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I was also thinking this felt like something made for TCM. Maybe it will actually air there. I don’t think they’ll air the dub immediately after the sub because I get the impression the dub isn’t going to be ready by then. It would have been a novel move to say bookend the block with the dub and sub of Uzumaki but obviously air the dub earlier. But if they’re actually going to run Uzumaki in Japanese in the first hour of Toonami then I’m all the more certain they’ll be leading the block with RickAniMorty encores once Uzumaki ends. The only reason I thought they might just quietly throw that in the back was because I didn’t think they would ever start Toonami with a subtitled show (yeah yeah Sandwhale yadda yadda) but if they’ll do it for Uzumaki then they’ll do it for RickAniMorty.

My biggest gripe is I want to be able to look thoroughly at the art and animation and having to read subtitles takes away from the visual experience. I watch a lot of anime subtitled but it’s usually not my preference.

Turns out the Rick & Morty anime won’t be the only subtitled show on Adult Swim soon The current plan is to premiere Uzumaki subtitled So let me get this straight… you spent 4+ years on these four episodes and when the show airs it will be monochrome and subtitled. And you expect your shounen action loving and/or pot smoking audience to watch it? Good luck with that.

You have no idea how relieved I am that it’s 2D. When Sola was announced to be involved, I got very concerned they were gonna go with CG models.

It wasn’t a trailer it was a clip from an episode but it’s not a good sign that DeMarco said no time frame at the panel. For now I’m expecting it to replace FLCL Grunge mid-October because nothing says it has to finish in October. Of course Superman will be done after Labor Day weekend so they could stall 4 weeks then start it in October and overlap originals two weeks. Or since Ninja Kamui is supposedly starting this year then that might replace Grunge and overlap with Uzumaki. Sub that with Rick Anime for a more realistic scenario I guess.

Well here DeMarco says it’s coming later this year

So these are production staff that aren’t writers or animators and that’s why they aren’t already part of the animation guild. I hope they succeed in joining the union.

Solid trailer. Feels very much like a trailer intended to please existing fans by including several major characters and events. For newcomers it’s downright spoilery to show Arlong Park stuff but at least they don’t blatantly spell out that storyline beyond “you messed with Luffy’s friend, so you gonna get whooped” Overall I found it charming. They did a great job with the news bird.

How many of those posts are trashing it though? Anyway I just remembered something they could announce at that panel, the Titan special. If they announce any acquisitions there, that will be one of them.

Unicorn doesn’t need reruns on Toonami. Dr Stone for all we know will move later and rerun as they wait for part 2 without any expansion to the block. Back to the main point of the thread… WBD just can’t go a day without screwing over shows and creators but it’s especially stupid to pull the series months before the movie will stream on Max.

The excuse remains to be a lack of money for acquisitions. The reason for the lack of money is a bit different but not all that much. WarnerMedia was a shit show (pandemic or otherwise) in 2020 and WBD is possibly an even bigger shit show now.

I have little to no expectation that anything other than originals will be discussed at that panel. I’m hoping to see previews of Ninja Kamui, Uzumaki, the FLCLs and obviously this new show. I won’t entirely rule out an acquisition if they actually got Bleach or something biggish coming this Fall but I’m not counting on it. As much as I’d like to see them spring another Gridman type announcement on us at this panel I won’t get my hopes up for such a thing.

They announced it via press release this morning. Would have been a big surprise at the panel but oh well. Getting the John Wick director and Watanabe for one project is pretty rad. That’s a killer combo for the action direction and hopefully MAPPA brings their A game but who is writing the scripts? The scripts have been the downfall of every Toonami original thus far. One thing that rather ticks me off though is they announced Watanabe will be at the panel only after the reservation spots were already claimed. If it was a total surprise that’s slightly less of a dick move but now people know they won’t get a chance to see Watanabe unless they luck out waiting in line. Oh and the panel isn’t being live streamed officially either.

Thankfully not official but I was getting concerned for a moment

It’s Big O. Consider the optics. Adult Swim managed to co-produce a second season of (at least at the time) a well regarded and respected series and unlike with FLCL a decent amount of the fans did want more and were thrilled to get it. It’s even on Sunday night because AS wants as many eyeballs on it as it can get. That level of importance and anticipation and on the premiere run they messed up and aired the wrong episode. That definitely got more notice than any of those other instances. The SAO glitch is arguably the most intriguing flub up and Harley is the one time they didn’t make it up to us but neither got the level of response The Big O incident did. And on top of that it was in the era when AS trolled anime fans regularly so instead of just apologizing and rescheduling the episode they made even more of a spectacle out of it. Nothing like that has occurred in the Toonami era of AS.

I truly hope when they lose Bob’s Burgers they put Futurama back in prime time.

She has every right to try to protect her voice even from “harmless” fan projects using AI to have Futaba sing about dick pics and pictures of the Harry Potter kids fucking each other in this instance.

To be fair that would only last 3 months before half would be reruns and then 3 months later the other half would be too. They would have to start licensing more anime directly or would soon have the same supply problems Toonami has if CR won’t play ball. And I don’t see them spending a lot of money to do this.

Robots are arguably the best first opponent for the man of steel to show just how strong he is when he doesn’t pull his punches or doesn’t yet have the best control of his powers. Plus I’m sure it’s fun to design them and then have them torn apart or blown up. So far this is a fun show. It’s good to know it won’t end at 10 episodes but prospects for it getting more than 20-26 aren’t great at WBD unless it does surprisingly well. And since the 2nd batch is already being animated, there’s no reason to expect the show will be adjusted to better fit Adult Swim. But hey at least they aren’t omitting the words “kill” or “die” even if they aren’t using guns with bullets.

If this was a linear block with anime on FX or even FXX it would be something but just slapping a sub-brand on their adult animation section seems pretty needless. It’s nice to see Hulu making effort to drum up interest in their sizable animation selection though. But it’s such a tease. Just imagine a 4 hour block on TV. This would eat Adult Swim/Toonami’s lunch every week 10:00 - Family Guy 10:30 - New Futurama 11:00 - New Solar Opposites 11:30 - New Archer 12:00 - ZOM 100 12:30 - Bleach: TYBW 01:00 - Heavenly Delusion 01:30 - Summertime Rendering

I take Erica’s example as her saying “if you see this sort of thing please report it” because she can’t spend all day tracking down every possible exploitation of her vocal performances. Might have been better not to link to a specific example but I think the point was to show how real it sounded and to get many people to report that video as well. If she was the only one to report it or she only told a select few in private to report it then it potentially would not get taken down. Likewise had she asked the video maker privately to remove the video there’s no guarantee they would do so. Either way, she definitely didn’t tell people to harass the video maker and she absolutely didn’t deserve the shit storm she got from making that tweet. I don’t think she’s leaving acting over this but fuck all those assholes who attacked her. I mean how would you like it if someone trained an AI to sound like you and used that to quote a tirade from Uncle Ruckus or spoke in great detail of having sex with a child or something? Who would be comfortable with that?

Let me rephrase that. They’re not airing FLCL classic before 9 or 10. Alternative and Progressive could though, if that’s what you mean.

They aren’t airing FLCL and it’s fanservice at 6pm my dude

Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) and Booster Gold The Question Green Lantern Corps Flash family series A solo Wonder Woman series And if all of that is too tall an order then a new Justice League animated series written for older viewers than isn’t edgelord garbage And if that’s not happening then continue Young Justice and tell Greg Weisman to actually finish the main plots set up in season 1 But for the record I am very happy about a new Superman cartoon, it just probably shouldn’t be premiering on Adult Swim

It does Dr Stone more harm than good though. One Piece and Shippuden should be fine but I agree it would be more convenient. I also think they should have just lied and said the show was Dr. Stone