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The luck is that CR actually is doing a same day dub for it this time. If it was even two weeks behind then chances are we weren’t gonna get part 2 on Toonami till December or January. But this Gizmodo article says Scavengers Reign will air on Adult Swim (something that was previously left TBD) so that could end up as the lead in November instead. Scavengers, Dr. Stone, OP x 2, Shippuden and a rerun as we await to see if those other acquisitions they’re trying to get come to fruition and Uzumaki continues to be delayed.

We might have lucked out here. Dr. Stone is getting a same day dub and it’s up now so it’s not unrealistic to think it could start on Toonami in 4 weeks on November 4th. That will suffice to fill midnight for a few months.

Hell yeah she could! I got my parents to watch the first 2 episodes and they like it. My folks are in their 60s. My father saw a bit of the anime and didn’t like it but genuinely likes this version. My mother picked up on Shanks using some kind of power on the sea king and thinking it was a Devil Fruit power. I told her it wasn’t one and it was more a power of will thing that won’t get explained for a while. I’m so excited to share my favorite fictional story with them.

Oh right ACME Night is now part of AS so they’re straight up airing live action movies just about every week now. It has finally come to that. We truly have been conditioned to believe any serious live action thing on AS is gonna be satire by the end but now that’s not always the case. And this time it was a massive mistake by master control.

They didn’t even marathon HCC and opted for double Naruto one week and triple MHA the other. The contract for MHA season 6 might be up in November despite it not starting till December last year. I’m pretty annoyed One Piece is off two weeks again but I’m not worried that they’re pulling it. They might even try it at midnight. Pretty shitty for Shippuden to air two new episodes in the back half of a night that’s mostly reruns. Instead I would have done 4 MHA on Oct 21st and HCC on Oct 28th. I do not have high hopes for November.

And somehow it’s even worse than this prediction

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.