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Raise our expectations? So much for that. Primal season 2 restarts. That’s getting next level mundane. Two runs and a marathon was plenty for now. I suppose it could be a placeholder but I get the feeling it isn’t.

When Adult Swim promoted it they did mention Cowboy Bebop but they did so in the same breath as Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist which was more less saying Studio Bones made it. They never mentioned Watanabe in the promos but I wonder how the marketing was in Japan.

And come Friday they don’t bother to post a schedule update. 🤣

If he honestly feels Dandy was a mistake, that’s a real shame. Bebop and Champloo are fantastic and ionic but Space Dandy was truly art. I hope Shingo Natsume is proud of directing Space Dandy.

Definitely time to update the promo to include My Hero and Made in Abyss. Better do that soon before MiA ends.

They did immediately rerun both Prog and Alt they just didn’t run them again after. I’m not saying there’s no possibility of a hang up but I feel you are pulling this theory out of nowhere. It’s not like they reran the beloved original FLCL since 2018 either. They probably will rerun both Prog and Alt this year before Grunge and Shoegaze show up. And that schedule is likely exactly what will air on January 7th because they will be more than content to keep Primal on for two more weeks and avoid a schedule shakeup the first week back from the holidays. Even if the marathon makes it redundant. Remember when the Shenmue marathon didn’t do anything to accelerate the removal of Shenmue’s second full run?

I There should not be a legal roadblock to airing FLCL 2/3, those weren’t CR co-pros, CR only has the rights to stream the Japanese version and the dubs are still on the AS app and website. As for why they haven’t reran them since 2018… They probably realize they’re not gonna do great and overplaying them would only make them do worse. But now that there will be more, it’s finally time to reair them.

Oh we really are in isekai territory if they’re aging down the Justice League. Why not just use the teenage DC heroes for this instead of making the adults into teens?

Christmas Day, particularly later in the day is fair game for family targeted television premieres.

Prisoners get cable but not streaming I guess.

Crunchy knows there are viewers they can attract that are watching Adult Swim, it only makes sense to advertise there and AS is certainly not going to tell them they won’t take their ad-money. It may or may not have anything to do with their deal to air MHA season 6 but it’s far from the first time CR ads have aired on Adult Swim.

I would not have been annoyed if they didn’t air Toonami on Christmas Eve but I suppose the audience is so volatile that doing that even once will make some people think Toonami got canceled again. Turns out as Nirvash suspected they will be reairing The Fire Place from 2am-4am. They certainly could have given up the encores of Futurama instead of cutting Toonami short but looking at that night, 2 hours of Primal sticks out like a sore thumb and 3 hours would even more so. Everything else that night is holiday themed. Toonami feels really out of place but there isn’t much else they could have done. While airing Tokyo God Fathers or I dunno Batman: Sub Zero would have been a treat, it would be a waste to only air them on a night when viewership is sure to be low. A block with holiday themed episodes they have on hand would have been cost effective but I don’t think they have enough of those to fill even 2 hours much less 3.

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If not for YashaHime, One Piece and Shippuden might have broke 200k or 0.10 18-49. At any rate it’s great to see MHA close to 300k and MIA following close behind it.

We don't actually know how long Ninja Kamui is but based on the track record of original anime for Toonami that aren't Crunchyroll co-pros... it might be 4 or 6 episodes but it could also between 10 and 13 episodes based on other original production orders. I believe Log Horizon seasons 1 and 2 are no longer in the Sentai catalog and when FUNimation acquired season 3 they got the other the rights to the other two seasons. The Sentai box sets seem to be out of print as well.

Or they might skip YashaHime the week MiA ends and finish it the next week to stagger the two premieres but it’s just about as likely they’ll expand the block for the night or bump another show for one week.

Things I expect them to aim for that they can probably get: Bleach TYBW, G Witch, Urusei Yatsura, Lupin Zero, Dr. Stone season 3 Things I hope they consider: Birdie Wing (if Sunrise dubs it), Kaiji and Akiba Maid War Made in Abyss might be directly replaced by Attack on Titan but the next Sentai show is either Urusei Yatsura or Lupin Zero. YashaHime is replaced by Bleach TYBW or G Witch. I’m holding out a tiny bit of hope that when Primal reruns finish in January that we’ll get a 6th premiere. Maybe the G Witch dub will be ready by then and eternal shounen hour shifts down. Alternatively, they might get 11:30 back if they have enough new content to warrant it.

The median age of the Cartoon Network audience is 29? Safe to say kids grew up and didn’t stop watching. You know what this young adult skewing Network ought to air? Close Enough and Infinity Train for two. Time to try Young Justice on linear again while they’re at it. So Max won’t be making kids cartoons that CN won’t air because CN will be making whatever kids content that will end up on Max… what a concept! I feel like this new “old” direction for Cartoon Network makes Adult Swim airing before 11pm kinda superfluous. Make it a block again and be willing to air the FOX shows and even some anime outside of it. They could probably get away with uncensored MHA, Naruto and One Piece even in the afternoon and early evening for sure. But as long as they have FOX reruns and American Dad, they won’t be giving weekdays 9-11pm to much else. On paper this direction sounds like a dream come true for older animation fans and there’s a lot of potential for an unprecedented amount of creative freedom for show developers. It remains to be seen how they will actually try to build toward that goal. Its rather comical that after all these years of killing shows because not enough kids were watching or not enough toys were selling that CN is more or less giving up on selling to kids 6-11.

This could be great if the right MAPPA team is assigned to it. I sure hope they don’t incorporate CGI poorly but even MAPPAs worst CGI is at least more animated than a lot of season 2 was.

It all comes down to money and how little of it WBD will give to Adult Swim compared to how much money another company is willing to spend for DC content. Synergy be darned, Warner has always operated its networks by a fend for yourself mentality.

There’s a pretty obvious reason why they haven’t done a convention panel in person since 2019. Might be a while longer before they do another one.

How the hell is Minoriteam not top 2 worst? I didn’t hate it but like is a strong word.

I don’t expect Blue Lock was even on their radar.

I don’t think this means the end of HBO Max and DC event shilling for Toonami but it crushes remaining hopes of regularly airing DC shows. Not there was much reason to expect that but Amazon will pay way more than Adult Swim can afford. So there’s all the more not to throw Toonami a bone.

More Ballmastrz let’s go!