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AC might end up settling into the 1am slot when it’s all said and done. Or maybe even 1:30 or 2am. It’s at 12:30 and 1am now because it sort of has to be.

Finally! I hope they never beat this record of barely two days before broadcast. It’s a nice start with tremendous room for growth. And they’ll be filling out this schedule one new show at a time every week for a month or so. That’s very exciting!

And now it’s past 2pm EST on Thursday and still nothing. I can’t imagine they will hold off till Friday but then again I was pretty confident they would post by Wednesday. Edit: it is now past 4pm EST Edit: it is now past 6pm EST

Well it was a recap so maybe that’s why.

The second season hits way harder IMO, especially the ending. But I honestly can't remember the names of most of those kids. Nagisa (memorable because it can be a boys name or a girls name), Karma (also memorable), Terasaka (was a bully, just kinda stuck out to me), Ritsu (the computer girl), Rio (the blonde) and I just had to think real hard to remember the green hair girl's name (it's Kaede). Beyond that I remember Miss Bitch, Mr. Kurasuma and the Koro Sensei. I remember the Principal but not his name.

Finally a new addition. Finally the 2nd half of the series. Finally a glimmer of hope that Sony isn't absolutely screwing over Toonami right now. But that only fills one vacant slot. So unless they're starting it with a double episode premiere (certainly not uncommon at this point) we might see another show get announced before the end of the week or DeMarco was just being coy about YashaHime season 2. We should get that schedule by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.

Discotek generally does not obtain TV rights to anime. Toonami got Lupin through TMS but Discotek did serve as the middleman in those instances. Surely they can get some shows from Sentai if FUNi, Aniplex and CR series are absolutely out of the question. But Sentai does have a bad habit of not picking up the dang phone.

If they don’t even have YashaHime, then they need at least two shows immediately to even maintain 4 premieres. What the frick is even happening? If they had shows fall through then they should still have the money they were going to spend on those. Do they simply refuse to walk away from those suddenly complicated deals and use that money on other shows or are they waiting for the budget to reset so they can pay for those shows? (Perhaps pay more than they anticipated because Sony is playing hard ball) So are they just being stubborn or do they literally have no money for anything till the budget resets? This is exasperating. But bemoaning the point doesn’t accomplish anything. Whatever happens happens, when it happens. It’s trying our patience but bitching about it changes nothing and Toonami communities that are trying their darndest to stay positive don’t want to hear or read more venting about the situation. Nobody likes the situation. All we can do is wait it out.

These words are not reassuring at all. Toonami will be back EVENTUALLY but that doesn’t make the past few months any less frustrating. And at this point it would probably be better to announce a couple of rerun filled weeks than to keep holding off on showing a schedule in hopes of something working out in time. They are really banking on people tuning in no matter what they air if they are giving us a week or less notice of what will air on 1/8/2022.

“TOMORROW!!!” But if they really have nothing, I wonder what they will pull out of their asses next? A mini marathon of Shippuden premieres to make up for all the weeks it was preempted? DC Movies or other things they begged WarnerMedia for? An Attack on Titan marathon? A DBS marathon? A second Fena marathon? Another Bebop marathon? ANOTHER attempt to shove Black Lotus down our throats? I’m really curious what they’ll consider doing to stall even longer.

If they don’t announce a show this week, it’s pretty much guaranteed that 1/8/22 will also be a wash.

He debunked the budget fan theory years ago at this point and multiple times within the past few years but it doesn't hurt to reiterate it since plenty of people still assume it all comes from the same pot. What he said about his current level of transparency leading to misunderstanding... That's a good reason to simply not say anything. Basically anything he says will get spun as DeMarco saying "nothing is my fault, I tried the best I could" and people stopped buying that years ago if they ever bought it in the first place. Business IS complicated and he's gotten screwed out of deals several times for various reasons that were out of his control. I believe that much to be true. But as often as he throws his hands up publicly and bemoans how nothing is ever his fault, I can totally understand why more and more people think he's full of it.

Another meh turnout for Black Lotus. That Christmas Day marathon is all but certain to have episodes in the 5 digit club.

Well it's licensed by Viz already so that should save it from Netflix jail and put Toonami in a good position to get it. Too bad it's not airing in Japan until next Fall and same goes for MHA season 6. So if Toonami doesn't get Demon Slayer season 2 then Attack on Titan is probably the only big title they can air until late 2022 and early 2023.

I’m down for Bebop. It hasn’t aired regularly since 2018 at this point. Just that marathon last year. So moving on to 1/8/22, Bebop will either replace Dr. Stone (unless season 2 is getting another full run) or one of the 3 premiere slots. The later would be quite disappointing. And we’re looking at 2-3 other show additions. 1/8/22 could be a big night for Toonami but I shudder at the thought that they will need to stall for yet another week. At this point I’m begging them to announce the upcoming premieres before Christmas.

Geez Jman that's not what the actor of Gren actually said. Mason was talking about a right the wrongs of representation in other things, not Cowboy Bebop. If you read the article you will see the context of the quote that the writer used in the wrong context.

More from DeMarco So they have things and have had them for a while (one can wonder if they were ready to air a week or two ago but I guess we'll never know). What happened in the last few months is unprecedented and they may have to try some new things going forward to avoid a repeat of the past few months. Well I sure hope they get creative because it sounds like they're going to have to.

The thought never crossed my mind but that is kind of neat.

This show can actually be hilarious. Episode 7 had me rolling when they were juxtaposing Jet watching his daughter's recital and Spike fighting a bunch of goons right outside the room. At it's best when it's not trying to adapt scenes from the anime the Bebop crew has great chemistry. But it also had so many absolutely terrible dialogue exchanges and anything involving Vicious and Julia is boring, overly campy and painful to watch. These are not the characters from the anime, especially in Faye's case. Jet is the closest but they had to go and make him a divorced guy with a kid so there's all this family drama. Shakir is honestly a fantastic Jet but they don't give him good enough material to show it. Expanding on Vicious and Julia's storyline was a huge mistake and made only worse by the way Vicious doesn't feel threatening at all. He's quite frankly a little bitch boy. They left so much out yet picked some baffling episodes to adapt and then changed them in ways that usually made them even more nonsensical. But I will give them credit for one thing. They came up with a way for Faye to receive the video tape (VHS not Beta) without the tremendous leaps in logic the anime expected you to believe. The tape is all that Faye had when she was put on ice. That totally makes sense and doesn't purport that space UPS is incredible at tracking people down after decades but Faye had no other way to learn of her past. It's a shame Jet just had a VHS player on the Bebop so there's no hijinks of tracking one down but overall it is a better choice and when Faye watches the tape I actually felt something. It was an astonishingly sweet moment in a show that otherwise couldn't manage a sentimental or dramatic scene to save its life. It doesn't make up for how un-Bebop the whole show is but I'll give it that much. All and all it's not a terrible sci-fi romp when it's not taking itself seriously. But it tremendously lacks chill and greatly misses the point of Bebop. It's fine but it is not Cowboy Bebop. The crew would have been much better off adapting Outlaw Star (lol Firefly already exists) or Space Dandy. But I actually think One Piece might turn out watchable.

I'm pretty sure they either never lost the rights OR they did renew it a while ago. Netflix never had it exclusively. I'm here for TOM ribbing on Netflix though, that would be classic TOM. So I wasn't expecting new shows for 1/1 but it's pretty obvious that if YashaHime episode 24 aired like intended then 1/1 would have just been Black Lotus and a Bebop marathon (maybe finishing with DBS, who knows?) This Christmas schedule though? It's just laughable how much they're marathoning Black Lotus. Did they seriously have no other options? Can't do a marathon of MHA? We KNOW they can rerun Shippuden episodes and it's never gotten a marathon. I'd even take a DBS marathon over even more Black Lotus reruns. They are bound and determined to make their regular viewers sick of that show. So they had better bring it on 1/8/2021 and preferably announce the shows for those before Christmas.

He’s either doing a crappy job trying to force their hand or basically giving up DS season 2 (at least for now). Let’s try not to read too much into this one comment.

Netflix isn’t getting the dub before FUNimation and Aniplex didn’t let them take the simulcast but they can easily outbid Toonami for the 2nd run rights. But until the dub is announced for FUNimation’s service, it’s still possible Toonami could get first dibs on the dub if they have first right to refusal and they can afford it.

Nobody gave a crap about that Black Lotus marathon and I still haven’t watched the new episode from that night. The Friday marathon will surely do even worse.

I'm a little surprised they're running a new episode of their big co-production on January 1st. We'll see if that means they're doing full lineup that week or just sticking Black Lotus in front of a marathon or movie.

LASTMAN freak'n rules I'm all for Toonami airing animated series from other countries. LINK CLICK is a banger and I hope FUNimation will dub it.