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Hear me out. Whoopi as Dan Dan. Yeah they might not get to Marineford but since Ace is introduced in Alabasta we might get some glimpses into Luffy's childhood with Dan Dan. But hey I'm good with Crocus instead.

Whoopi is one of us. Ya love to see it.

That’s crazy. One Piece is kinda a big deal.

Most of the anime offerings on PlutoTV channels are subbed besides Yu-Gi-Oh but RetroCrush has some old dubs. Crunchyroll should really make a FAST channel with their massive backlog. HiDive has one.

Ninja Kamui will be 13 episodes according to DeMarco.

It looks alright from the preview. I have faith in the director but the script? Gosh I hope it doesn't suck.

Eh... MHA last December though. And they could have gotten it even sooner if not for CR dicking around. Sure they could dick around with Dr. Stone but I don't think holidays will keep Toonami for starting it in December if it's ready to air.

Yu Yu isn’t a Netflix US production though. I don’t expect it will get much more hype than the Bleach movie or the latest FMA film. I hope it turns out decently though. Lazarus is Toonami’s best chance so far to produce something worth while. For their sake it better be good.

To his credit… I don’t dislike this as much as some Star Wars and Marvel stuff. Cartoon wise it was easily more tolerable than any 3 episodes of most Marvel cartoons besides What If in the past decade.

Adult Swim is on 13 hours a freak’n day now. The least they can do is keep on 3 hours of action/anime a week. 2 hours would look like they don’t even care anymore even if it was all premieres. Some dedicated viewers appreciate cozy reruns to end the night. Hell, I give them permission to include Futurama and Venture Bros. on Toonami so they’d be on at a watchable time and get some fun bumpers. But only if no reruns in their anime or action catalog can stay above 99k at 2am.

At this point I could take it or leave it. I hear the adaptation isn’t all that great. I just want to see Toonami air something I haven’t watched besides their spotty originals.

They love Rumiko Takahashi, they love “classic” anime. So yeah… I’m thinking they do.

It’s anyone’s guess as to how willing AMC is to let Toonami lease Sentai licensed anime. DeMarco claims Sentai getting bought out by AMC hasn’t made things any different but as we all know, he sits on a throne of lies. I’m mostly kidding but… It more likely comes down to a lack of money and partly due to a lack of interest. But I legitimately can’t imagine they aren’t interested in airing Urusei Yatsura so why they haven’t is likely enough a cost issue.

They have no intention of cutting an hour. 3 hours is the length they want the block to be. It could come to that if the network wills it but for now they’ll do whatever it takes to stay 3 hours long. They’re not even that desperate right now because if they were then they would fill 1:30-3am with reruns MAWS and Unicorn along with MHA. They’d rather use double premieres to maintain 5 premieres and have total flexibility to change one or both out any given week.

That about settles it. Either they run Uzumaki as a marathon, it replaces Shoegaze and airs partially out of October or it’s not airing in October at all. They’re being pretty generous by continuing double Shippuden when they have less than a year worth of episodes left. They could just shorten the block or add a rerun. But that’s about all that can be said for this being a positive development. I don’t think they’ll do once a week reruns of either Grunge or Shoegaze and save both for marathons in November or December.

AS Canada has nothing about Uzumaki airing in October despite simultaneous broadcasts of Grunge and Shoegaze. So that means the subbed airing isn’t gonna happen in Canada and/or they won’t show the subbed version in October on Toonami. Or they don’t have listings for the whole month yet and a marathon premiere on October 28th could still happen. Though now I feel like doing that on October 21st makes more sense. For the 28th they can run HCC and show Uzumaki a 2nd time or replay Grunge and/or Shoegaze.

It’s me. I bought the Bluray set.

I appreciate that they won't mess with Naota and Mamimi without Tsurumaki at the helm but that all the more makes every additional story into filler of no consequence because arguably none of this shit is canon to the original. Sure they attempted to explore N.O. and a bit about Medical Mechanica in Progressive and Alternative but by the end of Grunge and Shoegaze they are unlikely to have informed the viewers of anything interesting about any of the lore or concepts. Making this all that much more pointless. It's fine to use FLCL as a framing device and expand that universe but you actually have to do something with it besides imply that in some versions of this multiverse there are rock people and the rich and important people leave the planet.

Haruko was blasted to another universe at the end of Alt. It’s not her and though the intonation is similar at points, I’m pretty sure this girl isn’t being voiced by Kari Wahlgren. I’m excited for “boring adult” Kana. I wanted to see that for Naota but that story is best left untold unless Tsurumaki is involved. Quite an oversight not to post this on Facebook but seeing Adult Swim’s Twitter promote Toonami is always appreciated.

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Even most of Toonami’s originals are squarely TV-14 and are most appropriately marketed to teenagers. HCC is the exception but it really was only gory in one episode. Ninja Kamui might push TV-MA but it won’t be Chainsaw Man level violent. And I’m not saying something has to be TV-MA to target adults but Fena and the FLCLs aren’t seinin or josei and Shenmue and Black Lotus are only targeting adults because adults are the only people who are interested in those old franchises. Maybe Lazarus can break the curse but it’s probably not gonna push content barriers. Anyway, Shoegaze looks very watchable and having Kana return is great. I was wondering why Haruko wasn’t shown in the previews and now we know it’s because she’s not in it. Makes sense given she was blasted out of that universe at the end of Alt. They are really treating it like an after thought though. They should have spaced them out so Shoegaze had some time to drum up interest. Maybe they thought the season with Haruko was the easier sell but not when that’s the one in an underwhelming CGI style.

I suppose if they were intending to run Uzumaki once a week then they it would make more sense to start it on September 30th and save Shoegaze for November. Perhaps that’s what makes you all the more certain subbed Uzumaki will only air as a marathon for Halloween weekend. But they could still very likely start Uzumaki subbed airing once a week on October 7th next to Shoegaze.

Caitlin Glass, Zeno Robinson and several other VAs are Christians and seemingly nobody in their field shuns them for it. There are some people who don’t like how Vic tries to convert fans to Christianity but I don’t believe for a second that any reputable actor would have beef with Vic for being religious. Jamie Marchi has less prominent roles under her belt but Chris Sabat and Monica Rial being jealous of Vic seems pretty absurd. They’re constantly working and have more beloved roles in their repertoire than Vic does, especially Sabat. Schemmel I can see trashing Vic (he has) but Schemmel is also the kind of douche who picks fights with other voices of Goku.

Marc Thompson. He was Casey Jones in 2003 TMNT, Duke Devlin in YGO, Chazz Princeton in YGO GX, Kid Muscle in Ultimate Muscle and lots of other characters in 4Kids and NYAV Post shows. Seems like he’s doing a Rocky Balboa impression here for the Rockian. Heh.