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The color of that urine indicates dehydration. That was the piss equivalent to Family Guy’s barf scene but a whole lot less funny to me. Just really uncomfortable.

They added the prologue to Crunchyroll and now we know the only place to legally stream the simulcast outside of Asia will be Crunchyroll. Gundammmit Between this and the recent movie it seems like CR buying RightStuf and Nozomi might in fact mean CR will be getting first dibs on Gundam series and films. Toonami still might be able to get series directly from Sunrise but maybe not anymore.

Well that sure sucks for Fena, Black Lotus and Shenmue and anyone who cared about those shows. You can still get Fena and Black Lotus dubbed episodes on iTunes, Vudu and Amazon. Currently they're on sale on discounted from around 39 dollars to 20 on all 3 services. So 'ef it, I picked up Fena and used 4 dollars of Amazon digital video credit I had to make it 16 bucks. Now on one hand you'd think the cost of these anime co-pros was low enough that WBD wouldn't feel so inclined to hang them out to dry for very little in return but Crunchyroll will make doing anything with these co-pros a bigger headache than WBD wants to deal with. Only Shenmue had any potential for another season because the other two were always intended to be one and done and the rerun ratings and the views on Adult Swim's website probably didn't prove these 12-13 episode shows had any longevity in them. So what future value did these co-pros have that made them worth holding on to? I'd like to say this only happened because they were Crunchyroll co-pros but the volatile nature of WBD right now is too unpredictable. If Housing Complex C doesn't do well enough then it could quickly be written off and the same is true for everything coming in 2023 and beyond. It's a very real possibility that someone will look at how long its taking for Uzumaki to be animated and shut the project down. At this point I put nothing past WBD.

More people watched Primal this week than for the finale. They made the right call running Primal instead of double YashaHime this week.

How could I ever forget? 😞

Sounds like an episode of season 3 cost around 900,000. That is quite a bit of money for a show that got decent ratings at best, almost 12 million dollars. I really think IPs should be given to their creator when these tax write offs happen and the media should become public domain instead of living in limbo unless the company pays the government to make use of the IP again. I bought seasons 1 and 2 while I still could but it was too late for season 3, which I have no qualms with pirating. I managed to get the entirety of ThunderCats Roar for 5 bucks before it was pulled from Amazon, so that’s something I guess.

I think it will actually be Amazon world wide (no doubt to DeMarco’s disappointment) because it seems to be a project that Amazon is producing.

No I do not believe they have yet but they probably will add it when the series starts.

If it only streams on CR, that doesn’t bode well but if it also streams on YouTube and/or Hulu then Toonami should be able to get the dub.

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.