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Well no dice for May but June seems very likely now.

Brak-rolled

Nice to see it actually back on the weekday schedule at 1am this week. Probably won’t last. But they really mistreated the people who made that show so great. They ought to compensate them properly for their work.

You keep saying he’s gonna prevent DC from renewing this show but you don’t really know that for sure. I’d be more concerned with Zaslav than Gunn’s creative vision for connecting all DC media.

Glad the armor broke off because that fight was pretty meh animation wise

There’s murmurs of season 2 starting soon but no official announcement yet. Here’s an additional adjustment, Ninja Kamui is 13 episodes not 12. Ep 13 is on the AS Canada schedule. So the timing actually will work out that Superman season 2 could start the Thursday after Royal Crackers ends and Toonami can swap the encores in to replace NK. If they’re going that route. Likewise if they do that Thursday / Saturday crap with Scavengers Reign out of the blue.

I’m thinking Superman replaces Ninja Kamui and double OP keeps a spot warm for MHA in June. Memorial weekend they could honor the dead by avenging them with a Ninja Kamui marathon but I wouldn’t put it past them to do another Kai marathon. It’s almost too perfect to do an MHA season 7 marathon featuring the American hero Star & Stripe.

I'm somewhat hopeful Lycoris will be replaced by Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken or another Sentai dub but if they don't say what's happening then it's probably doubling up One Piece or DBZ Kai temporarily or resuming IGPX. They might quietly start airing Scavengers Reign but I would hope they'd give that more than about a week of promotion. I don't doubt for a second that their original replacement for Lycoris could have hit a snag but making sure it aired the week of the DBZ Kai marathon might not have had anything to do with future plans. It might have just been the choice not to disrupt anything but One Piece, Shippuden and the current Kai run. And lets also consider that Lycoris will end when Ninja Kamui has two episodes left. They COULD do an hour finale the following week.

Gotta give Majima some credit, he understands how to manipulate the playing field to his advantage. Chisato was entirely blind in that instance while he has the benefit of Daredevil type hearing. It’s a good foil to super sight / super reflexes. When he was fighting out in the open he had no advantage until he spit blood in Chisato’s eyes and he was able to avoid Takina and get away because he had the element of surprise when she came to Chisato’s safe house but if he stuck around she probably would have gotten the better of him eventually. Preparation and subverting expectations are the keys to any successes he has thus far. And while I don’t quite buy that he’s enough of a match for Takina even in this instance where the dark can assist him. Chisato’s not in the best shape due to her heart.

Bob Carter and Lizzie Freeman were incredible during the yukata scene. A beautiful exchange. From a practical and personal standpoint she doesn’t want the others around when her heart fails on her. It’s frustrating that she’s already given up on finding a replacement heart and seems to be deterring the others from looking for a solution.

I think so too but I also remember that topping the HBO Max chart’s didn’t save Infinity Train

I suppose we can take solace in the thought that if it wasn’t on Max it still wouldn’t be doing any better on Toonami… probably

It’s a running joke at this point that it’s not a pirate related team.

They are wasting no time rolling these out. Haikyu season 1 and more notably MHA seasons 1-4 along with the MHA Two Heroes movie are already up.

It’s somewhat realistic for Warner Bros Japan to produce 10 anime cours a year. They did so in 2022 I believe and almost that many in 2023 but they really should not be producing more than two a season if that.

If it’s an Aniplex show then the smartest play is MASHLE but if CR is willing to play then maybe they got the Sentai dub of Eizouken for their latest outside the box pick or DeMarco threw a bunch of money at Jujutsu Kaisen. Scavengers more than suffices if they don’t have an acquisition lined up and Superman isn’t ready yet. There’s also IGPX season 2 that could slot in the back while the Jump shows slide up to 1-2:30. They certainly could double up One Piece temporarily or DBZ Kai for that matter. Either could hold the slot till sometime in June when MHA probably will return.

More than TEN A YEAR? And of course only a few will Toonami ever get a sniff of. But really WBD, why?

I know the reviewer from Podcast ONA and honestly I don’t know what his beef is with Ninja Kamui but it’s definitely not winning him over.

This increases the chances that eventually they’ll be affordable enough and that CR is willing to share but I’m not counting on it.

I really thought they would get the remaster but for whatever reason they didn’t. Sure, jump at the chance to nab Paranoia Agent the second it’s available again but don’t get a remaster of one of your white whales from back in the day. Excellent use of budget DeMarco. Some major “how the hell did you not get these?” anime for me are Tiger & Bunny and especially Blood Blockade Battlefront. T&B might have had complications for a time due to the advertising on character models but what’s the excuse for Blood Blockade? It’s freak’n perfect for Toonami and from the creator of Trigun. I can’t imagine they had no interest. Honestly there’s too many anime to count which could have aired on Toonami. Still wondering if they even considered Ushio & Tora. It should be right up their alley.

How about some non-anime? Legion of Super Heroes was supposed to air on CN presumably on Toonami but it never did. I know the first season wasn’t highly regarded but the second season was quite a bit better. CN never aired the better seasons of The Batman either. Before it was confirmed for Kids WB the show that would eventually become Spectacular Spider-Man was potentially coming to CN. I think there was also a rumor that the MTV Spider-Man would rebroadcast on CN and possibly get another season. A real shame neither of those happened. Speaking of shows that never existed, the first Toonami original was supposed to be an animated series based on the video game Centipede. That would have been something. And before Mirage sold the rights to 4Kids there was a pitch for a TMNT cartoon at WBA that would have aired on Kids WB and/or Cartoon Network. The production art had turtles that looked very Mirage Volume 1 inspired. Years later when the 4Kids TMNT was on CN it really irked me that they NEVER tried it on Toonami even after Miguzi cut it loose. They could have paired it with Naruto on Toonami and relied less on toyetic anime and extra Teen Titans reruns. Likewise it was so strange to me that X-Men: Evolution was never even used as filler on Saturday Toonami while Jackie Chan Adventures and 2003 Astroboy were. Transformers Animated would have been nice in 2008 too, it was on Jetstream but not on the block proper. It freak’n sucks that Transformers: Beast Wars was only on Toonami for one week. Also very unfortunate that The Centurions, SWAT Kats and The Pirates of Darkwater never aired on Toonami in the early days. They were on the afternoon action blocks that pre-dated Toonami but weren’t even tossed on Toonami as a temporary stop gap. Any of them would have fit the blocks vibe in 1998 better than The Superfriends. They could have subbed in Silverhawks for that matter.

That episode preview ruined the cliffhanger!

Yoshi literally broke Chisato’s heart =< I say we let Majima fuck him and his secretary up!

Makes sense. I was wondering when if ever The Boy and the Heron would stream on Max.

I hope he gets to do a Flash anime.