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Yeah .hack//SIGN John, that guy sure had some opinions and theories.

Kaiji would be rad. I'd love to see that one get more exposure.

I think it’s about 50/50 on MHA this season either due to existing contracts or Japanese influence on the license. TMS might help with Dr. Stone but that’s probably 50/50 as well. FUNimation seemed to be the ones pushing for Fire Force to air on Toonami so that might go up in smoke. Very odd it’s in the Adult Swim section on Hulu. AoT should still be under contact. Bleach is up to Viz Media but I’m like 90% sure it will return to Toonami and 60% sure it will be a dub premiere. Things are looking promising for Made in Abyss season 2 coming sooner than later. But who knows what else they might be trying to get? 2023 could be interesting IF they are given enough of a budget to regularly cycle in shows.

“The Primal Theory” just makes sense So they’re going to replay episode 5 instead of running 6 and 7? I guess they want episode 13 to air 3-4 instead of 3:30-4:30 and to make the rerun last one more week. That puts it out of sync with Lupin but maybe they’ll double up YashaHime on the 22nd of October.

Dunno but I’m guessing “The Primal Theory” as sort of a coda to the series. Any other episode would make less sense unless they are having it rerun in October (not at midnight). Well I don’t think anyone is shedding a tear about Black Lotus getting pulled after rerunning just 5 episodes. So here’s the interesting thing about this unexpected schedule change. This will have double MiA ending on October 15th along with Lupin (MiA extends Toonami to 4:30am to air the double length episode). That makes three slots cleared on October 22nd and that would be perfect for preempting the ongoing shounen to air Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul before starting season 2 as Lupin’s replacement. So maybe that’s the plan.

So they’re still gonna celebrate Batman Day. That will be the night they air the season finale of Primal so the question continues to be: what will they air at midnight the last Saturday of September? They could simply double up YashaHime to make up for taking a week off or double up Lupin pushing YashaHime up to midnight for one night but perhaps they will do more DC movies and start them at midnight. Or they could just rerun “The Primal Theory” to cap off this run of Primal before it’s replaced by Housing Complex C.

Nah. Depending on your tastes the other competitors are arguably equally good.

Bravo to the Emmy’s for giving the award to the right show rather than The Simpsons.

Mxy gives off Shippo or InuYasha character vibes. That’s certainly a choice.

Bastard is definitely the show to watch if you’re hankering for a cranky tough boy and cute girls drawn in the 90s style.

I have my doubts on that Gundam series dub being ready quite that soon but the industry is constantly striving for quicker turn-arounds so maybe it could happen. I'm pretty delighted to see the prologue won't be restricted to Crunchyroll. They might even stream the whole simulcast on YouTube. Oh man... IBO simulcast on Daisuki. Anyone remember Daisuki? I remember seeing a LOT of Gunpla ads.

What's not to get? Primal is a 10. YashaHime is a 6 at it's best and that's being generous. I don't hate the show but it's mostly a nothing-burger.

WBD owns CN, Boomerang and Discovery Family. If anything Boom and DF should kick the bucket long before CN does but I'm sure they're all doing quite badly as all kids networks have been. Though I don't think it's going to help and it probably wont last long, CN is celebrating it's 30th anniversary with a weekday line-up change that include Adventure Time and Regular Show in the 6pm hour and a 7pm hour that's a rotation of old CN shows. I think I'll watch CN live on purpose for the first time in a long while.

Does iTunes still limit the number of devices you can register a video to? At any rate I bought Close Enough, Infinity Train, O.K. K.O. and Final Space on Amazon Prime Video because it's the easiest platform to watch the shows with a friend remotely IMO. I've had Megas XLR on iTunes for years but if that limit is still in place then I don't think I can download it to my current computer. But at this point I have no qualms with pirating any of these shows or other ones that CN or Warner (in its various forms) wrote off or buried. Hearing that the new management has even decided to shop around a major Batman animated series with Matt Reaves and J. J. Abrams involved is beyond the pale. How can they look at that project and go "nah HBO Max doesn't need highly anticipated animated content like that, let's see if anyone else is willing to pay for it"? I suppose they expect someone will be willing to pay bank for the rights to air or stream it and if it screws over CN and even HBO Max, it doesn't matter to the management. If they're cancelling projects left and right and shopping around others it doesn't bode well for any of DeMarco's projects even if they're relatively cheap to co-produce. Unless they cost a mere fraction of what that Batman series costs (and I suppose that is possible if The Caped Crusader has a high budget for an animated series) then I have a hard time believing the management would consider them more worth producing for CN and HBO Max than a gat dam Batman series with two Hollywood executives and Bruce Timm attached. But on the other hand they probably couldn't make a bunch of money selling the airing/streaming rights to Ninja Kamui and FLCL sequels like they surely can from selling a Batman series. Toonami's affordability continues to be the most sensible reason for keeping it around. Seems to me that the current management is going to approach WB's library in a manner that is the exact opposite of the AT&T overlords. They wanted everything of value on HBO Max to drive up subscriptions while Discovery seems intent on leveraging the WB library in theaters and on other platforms, selling their wares to the highest bidder. The problem of course is they're also seemingly cutting off the content pipeline for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim and at least before even if CN and AS felt like they played second fiddle, at least they still got the content but now it looks like they won't even get sloppy seconds.

What do you mean? They announced Uzumaki was delayed till 2023 a few months ago.

I wonder if that counts Hulu. Spy x Family is on Hulu in the US.

4 episodes airing through October. I’m looking forward to it.

Rick & Morty on Thursday most likely did better than Rick & Morty on Saturday that week. Maybe we’ll see if that was the case. Concern for spoilers was also higher than ever due to the “we can’t show anything” promo. However the Thursday audience is steadily growing so it’s entirely possible that the Toonami airing won’t be beating the premiere any more. It seems like the audience just had to notice the Thursday premieres and it took a few weeks. Toonami always had the advantage because Primal was airing there for 10 weeks prior.

Unlike several ani-tubers and many people on social media… what a headache. Here’s an article from 2021 stating Viz Media has the VOD, television, digital sales and merch rights to Bleach: TYBW outside of Asia. https://t.co/eIvx7mLUAl And here’s another one https://t.co/HDSwkPynVy Oddly, ANN’s article doesn’t mention Viz having the rights but their listing for the series indicates Viz Media is the licensor. Viz Media CAN sell the streaming rights to Disney+ outside of Asia but I can’t imagine it would be an exclusive deal. Crunchyroll and FUNimation both streamed YashaHime along with Hulu. Viz Media recently added YashaHime, Death Note, HxH and InuYasha to Amazon Prime Video. Bleach:TYBW will probably simulcast on CR and Hulu and maybe Amazon, Tubi or another service. It could be on Disney+ as well but exclusively? That’s hella unlikely. Rest assured it’s not getting locked in Disney+ jail like Summertime Rendering and Black Rock Shooter season 2. The dub can still feasibly air on Toonami and Adult Swim have probably been saving up to be able to afford it.

Not impossible for Toonami to beat but it’s gonna be tough.

That’s probably just for in Japan Wait for Viz Media to say something or Disney to actually acknowledge this before worrying about it. But if it does stream on Disney Plus outside of Japan, it’s not likely to be censored. They stream R rated movies now.

Anyone who thought the report meant CN/AS, HBO and WBA were going to stop making animated series entirely were way off base regardless. But even that Brew article makes it clear there will be cuts, it’s just not guaranteed to be a bunch of the currently being developed animated projects. Little Ellen is canceled, the Scoob sequel won’t be shown and they aren’t renewing Close Enough. Several live action series and films were cancelled or are soon to be written off and HBO Max will not be making live action kids series or lower cost direct to streaming films. That’s all that’s known so far. We don’t even know if CN’s planned live action series have been canceled but that would make more sense than cancelling live action kids shows for HBO Max. There’s no reason to assume the Batman, Superman and Tiny Toons series won’t see the light of day nor the Gumball movie. Teen Titans Go will keep on truck’n, Craig of the Creek isn’t getting canceled and CN has other animated series still in production including Genndy’s unicorn show. Its far from a sure thing that YJ and Harley Quinn won’t get renewed but it depends on how successful they were for Max. The assumption we tend to make around here is Toonami is expensive to run and doesn’t make much if any money but if that were actually true they surely would have axed it rather than develop new shows for it. It’s almost ironic that I have so many reasons to be mad at WBD right now but “screwing over Toonami” isn’t really one of them. They could stand to throw it more bones but the way WBD is treating Toonami now hardly differs from any other time since the block returned.

This is legitimately the first worrying development regarding Toonami and Adult Swim’s future. I don’t think it means the co-productions we know about won’t air. Hopefully WBD management hasn’t changed their stance on wanting Toonami to be part of their strategy. Even so, they could toss Toonami and Adult Swim out on a whim if they see fit and they are taking completed or mostly completed films and shows and using them as tax write offs. Close Enough was canceled recently but now I’m concerned they’ll pull it from streaming and write it off as well. I’m not worried about the Batman and Superman cartoons set for 2023 but plenty of other things not featuring the big 3 could get axed. DC movie nights will probably still happen. They can be used to promote theatrical releases if nothing else. Though it’s just as likely that they won’t bother. I feel like Toonami will have a hard time justifying it’s existence if WBD does not grant them an adequate acquisition budget but there’s the rub. You need a audience to justify a budget but it’s awfully hard to get and maintain an audience without enough budget to buy worthwhile content.

We’ll have to see how the comedies did that night but they seem to have made a critical error having Primal on Thursday night and encoring on Toonami a few days later. They should have done one or the other because it seems like they have effectively divided their audience with a bit of overlap for people who watched both. Mind you there’s also the viewers who watched it on HBO Max so its at least 3 slices for the potential viewership.

It should go to Arcane but it will probably go to The Simpsons, maaaaybe Bob’s Burgers. Who am I kidding, What If will get it before Arcane.