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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.

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.