibly a combination of the two 12:00 AM - Rickanime 12:30 AM - MHA or Demon Slayer 1:00 AM - One Piece 1:30 AM - One Piece 2:00 AM - Toonami Rewind Rewind

I'd say show quality wise this is MARGINALLY better than September of 2023 (due to no FLCL Grunge) but it is less block premieres than even that because they're in no hurry to finish Shippuden sooner and won't double it up 1. Yeah it's either Swordsmith time in August or they're just looking to drop 3am after the Superman marathon or... they're pushing it out so they can slap Sailor Moon and/or Naruto on the back sooner than later 2. I would be very surprised if Rick & Morty the Anime isn't starting in August but I really hope we get either Demon Slayer or MHA block premieres that month as well 3. It's really starting to look like CR has completely blocked MHA and Toonami wasn't expecting that to happen, either that or they are pushing buffer out even further because what's Toonami gonna do refuse to air it if they don't get to do so in a timely fashion? HAH 4. Shippuden would have ended on August 20th now it will end on August 27th because of the Superman marathon and we'll probably be spared a Labor Day weekend marathon. It would be a nice send-off if they ran the last 3-4 episodes in a single night in August. 5. That COULD change the first weekend of August when Toonami Rewind pulls ahead of Toonami's broadcast of DBZ Kai I expect some notable shakeups in August on both blocks. A 4th show will join Toonami Rewind while Rickanime and either Demon Slayer or MHA premiere on Saturdays and some changes to the back end could include reruns of Sailor Moon and OG Naruto or maybe a second run of Zom 100 while it's still under contract. Given it's gone from the AS website it seems they can't rerun Lycoris Recoil and that's a bit of a shame. May was a snore, July is a snore, all that promise early in the year sure didn't last and we can only guess why but I'm guessing they once again got caught with their pants down because getting MHA didn't go as easily as they expected and they haven't looked into other shows due to lack of interest or lack of money. And they just had to blow a nice chunk of money on a nostalgia block, uncut Sailor Moon and a pair of glorified reruns rather than grab anything from Sentai for the Saturday block. Did the door close with Aniplex for non-sequels right after Lycoris? Can they not get Mashle or do they just not know about that low-hanging Shonen Jump fruit? IMO a few weeks of double One Piece instead of another premiere isn't a big deal but they keep doing that sort of thing because they have nothing else and it's not something the majority of their dwindling audience cares to sacrifice their Saturday nights for. Constant stall tactics just makes them look even less relevant. DeMarco keeps talking about how the network and the company are pleased with Toonami's performance but if they won't back that talk up with enough money to maintain a steady stream of premieres that aren't One Piece, Naruto or one of their occasional originals then that talk is awfully cheap. We'll never know what's really going on here but it's hard to believe there's absolutely nothing they can't afford to throw in to avoid these lulls in activity.

So…. Basically the Hawkeye show And for real that’s exactly what I thought would work to keep the gear in the story

James Gunn didn’t put this one down like Jman fully expected him to. I must admit I’m surprised as well because Toonami getting the premieres felt like WBD was wiping its hands off it after this season. I’m pleasantly surprised that isn’t the case and I hope that means WBD will premiere more action originals that aren’t anime on Toonami.

It's 2D! Now I'm officially hyped.

It's PG so I don't think it's strictly for kids but it might not appeal to adults.