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Stephanie Sheh is a regular and other VAs who worked on Naruto will appear in future episodes. Seems pretty evident its intentional but it's not like these actors aren't good for the job. They also have some more recognizable guest stars such as Fred Armisen and the late Gilbert Godfried so far. I've enjoyed the first 4 episodes though the factory one with the chickens was just kinda gross IMO. The way conversations play out really does remind me of Metalocalypse in a good way. I think it has potential.

They COULD do that and they should but for whatever reason they don't.

I do think part of the reason they rushed through about half of this MHA season was so they could rerun it. They can also rerun Titan and it would make sense to do so after the first special airs. But I’m not watching reruns after Shippuden regardless.

I don’t think we’ll get 11pm on May 6th unless they just shift up the 3 hours but may-be on May 27th in time for the 11th anniversary of the 2012 relaunch. DeMarco did say he was going to be most proud of that anniversary. If they expand on May 27th that’s probably when they start FLCL Grunge though I won’t rule out May 13th entirely because other originals have had less than a month of promotion but I’m leaning toward Grunge starting on that anniversary. But if it does start on May 13th they can run that till June 17th and maybe double up Unicorn for the finale so it finishes on June 24th and both series end before July 1st. Or on July 1st they finish UWE followed by a movie or a marathon. Here’s hoping for a good acquisition to take the 2nd slot on May 13th. It might even be Dr. Stone (hopefully starting with the TV special) as that will put it about a month behind the dub of season 3 if they ran the special on May 13th and start season 3 on May 20th (the dub starts on April 20th). It’s a more reasonable expectation that it could replace Food Wars or Grunge but who knows what they can pull off at this point? Since Superman is pegged for Summer, I fully expect it to replace Unicorn in July. If it’s 13 episodes, that should get them to October for Uzumaki and November for FLCL Shoegaze. If they don’t shift up they can pretty comfortably get by without Bleach thanks to Unicorn and Superman but if they shift up and especially if they expand, they had best have Bleach on deck by July. I also strongly suspect they’ll run Justice League: Flashpoint in June to promote The Flash.

I don't see lawmakers actually managing to break up WBD in any capacity but it sure would be something to see.

Strange choices but maybe with Naruto in particular they wanted to use bumps from a more interesting part of the show.

Shield Hero season 2 was a rather poor adaptation and if season 3 continues that trend then IMO Toonami dodged a bullet. And I’m speaking as someone who enjoyed season 1 enough to buy both Bluray sets.

Yes that’s true but they also said in a prior report that the median age for the networks total daytime viewership is currently 29 years old. A significant amount of that are surely parents but that’s still a wild ratio for a “kids channel”

There are a decent amount of adult animation fans that enjoy Gumball, Craig and yes Teen Titans Go but probably the majority of the audience are parents. I also figure CNs viewership is so absolutely rock bottom that they didn’t gain any adults to reach that ratio they simply lost way more kids. Hard to say what would potentially grow that adult audience by any significant degree beyond heavy amounts of nostalgic programming but there’s basically no hope for getting the kids back.

Yeah I don't think I'm under-selling the ineptitude of the casual Toonami watcher. It's easy to just look at the channel guide but its just as easy to just tune out the moment they see the first airing is a rerun.

And the really amusing thing is Pickle Rick was written by the woman who went on to do She-Hulk.

Ah yes obviously this one action moment is all the action you will get in any given episode and they could only give us this much action in the teaser because of it! I will say it’s not a very exciting teaser but I’m not going to judge it on what… 15 seconds? Certainly could have been a better tease of whatever this is though.

Not much of a teaser but the animation is nice a fluid. I’m excited to see more. They say it’s coming this Summer. I’m guessing it will start right after UWE ends but there could be a little bit of overlap. The real question is how many episodes it will be because if they only ordered 10-13 then that’s probably all that will ever be made. So I hope CN ordered 20 or more before this got redirected to AS.

Well... that's kinda horrifying

Well that’s some weak sauce but it’s the easiest way to buy time so I’m not surprised. This could potentially cause some problems for viewers who don’t keep tabs on the schedule. When they tune in on April 15th and are greeted with an unexpected rerun they would likely assume MHA won’t premiere an episode that night. Maybe Toonami will even goof and promote the new episode for midnight instead of 12:30. BTW AS Saturday is changing up pre-Toonami next week. Futurama x 2 Rick x 2 Royal Crackers x 1 and American Dad x 3. That’s certainly more interesting than 4 x Hill but also means they can easily slide 2 x Hill into 7pm in May and not shift Toonami up to 11pm but it could go either way.

When Michael O. was talking about how CN attracted more adults than kids I was thinking CN would gain more time and go for a broader audience in prime time but instead they taking Adult Swim broader and trying things other than raunchy comedies. There’s some potential there IMO because I love seeing adult targeted animation that isn’t just Family Guy and Rick & Morty clones. But this Superman series going to AS just feels like they’ve given up on CN making shows that aren’t for boys 6-11. It really ought to be presented to tweens with any adult viewership as a bonus but instead they’re going to rely almost entirely on adult animation fans and we all know that’s not going to be enough to keep it in production. Though at least the first season will actually get promoted on AS whereas I had little faith CN would give it adequate attention. The crew working on it feel it’s a dream come true for it to air on Toonami and I think that’s wonderful but I hope that dream doesn’t turn into a nightmare for them.

They barely use Futurama and mostly relegate it to 4am, so they can definitely use that. BTW this is the weeknight schedule starting in April, only 2 hours are encores from earlier in the night and all encores happen after 3am so Futurama is the only show that’s stuck amongst encores but if it’s in primetime in May then it will no longer be the odd man out. 8:00-9:30 - King of the Hill x 3 9:30-10:30 - Bob’s Burgers x 2 10:30-12 -.American Dad x 3 / Royal Crackers on Monday at 10:30 12:00-1:00 Rick & Morty x 2 1:00 The Boondocks 1:30 Mike Tyson Mysteries x 2 2:00 Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 x 2 2:30 Robot Chicken x 2 3:00 Rick & Morty encore / Royal Crackers on Monday 3:30 Rick & Morty encore 4:00-5:00 Futurama x 2 5:00-6:00 Bob’s Burgers x 2 encore It’s interesting. Saturday was the only night of Adult Swim that regularly made use of the 2am hour for something other than encores but that looks to be changing.

Toonami definitely should get the 11pm hour. Right now Saturday 8pm-12am is 4 Hills, 3 Dads and a Rick. They clearly have nothing they can use to fill another hour before Toonami. I mean yes they could air Futurama but they’ll need that for weeknights. Just let Toonami start earlier and finish at 2am if they are still strapped for acquisitions.

9-14 and parents Yeah maybe they should rework that title if it’s airing on Adult Swim

Bleach probably

I really don't think Unicorn is going to be so outright rejected by Adult Swim viewers. And think about the casual audience that don't even know the show was being made for CN prime time? They'll think nothing of it beyond, "hey this is from the Samurai Jack and Primal guy" and not be concerned with whether or not it was written for adult audiences specifically. Content wise, lets remember the last show Genndy made for CN was Sym-Bionic Titan which wasn't exactly tame. I know it was after all the premieres when it joined Toonami in 2012 but I don't recall anyone being all that unwelcoming of it at the time.

Didn’t do gang busters? Primal reruns at midnight did great for Toonami last year.

I have another theory disregarding FLCL Grunge. They have kept MHA doubled up because they have an acquisition lined up and now Unicorn has been dropped in their laps so they sped up MHA to clear the spot by May and will start a new acquisition two or three weeks before that depending if Titan is ready by April 15th. Option 1 (makes the most sense) April 15th Titan April 22nd MHA 137 / New Show ep 1 April 29th MHA 138 / New Show ep 2 May 6th Unicorn / New Show ep 3 Option 2 April 15th MHA 137 / New Show ep 1 April 22nd MHA 138 / New Show ep 2 April 29th Titan May 6th Unicorn / New Show ep 3 You can gripe about semantics and how it wastes a slot where a premiere should be but UWE will do much more for Toonami as an encore at midnight than at 2:30am. We know it and they know it.

There's probably no good reason to double up MHA just to make room for encores of Genndy's new show but if the other slot isn't going to FLCL Grunge then it's anyone's guess why they sped through MHA instead of doubling up anything else. I really don't mind sloppy seconds beyond the principle of the matter. If its airing on Toonami it should be the premiere. They saw how Primal did outside of Toonami and inside of it and should have come to the conclusion that premiering it inside Toonami was the better choice. If all they have coming is a glorified rerun and their own originals and they're relying on a Genndy show to garner interest for their block of already streamed anime then its safe to say 2023 is 2022 the sequel. Perhaps their only hope is Bleach. Well... maybe they can get it but it's gonna be old news once they do.

I guess CN got cold feet and pushed it to Adult Swim. I’m very disappointed at CN but this move is probably better for the show’s potential anyway. Safe bet this is replacing MHA at midnight in May or maybe 12:30 if FLCL Grunge starts on May 6th.