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Kim Manning will try for it at any rate. Meanwhile it works out perfectly for them to start Hashira Training Arc on Toonami on July 19th and finish 8 weeks later just before the first movie hits theaters in the US.

Promos for Daima and Bleach say they will return on July 19th but they don't say what time they will air.

They certainly don't need to only do marathons to take One Piece off for a night but if they have a marathon for Labor Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving that's 3 and they could take all of December off unless Rooster Fighter is playing at the time. That's 7 weeks but they still need 2 more pre-emptions. Here's another option though. Once One Piece finishes post arc Dressrosa and they could simply take One Piece off until some time next year. I'd rather they not do that but it handles any debt problem they might have because they will have aired exactly 49 episodes this year.

Yeah they will make room for a favorite even when they will end up taking it off two weeks after only airing 3 weeks… I will rationalize they save money to get certain shows and wait till past the breaking point to add something else. Even with that being the case they tend to save a little bit of budget for a cheaper show maybe once a year so I agree they should get one at the beginning of the year and hold it for an opening.

One Piece was doubled up for 13 weeks. I don’t think they will take it off for 10 more weeks this year but I guess we’ll see.

It would… but nothing at Annecy leads me to think MAWS S3 isn’t airing this Summer. If they show it off at SDCC in late July then maybe it airs this Fall but otherwise it’s probably airing sometime in 2026. Well taking 2 weeks off right after adding Daima is pretty stupid but on the bright side it gives the podcast a break.

Kuro asked him about Uzumaki and he deflected immediately. I expect no real answers for anything he’s either been told not to talk about or chooses not to talk about. In this kind of interview he’s just not gonna answer. Get him to a bar and he’ll spill then swear you to secrecy. Toonami isn’t really his job these days anymore but what are these hard ball questions you want answered? Maybe I can corner Gill or Kim at San Diego Comic Con and ask them at knife point.

I’d like to see him try Fry man

I need my co-hosts to respect the guests boundaries and Colt has not proven capable of that. His little fit on Twitter more than proves to me I made the right call.

What’s this? CBR posted an article based on an interview I and Kuro did with Jason? Ya’ll should really listen to the audio. It’s on the podcast feed, SoundCloud.com/ToonamiFaithfulPodcast and here’s a YouTube link.

It's entirely possible this new Megas was only going to be available legally outside the US. Either way if I didn't despise Zaslav before I sure as hell do now. Nice to know buying it on iTunes counted for something.

This was inevitable once they got Family Guy back. I do appreciate that they ran the cartoon cartoon shorts and Cartoon Planet but it’s such a shame they didn’t have the balls to play Johnny Bravo besides the pilot. Hopefully these shows move back to Boomerang and maybe even daytime CN since they have abandoned kids audiences. I say make CKP a block on CN like it always should have been!

Sunrise / Bamco Pictures bringing back Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors is pretty wild. Why that? Why now? Who could say. Looks pretty neat though.

Okay, let's try this half hour sitcom thing again Adult Swim.

I went to the WB Japan panel last year and it was a big 'ol nothing burger for Toonami since even Isekai Squad didn't air there.

Even if they did get UFC how often would it air after 12am anyway?

They tried to get people watching Friday evenings and we all saw how that went. Though they might have been successful enough if they were just airing old anime that was readily available to binge.

What is Dumbells a spin-off of? EDIT: Kengan Ashura? Ooookay. Don’t think it’s ever referenced to any notable extent.

Should have happened back in January but the dub just ended so this is fine. 5 cable premieres including 1 world premiere and one show that’s only on Hulu, not too shabby.

2 dimensions and both wanted to bang Chris Sergei was so unnecessary

Geez what happened?

Eh... it's maybe in the top 10 original anime of 2024 which is admittedly pretty good but it says more that so many anime originals aren't particularly good.

One Piece animation has become consistently impressive since Wano it’s absurd to say otherwise. Animation doesn’t save the pacing of Wano but Egghead has been quite good. Well worth the win against the weakest arc of Demon Slayer that was supposedly a bit heavy on filler despite running the equivalence of 11 eps. There’s no accounting for taste… especially in Ninja Kamui’s case this instance. The other 5 original anime nominations were barely noticed by comparison but at least 3 were much better and I doubt any of them were worse than Kamui. So ironic that CR acknowledges Toonami’s original anime they had no involvement in but maybe because Aniplex has the rights in Japan there was a little push to recognize Kamui. No doubt Lazarus will be nominated next year. Imagine the gloating DeMarco would be doing on social media right now if he was still on there.

Seems like HBO Max will be mostly HBO and DC films/shows with a dash of Adult Swim (and other adult animation), a dash of Discovery shows and some things acquired or made specifically for the service. There will probably be a kids (and family) section but it's gonna be mostly movies but the Boomerang section is out and the CN section might be too. Kids shows will end up on other streamers and the older library titles will go to places like Tubi along with MeTV Toons. Tubi hasn't gotten a CN show yet to my knowledge but they probably will eventually.

Honestly was starting to look like Naruto if not also Sailor Moon would stick around but they did start airing on May 31st so they can still air on May 31st even if it's technically June 1st by the time they do air. Best case scenario, they actually have another acquisition to either stick at 1 or 1:30 and One Piece takes the full 2AM hour followed by Lazarus Sub. If they do that then we're better than BACK we're STACK, at least until Lazarus ends.