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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.

Maybe November but I doubt it. They need something for 2025.

I hope it’s significantly more interesting

Here's my latest build which brings back IGPX (even that might be wishful thinking) and includes Scavengers after Superman. The only additional show that isn't a continuation or an original here is Mashle. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p21mNh_67YwBTi2blcBIMnC0tLZa4bo9svpwXFy_brk/edit?usp=sharing

Two NK marathons is beyond stupid. They really couldn’t just run part of the show or have Toonami extend to fit all 13 one night? This is one of the most egregious stall tactics they have ever done, right up there with the excessive FLCL marathons last year. Makes me wonder if they intend to do this sort of nonsense with every original going forward. So what are your guesses for Memorial Day weekend? I’m thinking DBZ Kai or both Attack on Titan specials one last time. But they could do an MHA or Superman recap. Perhaps a ZOM 100 recap since it’s getting interrupted mid-run for probably 3 weeks. As Guy said, Toonami didn’t want to be left out of the ZOM 100 hiatus club.

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