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Just from the FUNimation Channel they might have aired FairyTail, Kenichi, Baccano, Darker than Black, Hunter x Hunter 1999 (yeah they got some Viz dub premieres for some reason) and probably Soul Eater much sooner than they did. They also had Monster on there but it wasn't exclusive to the channel because it was also on SyFy. Speaking of SyFy, they nabbed Gurren Lagann and Gundam 00 which both seemed like shoe-ins for Adult Swim or even Toonami in 2008 and given they got Monster it's possible SyFy could have gotten any of the above that were exclusive to the FUNimation Channel but Darker than Black would have fit the best. ThunderCats is currently on Hulu and I suspect that's why it's neither on WB Cartoon Rewind (a FAST channel) or among the known shows for this channel but maybe it will show up eventually. There's not a lick of DC on this channel besides maybe the Superman theatrical shorts but I'm sure the people running the network are interested in adding Batman: TAS if not also Superman, Batman Beyond and Justice League. Pirates of Dark Water is on WB Cartoon Rewind so I think that will show up along with SWAT Kats but SWAT Kats hasn't been shown on Rewind yet (nor have Centurions and Mighty Orbots which WBD also own). Rewind also runs the Hanna Barbera Pac-Man cartoon and that's not among the known shows. Space Ghost and Birdman are probably off the table, along with Sealab 2020 if anyone even cares. Herculoids and Thundarr the Barbarian will potentially cycle in. Honestly I rather like that this channel is choosing to air some more obscure and largely forgotten shows but it is kind of strange that Jonny Quest, The Real Ghostbusters and Speed Racer are the only really well known action cartoons but a lot of the others are now owned by Disney. I certainly hope they strike up a deal with Paramount to air TMNT and reasonably they could play the 1987 show and the 2003 one. Grabbing Exo-Squad from Universal would be rad! And the network guy seemed pretty excited to show a bunch of cartoons that spun off from movies. I think that will late night block more so for the millenials. Beetlejuice, The Mask, Police Academy and The Real Ghostbusters are known but beyond that we could see Hanna Barbera's Bill & Ted and Dumb and Dumber as well as the Ace Ventura Pet Detective cartoon (did you know Ace was voiced by Michael Dangerfield in that, yeah the 2nd voice of Sesshomaru and Gintoki of Gintama played Jim Carrey, I find that amusing). They could get the old Rambo cartoon or perhaps Men in Black, Godzilla, Kong, Jumanji, The Mummy, Back to the Future, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers there were so many movie spin-off cartoons. My top pick would be Men in Black. Give me a block with Exo-Squad, Men in Black, Ghostbuster Extreme and Roughnecks. And given they're showing the Mr. T series, they'll probably run several other celebrity cartoons. The Ed Grimmley Show (based on Martin Short's SNL character) would fit right in. Anything that was TV-MA is out, especially Made in Abyss, Food Wars, KILL la KILL, Hellsing Ultimate, Black Lagoon (uncensored anyway) but most of what they air could pass for TV-14-VLSD or less on broadcast television. Crunchyroll's FAST channel doesn't really push TV-MA much if ever and I suspect that's by design. HiDive's FAST channel isn't showing Domestic Girlfriend or Love Flops but they have cycled in Food Wars. For other anime FAST channels I think the most hardcore thing's they've shown are episodes of Hunter x Hunter 2011 and JoJo. Sony could absolutely fill a broadcast channel with anime if they wanted to but a streaming FAST channel just makes more sense for their business. You can stream the old DBZ dub and the dub of Dragon Ball so I don't think it's absolutely out of the question the old FUNimation dubs could be licensed to MeTV Toons but in both cases they'd have to show the Y7 cuts or do a new cut which just removes the nudity. The latter is too much work for anyone to want to deal with so Y7 it is.

Yeah but that name doesn't ring as good. No updates on Primal, Get Jiro and some other previously announced shows is annoying. Some could still air this year but who knows at this point?

There's really no ratings benefit to AS airing between 6am and 5pm, 5pm is really pushing it. Though at this point they do target all audiences with CN daytime so they might as well just become one entity and Adult Swim can go back to being a block for a few hours while the FOX shows can feasibly air outside of that branding and Toonami could as well. But they're continue to do things the easy way, put anything PG on the Adult Swim side and leave daytime CN as a husk with very sparse premieres. IFG should air on CN hours, it should be aimed at young viewers not just teens and adults. It would really be a shame if it's wasted on Adult Swim like Unicorn and My Adventures with Superman but I suppose that's better than it being exclusive to Max. It is all but assure to fill a spot on Toonami if it's not on daytime CN.

That’s some legendary stuff! Thanks for sharing

Yeah unfortunately the FCC will take a lot of uncut anime out of the running for an OTA digital sub-channel. So MeTV Toons anime selection will probably stay limited to TV dubs that ran in syndication. I expect Betty Boop to be limited to late night slots after 10pm for similar reasons. It would be interesting if this channel ever plays the Y7 dubs of Dragon Ball and Mobile Suit Gundam but it’s much more likely they’ll show Kimba, Astroboy, Gigantor, Voltron, Star Blazers and Robotech. I’m really hoping one show from the WBD library they toss in is The Mighty Orbots.

Put it on Toonami before you write it off you monsters!

Who would the Samurai Jack game default to though?

It’s not off the table but it’s ultimately not DeMarco’s call if or where it airs. WBD selling the non-exclusive streaming rights only says one thing, they think they can get more eyeballs on it outside of Max. Who knows if Netflix really pushed to get it or WBD pushed to sell it. I’m just glad they’re doing something with it.

Fall starts in late September but I’m talking October or November, the usual time they start Rick & Morty. So if Rickanime isn’t 4th quarter then big AS premiere in November is potentially Primal season 3 or Get Jiro.

The latest preview confirms Rickanime for Toonami (and Max) so actually a Toonami premiere it seems. Potentially what will replace Superman unless they still wait till fall. Would they dare do a subbed hour with Rickanime and Uzumaki in October?

Air IGPX season 2 Level: Impossible I’m not surprised they are rerunning Entertainment District, they surely would if they could, so they are. But drop 3am if all you’re gonna do is toss Kamui reruns on at 2:30am. Double One Piece is tapped for now and they aren’t rushing to finish Shippuden much less ZOM, so now we get a full hour and a half of reruns. ZOM doesn’t even air the night Superman returns… That’s 3 weeks off for ZOM specifically but nah we gotta make sure Kai airs and start Demon Slayer reruns that night. Purely stall tactics and it does ZOM no favors. If we don’t get the recaps in the contract then MHA won’t be too far behind the dub in July but if we do get the recaps then Toonami will be like 12 episodes behind Japan by July. That’s half the season including the 4 recap episodes. If that happens then I’m seriously questioning if it’s Toonami trying to spread out big premieres or if CR is forcing an even wider gap. But for all we know, this could be the season where negotiations don’t pan out and Toonami is denied MHA for a long time if not “forever”. Nothing’s a sure thing these days. We’re lucky Superman isn’t encores this time because if it was then this schedule would kinda reek. But speaking of lightly used programming, Scavengers Reign would have been much preferred to an extra block rerun. Come on WBD!

They might cut back on the cartoons on the main channel but an interview with one of the network reps said Saturday morning cartoon broadcasts have done great numbers for them so I don’t think they’ll drop all the cartoons. More likely they’ll keep a similar amount and also swap them more often due to the huge library they will have access to. This channel is gonna be amazing and I can’t hardly wait for the launch.

Hmm yeah that could work out for Naruto but then they'd need some weeks of double One Piece leading up to that after ZOM ends. Primal finishes a run at 3:30am this Saturday but it starts right back up from episode 1 on May 11th/12th after the Kamui marathon.

The last 7 episodes are centered around Naruto’s wedding to Hinata. Blowing all 7 is unlikely but maybe the last four? All 7 will remain after ZOM 100 ends so maybe they actually will move it to 1am for single episodes 3 weeks before airing the final 4 from 1am-3am and refresh the lineup with an additional premiere the following week.

Your June 1st prediction seems spot on besides Superman being reruns but that was the safest bet. That looks to be the Summer schedule till ZOM ends. I’ll give a slight chance to IGPX season 2 replacing subbed Kamui but otherwise 3am is gone till Uzumaki in October. IGPX is more likely returning when Shippuden ends. Though I’ve had a thought recently that maybe they’ll move Shippuden to 1am when ZOM ends to 1) hold a premiere till later and 2) give Shippuden a higher profile exit after over a decade of service. They probably won’t do that but I certainly could.

Actually premiering on Toonami this time While we all saw Supes replacing Ninja Kamui most weren’t counting on Toonami getting the premieres and probably none of us had a Memorial Day Weekend premiere on our bingo cards but here we are. Really makes the two weeks of NK marathons feel extra needless because if they are in fact holding space for MHA on June 1st then they could have kept airing extra One Piece till then and kept ZOM going. But perhaps we are trading two weeks off in May in exchange for normal lineups on May 25th and July 6th. That would finish Supes on July 20th and leave 10 weeks till October. 10 weeks where they could potentially air Primal season 3 (it’s actually been 2 years since season 2) or most of Scavengers.

Toonami will premiere season 2 with two episodes on Midnight on May 25th An actual Toonami premiere! Which probably means it’s dead 😭

Just about anything Sentai licenses these days falls under the radar to most baring the rare Oshi No Ko, so if CR just won’t play then they really ought to keep their eyes on whatever Sentai dubs. They probably won’t though.

I'm a weirdo that pays for Sling almost entirely for Toonami, some other stuff on CN/AS and Boomerang. Though I do occasionally watch other things on channels like AMC and FX. But I'm also at the point where if I have the option to hang out with a friend or see a movie, I'm more inclined to do that then stay home to watch Toonami. There were long swaths of last year when I wasn't watching much besides the current original and One Piece (which would be a rewatch for me) and I wouldn't blame anyone for not watching much of the block last year, other recent years or the current year.

I guess folks aren't really hyped for ZOM 100 and given it's available on Netflix, Hulu and Crunchyroll it's pretty easy to find where you can watch the rest of the season. The upcoming 2-3 week break isn't going to help matters either. It's a great show regardless but great shows that are widely available just don't tend to do Toonami any favors.

It’s entirely possible One Piece is more affordable than Kai, in which case it only makes sense to double it up instead but regardless they should focus on keeping 12-1:30 worth watching. 2:30 should be the lowest priority and they can certainly fill it with a rerun that doesn’t cost anything starting with IGPX season 2. I seem to recall a lot of us rationalized Kai was Shippuden’s replacement joining early. So let it be so.

I’d genuinely rather have double One Piece forever than Boruto or more Dragon Ball. Shocker, I know. But this is what Toonami should look like going forward 12:00 - Original / Big Acquisition 12:30 - Newer Acquisition 01:00 - Newer Acquisition 01:30 - Older Acquisition 02:00 - One Piece 02:30 - DBZ Kai Try to fill the first 1.5 hours with 3-6 month long shows and the 1:30 slot with shows that run 6 months to a year or longer

They have enough episodes to have a different show every half hour but most won’t please advertisers the way FOX reruns do so they limit the originals to a few hours a night and tend to avoid doing anything interesting outside of the DVR theater slots and Toonami. 05:00 - Dexter’s Lab 05:30 - Courage 06:00 - Cow & Chicken 06:30 - Samurai Jack 07:00 - Space Ghost C2C 07:30 - Home Movies 08:00 - King of the Hill 08:30 - Bob’s Burgers 09:00 - American Dad 09:30 - Futurama 10:00 - Robot Chicken 10:30 - Comedy Rotation 11:00 - Rick & Morty 11:30 - Smiling Friends 11:45 - YOLO 12:00 - Primal / Action Rotation 12:30 - Anime Rotation 01:00 - The Boondocks 01:30 - The Venture Bros. 02:00 - Mike Tyson Mysteries 02:30 - Aqua Teen 03:00 - Squidbillies 03:30 - Metalocalypse 04:00 - Superjail 04:15 - Mr. Pickles 04:30 - Morel Orel 04:45 - The Shivering Truth 05:00 - The Eric Andre Show 05:15 - Your Pretty Face 05:30 - Tim & Eric 05:45 - Tom Goes to the Mayor

I’m somewhat expecting a Thursday premiere, Friday on Max, encores on Saturday and Sunday but with no season 8 this year they might premiere it on Sunday which would mean the Saturday encores would be essentially a week behind.

If Rickanime isn’t on Toonami, they’ll definitely put it right before. They’ll probably rationalize that Demon Slayer at 12:30 can make up for any damage.