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Titan is 60 mins of episode without commercials. It needs 3 slots. But they probably will take MHA off that week for Titan and maybe bump Food Wars if it’s not on March 25th.

Well I wasn’t expecting MHA to stay doubled up for a 3rd week and I had all but written off Fifth Plate so… that’s something. Something that might indicate a modicum of working with CR because I don’t believe Sentai has the master license for Fifth Plate.

39 followers? I didn’t think it was even that much. And they like their own tweets which is just sad.

Was expecting this at this point. It’s not technically a change from March 4th so there was no need to make a Facebook post for it but they also hid the schedule on grids till now which left us entirely in the dark. Double One Piece and double MHA means 2 hours I’m gonna watch. They are most likely holding off on starting anything until they can air the Attack on Titan 60 min special which will fill 3 time slots for one week.

We all know it’s you Mitty, you’re just way more civil here. But I wish that person on twitter isn’t you because that person is a transphobe who doesn’t support Ukraine and thinks guys are cucks if they marry a woman with kids. Probably a neo-nazi or MAGA trash.

It totally would have been Yatsura and Witch from Mercury if they had their druthers. I’ve been saying as much since the beginning of the year. New series from classic franchises is their MO. I’m still bummed they weren’t able to get the 2014 Yamato series a while back. That said I don’t recall DeMarco actually saying anything about Urusei Yatsura. All that activity for the crossover trailer goes to show what an actual premiere can garner, maybe it should have been at 12:30 rather than blowing an MHA. But of course a lot of that interest is from DBZ fans. Goku is here to save the block for one week. Yeah putting all the eggs in one expensive basket isn’t a great idea but they know better than anyone that the first show has to bring in a audience and the only sensible gambles for that slot are hugely popular acquisitions or an actual premiere. Bleach is the former and the originals are the latter. Dub premieres that aren’t originals are out of reach baring very unique circumstances. Though if One Piece beating MHA happens a few more times then maybe it can be the front runner. 🤔 I’d rather they have two reruns than lose the 3rd hour. Hell they could give 2:30 to Venture Bros and I would finally have Toonami style Venture Bros bumps. Though I would prefer IGPX to that. They have all of Attack on Titan, so they could use that and GITS hasn’t been on since 2018. They can probably rerun Lupin Part 6 still. But before they consider a 2nd rerun, I do hope they double up One Piece permanently.

They haven't had an affinity for everything they've aired but the ones they didn't have an affinity for were more than likely very popular or very buzz worthy when they went after them. They basically can't get buzz worthy shows now with a few exceptions here and there. They do watch modern anime (mostly ones they can never air because they're licensed or produced by Netflix) but they most likely don't have a good grasp on what lesser known anime are available to license. There's like 120 shows in production in Japan every year and there's no way they've looked into even 25% of that any given year. They're not getting paid to review anime, hell they're not getting paid specifically to AIR anime it's just a small part of their jobs overall. At this point it would be real good to have an intern who at least once a week thoroughly researched shows but fat chance of Williams Street assigning that task to anyone else now. There are other potential wrinkles that could be keeping the schedule stalled. While I'm sure the budget isn't any better than last year and might even be worse than last year, there is the possibility that they've already set aside a large chunk of it for Bleach but either can't start it yet or want to hold off until MHA ends as it's the best choice for headliner they can probably get for the 2nd half of the year. We can figure they had at least enough left in the tank to fill 12:30 and 1AM otherwise it made no sense to double up YashaHime and finish it earlier than necessary but maybe coming up with two other shows for roughly the same cost is proving difficult. Alternatively they're not able to finalize the deals for whatever they're currently going for as timely as they thought they could. DeMarco did mention how a lack of lawyers around the office since all the layoffs has caused delays. They're inching ever closer to Attack on Titan Final Final Finale Part 1 to the point that starting the next show/s after that airs makes more sense if they can "event program" until then. If that's the plan then it's evident that they either didn't nail down their March 11th stall tactic yet or it will be double MHA and double One Piece which technically isn't a change from March 4th. Optimistically, they didn't post the schedule yet because they think they can finalize something this week and start 1 or 2 shows on March 11th. And there's also the possibility that they're going to air Attack on Titan Part 4 Part 3 Part 1 on March 11th and they are not allowed to say so until Crunchyroll announces when the dub will stream. Because Crunchyroll sucks like that. We are never going to know how the process of finding shows has been going the past month but they've probably been trying their darndest to get SOMETHING and they did what they could to keep the block from becoming 3 straight weeks of double One Piece and double Shippuden.

TMS and previously Sunrise were willing to work with them but that's basically it besides companies willing to do co-productions.

I don’t think that’s a fair assumption given how tight the budget could be this year. We can’t just assume anything Sentai has is on the table either.

Mayo is fine on sandwiches but it needs to stay the hell away from burgers.

Hmm. Maybe they realized they didn’t need the short to fill the time? Maybe they’ll throw in a long music video somewhere or something or the movie runs longer than they thought. They actually ran the LATER bump after the R&M short on Saturday instead of before it so that airing actually counts as “on Toonami” but they didn’t give it a bump.

The prostitute was underaged as well but that’s nothing compared to Watsuki’s mountain of CP which he got little more than a slap on the wrist for.

No we get 1 minute promos 1-2 weeks prior. Saaaaad.

They pretty much never announced things well in advance, so I don’t expect they’ll do it here, even if they have something secured. They are not concerned with the optics.

This is pretty freak’n wild. Not only a dub premiere but North America premiere of something that’s not legally available to buy even in Japan. I don’t think Toonami sought this out but rather it fell into their laps and realizing they had it they chose to save it to make an occasion out of it. I suspect that when Toei took over guiding the dub production with Punk Hazard that they went ahead and had FUNi dub the special despite not dubbing the other crossovers but chose not to include it in the DVD release (possibly because it was never on DVD in Japan). I think a few years later it just ended up included in the tapes sent to Toonami but they skipped airing it in sequence because they weren’t sure about the broadcast rights until they talked it over with Toei. At that point Toei finally decided to release it despite it only being half of the special. Its also pretty interesting they are doubling up MHA instead of Shippuden. Crunchyroll just had to delay the dub so that means Toonami is getting another week closer to the dub streams. Given how long it took to get the show locked down for season 6 it’s surprising that CR is letting Toonami get a few weeks closer. I don’t think this is the only one-off program we’ll see in March. That Titan special is an easy mark for the 18th of March or the 25th but it might even be ready March 11th if Crunchyroll gets the materials early enough. I don’t think they can double up MHA another week but they could double Shippuden or air Superman/Shazam on the 11th or some other one-off.

They like a lot of the same kinds of shows (based on conversations from PreFlight) so I don’t think it’ll ever be dramatically different regardless. But I don’t think it’s like this: Jason: Get this show. Gill: We can’t. I’ve tried. Jason: Then get nothing else until we can get that show.

“Involved with major decisions and help with programming” What we don’t know is what defines “help” in this case. What we do know is he spends most of his day to day developing anime co-pros and non-DC American action animation for WBD and no longer works at Adult Swim directly beyond being “involved” with Toonami. I don’t think he is as much of the guiding force for the acquisitions as he was.

I watched it the other day. Honestly I'm rather whelmed. It was great to see all those characters again and the concept took the piss out on lots of things but I didn't find it all that funny. I just hope Carey Means got paid well and gets royalties for it this time and for the upcoming season.

True. I just thought it was going “full anime” to give Vixen a fox tail.

They gave Vixen a fox tail. Good grief.

I rather hope the 2nd part is longer than an hour (ie longer than 48 minutes) and that Toonami will be able to air both. And here's a thought, since it's roughly the length of two episodes they probably won't need more than a few weeks to dub it so maybe they could run it on March 18th to celebrate Toonami's Birthday along with the Superman/Shazam "short" that's roughly 25 minutes. I guess Attack on Titan won't reach 100 episodes though it did if you count the OVA episodes.

I think Spike and Jet are enjoyable in Netboy Flixbop and arguably in-character. I especially enjoyed the scene where they juxtaposed Jet watching his daughter's recital while Spike fought goons outside. They had good chemistry and screen presence but man was that script lacking. Faye... not so great. Fantastic actress but she isn't given anything good to work with. They absolutely destroyed Vicious. He doesn't feel like a threat at all. He's a whiny little bitch boy getting manipulated by poor attempt at a girl boss. As a sci-fi romp it CAN be entertaining but it is pale imitation of Cowboy Bebop and I say that as somebody who doesn't even adore Cowboy Bebop.

I hope they give it to the TIkTok guy. He nails the voices and can act. But I have a feeling they won't want to go that direction and instead will hire one or two established voice actors. I can only think of The Boondocks situation where Witherspoon's son was up for the role to takeover as Grandad but despite JD Witherspoon being a career voice actor and matching his father well, they were supposedly going to cast some other guy who wouldn't have been as good of a match. But eventually Sony just cancelled it.

Sounds more like Roiland distanced himself from the writers room than his actions forced him out when all things considered his actions should have forced him out. According to this he records from home and takes no vocal direction and if he makes personal appearances to promote projects then he’s not doing it sober. CN investigated his behavior in 2020 but seemingly the executives didn’t do anything until the R&M staff requested the company make a statement.

Might be a good thing that didn't get the Gundam dub premiere because due to inclement weather in Dallas Texas the 2nd episode (kinda the 3rd) wont stream for two more weeks. Toonami gets to catch up on MHA a little bit in theory but they would have quickly run into an issue with G Witch if this weather situation caused more delays. Imagine starting it on February 18th and almost immediately after it has to take 2 weeks off or longer? Probably wouldn't handle that like Gentle was but it would certainly cause some headaches. It's not even a simuldub but the production needs the lead time because they seemingly don't have a stock pile of episodes already but this is one of the reasons why Toonami is probably better off not airing simuldubs just a few weeks behind Japan. Several shows also got delayed due to coronavirus in Japan and other parts of Asia. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-02-03/crunchyroll-delays-english-dubs-for-revenger-buddy-daddies-gundam-the-witch-from-mercury-blue-lock-/.194511 Nonetheless the decision to finish off YashaHime the week before the Made in Abyss finale gives us every reason to believe they had two shows planned to air and neither panned out... or more optimistically one or both just needs more time in the oven. For all we know, the first Saturday of March will have another movie and they might even do a 4th night to make a "month" of it leading to their anniversary in the middle of March but I sure hope they don't keep One Piece off that long. They can certainly make up for taking One Piece and Naruto off for two weeks by giving them double shots for a week or two in March but that optics of that aren't great. 😅 I strongly suspect they were counting on Grunge for February and they might have also been banking on Attack on Titan's Final Season Part 3 airing in February like Part 2 did. That is to say it's probably underestimating the situation to think ONLY 2 things fell through early this year. Meanwhile on other parts of the internet people are raising the death flags high but honestly it looked about this dire after Titan and Shenmue ended last year and Toonami is still on the air and still getting promoted outside of Adult Swim (on other WBD owned networks) so let's not take another sudden drought as a sign that the end is nigh. That said, if come March there's double Shippuden and double One Piece for more than 2 weeks... that would be worrisome. If they didn't buy the last 50 episodes of Shippuden yet then there's 22 to go and there's 24 episodes left of Punk Hazard meaning 11 and 12 weeks respectively. They're approaching their 11th year in late May. 11 years and about six months is how long CN Toonami stayed on the air. I'm sure they want to beat that record if nothing else.